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  Irish general election, 1992 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Irish general election of 1992 was held on Wednesday, November 25, 1992, almost three weeks after the dissolution of the Dáil on November 5.
The general election took place in 41 parliamentary constituencies throughout the Republic of Ireland for 166 seats in the lower house of parliament, Dáil Éireann.
The general election of 1992 was precipitated by the collapse of the Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats coalition government.
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 Elections in Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Residents of the Republic who are Irish citizens or British citizens may participate in elections to the national parliament.
While both Irish and UK citizens resident in the state may vote in elections to Dáil Éireann (the lower house of parliament), only Irish citizens, who must be at least eighteen years of age, may vote in the election of the President.
Irish elections, 1921 in Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland
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 Irish general election, 1932 - Wiki Ireland
The Irish general election of 1932 was held on February 16, 1932, just over two weeks after the dissolution of the 6th Dáil on January 29.
The general election took place in 30 parliamentary constituencies throught the Republic of Ireland for 153 seats in the lower house of parliament, Dáil Éireann.
The 1932 General Election was one of the most important general elections held in Ireland in the 20th Century.
www.wiki.ie /wiki/Irish_general_election,_1932   (644 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Fianna Fáil Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He had led anti-Treaty Sinn Féin during the Irish Civil War (1922-23) before resigning from the party in 1926, in protest at the party's hardline policy of refusing to accept the legitimacy of Free State or its Dáil Éireann.
In its final form, it promised "allegiance" to "The Irish Free State" and "that I will be faithful" to King George V in his role as King of Ireland.) The party initially took a court case on the issue of the oath.
When the results of the Irish General Election, 1992 came in it was clear that both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael had done badly.
www.ipedia.com /fianna_fail.html   (2997 words)

  
 The 1995 North Down by-election
Although he had not been a candidate in 1992 he had nonetheless played a role in the eventual outcome: as Joe Hendron's barrister in the famous electoral court case over the election result in West Belfast, he had managed to persuade the judge not to penalise the SDLP for numerous well-documented violations of electoral law.
The local council by-election took place on the Wednesday and the UUP won, though we were close enough to feel that we should win the next by-election in that area (as indeed we did).
In the Forum elections in 1996, held on the new boundaries, McCartney's vote slumped by almost exactly the DUP's vote share and he was beaten by the UUP.
www.ark.ac.uk /elections/fnd95.htm   (4405 words)

  
 General election -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A general election is an election in which all members of a given political body are up for election.
The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.
The general election is usually held on Election Day, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
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 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   (752 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Fine Gael   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Notably, Clann na Poblachta under former Irish Republican Army chief of staff, Sean MacBride, were opposed to him because of his role as Chief of Staff of the Irish Army in the execution of republicans during the Irish Civil War.
In 1990, its candidate in the Irish presidential election, Austin Currie, was pushed into a humiliating third place, behind the winner, Labour's Mary Robinson.
However the party was defeated in the 1997 general election, by a Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats coalition under Bertie Ahern.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Fine_Gael   (1311 words)

  
 Irish FAQ: History [5/10]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Generally, though, the discrimination against Catholics (who were regarded as treacherous and potential allies of France and Spain) was worse than that against the nonconformists.
Proportional representation was eliminated for local council elections in 1922 and for the Northern Ireland Parliament in Stormont in 1929.
After a general election (in which he retained a narrow majority) he was forced out of office in April 1969, following a bombing which was blamed on the IRA but later turned out to be the work of loyalists.
www.faqs.org /faqs/cultures/irish-faq/part05   (2985 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
In 1981 and 1982 Ireland was faced with three general elections Ahern increased his personal vote on all three elections, on one occasion he even out-polled his running mate George Colley, a man who hoped to be Taoiseach less than three years earlier.
In early 1992 Charles Haughey was accused of knowing about the tapping of journalists' phones in the early 1980s, something that he always denied.
Following the Irish General Election, 1997 it was clear that there would be a change of government.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /Bertie_Ahern   (1640 words)

