Why was The Great Reform Act passed in 1832 ?

... Why was The Great Reform Act passed in 1832 ? Since the Industrial Revolution the population of Britain was growing rapidly. The census figures were 12,000,000 in 1811, over 14,000,000 in 1821, 16,500,000 in 1831, and, in 1851 over 21,000,000. The causes of the massive increase were not clear to contemporaries and indeed are still in doubt. There was one definite reason for the soaring population after 1760. This was that, in comparison with the fearful infant mortality rates in earlier centuries, a much smaller proportion of children now died at birth or before they were six years old. The saving of these lives explained why, despite some decades when there was a fall in the birth rate, the population began steeply increasing. There were also fewer deaths in childhood, early youth and middle aged people, mainly because they were better fed, better clothed, more temperate in their habits than in

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