Template:Did you know nominations/1866 Helston by-election

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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 14:24, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

1866 Helston by-election

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• ... that at the 1866 Helston by-election, the two candidates received the same number of votes? Source: "Close of the Poll: Campbell ... 153, Brett ... 153." ("Helston election: The polling". The West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser. Truro, Cornwall. 4 May 1866. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.)
  • Reviewed: Battle of Corycus

5x expanded by Harrias (talk). Self-nominated at 14:24, 17 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/1866 Helston by-election; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: - Not done
Overall: @Harrias: Good article. Waiting on QPQ. Onegreatjoke (talk) 19:04, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

• @Onegreatjoke: I've just done a QPQ, but belatedly realised it was one of yours, which is possibly a conflict of interest. Harrias ^{(he/him) • talk} 21:18, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

If you are waiting on a third party to confirm that nothing shady involving approval-trading is afoot here, I've taken a look at the article and it looks fine to me. So don't believe Onegreatjoke's review is problematic.

As a passerby question, though: is it just me or are these vote counts insanely low, even given the smaller UK population of 1866? The rotten borough article says that such tiny constituencies were largely abolished in the 1830s... did the UK still have really restricted suffrage based on property holdings and this was normal, or is this a genuine case of a rotten borough that still existed? SnowFire (talk) 22:42, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

The latter. It wasn't until the following year that the Reform Act 1867 was passed, significantly increasing the voting population of the United Kingdom over the subsequent few years. Harrias ^{(he/him) • talk} 23:57, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

• @Onegreatjoke: Any interest in revisiting your review above? IMO, the QPQ criteria is fulfilled. If you'd rather hand the review off, I can approve myself, but don't really see the need since you already did the review. SnowFire (talk) 04:34, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Approve. Onegreatjoke (talk) 14:29, 3 April 2023 (UTC)