Secret ballot

Question 1

what happened in 1872?

Answer 1

• secret ballot act
• voting is now done in secret, placed limits on spending and transporting voters to polling stations

Question 2

discuss the 1884 reform act?

Answer 2

• add 2.5 million votes giving the vote a number of working class men for the first time.
• mainly biased towards the head of the household

Question 3

what was the 18855 redistribution act?

Answer 3

• conservative government re-drew boundaries of constituencies
• constituencies were now to be roughly the same size and based on ‘pursuits of people’