A fact from Treating (law) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 May 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in UK elections, it is illegal for candidates to treat the voters?
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Someone dropped a "who?" in section Treating (law)#Current offence. Searching for the mentioned phrase finds a PDF that contains the referenced statement "An MP was unseated in 1911 for giving coal to the poor and sweets to schoolchildren in celebration of his twenty-fifth year in Parliament." The cite for that is
Kingston-upon-Hull Central Division case, Morely v Seymour King (1911) 6 O'M & H 372.
Searching for - "Seymour King" 1911 unseated - finds article Seymour King which indeed mentions the event. Shenme (talk) 02:30, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
According to the Hansard entry used in the Seymour King article, the finding was of bribery, not treating. DuncanHill (talk) 09:40, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The article's name should be renamed to specify that this article is specifically about UK law. Or, we'd have to include a worldwide view. MX (✉ • ✎) 14:34, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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