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Summary information

Study title

Number of Voters on the Burgess Roll in Municipal Boroughs in England and Wales, 1852, 1865, 1871, 1884

Creator

Dutta, J., University of Birmingham, Department of Economics
Aidt, T., University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics and Politics
Daunton, M., University of Cambridge, Faculty of History

Study number / PID

5025 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-5025-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


The data set was created as part of the ESRC funded project Economic Policy and Political Myopia. The aim of the project was to study the degree of political myopia in public policy today and in the past both from an empirical and a theoretical perspective. The data on the number of voters in municipal boroughs in 1852-1884 was collected to investigate the link between spending on urban sanitation and the local voting franchise.
Main Topics:

The dataset contains information about the number of voters registered to vote in the elections for the borough councils in up to 215 municipal boroughs in 1852, 1865, 1871 and 1884.

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

Topics

Government, political systems and organisationsHistoryElections

Keywords

ELECTIONSPOLITICSELECTION DATAVOTING BEHAVIOURPOLITICAL HISTORYLOCAL GOVERNMENTVOTINGELECTORAL RECORDSELECTORAL ROLLS

Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/2002 - 01/01/2003

Country

England, Wales

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals
Cross-national
National
Subnational

Universe

Voters in the Municipal Boroughs of England and Wales, 1852, 1865, 1871 and 1884.

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Text
Numeric

Data collection mode

Transcription of existing materials

Funding information

Grant number

L138251006

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2004

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Related publications

  • Aidt, T., Daunton, M. and Dutta, J. (2003) The local franchise and public spending in England and Wales 1865-1888, [Paper]..