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	Labour Party (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Labour Party was establish by the reformist capitalist Fabian Society at a Conference on "Labour Representation" at Memorial Hall, London on February 27, 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee to act as the parliamentary arm of the trade union movement.
		The aftermath of the election defeat in 1979 provoked a period of bitter internal rivalry in Labour.
		The election of Foot to the leadership (where he proved an electoral disaster) led in March 1981 to the formation of a breakaway group, the Social Democratic Party, under the Gang of Four: new SDP leader and former Labour deputy leader Roy Jenkins, and former senior ministers David Owen, Shirley Williams and William Rodgers.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/labour_party__uk_ (2890 words)

	Canadian federal election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Elections are generally held in either the fall or spring.
		By-elections can be held between general elections when seats become vacant.
		The most recent instance of this was the 1988 election, which was considered by most parties to be a referendum on free trade with the United States.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/canadian_federal_election (917 words)

	wiki/1979 UK General Election Definition / wiki/1979 UK General Election Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The UK general election, 1979 was held on May 3, 19791979 is a common year starting on Monday.
		The election was precipitated by a lost vote of confidenceA Motion of Confidence is a motion of support proposed by a government in a parliament to give members of parliament a chance to register their confidence for a government by means of a parliamentary vote.
		General inflation is a fall in the market value or purchasing power of money within an economy, as opposed to currency devaluation which is the fall of the market value of a currency between economies.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/1979_UK_General_Election (2076 words)

	The 2001 British General Election
		The 2001 British General Election was seen by many in British politics as a foregone conclusion and this was borne out in the result.
		Elections are a fundamental part of a democracy and British politics has decreed that there is a general election every five years - though one can be called within the duration of a government.
		On May 22nd, Baroness Thatcher made a marked entrance into the election campaign with a speech in Plymouth that she would never give up the £ citing that the £ stood for the nation's sovereignty and that a nation without its own currency was not a nation at all.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /2001_british_general_election.htm (1394 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Labour Party (UK)
		The Liberal split, accompanied by this fundamental change in the system, allowed the Labour Party to co-opt some of The Liberals support, and by the 1922 general election Labour had supplanted the Liberal Party as the main opposition to the Conservatives.
		The ensuing general election saw the publication four days before polling day of the Zinoviev Letter implicating Labour in a plot for a Communist revolution, and the Conservatives returned to power.
		The European Parliamentary elections of 2004 also saw a poor performance by the party; however, the performance of the main opposition Conservative Party has been lacklustre and has led to a widespread assumption that it is not in a position realistically to challenge for government in the general election expected in May 2005.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Labour-Party-(UK) (3131 words)

	Department for Constitutional Affairs - Elections - Procedures at a General Election
		The decision whether to combine elections for those elections which are not automatically required by law to be combined rests with the respective returning officers for the elections concerned.
		In the event of a general election and ordinary local elections being held on the same day, any parish or community council elections scheduled for polling that day must by law be postponed for three weeks from the date of the poll.
		A candidate reported by an Election Court as personally guilty of an illegal practice is also subject to an incapacity for seven years of being elected to or sitting in the House of Commons for the constituency for which the election was held.
	www.dca.gov.uk /elections/ge2001/procedures/02.htm (4783 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1979 UK general election
		The British general election of May 3, 1979 was a pivotal point in 20th century British politics.
		Callaghan had been tempted to call an election in the autumn of 1978, which it is likely he would have won, albeit with a small majority.
		When the Scottish Nationalist Party withdrew support for the Scottish Devolution bill, a vote of no confidence was held on March 28, 1979 which the Government lost, forcing an election to be called.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1979-UK-general-election (505 words)

	Scottish National Party - dKosopedia
		With the victory of the Conservatives in the May 4, 1979 general election, the influence of the SNP waned.
		In the 1997 general election, the SNP won six seats; due to the Conservative Party's failure to win any seats outside England, this made the SNP the second-largest party in Scotland.
		The party only won five seats in the UK general election of 2001, and with the emergence of the Scottish Socialist Party and the Scottish Green Party, the SNP is no longer the sole advocate of Scottish independence.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Scottish_National_Party (333 words)

	The Irish General Election of 1918 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The December 1918 election for the House of Commons in Westminster is regarded by some as the defining act of Irish self-determination, as the last occasion when the whole of Ireland voted on the same day.
		European Parliament election of 1994 (in fact since a number of constituencies were not contested in 1918, 1994 is a rather better barometer of the opinion of the island as a whole), and the last time the island voted on the same day for anything at all was in
		However, it would be foolish not to acknowledge the central place of the 1918 election in determining the future course of Irish history.
	www.ark.ac.uk /elections/h1918.htm (741 words)

