True, but both Vincent's and Drake's work concentrates on Parliamentary elections.
Neither looks at local Municipal elections. The 1835 Municipal
Corporations Act standardised borough constitutions and gave them all a
mayor, aldermen and councillers who were elected by the local
ratepayers. However, note, not all boroughs were incorporated in 1835.
The Act only regulated 178 boroughs, the Act was not applied to 25
boroughs until the Municipal Corporations Act of 1882.
K. Schurer
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:56:23 +0000 (GMT) David Gatley
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I assume you've heard of Vicent's book Pollbooks: How
> Victorian Voted.
>
> Also Michael Drake of the Open University has written work
> on voting behaviour
>
> David
>
>
> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 18:09:30 -0000 Barry Fletcher
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Anyone know how people voted in local elections after the 1835 Municipal rRform Act and before the introduction of the ballot?
> >
> > There are many references in newspapers of the time to'lists'. printed lists in papers, stories of people having one list snatched from their hand and another substituted as they went to vote and references to lists being signed.
> >
> > Did voters have to hand in a written or printed list rather than say who they were voting for? Who could sign them? A JP?
> >
> > Any references for this?
> >
> > Barry Fletcher
>
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