It is unknown how many male householders with no wife present existed.
It also removes most property qualifications, giving all adult (over-21) male resident householders the vote, and requires elections to be restricted to a single day.
Roughly 4.7% of the households had a male householder with no wife present, and 13.6% had a female householder with no husband present.
The percentage of male householders with no wife present is 5.1%.
Even after the passing of the Third Reform Act in 1884, only 60% of male householders over the age of 21 had the vote.
Of those households, 30.9% were married couples living together, 32.4% had a female householder, and 9% had a male householder.
The statistics for how many male householders without a wife present was not recorded by the 2000 Census.
There were 8 households of which 37.5% were married couples living together, 12.5% had a male householder with no wife present, and 50.0% were non-families.
A few boroughs gave the vote to all male householders.
The Reform Act 1867 granted every adult male householder the right to vote.