Rotten and pocket boroughs
Former type of parliamentary borough or constituency in England
Rotten and pocket boroughs
A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom that had very few voters. They could be used by a patron (or local landlord) to gain disproportionate influence within the House of Commons. The Reform Act of 1832 abolished most of the rotten and pocket boroughs in existence previously. The same terms were used for similar boroughs represented in the 18th-century Parliament of Ireland.
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