Interesting election results were seen in the UK previous to the 1832 Reform Act.
For example; Old Sarum in Wiltshire, Dunwich in Suffolk, and Gatton in Surrey each used to regularly return two MPs to sit in Parliament. Sadly, neither Old Sarum nor Gatton had a permanent population, and thus relied on voters imported for the occasion by the local land-owner who, needless to say, expected that they vote for him. Dunwich also struggled with its credibility in the numbers of MPs elected because, having previously been a prosperous town, most of it had fallen into the sea in the C13th and it was subsequently reduced to being only a small village.
