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	Conservative Party - A Brief History of the Conservative Party
		The continuous modern history of the Conservative Party begins with the era of Disraeli, and he has perhaps the strongest amongst the many claims to be regarded as its founding father.
		No longer the defender of the landed and aristocratic elite alone, the Conservative Party was becoming a national presence with an appeal to all communities, and it was this combination which led to its first period of dominance, from 1886 to 1906.
		After losing the two elections of February and October 1974, Heath was forced to hold a ballot for the Party leadership in February 1975 in which he was defeated by Margaret Thatcher.
	www.conservatives.com /tile.do?def=party.history.page (2692 words)

	UK Conservative party - Wikipedia
		The party remains heavily influenced Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism as she was leader of the Conservative party from 1975 until her resignation on November 22 1990.
		The 1997 UK general election the Labour swept the Conservatives away in a landslide victory and John Major resigned for the final time as leader of the Conservatives.
		After the 2001 UK general election, when a low turnout resulted in the net gain of a single seat for the Conservative party, William Hague resigned as party leader.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/UK_Conservative_party (664 words)

	Conservative Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though the Conservatives were considered to be the dominant governing party in the United Kingdom for much of the 19th and 20th Centuries, since losing the 1997 election to the Labour Party under Tony Blair, they have been in 'opposition' in Parliament.
		Following the 1997 general election, the Conservative Party opposed Labour's flagship policy for economic stability: the decision to commit the Bank of England to a goal of low and stable inflation, and to grant it independent control of interest rates to meet this target.
		Conservative modernisers point to Afriyie's election as evidence that the party is changing, though opponents argue that the election of a single fl MP doesn't count for much against the perceived right-wing anti-immigrant campaign fought by the Conservatives in 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK) (4639 words)

	BBC Politics 97
		The party claims to be the oldest political party in Europe and the name "Conservative" was first used in 1830 although the word Tory (the Irish for "robber" or "savage") is often used as an alternative.
		With the party falling in the polls, failing in by-elections and facing internal splits over Europe, Major gambled in June 1995 by resigning as head of the party and forcing a leadership election.
		An early test of Mr Hague's leadership was the Uxbridge by-election on July 31st which was caused by the death of Conservative MP Sir Michael Shersby.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/parties/pacon.shtml (2024 words)

	United Kingdom Election Results
		Election results from the general election of 1983 onwards are in these files in the same order.
		Elections of hereditary peers under the House of Lords Act 1999.
		European Parliamentary Election in Yorkshire and the Humber region by constituency, 1999.
	www.election.demon.co.uk (1198 words)

	The Conservative Party (UK) : UK Conservative party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		For most of the 20th century, the Conservative party was viewed as the "natural party of government" in the UK, effectively keeping the Labour Party from holding power for more than one term at a time.
		The party remains heavily influenced by the ideological legacy (Thatcherism) of Margaret Thatcher, party leader from February 1975 until her resignation on November 22, 1990.
		The UK general election">1997 UK general election saw the Labour Party sweep the Conservatives out of power after eighteen years of government, in a landslide victory that resulted in John Major resigning for the final time as leader of the Conservatives.
	www.termsdefined.net /uk/uk-conservative-party.html (1185 words)

	Articles - United Kingdom general election, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Conservative Party was seeking to regain seats lost to both Labour and the Liberal Democrats in the 1997 election, and become the governing party.
		Parties that were not represented at Westminster, but had seats in the devolved assemblies and European Parliament included the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom Independence Party, the various national Green parties, and the Scottish Socialist Party.
		In Northern Ireland, the election was dominated in the unionist community by a battle between the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to be the region's largest unionist party in Parliament.
	www.1hunting.com /articles/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2005 (2711 words)

	Wikinfo \| The Conservative Party (UK)
		The formal name is a vestige from the 1912 merger with the Liberal Unionist Party, and an echo of the party's defence (1886-1921) of the union of Great Britain and Ireland and subsequent insistence on British sovereignty in Northern Ireland in opposition to Irish nationalist and republican aspirations.
		The Conservatives, in coalition with the Liberal Unionists and often called just "Unionists", remained in power for most of the next twenty years, until internal disputes over Joseph Chamberlain's ideas on protection in the early 20th century led to a severe defeat to the Liberals in the General Election of 1906.
		The leaders of Conservative MPs and Conservative peers were regarded as coequal unless one of them was either the Prime Minister or a former Prime Minister, or if a particular crisis (as in 1846-1847 or 1916) had resulted in one clearly asserting authority over the other.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=The_Conservative_Party_(UK) (2446 words)

