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	European Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The debating chamber, the 'hemicycle' of the European Parliament in Brussels.
		Although Brussels is generally treated as the 'capital' of the European Union, and the two institutions of the EU's executive, the Commission and the Council of Ministers, both have their seats there, a protocol attached to the Treaty of Amsterdam requires that the European Parliament have monthly sessions in Strasbourg.
		As of October 8, 2005 the composition of the European Parliament was:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Parliament (1773 words)

	Elections in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is relatively easy to stand for election as an independent candidate, although wins are very rare and usually involve special circumstances (for example Martin Bell's 1997 victory against the discredited Conservative MP Neil Hamilton was aided by the major parties standing aside and not contesting the election).
		United Kingdom general elections are the elections held when the Members of Parliament (MPs) forming the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are elected.
		The UK is divided into twelve electoral regions, which are the three smaller nations (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), and the nine Regions of England.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Elections_in_the_United_Kingdom (4057 words)

	European Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Other organisations of European countries such as NATO, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, and the Western European Union have parliamentary assemblies as well, but the European Parliament is unique in that it is directly elected by the people and has legislative power.
		Although the two institutions of the EU's executive, the European Commission and the European Council, both have their seats in Brussels, a protocol attached to the Treaty of Amsterdam requires the European Parliament to have monthly sessions in Strasbourg.
		Elections to the parliament are held using various forms of proportional representation, as selected by the member states.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/e/eu/european_parliament.html (610 words)

	Encyclopedia: European Parliament Election, 1979 (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The European Parliament Election, 1979 was the first European election to be held in the United Kingdom after the European Community decided to directly elect representatives to the European Parliament.
		European elections were incorporated into UK law by European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978.
		Voter apathy was an explanation, but it is likely the large number of elections in 1979 had a significant negative effect on turnout.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/European-Parliament-Election,-1979-(UK) (298 words)

	Encyclopedia: European Parliament Election, 1994 (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The European Parliament Election, 1994 was the fourth European election to be held in the United Kingdom.
		This was the first election with 87 MEPs, the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1993 had increased the number of seats for the UK from 81.
		The Conservatives performance in the election was very poor, losing a further 14 seats, taking their number of seats down to 18, which was 42 less seats than in the 1979 election, the year they defeated the Labour Government in the 1979 General Election.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/European-Parliament-Election,-1994-(UK) (259 words)

	Member of the European Parliament
		With the parliament elected in 2004, there are 732 members, drawn from the Union's 25 member states on a basis roughly (though by no means precisely) proportional to each country's population.
		The maximum number of MEPs in the parliament until now was 788, effective from May 1, 2004 to the first session of the 2004 parliament in July, adding parliamentarians from the new EU states.
		The so-called dual mandate, where an individual is a member of both his or her national parliament and the European Parliament, is officially discouraged and has been prohibited by a number of EU countries.
	www.askfactmaster.com /MEP (1733 words)

	Democratic Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The DUP fought the resulting election to the Northern Ireland Assembly and took two seats in the multi-party power-sharing executive but while serving as ministers refused to sit in at meetings of the Executive Committee (cabinet) in protest at Sinn Fein's participation.
		In the delayed Northern Ireland Assembly election of 2003 the DUP became the largest political party with 30 seats.
		In the 2005 general election the party reinforced its position as the largest unionist party, winning nine seats, making it the fourth largest party in the British House of Commons behind Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Democratic_Unionist_Party (588 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When the Scottish Parliament was established by the Scotland Act 1998, the target size of Westminster Parliamentary seats in Scotland was changed to the same as that for England.
		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 province's largest Unionist party in Parliament.
		Other elections in the province have shown both a shift in votes towards the DUP but also a collapse of support for the cross-community Alliance Party which is likely to be more marked in a first past the post election and thus which may work in the UUP's favour.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2005 (2640 words)

	European Parliament election, 2004 (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The European Parliament election, 2004 was the UK part of the European Parliament election, 2004.
		It was the first European election to be held in the United Kingdom using postal-only voting in four areas.
		Gibraltar was considered to be part of South West England for the purposes of the election.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/European_Parliament_Election,_2004_(UK) (589 words)

	ipedia.com: Elections in the United Kingdom Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Elections in the UK are traditionally held on Thursday.
		From the first election in 1979 to the 1994 election, the elections had been held under first past the post.
		After Labour's poor performance in the PR elections in the devolved assemblies - failure to win an outright majority in the proportional hybrid AMS elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, the case for reform within the Labour party was further diminished.
	www.ipedia.com /elections_in_the_united_kingdom.html (2370 words)

