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    The Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 65) was an Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom which redistributed the...
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  • Thumbnail for Representation of the People Act 1918
    Some seats were redistributed to industrial towns. Seats in Ireland were amended separately, by the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918. All polls...
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    who would act as middleman for the money paid ("compounding"). The act introduced a near-negligible redistribution of seats, far short of the urbanisation...
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    and the Redistribution Act of the following year were laws which further extended the suffrage in the UK after the Derby government's Reform Act 1867. Taken...
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  • seats. County constituencies: 8 single member seats. Constituencies and Members of Parliament: 12. The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act...
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    Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, but technically were not required under the Act. The Act revised the constituencies in the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland)...
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    The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 23) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (sometimes called the "Reform Act of 1885")...
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  • Reform Acts (redirect from Reform Act Of)
    Home ownership was the only qualification. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (sometimes called the "Reform Act 1885"), which split most multi-member constituencies...
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  • Ireland (1921) and to Dáil Éireann (1918–1936). Under the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918, NUI was enfranchised as a new university constituency...
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    replaced those provided in the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918 for representation of Ireland in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at Westminster...
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    Dublin St Patrick's (UK Parliament constituency) (category Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885)
    Harbour and St Stephen's Green. Under the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918, the city was allocated seven seats: in addition to the four existing constituencies...
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    United Kingdom. This act expanded on the Representation of the People Act 1918 which had given some women the vote in Parliamentary elections for the...
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    additional seats, and Ireland received five; thus keeping the total number of seats in the House of Commons the same as it had been before the Act. While no constituencies...
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    electorate since 1918, additional constituencies had been created for the 1945 general election by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1944 as a...
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  • North Fermanagh (UK Parliament constituency) (category Dáil constituencies in Northern Ireland (historic))
    The seat was unchanged under the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918. Prior to the 1885 United Kingdom general election the area was part of the...
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  • (Scotland) Act 1868 The Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1868 The Representation of the People Act 1884 The Representation of the People Act 1918 The...
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    The Representation of the People Act 1969 (c. 15) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that lowered the voting age to 18 years. This statute...
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  • North Dublin (UK Parliament constituency) (category Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885)
    September 2022. "Redistribution of seats (Ireland) Act 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 65)". Retrieved 1 October 2022. "Government of Ireland Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo...
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    the Recall of MPs Act 2015, sitting MPs imprisoned on shorter sentences can be removed from their seats via recall petitions. The Act was passed following...
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  • South Dublin (UK Parliament constituency) (category Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885)
    and South Dublin. Under the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918, the parliamentary representation of the administrative county was increased from...
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    South Down (UK Parliament constituency) (category Dáil constituencies in Northern Ireland (historic))
    Seat Details". Electoral Calculus. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, (Ch 23) Seventh Schedule, Part III – Ireland – County of Down Redistribution of Seats...
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    Dublin Harbour (UK Parliament constituency) (category Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885)
    Retrieved 16 October 2022. "Redistribution of seats (Ireland) Act, 1918". Retrieved 1 October 2022. "Government of Ireland Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 67):...
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    Rathmines and Rathgar (category Former local authorities in the Republic of Ireland)
    Rathmines constituency, created by the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918. It was in use only once, at the 1918 general election, at which Maurice...
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  • Thumbnail for House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949
    The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 66) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that provided for...
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  • Thumbnail for Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1868
    The Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 49) was an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. The act did not alter the overall...
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  • Thumbnail for House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1944
    The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1944 (7 & 8 Geo. 6. c. 41) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that established permanent...
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  • government-sponsored Irish Land Commission. The 1881 act involved state participation in the redistribution of land-ownership. Because of attacks on landlords...
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  • million in 1885 to over 21 million in 1918. Much of the growth was result of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which expanded franchise by abolishing...
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  • Belfast Falls (UK Parliament constituency) (category Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918)
    from 1918 to 1922, using the first past the post electoral system. The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918 from...
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  • Belfast Duncairn (UK Parliament constituency) (category Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918)
    of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1922, using the first past the post electoral system. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the parliamentary...
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