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To study the social and economic composition of Parliament (1841 - 1847) and the political behaviour of the men who sat in it.

Main Topics:

Variables Topic and date of division, party alignment for each division, use of whips, total votes, party votes. The number of Ayes and Noes for the whole Parliament and for each of the two main party groups. The P-value (the % voting negative) for the whole Parliament, the Conservatives, the Liberals, and the two main groups within the Conservatives, those who were not Peelites and those who were: and a summary statistic showing the proportion voting negative for each of these five groups. The fit of each division (if it did fit) in each of the 24 scales used in the project. Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

Stratified, systematic sample. All divisions were classified by topic. Divisions in which less than

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Compilation of published data and empirically derived scale scores