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  Dundee West (UK Parliament constituency) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Dundee West is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
A similar constituency, also called Dundee West, is used by the Scottish Parliament.
The constituency covers the western portion of the City of Dundee council area.
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 Banff and Buchan (UK Parliament constituency) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Banff and Buchan is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster).
From 1999 to the general election of 2005 the constituency had the same boundaries as the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) constituency which is also called Banff and Buchan.
In 2005 Westminster constituencies in Scotland were reformed and reduced in number, while Holyrood constituencies remained as they were when created in 1999.
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 Edinburgh South West (UK Parliament constituency)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Edinburgh South West is a constituency to be represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It is based on the old constituency of Edinburgh Pentlands, but excludes some of the east of that constituency and includes a south western portion of Edinburgh Central.
The constituency covers the south western portion of the City of Edinburgh council area.
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 Livingston (UK Parliament constituency)
Livingston is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency covers the eastern portion of the West Lothian council area, and is dominated by Livingston.
It borders onto the constituencies of Edinburgh West, Edinburgh South West, Dumfriesshire, Lanark and Hamilton East, Airdrie and Shotts, and Linlithgow and East Falkirk.
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 Dumfriesshire - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Dumfriesshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Former county of southern Scotland, which was merged into two districts of Dumfries and Galloway region in 1975.
Dumfriesshire merged into the districts of Nithsdale, and Annandale and Eskdale in 1975.
Dumfriesshire is now part of Dumfries and Galloway unitary authority.
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 Jim Wallace - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He failed to win a constituency at the first time of asking, the seat of Dumfriesshire in 1979.
He has maintained the brief throughout the first term of the Parliament, on two occasions standing in as Acting First Minister, firstly in 2000 due to the death of Dewar and in 2001 after the resignation of Henry McLeish.
He was adamant to retire from frontline poltics on a high following the success of the Liberal Democrats in the 2005 UK general election.
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 Na h-Eileanan an Iar (UK Parliament constituency) - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Na h-Eileanan an Iar (formerly Western Isles) is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, created in 1918.
The constituency was formed by merging together areas which were formerly within the Ross and Cromarty constituency and the Inverness-shire constituency.
The constituency area is that of the Outer Hebrides, known also as Na h-Eileanan Siar, and the constituency has the smallest electorate in the United Kingdom, one-fifth of the size of the largest, the Isle of Wight, despite the latter also being an island constituency.
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 Red Action Discussion Page
The Scottish Parliament now deals with many of the bread and butter issues including health, education and transport.
The next best socialist votes in the UK were in Glasgow Maryhill and Glasgow Springburn, where Gordon Scott and Carolyn Leckie took eight per cent of the vote.
A retired woman from North Ronaldsay in the Orkney Isles called to say that she had never voted before in her life but that she would be going to the polls for the first time on June 7 to vote for our candidate.
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 Results of 2005 United Kingdom General Election - Wikinews
As a result, Tony Blair is forecast to be governing with a majority of 66 in the new Parliament.
Constituency of Gordon Brown, the current Chancellor of the Exchequer
Constituency of Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State for Education and Skills
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 Biography
He was known as a forensic member of committees and a champion of the interests of his constituency, supporting the vote of censure against Lord Palmerston in 1864 and declaring in favour of extensions to the suffrage concurrent with adequate education.
In the City he was elected as a member of the Common Council for the ward of Bridge in 1842, appointed Deputy in 1864, Alderman in 1871 and Sheriff in 1873.
He did, however, argue for government retrenchment, shorter parliaments, civil and religious liberty, suffrage 'by instalments', the abolition of church rates, the lowering of the county franchise, the readjustment of local taxation and for master and man to be put on 'an equal footing'.
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 Zach Greenhill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The majority of UK census references suggest that Greenhill Lane is a district hamlet and is treated as a village in the 1851 census.
It is one of the five wards that form the Sheffield Heeley parliamentary constituency whose Member of Parliament elected at the 2001 general election was Meg Munn.
The districts of this ward were in the traditional county of Derbyshire, but they were annexed into the metropolitan borough of Sheffield in 1934, thus placing them in the ceremonial county of South Yorkshire.
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Purdey believes that the root cause of BSE is an imbalance of magnesium and copper, exacerbated, in the case of the UK, by the use of a highly toxic pesticide known as phosmet.
In the Lancashire constituency of Blackburn, where the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, is defending his 9,249 majority, the vote-rigging allegations have intensified as polling day nears.
This campaign was not designed for the national dailies, who often complained that they didn't know where the Prime Minister was (unless tipped off by broadcast colleagues), and were not invited to the carefully orchestrated 'meet the people' events whose sole purpose was to generate television pictures and positive publicity in the local press.
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 Patrick Ruffini :: Open Thread: U.K. Election Night 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In the Prime Minister's Sedgefield constituency, MRLP standardbearer Boney Maroney Staniforth pulled 137 votes.
Also, the Eurosceptic U.K. Independence Party seems to be doing quite well, despite Europe being well in the background of this year's campaign, and the Tories taking a hard line on immigration.
Now that more of the results are in it appears that the Labour party is going to hold an 80 seat majority over the Tories and LibDems, not as bad as first thought.
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 Dumfries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Struan Stevenson had a revenge of sorts in the 1998 in the North East Scotland European by-election when he beat the Labour candidate, Kathleen Walker-Shaw into third place and in 1999 when he became a Tory Euro MP.
Russell Brown did not express any interest in the Scottish Parliament therefore Labour, selected Cllr Dr Elaine Murray, a past Strathclyde Regional Councillor who represented the Dundonald ward on South Ayrshire Council where she was education convenor.
The SNP candidate was Stephen Norris, came within 3,673 votes of unseating Ian Lang in neighbouring Galloway & Upper Nithsdale in 1987.
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 Creative Writing - Fiction, Poetry and Non-Fiction - Writers Feedback Site - Articles
There were the usual suspects, Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and Scottish Nationalist plus UKIP (UK Independence) and the SSP (I presume SSP stands for Scottish Socialist not Smoked Salmon).
Say what you will about the IRA, at least their members elected to the UK parliament stayed away as principle.
Labour, the party of the poor, the working man, stands by as some of the biggest companies in the UK dump their workforce here in place for cheap labour in India and elsewhere.
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 Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock (UK Parliament constituency...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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Shetland is also a lieutenancy area, comprises the Shetland constituency of the Scottish Parliament, and was formerly a county.
Radio Shetland, the local opt-out of BBC Radio Scotland, and SIBC, a commercial radio station, broadcast daily.
New media sources include The Shetland News the online daily newspaper: since 23rd November 1995, that brought the landmark web hyperlink debacle with The Shetland Times to the forefront of everyone\'s attention in the UK.
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 Members of Parliament 2005 -
There is also a list in alphabetic order of MPs' names.
Click on the constituency name for the election result.
Click on the MP's name to send an email to that MP (please use this facility responsibly).
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/mps.htm   (142 words)

  
 alms | Houses of Parliament
Where an email address is not available details of postal and telephone contact points are given.
A selective biography is provided by Dod’s Parliamentary Communications for each Member of Parliament.
* Indicates a new Member, + indicates Member has previous service but not in the last Parliament.
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 alcm | Houses of Parliament
Alphabetical List of Constituencies and Members of Parliament
Links to e-mail and websites are also given where available.
Rt Hon Michael Ancram, Earl of QC (Con)
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