sentences:  This was a particularly important issue for the West Riding because the major towns of Bradford, Leeds and Sheffield and the important ones of Halifax, Huddersfield and Wakefield were all to become new Parliamentary boroughs in 1832.Though the general principle of the freeholder franchise was accepted without debate, one aspect of the question gave rise to much discussion at the time ... .The bill provided that the freeholders in boroughs who did not occupy their property should vote in the counties in which the borough was situated.