St Albans, 1850

[ColinJ]

A by-election was held in the borough of St Albans on Christmas Eve, 1850. F.W.S. Craig reports the result as:

J. Bell (L) 276
Sir R.H. Carden (C) 147

483 electors were registered to vote. A note from Craig adds: "Royal Commission appointed which found proof of extensive bribery and as a result the borough lost its right to return a Member of Parliament and was incorporated into the county constituency of Hertfordshire from May 3, 1852."

An article on BBC News has just been published, Victorian politics scandal mural livens up St Albans alleyway, to be found at:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68624344

A mural has been painted in the appropriately named Sovereign Way, depicting the corrupt election and some of the leading characters:

[edgbaston]

Mar 29, 2024 10:23:05 GMT ColinJ said:

A by-election was held in the borough of St Albans on Christmas Eve, 1850. F.W.S. Craig reports the result as:

J. Bell (L) 276
Sir R.H. Carden (C) 147

483 electors were registered to vote. A note from Craig adds: "Royal Commission appointed which found proof of extensive bribery and as a result the borough lost its right to return a Member of Parliament and was incorporated into the county constituency of Hertfordshire from May 3, 1852."

An article on BBC News has just been published, Victorian politics scandal mural livens up St Albans alleyway, to be found at:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68624344

A mural has been painted in the appropriately named Sovereign Way, depicting the corrupt election and some of the leading characters:

I rather like this idea of an example being made. Can we disenfranchise Tower Hamlets. Or any area that doesn’t count the night of. Or that submits their SOPN in separate PDF format for every ward

[batman]

disgraceful underperformance from Labour there

[Pete Whitehead]

Mar 29, 2024 10:57:37 GMT edgbaston said:

Mar 29, 2024 10:23:05 GMT ColinJ said:

A by-election was held in the borough of St Albans on Christmas Eve, 1850. F.W.S. Craig reports the result as:

J. Bell (L) 276
Sir R.H. Carden (C) 147

483 electors were registered to vote. A note from Craig adds: "Royal Commission appointed which found proof of extensive bribery and as a result the borough lost its right to return a Member of Parliament and was incorporated into the county constituency of Hertfordshire from May 3, 1852."

An article on BBC News has just been published, Victorian politics scandal mural livens up St Albans alleyway, to be found at:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68624344

A mural has been painted in the appropriately named Sovereign Way, depicting the corrupt election and some of the leading characters:

I rather like this idea of an example being made. Can we disenfranchise Tower Hamlets. Or any area that doesn’t count the night of. Or that submits their SOPN in separate PDF format for every ward

The last two type of offence are not the fault of the electors to be fair. More a case for putting the council into special measures

[Pete Whitehead]

And when they put the SOPNs in separate Word documents it's annexation by a neighbouring authority