  
 The Militant - 5/19/97 -- Sinn Fein Scores Victory In UK Election
MANCHESTER, England - A blow was struck against the British occupation of northern Ireland with the election of Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness to the seats of West Belfast and Mid-Ulster in the United Kingdom general election on May 1.
During the election campaign in Manchester, local politicians and the Manchester Evening News led a successful campaign to block a Sinn Fein councilor from Derry, Mary Nellis, from addressing a public meeting.
The Conservative government, defeated in the general election of May 1, had excluded Sinn Fein from talks on the future of Ireland despite their success in the 1996 elections held to elect representatives to the talks.
www.themilitant.com /1997/6120/6120_6.html   (882 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited: Election 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Although the Blairs fiercely protect their children from press intrusion between elections, there was a photocall in both 1997 and 2001 as the family arrive on the steps of No 10, enabling the nation to gawp as the Blair kids grow up.
The Northern Irish blog Slugger O'Toole says things are looking very bad for the Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, who is defending Upper Bann against a strong DUP challenge from a gospel-singing meat wholesaler.
The previous holder of this distinction was Harold Wilson, who won the October 1974 general election with a 39% share of the vote, but he only had a majority of four.
blogs.guardian.co.uk /election2005   (3749 words)

  
 1992: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Malta: Election of Women
Their voter turnout has exceeded 90 per cent in all recent elections; nearly half of the major parties' registered members are women; and the parties have extensive local women's associations (Bestler, 1991) But these involvements remain essentially marginal and fail to serve as a springboard for political careers.
In the election of 1992 only one woman gained a seat in parliament, just as there was only one at the very beginning in 1947.
Indeed, incumbency is strongly related to electoral success generally: seventy percent of the male winners were incumbents, as were sixty-four percent of the successful women.
www.maltadata.com /m-women.htm   (6365 words)

  
 California Secretary of State - Elections & Voter Information - Voter Participation Hall of Fame
Election Night Volunteers Program: This program, developed by the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters, promotes community involvement in the running of elections.
Presentations on in-school elections and opportunities to register for these elections are made to all freshman classes.
Riverside County provided touch screen voting to all of its voters during the November 7, 2000 general election making it the first county in the nation to provide touch screen voting county wide for voters during a presidential general election.
www.ss.ca.gov /elections/elections_hall.htm   (1334 words)

  
 Electoral Reform Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In April 1995 the Irish Government established ‘The Review Group’ under Dr T K Whitaker with the objective of reviewing the Constitution and establishing where constitutional change would be desirable or necessary.
The most striking aspect of the 1992 election was the success of the Labour Party with 19.3% of the vote and 33 seats.
The 1997 General Election was not the most exciting election in Irish political history.
www.electoral-reform.org.uk /publications/briefings/nireland.htm   (1630 words)

  
 Ohio Honest Elections: Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Elections workers continued to count votes Wednesday, with about 85 percent of the votes cast on touch-screen machines counted by 11:15 a.m.
A historic general election was set up last night by primaries that advanced Republican J. Kenneth Blackwell and Democrat Ted Strickland to a Nov. 7 showdown, one destined to play out before a national audience and shatter state spending records.
“Strickland starts the general election campaign with the lead in some polls and in funding, showing $1.1 million in the bank as of April 12 while the GOP candidates were spending their money on TV ads bashing each other.
ohiohonestelections.org   (19553 words)

  
 The 1997 General Election
BUT the % of Labour votes cast was lower than in its election victories of 1945 and 1966 and its electoral defeats in 1950 and 1964.
The number of people who changed support from the 1992 election to the 1997 election has been as high as 23% by NOP.
In the 5 years from 1992 to 1995, the Tories lost 18% support among this group while Labour won 19% from this group.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /1997_general_election.htm   (1091 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Taoiseach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Taoiseach (generally pronounced "tee-shoch", where the "ch" sounds as in "loch", though some speakers of Donegal Gaelic pronounce it as "tee-shah"; plural: Taoisigh, pronounced "tee-she") is the title of Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland.
The office, whose title literally means The Chief or The Leader (though translated in the constitution as 'prime minister') was created in Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Irish constitutution adopted in 1937 and drafted by Eamon de Valera.
He heads a Fianna Fáil/Progressive Democrat coalition government, which was re-elected in the Irish general election, 2002.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Taoiseach   (793 words)

