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  Canadian federal election, 1984 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Canadian federal election of 1984 was called on July 4, 1984, and held on September 4 of that year.
The election was fought almost entirely on the record of the governing Liberal Party.
The election was a landslide victory for the Progressive Conservative Party, which won half the popular vote and 211 out of 282 seats.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_1984   (738 words)

  
 A Review of the 1984 Liberian Elections Law
The elections scheduled for 2003 are the first under the 1986 Constitution; it is morally indefensible and counter-productive for the institution of democracy in Liberia to support or advocate war as a means of bringing about a change of government.
The 1984 Elections Law were not meant to extend beyond the 1985 elections, and is defunct; it is also obsolete because it conflicts with the 1986 Constitution in some material respects.
Before elections can be held, Liberia has to put in place, and in a timely fashion, legal and political processes and systems, to prepare for its first constitutional elections under the present Constitution, and potentially the first truly free and fair elections in the history of the country.
www.theperspective.org /electionslaw.html   (3744 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search View - Greenland
Elections in April of that year for a new parliament were won by the left-wing Siumut Party.
In the June 1984 elections, the Siumut (Forward) Party and a moderate opposition group, the Atassut (Community) Party, each won 11 seats in parliament; the Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA), or Inuit Brotherhood, won 3 seats.
In elections held in March 1995 Siumut won 12 seats and formed a coalition government with Atassut, which won 10 seats; the IA secured 6 seats.
encarta.msn.com /text_761561107__1/Greenland.html   (1454 words)

  
 US Department of State Bulletin: Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean: the promise and the challenge - includes ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
The parliamentary elections ofDecember 3, 1984, were the first national elections since 1976, the first since the rise and disintegration of the Marxist New JEWEL Movement, and the first since the brief 1983 U.S.-Caribbean military operation to restore order.
Constituent Assembly elections on July1, 1984, with the participation of an unprecedented 72% of the eligible electorate were characterized by international observers to have been remarkably free and open.
Elections are to be held in November 1987 for a president and for members of the national legislature.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1079/is_v87/ai_4790322/pg_12   (1424 words)

  
 U.S. presidential election, 1984 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The U.S. presidential election of 1984 was a contest between the incumbent President Ronald Reagan and the former Vice President Walter Mondale.
Mondale was unable to deflect these positives or Reagan's personal charisma, and lost in every state in the union except for his home state of Minnesota.
Reagan was re-elected in a landslide, winning every state except Mondale's home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia, creating a record 525 electoral vote total (of 538 possible), and received nearly 59 percent of the popular vote.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1984   (751 words)

  
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Election returns are not included in this finding aid for the following years (in which an election was known to be held): 1869, 1913, 1915, 1927, 1930, 1932, 1937(?), 1947, 1949, 1951-1952, 1954-1958, 1961, 1967-1968, 1974, 1979, and 1981 onward.
Election returns (county-by-county) are created as the official record of election results at the county level, in order to determine the winner in each race for district, statewide, and federal offices.
Certificates of election and qualification are created as the official record of election results in elections for county and precinct offices, to certify the winner in each race and to notify the Secretary of State as to which officials need to be issued commissions.
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tslac/30018.xml   (1842 words)

  
 US Department of State Bulletin: Elections in El Salvador - Thomas R. Pickering's address to the World Affairs Council, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
The fact is and has been that the guerrillas have been embarrased by their opposition to the 1982 elections and have openly admitted that embarrassment in recent statements--a backhanded admission of the importance which the El Salvador electoral process has achieved in the eyes of the world.
The purpose of those elections was to choose a body to write a new constitution, appoint a government, and enact necessary laws.
Elections themselves could give a candidate the authority to pursue a more vigorous dialogue with the left, seeking their participation in the elections to be held next year for a new national assembly and for mayors.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1079/is_v84/ai_3200112   (1538 words)

