1. Results of the Second Reform Act
Electorate
New voters
Counties
Added
1,200,000
Total now
2,520,000
1/3 of male pop
Mostly working class
living in towns.
Democracy?
Farm and Mine
workers not able
to vote.
Seats remained Tory
BUT
Results of the
Second
Reform Act
Voting
Still open.
working class
voters still swayed by
employers
Education
Party Politics
Distribution
Parties now had
to be organised.
Beginning of party
organisations
1867 contributed to
Introduction of
1870 Education Act
‘we must educate
our masters’
Still some small towns
with 2 MP’s (Tiverton)
same as Glasgow
Pop 1,000,000