In this change, the key elections were those of 1868 and 1885. The election of 1868 saw the dramatic victory of Henry Richard at Merthyr Tydfil and the defeat of members of landlord families such ...

The 1st of April, 1867, up to the presidential elect in November (1868).” Blackburn had been ... orders that if they didn’t attend the election and vote the democratic ticket they would ...