	Encyclopedia: Political campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While TV advertising is illegal, UK parties are entitled to party election broadcasts and party political broadcasts, typically 5 minute pieces produced by the party and shown on the same day on all five principal TV channels.
		Modern election campaigns in the US Political campaigns in the United States are not merely a civic ritual and occasion for political debate, but a multi-billion dollar industry, dominated by professional political consultants using sophisticated campaign management tools, to an extent far greater than elsewhere in the world.
		Though the quadrennial presidential election attracts the most attention, the United States has a huge number of elected offices and there is wide variation between different states, counties, and municipalities on which offices are elected and under what procedures.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Political-campaign (4622 words)

	European Parliament UK Office - Elections Facts
		Elections to the European Parliament are held every five years.
		The European Parliamentary Elections Act, which received Royal Assent on 14th January 1999, introduced a regional list system with seats allocated to parties in proportion to their share of the vote.
		There would, however, be a by-election if the vacancy arose because of the death or resignation of an independent MEP or if there was no-one left on the party list.
	www.europarl.org.uk /guide/Gelectionfacts.htm (278 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997.
		The election brought the first change in UK Government for 18 years.
		The Referendum Party came fourth with about 800,000 votes on a platform of seeking a referendum on the relationship with the European Union and may have taken some votes from the Conservatives; the next six parties only stood in one of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1997 (482 words)

	CAIN: Politics: Elections: European Election (NI) Thursday 10 June 2004
		The elections on Thursday 10 June 2004 were held to elect three Members to the European Parliament (MEPs).
		For the purpose of the European elections Northern Ireland is treated as a single constituency and voting is by means of proportional representation (PR).
		European elections in Northern Ireland produce results which have been markedly different from local government elections, general elections, or other ad hoc elections.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/politics/election/re2004.htm (424 words)

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		For parliamentary elections, the UK is divided up into 659 constituencies - 18 in Northern Ireland, 40 in Wales, 72 in Scotland and 529 in England.
		In the European elections, voters in England, Scotland and Wales use a closed list system under which votes are cast for a party and the victorious candidates come from a pre-ordered party list.
		The pending period varies depending on the type of election but in a general election it is from when the Queen announces the intention to dissolve parliament or, if an announcement is not made, then from when parliament is actually dissolved.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~nmiller/POLI325/BBC.htm (6968 words)

	CAIN: Politics: Elections: European Election (NI) Thursday 10 June 1999
		The elections on Thursday 10 June 1999 were to elect three Members to the European Parliament (MEPs).
		For the purpose of the European elections Northern Ireland is treated as a single constituency and voting is by means of proportional representation.
		European elections in Northern Ireland produce results which are markedly different from local government elections, general elections, or other ad hoc elections.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/politics/election/re1999.htm (359 words)

	The 1999 European Election
		He was elected to Stormont in a by-election for the Bannside constituency in 1970 (having lost in the 1968 general election), and has been elected at all five regional level contests since (1973, 1975, 1982, 1996, 1998) from the North Antrim constituency.
		He was elected as a "top-up" delegate in the 1996 Forum election and also from East Belfast in the 1998 Assembly election.
		You can find a summary of the results of the five most recent NI elections elsewhere and on a different page is a summary of NI election results since 1973; see also the 1994 European election page.
	www.ark.ac.uk /elections/fe99.htm (1008 words)

	Articles - Elections in the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Following the Parliament Act 1911, parliamentary sessions last a maximum of five years, and are ended with the dissolution of Parliament.
		The election is held 17 working days after the date of the Proclamation, as regulated by the Representation of the People Act 1983, s.
		In 2004 the Scottish Parliament passed the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 which will introduces STV for local government elections in Scotland in 2007.
	www.foreverc.com /articles/Elections_in_the_United_Kingdom (3926 words)

	Policy Position Paper: UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While the UK does not wish to continue to rule the people of Hong Kong, it is uneasy about releasing the colony to the world's most repressive authoritarian government.
		Allies and Adversaries of the UK Several adversaries, both internally and externally, threaten the well-being and the goals of the UK.
		Domestic Objectives and Goals of the UK With the election of Blair and the Labor Party, the domestic goals of the British are unclear.
	alpha.furman.edu /~fraser/uk.htm (1068 words)

