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  MPS - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about MPS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
MPs elected at the UK general election, 1945
MPs elected at the United Kingdom general election, 1945
MPs elected in the British general election, 1754
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 Joseph Chamberlain
He was elected as one of the city's MPs in 1876, and swiftly rose through the parliamentary ranks, becoming President of the Board of Trade in the government of William Ewart Gladstone in 1880.
In the run-up to the 1885 general election a series of articles was published in the Fortnightly Review[?], written by various of Chamberlain's associates under his close direction.
The divided Unionists were trounced in the 1905 general election, and Chamberlain was the favourite to take over as their leader.
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If this election is not free and fair and is rigged by those who are responsible for terrorism in Bangladesh, the future of democracy is bound to be bleak.
The activities of the election commission have proved that it is at the beck and call of the government.
A free and fair election can only allow the real representatives of the people to go to the parliament and the parliament may be the centre of all national activity.
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The secretariat of the Executive is part of the UK Civil Service and the head of the Executive, the Permanent Secretary (presently John Elvidge), is the equivalent of the Permanent Secretary of a Whitehall department.
Until the 2005 General Election, Scotland elected 72 MPs from 72 single-member constituencies to serve in the House of Commons.
In the 1979 general election the SNP fared poorly, falling to 17% of the vote and 2 seats.
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MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1959
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1983
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 Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics
Constance Markievicz was elected MP for Dublin St Patrick's Ward in the general election of December 1918, the first election at which women voted and stood as candidates.
Margaret Bain was elected MP for Dunbartonshire East by 22 votes at the election of October 1974.
Harriet Slater, MP for Stoke-on-Trent, became a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury when the government was formed in October 1964 and retired from politics at the 1966 election.
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 Henry Broadhurst
In the 1880 General Election Broadhurst was elected as Liberal MP for Stoke-upon-Trent.
In the 1885 General Election Broadhurst was elected for the Bordesley seat in Birmingham.
In the 1892 General Election Broadhurst was defeated at West Nottingham.
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 Westminster elections in NI since 1920
In the 1918 general election, 105 MPs were elected for the whole of Ireland, of whom 30 represented constituencies in the six counties which formed Northern Ireland after the 1920 Government of Ireland Act.
A 1969 by-election in Mid-Ulster was won by Bernadette Devlin as a Unity candidate; she was the youngest person to be elected to Westminster since the universal franchise.
The very idea of holding elections as a run-up to multi-party peace talks in 1996 was controversial and is believed by some to have contributed to the resumption of violence by the IRA in February of that year.
www.ark.ac.uk /elections/hwest.htm   (3449 words)

  
 United Kingdom general election, 1992 information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The UK general election, 1992 was held on April 9, 1992, and was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives.
Given that the 1992 election resulted in a Conservative overall majority of 21, it has been stated that their victory could be said to have been decided by only 1,241 votes distributed through the 11 seats with the smallest Conservative majorities in the election.
In the end though the SNP only held onto the three seats they won at the 1987 General Election and lost the Govan seat that they had won in 1988 with their deputy leader Jim Sillars as candidate.
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 Jeffrey A. Karp
MPs elected to Parliament may bring their personal attributes with them, but they are there to speak not for themselves but as the representatives of various wider interests, some clear-cut, others shifting or informal.
The process of group-interest representation is generally thought to be strengthened when in the hands of an MP who is visibly of that group.
Following the 2002 general election, a postal survey was conducted among all constituency candidates of the parties currently represented in the Bundestag.
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 Electoral Reform Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
STV was adopted throughout the province for elections to the Tasmanian Assembly.
It was prescribed for the election of all members of the House of Assembly and for the seven members of the Senate chosen by direct popular vote.
The first General Election to be held on this basis was on 30th May 1929.
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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.
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 Joseph Chamberlain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He resigned the mayorship when elected as of Birmingham's MPs in 1876 and swiftly rose through the parliamentary becoming President of the Board of Trade the government of William Ewart Gladstone in 1880.
In the run-up to the 1885 general election a series of articles was published the Fortnightly Review written by some of Chamberlain's associates his close direction.
The Liberals won the election but fell short of an overall majority against the and the Irish Nationalists led by Charles Stewart Parnell.
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 Legal Resources
The surplus votes of candidates elected on the first count and the votes of those with fewest votes after subsequent counts are distributed on the basis of preferences to the remaining candidates until sufficient candidates reach the quota and are, as a result, elected.
In the four elections of the 1950s an average of only 86 or 13.5% of MPs were elected without having the support of a majority of those voting in their constituency.
These elections were in consequence peculiarly important, carrying a choice of far more moment for the limited parliamentary electorate than does a choice of local MP for the run of constituency voters.
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 General Election Results 1885-1979
The figures given here for elections from 1885 to 1945 differ from those in F.W.S. Craig’s “British Electoral Facts” because they are adjusted for votes cast in the two-member seats.
Constitutionalists This label was used by a number of right-wing Liberals in the 1924 general election who wanted to distance themselves from the party’s temporary support for the Labour Government.
Six of them (four of whom were elected) were official Liberal candidates, and six others (two of whom were elected) subsequently joined the Conservative Party.
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 UK Case Study
PR was re-introduced in Northern Ireland, after a 50 year absence, for local government elections in 1973 in an attempt to craft incentives for accommodatory behaviour between the political representatives of the Nationalist and Unionist communities, advantage the moderate and non-sectarian middle, and ensure adequate representation of the minority Catholic community, see Single Transferable Vote.
Ninety Forum members were elected from 18 list PR districts of five members in size, while the top 10 parties in terms of votes won across Ulster were awarded two additional seats in the assembly.
Most parliaments preceding the 1987 election were all white, and the four Black and Indian-English MPs elected in that year represented less than 0.5 percent of the total.
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 List of United Kingdom MPs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Note that on the dissolution of parliament for a General Election that all MPs lose that title until such point as they win it back in the election (or lose).
MPs elected in the UK general election, 1950
MPs elected in the UK general election, 1983
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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.
Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey QC upheld allegations of postal fraud relating to six seats won by Labour in the ballot of 10 June last year.
Since Labour have fought the election overwhelmingly on the economy, and Blair has been fulsome in his praise for the Chancellor as the architect of Britain's relative success, it's only fair that the man responsible for that economic record should run the government.
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