sentences:  For the 1865 general election the West Riding was split into two new two member county divisions by the Birkenhead Enfranchisement Act 1861.Unusually this local redistribution had taken place between the general redistributions of seats, in 1832 and 1868.This was because some seats, taken from Sudbury and St Albans boroughs disenfranchised for corruption, were re-allocated to what (by the developing idea that representation should be related to population) were the still under-represented northern English counties.