 This increased the population to 5,992, which was enough for Droitwich to retain one of its two MPs, and there were 243 voters on the register for the first election under the reformed franchise, in 1832.There was a further slight enlargement of the boundaries to the east in 1868.However, the constituency was not big enough to keep its MP under the Third Reform Act, which came into effect at the general election of 1885.