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This 4 page paper is written in four parts. The first part of the paper examined the historical development of the right to vote. The second part explains who can and cannot stand as a member of parliament and the way they are elected. The last part of the paper looks at whether this is a fair system. The bibliography cites 3 sources. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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change to increase the scope of those who had the right to vote, allowing all landowners that owned freehold porter worth more than 40 Shillings a vote in county elections.
Qualifications to vote in boroughs was based on the level of taxes paid or on property ownership (Goldsworthy, 2001). However voting was a privilege of the few, at the end
of the eighteen century only 2% of the UK population had the right to vote. The Reform Act 1832 saw both the distribution of parliamentary seats and also gave any
male who paid more than ?10 tax the right to a vote (Goldsworthy, 2001). This created universality. However, it was still only 14% of males had the vote. In
1867 the Second Reform act extended voting to nearly all men in urban areas and increased the voting population by nearly double, from 1.4 million to 2.5 million (Goldsworthy, 2001).
The secret ballot system was only brought in 1872, initially as a temporary measure, but became permanent in 1918. In 1884 the Third Reform Act gave the same voting right
to men in the urban areas, creating an electorate of 5.5 million (Goldsworthy, 2001). Women were only given the vote in 1918 following the suffragette movement, but the vote
was only given to women over the age of thirty years under the Representation of the People Act. In 1928 the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act reduced the
voting age of women to match that of men; 21 (Goldsworthy, 2001). It is worth noting that the idea of one person one
vote was not heard of, and some individuals had the right it more votes. The concept of one person one vote came in under the Representation of the People Act
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