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In the United Kingdom under the premiership of William Gladstone, the Representation of the People Act 1884 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 3), also known informally as the Third Reform Act, [1] and the Redistribution Act of the following year were laws which further extended the suffrage in the UK after the Derby government's Reform Act 1867. [2]
Third Reform Act 1884. Parliament's resistance to ‘one man, one vote' was partly overturned in 1884 with the third Reform Act which: The following year, the Redistribution of Seats Act redrew boundaries to make electoral districts equal.
From: Collins' railway and telegraph map of Herefordshire, divided into hundreds, containing the district divisions and other local arrangements effected by the Reform Bill, to map from "The Popular History of England, from the earliest times ... to the Reform Bill of 1884 ... Illustrated, etc".
Reform Bill, any of the British parliamentary bills that became acts in 1832, 1867, and 1884–85 and that expanded the electorate for the House of Commons and rationalized the representation of that body. The first Reform Bill primarily served to transfer voting privileges from the small boroughs.
27 Μαρ 2015 · The 1884 Reform Act, (strictly the Representation of the People Act 1884 though it was also known as the Third Reform Act), was the third reform to Britain’s system of voting in the Nineteenth Century. The 1867 Reform Act had been so extensive that there seemed to be little to change.
The Reform Acts (or Reform Bills, before they were passed) are legislation enacted in the United Kingdom in the 19th and 20th century to enfranchise new groups of voters and to redistribute seats in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The growth of urban areas and greater political awareness among the working classes led to demands for change. With the 1832 Reform Act giving hope that a more representative Parliament could be achieved, further reforms were gradually, if reluctantly, made as the 19th century progressed.
