 Lount, like many reformers, was defeated in the election of 1836 due to widespread electoral fraud and violence.Charles Duncombe, who was another leader of the Rebellion, carried a Reform petition on the electoral irregularities in Lount's case to London but was refused an audience by the British Colonial Office.In July 1837, just after the death of King William IV, William Lyon Mackenzie began organizing a "constitutional convention."