Rotten and pocket boroughs
Former type of parliamentary borough or constituency in England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the novel by Oliver Anderson, see Rotten Borough (novel).
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 before the Reform Act 1832, which had a very small electorate and could be used by a patron to gain unrepresentative influence within the unreformed House of Commons. The same terms were used for similar boroughs represented in the 18th-century Parliament of Ireland. The Reform Act 1832 abolished the majority of these rotten and pocket boroughs.
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