	European Parliamentary Elections since 1994
		EUROPEAN ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1994- Election Electors T'out Candidates Party Votes % Ch 92-94 ENGLAND (71 seats) BEDFORDSHIRE AND MILTON KEYNES [1] 1994 525,524 38.7 Mrs.
		After the election the Liberal Democrat candidate lodged an election petition on the basis that the nomination should not have been accepted.
		The quota at this election was 139,967; Paisley and Hume were therefore elected at the first count.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /ep1994.html (3098 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- European Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The evolution of the European Union (EU) from a regional economic agreement among six neighboring states in 1951 to today's supranational organization of 25 countries across the European continent stands as an unprecedented phenomenon in the annals of history.
		Members of the European Parliament were initially selected by national parliaments, but in 1979 the first direct elections were undertaken and they have been held every five years since.
		In 2004, the EU admitted 10 central and eastern European countries that are, in general, less advanced technologically and economically than the existing 15.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/ee.html (2034 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 16 Jun 2004 (pt 9)
		As a result of these meetings a formal notification of the UK's intention to support the creation of the NDA was submitted to the European Commission in December 2003.
		To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the value of UK imports from Israel was in each of the last five years; what proportion of total imports were defence-related; and what proportion of total imports were from the Occupied Territories.
		To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the value of UK exports to Israel was in each of the last five years; what proportion of total exports were defence-related; and what proportion of total exports were destined for the Occupied Territories.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/vo040616/text/40616w09.htm (858 words)

	TIMEeurope Magazine \| European Parliament
		The clock has not yet struck 9 a.m., but the champagne is already flowing at the European Parliament.
		This is the sort of scene that comes to mind when you think of the European Parliament: a plush talking shop where politicians spend vast sums in pursuit of some vague European ideal.
		Turnout has sunk from 63% in 1979 to 49% in the last election in 1999.
	www.time.com /time/europe/html/040607/story.html (702 words)

	United Kingdom Parliamentary Election Results: Links and Bibliography
		The first edition was compiled soon after the 1970 election and therefore does not include byelection results from later in the Parliament.
		It contains all elections from 1832 to 1853, together with statistics on the electorate and the influence possessed by various patrons in each constituency.
		The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (three volumes, Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1844-49) was reprinted in a single volume in 1973.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /pollinks.html (1488 words)

	The 1979 European Election
		For more information about the European Parliament and European elections see the 2004 European elections page.
		This graph shows the performances of the main parties in the five direct elections to the European parliament held so far (fuller details in table below).
		You can find a summary of the results of the five most recent NI elections at all levels on this site's home page and on a different page is a summary of NI election results since 1973.
	www.ark.ac.uk /elections/fe79.htm (777 words)

	International Politics on intpolitics.net - European parliament election results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The turnout was the lowest since the first European elections in 1979.
		Outgoing European Parliament President Pat Cox described the results as a "wake-up call" and warned European leaders they had to demonstrate the EU's relevance to voters.
		In the UK for example Tony Blair was punished for his Iraq policy.
	www.intpolitics.net /printout58.html (151 words)

	European Parliamentary Election results since 1979
		Elections for the European Parliament have happened every 5 years since the first such elections were held in 1979.
		The Leicester European constituency has included the whole of the city of Leicester since the first European Parliament elections in 1979.
		However it was only in the 1994 European elections that the Harborough UK Parliamentary Constituency, which covers Oadby, was included in the Leicester European constituency.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /ian.ridley3/politics/eu.htm (385 words)

	Useful Links : Elections \| Houses of Parliament
		Further information about Elections is available as part of the Introduction to Parliament series.
		By-election arrangements for vacancies among elected hereditary peers are included as announcements on the Lords welcome page, usually in the form of a press notice.
		An independent body set up by the UK Parliament in November 2000 to increase public confidence in the democratic process within the United Kingdom and encourage people to take part - by modernising the electoral process, promoting public awareness of electoral matters, and regulating political parties.
	www.parliament.uk /useful/ul_elections.cfm (373 words)

	UK Conservatives Eye Election Defeat, But Doubt Polls -- 06/01/2001
		Thatcher, who was prime minister from 1979-1990, outlined her reasons not to vote Labor, and concluded that it was not too late to prevent the emergence of an "elective dictatorship."
		But the party has taken some comfort from inaccurate polls during elections in 1999 for the European Parliament.
		Defying the polls - including exit polls - the Conservatives took 35 seats of the 87 seats allotted to Britain in the EU assembly, to Labor's 29.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewPrint.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200106\For20010601b.html (633 words)

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