Great Britain · Government / Liberal Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Extends the franchise to agricultural labourers and others in the 1884 Reform Act, which gives the counties the same franchise as the boroughs, adult male householders and pounds 10 lodgers, and adds about six million to the total number who could vote in Parliamentary elections
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