similar boroughs represented in the 18th-century Parliament of Ireland. The Reform Act 1832 abolished the majority of these rotten and pocket boroughs. A parliamentary...

The Cornish rotten and pocket boroughs were one of the most striking anomalies of the Unreformed House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

tremendous growth. The Act also did away with most of the "rotten" and "pocket" boroughs such as Old Sarum, which with only seven voters, all controlled...

lost control of a number of rotten and pocket boroughs, partly as a result of the influence of the Prince of Wales, and were consequently re-elected...

they could afford to pay the huge campaigning costs and the abolition of certain rotten boroughs removed some of the middle-class international merchants...

countries holding popular contests in the 18th and 19th century, including in rotten and pocket boroughs in Britain and machine politics in the United States.[citation...

passed a second time and gained royal assent on 6 December of that year. The Act extended the 1867 concessions from the boroughs to the countryside. All...

freeholders and landowners, in constituencies that had changed little since the Middle Ages, so that in many "rotten" and "pocket" boroughs seats could...

called the Sixth Reform Act. The 1960s were a period of growing political and cultural demands by young people in Britain, as in other Western democracies...

but still elected two MPs; they were often known as rotten boroughs. Of the 70 English boroughs that Tudor monarchs enfranchised, 31 were later disenfranchised...