rotten borough

The name is a play on the term rotten borough.

In fact they became the rotten boroughs of later centuries.

They saw that the votes of the rotten boroughs had given the government its majority.

The constituency was abolished in 1832 as a rotten borough.

It was one of the most notoriously corrupt rotten boroughs.

Rotten boroughs were criticized as being used by the ministry to help maintain a majority.

Since the previous century, there had been calls for parliamentary reform, particularly an end to the rotten boroughs.

The Act took away parliamentary seats from rotten boroughs- cities with a small populations.

Rotten boroughs were long a curse of democratic processes.

Such things existed in the nineteenth century, they were called Rotten Boroughs.

Some rotten boroughs were once important or played a major role in England's politics, but had fallen into insignificance.

Nevertheless, he did not advocate an immediate disfranchisement of rotten boroughs.

As one of the "rotten boroughs" it was often targeted by those seeking electoral reform.

The true rotten borough was a borough with a very small electorate.

Too many councils have become rotten boroughs, with one party holding power in apparent perpetuity.

Is this not a return to the days of rotten boroughs, of inherited privilege?

In fact, why not go back to pre-1830s with Rotten Boroughs?

The Reform Act of 1832 abolished its representation as a rotten borough.

However, many rotten boroughs remained and it still excluded millions of working class men and all women.

By omission from the list rotten boroughs were abolished.

The rope, the rack and the rotten borough.

Old Sarum was unlike other rotten boroughs in that it never had a substantial population.

This was a rotten borough controlled by the Grenvilles.

In 1831 there were only 41 eligible voters and Midhurst was considered a rotten borough.