Representation of the People Act 1948

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The Representation of the People Act 1948 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It prohibited those graduates of universities (such as Oxford and Cambridge) from voting for a second MP to represent a university constituency and therefore essentially ceased the practice of plural voting.

The arrangements which had given plural votes to electors who met a property qualification because of their business or shop premises were also abolished.

From this point forward, those on the UK electoral register were only allowed to vote once, and to vote in one constituency in any general election, and thus vote only once, even if for some reason they were registered in more than one.