Electoral Reform 1832 onwards (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Friday, June 20, 2014, 09:07 (3810 days ago) @ janethowell

How did someone become eligible to be on the electoral rolls in 1874?

I am reliably informed that my g...grandfather Shadrach Jenkins was on the roll for Bream in 1874 - always wondered if this gave him some sort of status i.e. was it anyone over the age of 21 who were on the roll or were there qualifying conditions e.g. property, income ?

The first (or 'Great') Reform Act of 1832. However, the Act gave the vote in towns only to men who occupied property with an
annual value of £10, which excluded six adult males out of seven from the voting process.

Described the second Reform Act (1867) as 'a leap in the dark'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Act_1867 And yet only two in
every five Englishmen had the vote in 1870.

Even the third Reform Act (1884) - which enfranchised all male house owners in both urban and rural areas and added 6 million
people to the voting registers

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