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	Election Resources on the Internet / Recursos Electorales en la Internet
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	electionresources.org (1557 words)

	Margaret Thatcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was undefeated at the polls, winning the 1979, 1983 and 1987 general elections, and became the longest-serving Prime Minister of the 20th century.
		By winning the 1987 general election, on the economic boom and against a stubbornly anti-nuclear Labour opposition, she became the longest serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since Lord Liverpool, 1812 to 1827,and first to win 3 successive elections since Lord Palmerston in 1865.
		In the Republic of Ireland, she is generally remembered as an intransigent figure who eschewed negotiations with the IRA and contributed to the length and ferocity of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, despite the efforts her government made to increase Irish involvement in the North through the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Thatcher (7361 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1935 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The UK general election held on 14th November 1935 resulted in a large, though reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Stanley Baldwin.
		Labour, under what was internally regarded as the caretaker leadership of Clement Attlee, made large gains over their very poor position in the 1931 general election, but the Liberals lost further ground.
		The major election issues were the continuing unemployment problems and the role of the League of Nations, particularly as regarded Japan.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1935 (264 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1983 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The UK general election, 1983 was held on June 9, 1983 and gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945.
		The Independent Republican elected in the 1979 election died in 1981.
		In the ensuring by-election the seat was won by Bobby Sands, an Anti-H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner who then died and was succeeded by an Anti-H-Block Proxy Political Prisoner.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/1983_UK_general_election (513 words)

	Election Law Opinions
		Generally, election law opinions are reserved for interpretations of election law that will have a significant impact on the election process.
		When may an election be held to fill a vacancy in the office of council-person in a home rule city in which council-persons have terms of more than two years.
		Whether an ineligible candidate who ran in the general primary election and won may withdraw as the party's elected nominee and subsequently be appointed as the party's nominee if he meets all the eligibility requirements for candidates at the time of appointment.
	www.sos.state.tx.us /elections/elo (1761 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		However in the February 1974 general election the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) contested the seat, dividing the nationalist vote and allowing Harry West of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) to win with the support of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party.
		He retained his seat in the 1979 general election, when both the Unionist and Nationalist votes were split, the former by the intervention of Ernest Baird, leader of the short-lived United Ulster Unionist Party, and the latter by Austin Currie, who defied the official SDLP decision to not contest the seat.
		The second by-election in August was also contested by the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, the Workers' Party Republican Clubs, a candidate standing on a label of General Amnesty and another as The Peace Lover.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Fermanagh_and_South_Tyrone_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (987 words)

	Argyll and Bute (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Argyll and Bute is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		It was created for the 1983 general election, largely replacing Argyll.
		Until the 2005 general election, it excluded Helensburgh and Lomond.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Argyll_and_Bute_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (136 words)

	Tony Blair - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		During the 1983 UK general election he was elected as the MP for Sedgefield, a constituency that he has held until the present day.
		Following two general election defeats by Margaret Thatcher in 1983 and 1987, Blair aligned himself firmly with the reforming tendencies in the party, headed by leader Neil Kinnock who gave Blair his first shadow cabinet post, and worked to produce a more moderate and electable party.
		In the 2001 UK general election, the Labour Party preserved its majority at an unprecedented level, even in the face of a reduced turnout, and Blair became the first Labour Prime Minister to win a full second term.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Tony_Blair (1224 words)

	Margaret Thatcher -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		In the election of 1950 she was the youngest woman Conservative candidate but fought in the (A ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests) safe Labour seat of (Click link for more info and facts about Dartford) Dartford.
		The anger generated during this crisis led indirectly to (An Irish republican political movement founded in 1905 to promote independence from England and unification of Ireland; became the political branch of the Irish Republican Army) Sinn Féin's later successes and was a powerful morale boost for a demoralised IRA.
		By the time of the 1983 election the economy was re-stabilising on a new norm, and was far stronger in economic and entrepreneurial terms than previously.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Margaret_Thatcher.htm (5169 words)

