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en-wikipedia-org-6282		Reform Act 1832 - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	10350	1015	69	This requirement, known as the forty shilling freehold, was never adjusted for inflation; thus the amount of land one had to own in order to vote gradually diminished over time.[a][10] The franchise was restricted to males by custom rather than statute;[11] on rare occasions women had been able to vote in parliamentary elections as a result of property ownership.[12] Nevertheless, the vast majority of people were not entitled to vote; the size of the English county electorate in 1831 has been estimated at only 200,000.[13] Furthermore, the sizes of the individual county constituencies varied significantly. Canvassing for Votes, part of William Hogarth's Humours of an Election series, depicts the political corruption endemic in election campaigns prior to the Great Reform Act. Many constituencies, especially those with small electorates, were under the control of rich landowners, and were known as nomination boroughs or pocket boroughs, because they were said to be in the pockets of their patrons.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6282.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6282.txt