LukeJarmyn published Why there was no Reigate MP for nearly 20 years

The whole country is going to the polls next month to vote in the General Election, but there was a time when Reigate was left unrepresented for nearly two decades.Nowadays, it would be political madness for an area to not have a local representative to vote for, but that's what happened for three General Elections during the 1800s when one of the biggest electoral scandals in history led to Reigate's disenfranchisement by then Prime Minister William Gladstone. As Wilfred Hooper revealed in his...

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