A series of legislative measures that extended the franchise in 19th- and 20th-century Britain. The Reform Act of 1832 eliminated many anomalies, such as rotten boroughs, and enfranchised the new industrial towns, which had hitherto been unrepresented. The Reform Act of 1867 doubled the size of the electorate and gave many urban working-class men the vote. However, agricultural labourers and domestic servants had to wait a further 17 years to be enfranchised: the Reform Act of 1884 increased the electorate to about five million. The Representation of the People Act (1918) gave the vote to all men over the age of 21 and conceded some of the demands of the suffragettes by enfranchising women over 30, but on a property qualification. Universal adult suffrage for everyone over 21 was finally achieved in the UK in 1928, when women between the ages of 21 and 30 secured the right to vote and the property qualification was abolished. In 1969 the voting age was lowered to 18. In the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, 16 and 17 year-olds were given the vote and from 2016 this right will be extended to all Scottish elections.