  
 Politics of Liberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The president of the last of these, Charles Taylor, was forced to step down in 2003, and the United Nations installed a transitional government.
Elections to select a government to replace this transitional government are scheduled for October 2005 (see Liberian elections, 2005).
Elections were held on October 15, 1985 in which Doe's National Democratic Party of Liberia (NDPL) was declared winner.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Liberia   (869 words)

  
 S.I. No. 64/1984: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS (LOCAL RETURNING OFFICERS' CHARGES AND ACCOUNTS) REGULATIONS, 1984.
The scale of maximum charges for the purposes of section 21 of the Presidential Elections Act, 1937 (No. 32 of 1937), as extended by section 44 of the Electoral Act, 1963 (No. 19 of 1963), to be paid to local returning officers shall be the scale set forth in the Schedule to these Regulations.
The scale of maximum charges to be paid to local returning officers prescribed by the Presidential Elections (Local Returning Officers' Charges and Accounts) Regulations, 1977 (S.I. No. 45 of 1977), shall not apply to any presidential election held after 1977.
These regulations prescribe the scale of maximum charges for Local Returning Officers in respect of a Presidential Election and the form and manner in which accounts are to be rendered for the purpose of payment of such charges.
www.irishstatutebook.ie /ZZSI64Y1984.html   (1266 words)

  
 Majles Elections
The assumption of election control by the Council of Guardians allowed for the elimination of liberal candidates prior to the election.
  The death of Khomeini, a significant blow to clerical dominance, proved to be a decisive factor in the elections for the Fourth Majles in 1992.
  This trend intensified in the elections for the Fifth Majles in 1996.
www.wm.edu /so/monitor/fall2000/paper5.htm   (2516 words)

  
 Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
Millett 1989: "In 1984 municipal officials were elected in a separate election, held on short notice after the election of the president and the legislature.
Chronicle of parliamentary elections volume 23 1984: "As a result of the elections for and the installation of a new 67-member Legislative Assembly on 6 May 1984, the 505-member National Assembly of Municipal Representatives--which was hitherto the country’s national legislature, last elected in August 1978--is to be abolished on 2 November 1984.
Pérez 1995: "In 1991, partial legislative elections were held to fill nine seats for which results could not be determined in the 1989 elections; the PRD won five of the nine seats, and the government accepted the outcome" (page 136).
sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/panama/1981.html   (8971 words)

  
 Global Greens -
On an international level, at that time there had been a ‘Coordination of green and radical parties’ with no structure and continuity except that provided by the secretariat, which was, in the hands of the PPR, the Dutch radicals who had members of parliament.
In Germany Die Grünen had won already some regional elections and was completely focused on its own development and on the preparation of the federal German elections of 1983.
The green parties present at that meeting decided to work towards taking part in the European elections of 1984 on the basis of a joint platform that was presented at a first European congress in Liège in the spring of 1984.
www.globalgreens.info /literature/books/20years/janssens.html   (706 words)

  
 European Election Studies Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
These elections are conducted in a co-ordinated fashion by universal suffrage throughout the countries of the European Union (or its predecessor entities the European Community and the European Economic Community) and were held in June of 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994 and 1999.
At each of these elections, except for those of 1984, the academic community has fielded surveys of voters in all the countries that took part.
Although no academic survey was fielded to study the European Elections of 1984, relevant questions were included in the Fall 1984 Eurobarometer which is thus also included in the following list.
shakti.trincoll.edu /~mfrankli/EES.html   (245 words)

  
 Liberia's 1984 Elections Law
As a result of my further research and analysis, I concluded that the 1984 Elections Law was obsolete, inadequate and not valid for the purposes of holding constitutional elections in 2003.
Notwithstanding, it is important that we fully examine laws governing elections in Liberia, including what might be consider merely technical provisions to ensure that elections are held consistent with the spirit and letter of the 1986 Constitution.
One of the substantive deficiencies of the 1984 Elections Law is that it does not allow for absentee registration.
www.theperspective.org /1984electionslaw.html   (1081 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Sir Robert Muldoon (Australian And New Zealand History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Muldoon led his party to victory in the 1975 elections and served in the dual positions of prime minister and finance minister.
In the 1984 elections the National party lost to Labour, led by leader David Lange.
Muldoon was knighted in 1984 and resigned from parliament in 1991.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MuldoonSi.html   (277 words)

