 Many major commercial and industrial cities became separate parliamentary boroughs under the Act . The new constituencies saw party conflicts inside the middle @-@ class , and between the middle @-@ class and working @-@ class . Iwami looked at elections in the medium @-@ sized borough of Halifax , 1832 – 1852 , and reports that the party organizations , and the voters themselves , depended heavily on local social relationships and localized institutions . Having the vote encouraged many men to become much more active in the political , economic and social sphere . 
