Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… Image John James Baker, 'The Whig Junto', Tate, T15046, 1710. Image William Hogarth, 'An Election Entertainment, from the series known as 'The Humours of an Election', Wikimedia Commons, 1755. Résumé Parliamentary … point. Its defenders called it ‘hospitality’ and saw it as a customary obligation for the elite to provide lavish entertainment for supporters. Many voters expected to be supplied with alcohol, at the very least; and elections were … 5 . Ibid. Entry ‘Cambridgeshire’. Critics, however, saw such sociability as dangerous, regarding electoral entertainments as a form of bribery (an act of 1696 sought to clamp down on ‘treating’ in a vain attempt to rid elections …
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