  
 RE: How a U.S. Diplomat Celebrates the Fourth of July in Cuba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
I could go on, but the point is that Nicaragua's election was far more "free and fair" than the US-sponsored election in El Salvador in 1984, and far more "free and fair" than any election in the Soviet Union (since you seem to think that that was a "Marxist" country).
In 1984, the majority of the 50-odd radio stations were privately owned, and some of them provided their own news programs; four other independent producers supplied radio news programs without prior censorship.
The 1984 elections in Nicaragua were declared free and fair by international observers.
www.leftwatch.com /4088   (1583 words)

  
 No. 6/1984: EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS ACT, 1984
shall on such election, or, in case he is to be so regarded, on the day on which he commences to be so regarded, cease to hold that office.
(i) his election shall not be invalidated by reason of his death and he shall be deemed to have been elected to membership of the Assembly by virtue of this Act and to have resigned his office immediately after having so become such a representative, and
(2) The European Assembly Elections Act, 1977, and this Act may be cited together as the European Assembly Elections Acts, 1977 and 1984, and shall be construed together as one Act.
www.acts.ie /zza6y1984.1.html   (3621 words)

  
 Press Coverage of 1984 Elections in Panama The following . contains the fruits of some res
Thus read, in its ludicrous entirety, the Times' coda to Panama's 1984 election.
With Noriega's theft of this year's election eliciting a predictable chorus of self-righteousness from all corners, it pays to compare the current U.S. posture with the histor ical record.
The actual events of 1984 banished from memory, the press continues absurdly to regard Eric Arturo Delvalle, picked by Noriega to replace the deposed usurper Barletta, as the constitutional ruler of Panama.
www.skepticfiles.org /socialis/panama9.htm   (468 words)

  
 How the U.S. Purchased the 1990 Nicaragua Elections
The Nicaraguan Center was created by the Nicaragua Democratic Coordinating Committee (Coordindrea or CDN), the reactionary coalition that boycotted the 1984 Nicaragua elections under pressure from the U.S. in efforts to delegitimize the election results.
This policy change was motivated primarily to preempt further U.S. accusations of unfairness in the Nicaraguan election campaign, hoping to remove all possible justifications for continuation of hostile U.S. intervention.
Thus it was understandable, though tragic and disappointing, that the majority of voters chose the U.S. candidate in the elections.
www.brianwillson.com /awolnicelection.html   (2444 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: IT WASN'T 1984
But a day before the elections were to take place, an Arab terrorist murdered a young Jewish woman, along with her children, on the road from Jericho to Jerusalem.
He is wrong, however, in placing the terrorist attack on the Jewish woman and her children in the days preceding the 1984 elections.
The attack was perpetrated prior to the 1988 elections, and not before the 1984 elections.
www.nybooks.com /articles/1477   (372 words)

  
 Elections held in Morocco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Referendum on the extension of the mandate of the members of the 1984 parliament by two years held on December 1, 1989
Referendum on amending the 1972 Constitution, held on September 4, 1992.
Elections of June, 25 1993 and September 17, 1993.
www.mincom.gov.ma /english/generalities/state_st/election.html   (124 words)

  
 The Sandinistas won't submit to free elections
Although rigged elections during the Somoza era raised hardly an eyebrow in Washington, Nicaragua's November 1984 election was pilloried by the White House and the mainstream media.
Yet according to the vast majority of independent observers, the 1984 elections were perhaps the freest and fairest in Nicaraguan history.
The Washington Post (11/6/84) subsequently published portions of a "secret-sensitive" NSC briefing paper which outlined a "wideranging plan to convince Americans [that the] Nicaraguan elections were a 'sham.'" The crux of the U.S. strategy was to focus media attention away from those conservative parties actively campaigning and toward the non-candidacy of Arturo Cruz.
www.fair.org /index.php?page=2479   (736 words)

