Clement Attlee's Government

[heatherglen]

In 1948, the Attlee Government abolished the twelve seats in the Commons allocated to which institutions? Help appreciated.

[Peter Pedant]

universities at a guess ?

[Buenchico]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_voting

[jim360]

Universities. Before 1948, students (of all people!) had the right to multiple votes.

[shaneystar2]

Universities I think .

[Peter Pedant]

// In 1948, the Labour government abolished the university constituencies, with effect from the dissolution of Parliament in 1950, along with all other examples of plural voting.//

wiki

and they didnt do it with the parliament act 1949

but representation of the people act 1948

O god fiddle fiddle fiddle - dont these politicians fiddle with the ends of things to make it ALL right ?

[Buenchico]

Actually, Jim, most students wouldn't have any vote at all (because they were under 21).

Further, it was graduates of universities that had plural voting rights, not undergraduates.

[heatherglen]

Many thanks everyone, appreciated.

[Jackdaw33]

The former labour PM, Ramsay MacDonald, lost his seat at Seaham in the general election of 1935. He was returned in a bye-election as member for the combined Scottish universities.

[Peter Pedant]

Blimey I thought Ed Balls was the highest cabinet minister we booted out