Tag: rotten boroughs

• Rotten Boroughs: Where Are They Now?

  

  Before 1832 Gatton had 7 voters and two MPs while Manchester had none. I mapped all 56 boroughs the Reform Act abolished: today 25 are villages, a hamlet or an empty hill.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Census 2021, Cornwall, data visualisation, elections, history, maps, Reform Act 1832, rotten boroughs