A rotten borough was one that was represented in Parliament but that had very few electors. Until 1832 most English boroughs, whether large or small, had two members in Parliament. The most rotten borough of all was Old Sarum with seven electors. The typical rotten borough had about 25 to 50 electors. As elections were public, many electors sold their votes and rich people were able to buy their way into Parliament.
After the Industrial Revolution in England, many people in the farm area, moved to cities. So one area would have... let's say a population of 12 people and a city like London had 100. The area with a population of 12 was a rotten borough.
In 1832, when the Whigs passed the Reform Bills of 1832, rotten boroughs were eliminated. So London would have more representatives.
It's sort of like the USA House of Reps. New York has more representatives than let's say North Carolina because we're bigger and have a larger population.
Prior to reforms in the early 19th century, it was a place that sent MPs to Parliament despite the fact few people lived there. A good example is Old Sarum. It was once a medieval city, but had been replaced centuries ago by the city of Salisbury. All that was left was a few houses, which still sent 2 MPs to Parliament. Another example is Dunwich in Suffolk. It was once a large port city that had been abandoned due to cliff erosion, but the villages surrounding it still sent 2 MPs to Parliament.
There are two: Louisiana and Alaska. Louisiana is divided into parishes and Alaska into boroughs. Parishes and boroughs are called "county-equivalents" by the U.S. federal government.
it was the Americans. some food went rotten when the shipping companies went on strike. Like in new york the shipping company went on strike and the eggs went rotten, before the eggs got to England you could apparently smell the eggs over 5 miles away! yuk! the eggs were put in a ditch and closed up the ditch with cement. the ditch must have been huge!
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There is one town: Bloomsburg. The rest of the municipalities are boroughs, cities, or townships.
Cornish rotten boroughs ended in 1832.
Britain is divided into counties and there are boroughs (towns) within the counties.
It changed boundaries of constituencies so that new industrial towns like Manchester were better represented and rotten boroughs ceased to exist.
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The following countries had sectors of Berlin: the USSR (8 boroughs, the US (6 boroughs), Britain (4 boroughs) and France (2 boroughs). The word sectors was used for the divisions of Berlin, and the word zones referred to the much bigger divisions of Germany between the same four Allies. Joncey
Boston has no boroughs.
As of 2009, there are 326 boroughs and districts in England. As of 2013, 32 of the boroughs are located in London.
There are states that have both counties and boroughs (for example, each county in New Jersey is divided into boroughs), but there is no state that has boroughs instead ofcounties.
Christopher Boroughs was born in 1975.