The second week of the election saw London's political landscape quietly reshaping. Although the Whig Party had firmly held all eighteen seats in Greater London since the 1832 Parliamentary reform, the Conservative Party made breakthroughs in several key districts, leveraging the momentum from the "Tamworth Manifesto". Even some districts previously deemed "Whig strongholds" showed significant signs of loosening.
In the Financial City, the Whig Party, long favored by commercial capital, remained firmly positioned. However, Peel's agenda of fiscal reform gained some traction among a minority in the financial sector. Should the Conservative Party succeed in regaining their former allies, such as the "old school bankers" represented by Rothschild, they might narrow the gap in this area.
