1/ > Until 1867 only 1/8 of adult male population had the right to vote, but Second Reform Bill extended the franchise — to about 1/3. For the first time in British history, most of the electorate were not landowners. The newly enfranchised swiftly elected the Liberal government
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Someone should do a study: if the rule that you must own land to vote were reinstated today, how large would the electorate be and how would they vote (extrapolating as far as possible from existing data by region)?
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Supposedly, something like 60 - 65% of all American families are homeowners. I suspect that while the 35% - 40% of households which are renters skew towards the Democrats, they're also generally less likely to vote, which would reduce the impact from disfranchising them.
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Did my undergrad history thesis on the Conservatives in the 1860s. Disraeli figured that Reform was coming so he decided to make it a victory for his party. His party celebrated by getting crushed in the first post-Reform election.
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I own an acre of desert land in Elko County Nevada for this very reason.
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