  
 Panama
In the 1988 U.S. elections when a president, 435 members of the House of Representatives and 34 Senators were running for office in a nation of a quarter of a billion people, the total costs of all these campaigns amounted to about $400 million.
When the pro-government forces voided the election results which seemed to indicate their candidates had been clearly defeated, they cited evidence of foreign subversion of the internal political affairs of Panama.
When the U.S. used the voiding of the elections by Noriega and his loyalists as another justification for ousting Noriega, the U.S. was again operating on the shaky and illegitimate ground of hypocrisy.
www.brianwillson.com /awolpanama.html   (8506 words)

  
 Texas Secretary of State, Elections Division: An Inventory of Elections Materials (Part I) at the Texas State Archives, ...
The Elections Division assists the Secretary in interpreting and applying the Election Code and other election laws, and in carrying out his duties as the state's chief election officer.
Although some election returns are present in these files, the vast majority of election returns (county-by-county and precinct-by-precinct) have been described in three separate inventories (see Related Material).
From 1976 thru 1984, however, records are first arranged chronologically by year; but within each year files are generally in the order received.
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tslac/30060/tsl-30060.html   (1894 words)

  
 AFSCME Resolution: Opposition to dual voter registration
The 1984 primary elections again demonstrate that impairment to participation in elections result from complex registration practices; and,
There continues a practice of dual registration for city and county elections in some states covered by the 1965 Voting Rights Act; and,
Many of these states permit a variety of local identification procedures for registration, set different polling places for different elections, and engage in practices that severely limit participation in elections; and,
www.afscme.org /about/resolute/1984/ieb8403b.htm   (158 words)

  
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Both candidates, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Walter Mondale in 1984, were defeated by the Republican Ronald Reagan.
A cluster of states voted heavily Democratic in 1980 but not in 1984.
Creating a dummy variable for southern states and including this variable in a regression of 1984 percent on 1980 percent significantly improves the model.
homepages.utoledo.edu /CFOX2/voting.doc   (218 words)

  
 Greenwood Publishing Group I1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Part II examines aspects of contemporary fl political participation, such as fl political behavior in the 1984 elections, a profile of fl political activities, and various facets of fl mass and elite political activity.
Part III discusses the impact of Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign, on both southern fls and whites.
The concluding section examines on-going issues and/or barriers related to fl political participation, such as the impact of single-member districts, and the changes in the party system due to fl political activity.
info.greenwood.com /books/0275926/0275926559.html   (587 words)

  
 The NES Bibliography - A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
The Instability of Partisanship: An Analysis of the 1980 Presidential Election.
Campbell, James E. The 2000 Presidential Election of George W. Bush:The Difficult Birth of a Presidency.
The Use of National Election Studies for Longitudinal Analysis of Congressional Elections: The Case of Voting for House and Senate, 1972-1978.
www.umich.edu /~nes/resources/biblio/bib_r.htm   (5457 words)

  
 AFSCME Resolution: 1984 PEOPLE goal reminder
The ability of AFSCME PEOPLE to play an even greater role in politics and the formation of public policy in future years will depend on the increases in PEOPLE checkoff and other fundraising activities that occur this year.
That all AFSCME Councils and Locals will now increase their efforts to raise the money needed before Election Day 1984 to restore to our government the principles of fairness, compassion, peace and public service; and
That the delegates to this convention will set the example by contributing generously to the PEOPLE program and by participating enthusiastically in all PEOPLE activities at the 1984 Convention and throughout the remainder of the year.
www.afscme.org /about/resolute/1984/r26-125.htm   (215 words)

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