Editing Reform Act 1832 (section)

===Further reform===
During the ensuing years, Parliament adopted several more minor reforms. Acts of Parliament passed in 1835 and 1836 increased the number of polling places in each constituencies and thus  reduced polling to a single day.<ref>May (1896), vol. I, p. 449.</ref> Parliament also passed several laws aimed at combatting corruption, including the [[Corrupt Practices Act 1854]], though these measures proved largely ineffectual. Neither party strove for further major reform; leading statesmen on both sides regarded the Reform Act as a final settlement.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}

There was considerable public agitation for further expansion of the electorate, however.  In particular, the [[Chartism|Chartist movement]], which demanded [[universal suffrage]] for men, equally sized electoral districts, and voting by [[secret ballot]], gained a widespread following. However, the Tories were united against further reform, and the Liberal Party (successor to the Whigs) did not seek a general revision of the electoral system until 1852. The 1850s saw Lord John Russell introduce a number of reform bills to correct defects the first act had left unaddressed. However, no proposal was successful until 1867, when Parliament adopted the [[Reform Act 1867|Second Reform Act]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}

An area the Reform Act did not address was the issue of municipal and regional government. As a result of archaic traditions, many English counties had enclaves and exclaves, which were mostly abolished in the [[Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844]]. Furthermore, many new conurbations and economic areas bridged traditional county boundaries by having been formed in previously obscure areas: the West Midlands conurbation bridged Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, Manchester and Liverpool both had hinterlands in Cheshire but city centres in Lancashire, while in the south Oxford's developing southern suburbs were in Berkshire and London was expanding into Essex, Surrey and Middlesex. This led to further acts to reorganise county boundaries in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}