	AGO_1982_No_007 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		(1) The "next general election," for the purposes of RCW 53.12.120 as amended by § 1, chapter 219, Laws of 1982 (relating to the means of increasing the number of commissioners in certain port districts), will be the November, 1983 port district general election as provided for in RCW 29.13.020.
		May the proposition for increasing the membership on the board and the election of the new commissioners be submitted to the voters at the 1982 General Election, or is the 1983 General Election ‑ the next Port District General Election ‑ the 'next general election' within the meaning of this act?
		If your answer is that the elections must be held this November, what would be the length of the terms of the new commissioners, in view of the fact that two, four or six year terms would make future elections for these positions inconsistent with the odd-year general election requirement for port districts?
	www.atg.wa.gov /opinions/1982/opinion_1982_007.html (1258 words)

	First Past the Post - Disadvantages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		In the Malawi multi-party elections of 1994, a history of colonial rule, missionary activity, and Hastings Banda's "Chewa-ization" of national culture combined to plant the seeds of regional conflict which both dovetailed with, and cut across, pre-conceived ethnic boundaries.
		Votes which do not go towards the election of any candidate are often referred to as 'wasted votes.' Related to "regional fiefdoms" above is the prevalence of wasted votes, when minority party supporters begin to feel that they have no realistic hope of ever electing a candidate of their choice.
		This was particularly apparent in the Kenyan elections of 1993 when huge disparities between the sizes of electoral districts - the largest had 23 times the number of voters as the smallest - contributed to the ruling Kenyan African National Union party's winning a large parliamentary majority with only thirty percent of the popular vote.
	www.aceproject.org /main/english/es/esd01b.htm (827 words)

	RTÉ News Interactive :. Northern Constituency Profiles
		Another Unionist winner in the 1998 election was Boyd Douglas, who quit the UUP and chose to stand as an Independent Unionist after failing to get a nomination from his party.
		On the nationalist side, the SDLP's Arthur Doherty contested the seat at each general election since the constituency was created for the 1983 general election.
		In 1983, the party won 18.3% whereas in the 1997 general election 21.7% of voters endorsed their policies.
	www.rte.ie /news/features/westminster_election/constituencies/east_londonderry.html (507 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1924 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The 1924 UK general election was held on 29th October 1924.
		The Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin did dramatically better than in the 1923 general election and obtained a large parliamentary majority.
		Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald, lost a few seats, but the big losers were Herbert Henry Asquith's Liberals who lost 118 of their 158 seats.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1924 (141 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)

	United Kingdom general elections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of United Kingdom general elections since 1802.
		For information on UK elections in general, see Elections in the United Kingdom.
		For example, in the 1929 election, Labour was 42 seats short of forming a majority, and so its majority is listed as −42.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Kingdom_general_elections (192 words)

	United Kingdom Election Results
		Results of elections to the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom in 2005 are being added.
		Elections of hereditary peers under the House of Lords Act 1999.
		European Parliamentary Election in Eastern region by constituency, 1999.
	www.election.demon.co.uk (1198 words)

	The Irish General Election of 1918
		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)

	[A-List] UK labour militancy: Michael Foot joins in (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Mr Foot led Labour to its worst defeat in half a century at the 1983 = general election after being famously given a "vote of confidence" by = his party during the campaign.
		All the more startling because his = name will forever be linked with the 1983 general election, in which he = led the Labour Party to its worst defeat in half a century and near = destruction.
		He went into an election against the odds fighting for them and, even = though he was destroyed, they haven't forgotten what he tried to do for = them.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2002-July/019833.html (1971 words)

	Socialism Today, issue 40 - Blair's Euro-poll shock
		While they recorded their first victory in a national poll since the 1992 general election, showing that they cannot be written off indefinitely, theirs is a very limited revival.
		The European elections, following May's elections to the Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly, have created such an opposition within the parliamentary Labour Party to electoral reform that Blair will not now be able to proceed to a referendum on this issue this side of a general election.
		In the European elections the main manifestation of this underlying mood of discontent was the unprecedented level of abstentionism.
	www.socialismtoday.org /40/blair40.html (1300 words)

	Northern Ireland Political Parties
		The party got 0.3% of the votes in Northern Ireland in the 2001 local government election, and 0.4% in the 2003 Assembly elections in which all three lost their seats.
		The following parties were all entitled to stand in the 1996 Forum elections, the first time that any system of party registration was used in Northern Ireland, and in most cases have not been heard from since.
		Both seats were lost to Unionists in the first 1974 election due to a split nationalist vote with the SDLP, though Frank Maguire, who held Fermanagh and South Tyrone as an independent from the second 1974 election until his death in 1981, could be seen as part of that tradition.
	www.ark.ac.uk /elections/gparties.htm (2114 words)

