Talk:Representation of the People Act 1918

Discussion

I suspect this was also the Act that fixed general elections on one day (as opposed to being run over various days as before). Can't find a reference for this though. Morwen - Talk 12:41, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Parliament lists this as the text of the Act of 1918. There's no mention of any set date though. Perhaps its not the full text? Typos 08:37, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

That is obviously not the full text, what with it starting with section 4 and everything. Morwen - Talk 16:28, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

The statement that only 10% of men were able to vote despite the previous Act of 1884 allowing 60% is doubtful, although exact quotes of this line appear elsewhere on the web. The Act as published by Sir Hugh Fraser in 1918 has an introduction with some statistics including a Home Office report on the register as of 1915. That figure gives about 39% of the male population. Fraser also mentions 50 statutes that affected voting were to be eliminated and 57 others modified, and it seems likely that these caused the loss of 21 percentage points of males of voting age from the register as allowed by the Act of 1884. I haven't found any statements of how these statutes might have prevented voting by those on the register. Rireed3 (talk) 10:43, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Redistribution of seats

Does anyone know whether it was this Act which redistributed the constituences in 1918? I looked at the list of 1918 Acts, but I don't see any other likely candidates. However, I don't want to just assume that it's this one. --BrownHairedGirl ^{(talk) • (contribs)} 19:48, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes it was: to roughly 70,000 in each constituency (although whether that is voters or population I don't know) --86.131.76.178 17:41, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Exact dates

Was this bill passed on 6th February or 4th March? It states February at the top of the article, but then Hansard quotes 4th March for the commons, which means the Lords must be after this date (I can't find out what date this is). However, multiple other sources state 6th February. --Matty art (talk) 09:10, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

the House of Lords

I think the explanation that the House of Lords "lost heart" is very weak. Certainly the support in the country for women's suffrage was even stronger than it had been before the wra. In particular, many many people, men and women, had been surprised by the new rôles women had successfully performed during the war, from tram driving to agricultural work and munitions. Johncmullen1960 (talk) 07:10, 18 June 2011 (UTC)