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1 - The re-distribution of English and Welsh seats in 1832

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2012

Philip Salmon
Affiliation:
House of Commons Project at the History of Parliament
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Summary

After many confusing alterations, the final scheme was as follows:

Disfranchisement

Schedule A: fifty-five English ‘rotten’ boroughs returning two MPs and another (Higham Ferrers) with a single MP lost their own representation = 111 spare seats.

Schedule B: thirty smaller English boroughs lost one of their two MPs = 30 spare seats.

Clause 6: The four MPs for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis were halved = 2 spare seats.

Total number of available seats for re-distribution = 143.

Enfranchisement

Schedule C: twenty-two new boroughs to elect two MPs = 44 seats.

Schedule D: twenty-one new boroughs to elect a single MP = 21 seats.

Clause 12: Yorkshire increased from four to six MPs (two for each Riding) = 2 seats.

Clause 13–14: twenty-six English counties divided and increased from two to four MPs = 52 seats.

Clause 15: seven English counties given a third MP = 7 seats.

Clause 15: counties of Carmarthen, Denbigh and Glamorgan given a second MP = 3 seats.

Clause 16: Isle of Wight made a single Member county = 1 seat.

Total new English and Welsh seats = 130

Of the thirteen seats which were left over, eight were allocated to Scotland and five to Ireland.

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Electoral Reform at Work
Local Politics and National Parties, 1832–1841
, pp. 251 - 252
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2002

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