	Liberal Democrats : Alan Beith MP, Berwick-Upon-Tweed
		A lecturer in politics at Newcastle University, Alan was elected as a councillor on the Hexham District Council in 1969 and first stood for Parliament in Berwick-upon-Tweed at the General Election in 1970.
		On the election of David Steel as Leader of the Liberal Party in 1976, Alan became the party’s Chief Whip in the Commons, and after the 1983 General Election he also became the Liberal spokesman on Constitutional Affairs.
		After the 2001 General Election he was briefly the spokesman on the Lord Chancellor’s Department, but left the front bench in 2002.
	www.libdems.org.uk /party/people/mr-alan-beith.html (579 words)

	UK general election, 1979 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The British general election of May 3, 1979 was a pivotal point in 20th century British politics.
		The election was precipitated by a lost vote of confidence for the ruling The Labour Party (UK)Labour government under James CallaghanJim Callaghan.
		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.
	www.infothis.com /find/UK_general_election,_1979 (633 words)

	Party Politics Vol. 8, Issue 5, p. 607
		David Butler's is still a strong and influential voice in the interpretation of UK elections, but he has many 'competitors' (in the best sense of that term).
		A year after the election was held, we have several books providing instant interpretations -- alongside a second group by political commentators and journalists not reviewed here -- but then interest wanes.
		Of course, major books have emerged from the British Election Survey -- Butler and Stokes' (1969, 1974) pioneering volumes, Särlvik and Crewe's (1983) synthesis of a decade of change, and several from the CREST team (Heath, Jowell and Curtice, 1985, 2001; Heath et al., 1987; Evans and Norris, 1999).
	www.partypolitics.org /volume08/v08i5p607.htm (358 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Turkey
		Founded in May 1983, it was one of the three parties allowed to compete in the 1983 general election.
		Founded in July 1983 and originally named the Conservative Party, it changed its name in November 1985 to MÇP. The conservative nationalist party is considered to be the successor to the MHP (q.v.
		Founded in May 1983 under the leadership of General Turgut Sunalp, the party never gained popular support and was dissolved in April 1986.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/turkey/tr_appb.html (864 words)

	CNN In-Depth Specials - Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		After unionist MPs resign their seats in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 15 by-elections are held in Northern Ireland.
		The unionists manage to increase their vote on the 1983 general election, with voting for Sinn Fein down by 5 percent on the 1985 local government election.
		A widespread general strike (or "Day of Action") in Northern Ireland in support of unionist demands for the ending of the Anglo-Irish Agreement causes huge disruption across Northern Ireland.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/n.ireland/popups/dates/1986.html (90 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1983 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The UK general election, 1983 was held on June 9, 1983 and gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the second most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945.
		In the ensuring by-election the seat was won by an Anti-H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner who then died and was succeeded by an Anti-H-Block Proxy Political Prisoner.
		The article about United Kingdom general election, 1983 contains information related to United Kingdom general election and 1983.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/1983_UK_general_election (530 words)

	Yorkshire Regional SLP Web Forum - A Bravenet.com Forum
		Fewer people voted Labour in the Wakefield District in the 2001 General Election than in the 1983 General Election when Labour was we were told unelectable.
		In 1983 Thatcher was at the height of her popularity and the media were united in their hostility to Labour's plans for nuclear disarmament and the redistribution of wealth.
		Since local government has effectively ceased to matter it is only when there is a General Election that we have any say at all by means of the ballot box in the way power is exercised in Britain.
	pub46.bravenet.com /forum/3948235287/fetch/52339 (511 words)

	BBC Politics 97
		When she announced the election for 9 June, some opinion polls showed her running up to 18 points clear of Labour.
		The victor of the Darlington by-election in March, Ossie O'Brien, also left the Commons, losing his seat to the Conservative Michael Fallon.
		Margaret Thatcher was now firmly entrenched as Prime Minister with a majority that would ensure the passage of her increasingly radical agenda.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/background/pastelec/ge83.shtml (911 words)

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