	The 1979 General Election - Westminster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		George Reid was elected as SNP MSP for Mid Scotland & Fife in 1999 and is a Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament.
		Jim Sillars won the Glasgow Govan by-election for the SNP in November 1988 and held the seat until 1992.
		At the 1979 general election, Scotland elected 22 new MPs - 12 Labour and 10 Conservatives.
	www.scottishpolitics.org /elections/1979election.html (469 words)

	The Rise of Militant: General Election: Thatcher To Power
		Overall, the 1979 General Election was a disaster for Labour and the working class.
		In June 1979, a month after the General Election, there were elections for the European Parliament in which Terry Harrison stood as the Labour candidate for Merseyside.
		This was shown at the October 1979 Labour Party conference which carried overwhelmingly on a card vote the historic resolution in favour of mandatory reselection.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /militant/ch16.htm (3943 words)

	The British General Election 2001 at a Glance (Research Note 35 2000-01)
		The decision to delay the general election appears to have been taken by Prime Minister Blair against the views of the majority of his Cabinet, many of whom favoured the earlier date to conserve party finances and avoid the hazards of a ten week campaign.
		That election saw Labour returned with its largest ever number of seats-419, the Conservative Party was reduced to 165 seats and the Liberal Democrats also benefited at the Conservatives' expense with the best third party seat count since 1929 with 46 seats.
		Seventeen by-elections between the 1997 and 2001 polls had shown modest to moderate swings away from Labour though the usual beneficiaries of any swing were third parties or independents.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/rn/2000-01/01RN35.htm (1564 words)

	Elections BC - Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986 Part One General Election Summary
		In elections until 1900, polling day for certain Districts often varied from that for the rest of the province.
		The percentage of voters who voted in the 1945 election appears to have omitted the active service voters.
		For 1986 the number of rejected ballots is actually the number of rejected votes, which due to dual candidate Districts is greater than the number of ballots.
	www.elections.bc.ca /elections/electoral_history/part1-1.html (178 words)

	BBC Politics 97
		The general election of 1979 was to prove a political watershed.
		Callaghan had had the option of calling an election in the Autumn of 1978, but decided to carry on and face the country after the economy had improved.
		The immediate reasons were a by-election defeat, the defection of two of Callaghan's backbenchers to form a new 'Scottish Labour Party' and the defection of the maverick John Stonehouse.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/background/pastelec/ge79.shtml (1182 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Thatcher's 1979 election victory
		May 4, 1979: Mr Callaghan is expected to travel to Downing Street from Cardiff this morning, then visit the Labour Party headquarters at Transport House before seeing the Queen this afternoon to hand in his resignation.
		May 4, 1979, leader: Early today the Conservative Party seemed to be advancing towards power but in an altogether unprecedented way.
		May 5, 1979, comment: What was misty and shifting in the early hours of yesterday morning became clear with the dawn.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Politics/politicspast/page/0,9067,1207192,00.html (238 words)

	Britain: Calls mount for Blair to delay general election due to foot and mouth crisis
		Blair has not yet called a general election, but it is an open secret that he favours May 3, 2001.
		The Conservative leader's demand for the general election to be postponed has nothing to do with defending democracy, as Hague claims.
		As the dates for local elections are fixed, this would require parliament to pass emergency legislation extending the period local councillors can remain in office.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/mar2001/fmd-m31.shtml (2054 words)

	Socialist Unity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was formed by the International Marxist Group as a response to the Socialist Workers Party standing candidates in elections.
		The group stood several candidates in the 1979 UK general election, but all polled very poorly, and the coalition was dropped when the IMG decided to enter the Labour Party.
		The Socialist Green Unity Coalition stood candidates in the 2005 UK general election as Socialist Unity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Unity (274 words)

	The Scotsman - Opinion - Leaders - Election challenge for SNP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A new poll in Scotland - the first of the election - suggests that the balance is slipping away from the Nationalists.
		At the October 1979 general election, the SNP took more than 30 per cent of the vote.
		The SNP’s share of the vote at the 2003 Holyrood election was six percentage points lower than at the 1999 election.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /leaders.cfm?id=369732005 (512 words)

	General Election Data for the United States, 1950-1990 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		County-level election returns for the years 1974-1990 for the offices of president, governor, United States senator and representative, plus one additional statewide office in each state, can be routinely supplied in two formats.
		They are available either as one physical file per state (the normal mode of storing and supplying returns for elections prior to 1974), or as a single national file for each year containing all counties in the United States and the votes cast for each party contesting elections anywhere in the nation.
		Users of the 1984 National File from the General Election Data for the United States, 1968-1984 (ICPSR 0013) collection are advised of minor problems with the data for one county each in two states.
	webapp.icpsr.umich.edu /cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/00013.xml (1173 words)