	Encyclopedia: Conservative Party (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government.
		The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997.
		Conservative modernisers point to Afriyie's election as evidence that the party is changing, though opponents argue that the election of a single fl MP doesn't count for much against the perceived right-wing anti-immigrant campaign fought by the Conservatives in 2005.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Conservative-Party-(UK) (1163 words)

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		The Conservative Party is descended from the Tory Party of the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries.
		Though the Conservatives were in government for two-thirds of the twentieth century and were often referred to as the \'natural party of government\', they have been in opposition in Parliament since losing the 1997 election to the Labour Party under Tony Blair.
		The internal organisation of the Conservative Party is a contrast between the grassroots constituency groups who dominate in the election of party leaders and the members of the Conservative Central Office who lead in financing, the organisation of elections, and drafting of policy.
	www.bangalorein.com /wiki-Conservative_Party_(UK) (5105 words)

	CNN.com - Hague quits after UK poll defeat - June 8, 2001
		As he resigned from the leadership of the party he has held for four years, Hague said: "We have not been able to persuade a majority, or anything approaching, a majority in the country that we are yet the alternative government that (Britain) needs.
		Labour is expected to have a majority of between 160 and 170 in the House of Commons, the UK's main legislative body.
		UK Home Secretary Jack Straw told CNN: "This is an historic result for the Labour Party.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/06/08/uk.election.04/index.html (833 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| UK Politics \| Conservative Party Leadership Election
		In 1965 the Conservative Party introduced a procedure for electing the party leader through a ballot of all Conservative MPs.
		When in 1975 the party became disillusioned with Sir Edwarth Heath, who refused to resign despite electoral defeats, the rules were changed to allow an annual challenge to the leader.
		After the Conservatives' catastrophic defeat in the 1997 General Election, William Hague was elected leader under the existing rules.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/c-d/81998.stm (468 words)

	MyDD :: British Election Update, Part V: Predictions (and the crisis of the Conservative Party)
		The results will further confirm that the Conservative Party is in a crisis not dissimilar to that experienced by the Labour Party during the 1980s.
		What's more, this election will show that the Conservative Party has not yet figured out the degree to which their party even has a problem, that they are no longer "the natural party of government".
		Aren't the lib dems the descendent of the liberal party that elected Gladstone to the prime ministership, or is it the equivalent of the Democratic-Republicans versus the democrats in the USA, and the two parties are wholly unrelated?
	www.mydd.com /story/2005/5/1/221156/5583 (3172 words)

	BBC News \| UK Politics \| Thatcher backs Hague on euro ballot
		Lady Thatcher recently disagreed with Mr Hague by saying that membership should be ruled out forever, but on Wednesday she urged the party rank and file to support him.
		Mr Hague is launching his drive for a 'yes' vote in the ballot with an address to 200 party activists from London at Conservative Central Office on Wednesday evening.
		However, opponents of the leadership line - led by ex-Cabinet heavyweights Kenneth Clarke and Michael Heseltine - are unlikely to abandon their calls for a change of tack.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/167751.stm (327 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Explained: the Conservative leadership election
		The second stage allows the party membership as a whole to select one of these contenders as the new leader.
		Before William Hague changed the rules to expand the role of the party membership, a contest was triggered when an MP notified the chairman of the backbench 1922 committee that he or she wanted to stand and received two nominations.
		Ballot papers are sent to every member of the Conservative party - around 300,000 people - and the two candidates prepare to spend their summer campaigning around the country.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /conservatives/comment/0,9236,499961,00.html (661 words)

	National Interest, The: The Tory debacle: is Thatcher to blame? - Conservative Party's defeat in UK May 1997 election; ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The voters did the party a favor by granting it respite from the rigors of office.
		For the future health of the conservative cause in Britain, it is important that the party use its downtime well.
		The Conservatives have rid themselves of the former, but the latter lives on in the parliamentary party.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2751/is_n50/ai_20633178 (1358 words)

