1867 Reform Act
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- 1867 Reform Act
- Causes
- Pressure groups
- Reform Union - supported by influential employers e.g. Samuel Morley
- Reform League - large working class numbers
- Chartism
- Divisions in Liberal Party
- Russell resigned after failure of his reform bill
- Gladstone (new Liberal leader) wanted too much liberal reform
- Some didn't want too many new voters
- Conservative want for self-preservation
- Disraeli sided with Liberal Gladstone on reform
- Prime minister Lord Derby (Tory)
- Disraeli concerned about self-preservation
- Wanted to enfranchise the poor for their votes - won election in 1874
- Progressive middle class
- Enfranchising workers would make them happier
- Better workers = more profit
- Still lingering fear of revolution
- Spotlight on reform in this period
- 1819 Peterloo
- Public Health Act 1848
- Factory Acts 1833 and 1844, 10 Hours 1847
- Mines Act 1842
- Poor Law Amendment 1834, Outdoor Relief Act 1838
- Swing Riots, Chartism, Plug Plots, Newport Rising
- Demographic changes
- Growing industrial cities
- Population increasing
- Palmerston's previous differing agenda
- Reform ignored in favour of foreign policy
- Pressure for reform mounting again
- Palmerston's death in 1865 gave Russell the opportunity to propose a reform bill as PM.
- Pressure groups
- Provisions
- Enfranchised male borough householders over age of 21.
- Male lodgers paying £10 for a room got vote.
- Led to enfranchising a further 1.5 million men.
- Counties and boroughs with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants lost 1 MP.
- 45 new seats distributed to other towns.
- 15 given to towns who'd never been represented.
- Extra seats given to new industrial towns
- University of London seat created
- 25 seats given to counties whose population increased since 1832
- Scotland given 7 new MPs. Ireland's distribution remained.
- Causes
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