Parliament passed a law changing the British electoral system. It was known as the Great Reform Act or the 1832 Reform Act. The 1832 Reform Act had thousands of critisizing reactions from people living in communities because the electoral system seemed unfair. It took seats in the House of commons away from the less fortunate and gave seats to the new industrialized cities. It also lowered qualifactions for voting. In its very last shape the Reform Act of 1832 improved the voters from around 366,000 to 650,000, which became approximately 18 percent of the entire adult-male populace in England and Wales. The sizable majority of the working classes, in addition to women, had been nonetheless excluded from balloting and the Act failed to introduce a secret ballot. The changes made in the British political system between 1832 and 1884 were nevertheless important.

 The book is about an uneasy backdrop of personal, professional, and political alternate in Great Britain. The 1832 Reform Act is the maximum apparent and essential political context for Middlemarch: the motion of the unconventional takes place between September 1829 and May 1832, so throughout the duration leading up to the passing of this Act in June 1832. Much of the novel’s political context is supplied indirectly. Politics possesses Dorothea’s uncle Mr. Brooke, who stands as a parliamentary candidate in the Government.