In Belgium, voting was restricted to the wealthy tax brackets from independence in 1830 until 1848, when it was expanded to include a somewhat larger number of voters.
For municipal elections, a fourth vote was granted to family heads who paid a fixed level of electoral tax, or whose cadastral income was at least of 150 francs.
University constituencies were recreated in 1938 for the Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (the Irish legislature).
The Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930, passed by the Cumann na nGaedheal government, provided that Dublin City Council would comprise 30 popularly elected "ordinary members" and five "commercial members" elected by business ratepayers (individuals or corporate persons).
I think it was Sir Robert Fowler, a late Member of this House, who used to boast that he had no fewer than thirteen votes in different constituencies, and that he was able at one General Election to record them all.
However, plural voting for local government elections continued until it was abolished, outside the City of London, by the Representation of the People Act 1969.
Until the Electoral Law Act 1968 took effect in 1969,[16] the Queen's University, Belfast constituency was retained in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, giving an additional vote to graduates.
[18] Yulia Latynina proposes to offer money to voters who agree to sell their voting right.