	13-10-327. Vacancy after primary and prior to general election. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A candidate may not officially withdraw 85 days or less before a general election.
		However, if a candidate for partisan office dies less than 85 days before the general election, the affected political party shall appoint a candidate within 5 days after being notified of the vacancy.
		One of the procedures provided in 13-12-204 must be used to place the name of the appointee on the ballot if necessary.
	data.opi.state.mt.us /bills/mca/13/10/13-10-327.htm (303 words)

	General Election Data for the United States, 1950-1990
		Users should note that these early election returns are much less complete than the body of returns available for the years from 1824 to the present.
		General Election Data for the United States, 1950-1990 (ICPSR 0013) contains county-level returns for all elections to the same national and state offices, plus one additional state-wide office (usually attorney general or secretary of state).
		This data collection, General Election Data for the United States, 1950-1990 consists of national files containing county-level returns for elections to the offices of president, United States senator and representative, and governor.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /ssdc/icp00013.html (667 words)

	1979 Liberal/SDP/Libdem Party Manifesto - LibdemManifesto.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A democratic electoral system is needed, too, to generate the popular consent which is essential to support a long-term programme of economic and social reform.
		The Conservative alternative of lightly-disguised confrontation is even more dangerous in 1979 than their Selsdon Park proposals were in 1970, and would no doubt lead again after a painful two years in office to another expensive U-turn.
		The vital choice at this election is whether Britain will start along this new path, or continue to shuffle down the slope of economic and political decline.
	www.libdemmanifesto.com /1979/1979-liberal-manifesto.shtml (6672 words)

	Right-wing victory in Spanish general election
		The PSOE general secretary implied that the voters were to blame for his party's disastrous performance.
		It was a development of the pro-business policies that opened the door to the PP in 1996: deregulation of the labour market, incentives to foreign investors, privatisations and cuts in welfare, as well as tax cuts for the rich and casualisation of jobs for working people.
		Hours after the elections, the employers confederation demanded more liberalisation, privatisation and deregulation of the economy, as well as wage controls and cuts in public spending.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/mar2000/spai-m17.shtml (1584 words)

	BBC Politics 97
		Churchill was unwilling to dissolve Parliament before the close of the war in the Pacific, but he had little choice when his coalition partners made clear their intentions to go to the country as soon as possible.
		The 1945 election was the first to be fought in Britain for ten years.
		Although the Conservatives appeared to be in a very strong position as they entered the election campaign, to many voters they remained the party of appeasement, unemployment and the means test.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/background/pastelec/ge45.shtml (827 words)

	UK General Election, 1979 Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		The UK general election, 1979 was held on May 3, 1979 and is regarded as a pivotal point in 20th century British politics.
		The Conservatives and their leader Margaret Thatcher won and replaced the Labour government.
	www.karr.net /search/encyclopedia/UK_general_election,_1979 (630 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Have Your Say \| Iran general election: Your views
		The elections are being turned into a farce reminiscent of elections held in former Communist countries with "one party" candidates.
		Voting in these elections is an expression of the acceptance of the totalitarian regime.
		The election row can only be resolved when the mullahs are brought to justice for their crimes (as it is for other totalitarian dictators) and when the Iranians would give up Islam and go back to their real Persian roots.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/3392349.stm (4668 words)

	SE- MEDIA ELECTION SURVEY 1979 -- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abstract: This study of the political contents in press, radio and television was carried out within the research projects "Mass media and the electorate" and "Swedish election campaign" in connection with the 1979 general election.
		It is a detailed campaign study of news reporting in the press, radio and television during the last four weeks before election day.
		Analyses of the editorial material of the press are also included in the study.
	www.ssd.gu.se /kid/swe/ssd0198.html (275 words)

	NATO Who's who?: NATO SecGen Lord Robertson
		He was a full time official of the General, Municipal and Boilermakers' Union (GMB) responsible for the Scottish Whisky industry from 1968-1978.
		After the 1979 General Election, he was appointed an Opposition Spokesman, first on Scottish Affairs, then on Defence, and on Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1993.
		After the 1997 General Election, Prime Minister Blair appointed him Defence Secretary of the United Kingdom, a position he held until his departure in October 1999.
	www.nato.int /cv/secgen/robert-e.htm (461 words)

	General Election: Thatcher to Power
		The paper urgently called for "all the resources of the labor movement" to be mobilized to keep out the Tories and ensure the return of a Labour government.
		This was shown at the October 1979 Labour Party conference which carried overwhelmingly on a card vote the historic resolution in favor of mandatory reselection.
		During this strike, and as part of the general debate on economic issues then taking place in the labor movement, the issue of import controls once more surfaced as a key question.
	www.socialistalternative.org /literature/militant/ch16.html (3950 words)

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