  
 LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Ir'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Irish Minister for Justice, Equality & Law Reform
Irish Minister for the Environment & Local Government
Irish Minister for the Marine & Natural Resources
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /i/ir/index.html   (59 words)

  
 Election Law
This article notes that the attorney general is asking the Georgia Supreme Court to declare moot the state lawsuit over the governor's authority to withdraw the appeal in the Supreme Court.
Section 11101 provides that "each section of a recall petition shall be filed with the elections official of the county in which it was circulated." A section is simply a page (or set of pages) from the recall petition with signatures on it.
As a result, Commission investigations into alleged election law violations frequently involve subpoenaing materials of a ‘‘delicate nature TTT represent[ing] the very heart of the organism which the first amendment was intended to nurture and protect: political expression and association concerning federal elections and officeholding.’’ Id. at 388.
electionlaw.blogspot.com /2003_06_01_electionlaw_archive.html   (12012 words)

  
 Garrett Fitzgerald
When the party (along with the Labour) won the 1973 general election, many expected that he would be made Minister for Finance.
By the November 1982 election, it held only five seats less than Fianna Fáil (there closest ever margin, where sometimes Fianna Fáil was nearly twice as large), with Fine Gael in the Oireachtas (two houses together) bigger than Fianna Fáil, an unprecedented achievement.
He retired as a TD in the general election in 1992.
www.generalmichaelcollins.com /Fine_Gael/Garrett_Fitzgerald.html   (1004 words)

  
 Irish Echo Online - News
Doherty was elected to the Dail in Jack Lynch?s landslide General Election victory in 1977.
When Haughey won the Fianna Fail leadership in 1979, Doherty became a junior minister at the Justice Department, serving until the general election defeat of 1981.
Doherty, who was based in Cootehall near Boyle, lost his seat in the 1989 general election and served for a time as cathaoirleach (or chairman) of the Senate.
www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=16615   (668 words)

  
 The Labour Party Manifesto for the 1997 " UK " General Election
At this election, Labour is proud to be making major strides to rectify the under-representation of women in public life.
As soon as possible after the election, we will enact legislation to allow the people of Scotland and Wales to vote in separate referendums on our proposals, which will be set out in white papers.
There is now general acceptance that the future of Northern Ireland must be determined by the consent of the people as set out in the Downing Street Declaration.
www.forscotland.com /tracklab/manifesto.html   (16059 words)

  
 New Page 3
The Irish in Chicago, coauthor (Champaign and Chicago: The University of Illinois Press, 1987).
Irish Nationalism and the American Contribution, editor and contributor (New York: Arno Press, 1976).
British, Irish, and Irish-American history; and conducting undergraduate honors and graduate seminars and tutorials.
library.sau.edu /irish/new_page_3.htm   (1153 words)

  
 1992 in India: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The updated page can be found at: 1992 in india
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 t a c i t u s || Lethal Cowardice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Those were words used by self-proclaimed "liberal multilateralist" Kenneth L. Cain, explaining why Kofi Annan must be fired from his job as UN Secretary General.
Annan ordered his general to stand down and to vigorously protect, not genocide victims, assembled in their numbers waiting to die, but the U.N.'s image of "impartiality."
The outline of this story is well known, but its most important detail is not: Tutsis often gathered in compounds (large church complexes, schools and even stadiums) where they had assumed they would be safe based on implicit, and sometimes explicit, promises of protection by Blue Helmeted peacekeepers.
www.tacitus.org /story/2004/12/21/81150/355   (3714 words)

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