This chapter deals with social and demographic development. The analysis suggests that the ambition was also to establish rules that disadvantaged urban workers in various ways, even though—in formal terms—the rules were neutrally designed. The same also applied to the requirement to have paid taxes in one of the last three years and not to have been dependent on poor relief. The high voting age was a political response to the increasing urban population, which meant a greater political influence in general for towns and cities. It also reflected a fear of the population cohorts in their twenties who had not started a family and showed signs of greater criminality and other deviations from social and political norms. Many cities saw a dramatic increase in the unmarried urban working-class population between 1880 and 1920, in the critical ages at the focus of the political debates. Only a responsible married population could be included in the new democratic order. The new voting rules excluded a sizable section of the urban working class from political influence. The political changes can be understood as long-term consequences of population changes following the early nineteenth-century demographic transition and the political conflicts around the early twentieth century.