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Events on Thursday 15 August 1867 1
1867Second Reform Act expands the British electorateFranchise extended to urban working-class menThe Reform Act of 1867, passed under Benjamin Disraeli's Conservative government, roughly doubled the electorate by extending voting rights to many male urban householders and lodgers in England and Wales. It marked a significant step toward wider democratic representation in Britain, though women and most rural workers remained excluded.