By Philip Salmon
This publication charts the political transformation of england that resulted from the "Great" Reform Act of 1832. It argues that this generally debated parliamentary reform, aided by means of the workings of the recent negative legislation (1834) and Municipal organizations Act (1835), moved the state a long way in the direction of a "modern" kind of consultant approach than has formerly been meant. Drawing on hitherto missed neighborhood data and the files of election solicitors, Dr Salmon demonstrates how the Reform Act's useful information, faraway from being mere "small print", had a profound effect on borough and county politics. Combining computer-assisted electoral research with conventional tools, he strains the emergence of latest different types of voter partisanship and get together service provider after 1832, and exposes key variations among the events which ended in a outstanding nationwide restoration by means of the Conservative celebration. In passing he offers vital new views on matters equivalent to MPs' kin with their ingredients, the fee and tradition of well known politics after 1832, the electoral effect of railway improvement, and the position of "deference balloting" within the counties. Dr PHILIP SALMON is Editor of the 1832-1945 condo of Commons venture on the historical past of Parliament
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155 Cox, Efficient secret, 93; Nossiter, Influence, 178. 156 51% of seats were uncontested in 1841 and 56% in 1847: W. O. ), The history of parliamentary behavior, Princeton, NJ 1972, 237. vp Friday, August 16, 2002 09:26:40 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen THE REFORMED ELECTORAL SYSTEM supporters on the electoral rolls, thus effectively pre-determining the result of an election and making a contest unnecessary. 157 Of the forty-nine English county divisions that were uncontested in 1841, as many as thirty-eight returned candidates exclusively from one party, the opposition having completely withdrawn from the field.
Manning, Proceedings in courts of revision . , London 1836, 154–8. W. F. A Delane, A collection of decisions in the courts for revising the lists of electors, London 1836, 37; PP 1835 (547) viii. 196, minutes 3236–8. 83 Deacon, Effectual registration, 20–1. 84 SoRO, Hylton MSS DD/HY box 17. The result of an election could be challenged or petitioned against in an ‘election petition’ or ‘contested return’. Under clause 60 of the Reform Act, any electoral register could be scrutinised and, if necessary, amended by the committee of the House of Commons which was appointed to investigate.
48. 93 2 Will. IV c. 45, 731–2, 734–5, 738, clauses 37–8, 44–8, 56. 95 Accidental omissions had to be handled with extreme care, as a letter sent to the Nottinghamshire clerk of the peace revealed: I have seen Mr Wing this morning, and find from an examination of the revised list of Hucknall Torkard that all the names which were upon the register of 1836 were omitted. . I think I may safely now add that part to the register of this year. . 96 Local parties had good cause to be vigilant. 100 Tensions between the Established Church and the Dissenting community were easily exacerbated by aspects of the registration process.
