The Government system relies on representatives being voted into parliament by their local borough.
However this system has a lot of issues. The number of representatives in each borough wasn't updated as industrialisation. Therefore declining market towns would still have two representatives while booming industrial towns would still have no representation.
Every borough had different rules which qualified you to vote. However there were two common terms used for describing a borough.
'Pocket boroughs' were boroughs that were controlled completely by the land owners.
'Rotten boroughs' were boroughs that had very few franchised voters, meaning the vote could be easily rigged, but still had two representatives.
However this system has a lot of issues. The number of representatives in each borough wasn't updated as industrialisation. Therefore declining market towns would still have two representatives while booming industrial towns would still have no representation.
Every borough had different rules which qualified you to vote. However there were two common terms used for describing a borough.
'Pocket boroughs' were boroughs that were controlled completely by the land owners.
'Rotten boroughs' were boroughs that had very few franchised voters, meaning the vote could be easily rigged, but still had two representatives.
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