	Birmingham University Conservative Future
		We should take this as a warning, we may be facing an invigorated Liberal party at the next election and we have to be prepared, especially in the southwest where it is always a battle between the liberals and us.
		For example why are none of the parties talking about having a radical approach to youth offending, perhaps prisons that have a hard shell and a soft centre, so on arrival the child is broken so that they can be remoulded correctly and given the support they need.
		I’m sure the father of the Conservative Party would be irritated by the sparse and uneven coverage of educational and medical facilities in prisons.
	www.bucf.wordpress.com (5231 words)

	Social Science, Business and Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This programme facilitates the dissemination of data from the decennial UK Censuses of population to the HE and FE communities.
		The European Election Study is a survey of the voting age population in the member states of the European Union and is fielded immediately following each European election.
		The UK is the fifth largest contributor to the IMF.
	www.jisc.ac.uk /coll_subject_s.html (7097 words)

	Conservative Party Leaders
		The process of choosing a leader involved a series of consultations with leading members of the party, which would eventually produce a candidate with whom the party was satisfied.
		If there are more than two candidates who seek the leadership, then the '1922 Committee' holds an eliminating ballot until only two are left (with new candidates not permitted to enter the race after the first ballot).
		When the two names are known, a postal ballot of individual members of Conservative Associations is held, and the candidate with the most votes is declared elected.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /conleader.html (572 words)

	Not updated: British [UK] General Election, 1997
		Party manifestos have been moved and may be found here
		The Centre for Research in Elections and Social Trends has a website that explains how their election surveys are conducted.
		The text of election speeches on education policy from Education-line.
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/ge97.htm (95 words)

	Israel Commentary: November 2004 Archives
		I was at the yearly assembly of the Manhigut Yehudit faction in the Likud Party on Sunday night in Binyanei HaUmah in Jerusalem.
		Abbas and the Palestinian leadership were forced to strike the deal with Suha after she refused to allow them to visit her husband in hospital.
		This is the third consecutive election in which the Democrats have lost to George Bush's Republicans (with each loss bigger than the last) and that is no accident.
	www.israel-commentary.org /archives/2004_11.html (9835 words)

	About us \| Personal Democracy Forum
		Since 1997, he has been a senior analyst with Public Campaign, a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Washington, DC working on comprehensive campaign finance reform.
		Prior to joining Public Campaign in 1997, Sifry was an editor and writer with The Nation magazine for thirteen years, writing widely on domestic and international politics, especially the Middle East, his first love and specialty.
		Joe Trippi is an MSNBC elections analyst, Harvard University fellow and heads the Washington, DC political consultancy, Trippi and Associates.
	www.personaldemocracy.com /about (5015 words)

	Area Studies, UK: politics, elections and government in Britain
		1997 general election, full results by constituency, including a statistical breakdown of the results
		Conservative Revival A site for thoughts on how the British conservative party is going to recover from two successive landslide defeats
		UK Ratifiers for Democracy - democratic reform in the UK SourceUK.net a portal for news and information in the public sector
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk.htm (1709 words)

	Rt Hon David Davis MP - Profile - Conservative Party
		He was the National Chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students.
		From 1997 to 2001, he served as Chairman of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee.
		In September 2001, he was appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party, and in July 2002 he was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
	www.conservatives.com /tile.do?def=people.person.page&personID=4881 (465 words)

	Rt Hon John Redwood MP
		In June 1995, Mr Redwood resigned from the government to challenge Premier John Major for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
		He subsequently contested the leadership election of 1997.
		William Hague appointed him Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1997-99) and Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1999-2000).
	www.selsdongroup.co.uk /redwood.htm (338 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Denmark
		elections: none; the monarch is hereditary; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or the leader of the majority coalition is usually appointed prime minister by the monarch
		elections: last held 20 November 2001 (next to be held by November 2005)
		Germany 24.2%, Sweden 12.4%, Netherlands 7.5%, UK 6.4%, France 6%, Norway 4.6%, Italy 4% (2003 est.)
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