ELECTORAL REFORM
SPEAKER'S CONFERENCE PROPOSALS. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE SCHEME. LONDON, 31st'January. The official report, of the Speaker's Conference on electoral reform" slates that the conference will recommend the suffrage be granted to any woman on the local government register, or the wife of any man thereon, subject to an age limit, which it is suggested should be 30 or 3S years, It ia proposed thai \v«iilml [ graduates will be enfranchised.
The redistribution proposals suggest no change in the number of members. A 'population of 70,000 will be the standard unit for each member. No county or borough under fifty thousand, except the City of London, will retain separate representation. The registers will be revised half-yearly. The Universities of London, Durham, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Bristol, and Wales will be grouped in a single constituency, returning three members. The four Scottish Universities will be grouped,, and will return three members.
At any election .where there are more than two candidates for a single-mem-ber constituency the election will be held on the' system of voting known as the alternative' vote.
The report does not deal with Ireland,
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 28, 1 February 1917, Page 7
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185ELECTORAL REFORM Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 28, 1 February 1917, Page 7
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