JEREMY C. MITCHELL is a Lecturer in Government at the Open University. His publications include Reforming the Lords (with Anne Davies), and (co-edited with Dirk Berg-Schlosser) Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Systematic Case Studies, and Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Comparative Analyses.

• List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Explaining Open Voting in England, 1832-1868 Elections and Party Organization in Victorian England Some Electoral Consequences of the Great Reform Bill Organizing the Vote in Lancaster Electoral Change in Bedford 1832–68 The Voter and the Electoral Community After the Second Reform Bill The Organization of Opinion Appendix i: Poll Books and Nominal Record Linkage Appendix ii: Votes and Ballots Appendix iii: Measuring Electoral Change Notes References Index

JEREMY C. MITCHELL is a Lecturer in Government at the Open University. His publications include Reforming the Lords (with Anne Davies), and (co-edited with Dirk Berg-Schlosser) Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Systematic Case Studies, and Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Comparative Analyses.

• List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Explaining Open Voting in England, 1832-1868 Elections and Party Organization in Victorian England Some Electoral Consequences of the Great Reform Bill Organizing the Vote in Lancaster Electoral Change in Bedford 1832–68 The Voter and the Electoral Community After the Second Reform Bill The Organization of Opinion Appendix i: Poll Books and Nominal Record Linkage Appendix ii: Votes and Ballots Appendix iii: Measuring Electoral Change Notes References Index

JEREMY C. MITCHELL is a Lecturer in Government at the Open University. His publications include Reforming the Lords (with Anne Davies), and (co-edited with Dirk Berg-Schlosser) Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Systematic Case Studies, and Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Comparative Analyses.

• List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Explaining Open Voting in England, 1832-1868 Elections and Party Organization in Victorian England Some Electoral Consequences of the Great Reform Bill Organizing the Vote in Lancaster Electoral Change in Bedford 1832–68 The Voter and the Electoral Community After the Second Reform Bill The Organization of Opinion Appendix i: Poll Books and Nominal Record Linkage Appendix ii: Votes and Ballots Appendix iii: Measuring Electoral Change Notes References Index