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	MPS - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about MPS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MPs elected in the UK general election 1979
		MPs elected in the UK general election, 1885
		MPs elected in the UK general election, 1886
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /MPS (205 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Parliamentary Elections in the U.K. - Elections to the House of Commons
		The United Kingdom Parliament is composed of the Crown, that is the monarch, the House of Lords, an appointive and hereditary upper chamber, and the popularly elected lower chamber, the House of Commons.
		For general election purposes, the United Kingdom is currently divided into 646 constituencies, each of which returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons, elected for a maximum term of five years.
		Each elector casts a vote for one of the candidates running for MP in his or her constituency, and the candidate with the largest number of votes is elected to office.
	electionresources.org /uk (2550 words)

	::The House of Commons::
		MPs, once elected, are not then the direct agents of the electorate but are allowed a wide discretion to represent their electorate as they think fit.
		All MPs, even the Prime Minster, are elected by a specific locality (constituency) in which they are the sole representative and link with Parliament.
		The MP may meet 10% of constituents, and though it has been reckoned that the best efforts are worth only about 1500 votes, this number could affect the result in about 20 constituencies.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /house_of_commons.htm (1328 words)

	Tutor2u - low voter turnout - a threat to democracy in the uk?
		Perceived importance of the election: Turnout tends to be strongest when, at a national level, the election is seen as being of special political significance or when local political issues are of sufficient salience to draw out voters from all parties.
		Critics of the first past the top electoral system used for electing members of parliament to Westminster, argue that the majority of seats are "safe" and in them, supporters of minority parties will rarely see their candidate elected.
		General elections in particular should be a key moment in the political cycle when voters have political power in their hands.
	www.tutor2u.net /politics/content/topics/elections/voter_turnout.htm (978 words)

	Labour Party (UK) - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At the 1987 general election, the party was again defeated in a landslide, but had established itself as the clear challengers to the Conservatives and had fought an effective campaign.
		By the time of the 1992 general election, the party had reformed to such an extent that it was perceived as a credible candidate for government.
		The UK was one of the allies of the United States that actually participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=4228 (2592 words)

	History of the Labour Party
		The 1945 Labour government is rightly remembered as one of the most radical and ambitious governments ever: taking into public ownership a number of industries, creating a national contributory insurance scheme and, under the leadership of fiery Welshman Nye Bevan, creating the National Health Service.
		With Labour heavily defeated in the 1979 election, the party began a new period of soul-searching.
		Michael Foot, the veteran left-winger, was elected leader but he was hampered by divisions within the party and proved unable to reverse Labour's decline in support.
	www.telfordlabourparty.org.uk /site/history.htm (2825 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1945 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United Kingdom General Election of 1945 was one of the most significant general elections of the 20th century.
		It was ultimately counted and declared on 26 July 1945, due in part to the time it took to transport the votes of those serving overseas.
		It resulted in the shock election defeat of the Conservatives led by Winston Churchill and the landslide victory of the Labour Party led by Clement Attlee, who won a majority of 145 seats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1945 (761 words)

	century derives more from what it stands for than from what it does
		The standing of the parties on election day was almost identical to that in the opinion polls when Britain was ejected from the ERM in September 1992.
		Elections are largely decided by the performance of parties in government, but opposition parties still have to be electable.
		Election pacts (in which the weaker of the two parties stands down in seats in a bid to oust the Conservative Party) have been ruled out; more promising might be co-operation between the parties in Parliament to promote the many areas of agreement (e.g.
	website.lineone.net /~mjb22/elections3.htm (3731 words)

	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)

	David Owen Summary
		In the February 1974 General Election he became Labour MP for the adjacent Plymouth Devonport constituency, winning it from the Tory incumbent Dame Joan Vickers by a slim margin (less than 500 votes).
		Michael Foot's election as Labour party leader indicated that the party was likely to become more rather than less left-wing and in 1980 committed itself to coming out of the EEC without even the referendum which Labour had carried out in 1975.
		The 1987 General Election was as disappointing for the Alliance as the 1983 election and it lost one seat.
	www.bookrags.com /David_Owen (2572 words)

	The Journal of Legislative Studies - Abstracts
		Those absences were also apparently related to their performance at the election: the more often they absented themselves from parliamentary votes in that session (compared to the previous session) the better their performance at the 2001 election relative to national trends.
		The donation reports of the Electoral Commission, established by the Elections, Parties and Referendums Act (2000), suggest that the scale of trade unions’ in-kind donations to Labour general election campaigns was greatly overstated in the hearings.
		In general, the partisan political atmosphere of the Commons, the apathy of many MPs, the size of the ENDPB sector and the rules governing questions mean that their contribution to the accountability of these bodies is relatively small.
	www.tandf.co.uk /journals/archive/fjls-con.asp (17534 words)

	Welsh Referendum
		The election of 14 nationalist MPs in October 1974 put pressure on the Government, which had won a majority of only three, to act on its commitment to devolution.
		However in the General Election of February 1974 Plaid Cymru won two seats and the SNP increased its number of MPs from two to seven.
		In their election manifesto of 1997 they remained committed to regional assemblies and recommended that they be subject to regional approval.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/devolution/wales/briefing/partypolicy.shtml (1051 words)

	Biography of Members of Parliament
		He was elected Secretary of the MPU in October 2000.
		While at school he was the general secretary of the Akyab (Sittway) Township Student Union and was also the secretary of the township Youth Congress.
		He temporarily served as a bodyguard for the chief inspector of police at the Department of the Ministry of Justice, and in 1969 he was elected to the Akyab (Sittway) Municipal Council.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/MPs_in_exile_Biography1.htm (3807 words)

	Qwika - similar:Keir_Hardie
		New MPs elected since the general election and changes in party allegiance are noted at the bottom of the page.
		A general strike is a strike action by an entire labour force in a city, region or country.
		General strikes were frequent in Spain during the early twentieth century, where revolutionary anarcho-syndicalism was most popular.
	www.qwika.com /rels/Keir_Hardie (1133 words)

	GENERAL ELECTION MAY AND JUNE 2005 PROMISES FOR VOTES \| LABOUR PARTY TONY BLAIR, GORDON BROWN, JOHN PRESCOTT \| ...
		General elections are elections of the whole House of Commons at one time: one Member of Parliament for each constituency in the United Kingdom.
		A parliamentary by-election is held when a seat falls vacant in the House of Commons, because an MP dies, resigns or can no longer be an MP for some other reason, such as being made a member of the House of Lords.
		By tradition, the procedure for initiating a by-election (known as 'moving the writ') is usually initiated by the political party which held the seat before the vacancy.
	www.bushywood.com /general_election.htm (1844 words)

	Chapter 12 - Motherwell and Wishaw By-Election
		By the early months of 1945, the SNP had several candidates "in the field" ready to fight in a general election.
		The estimate from records is that, in 1945, Motherwell and Wishaw had 60 SNP members and that the branch met on a regular basis.
		No election campaign is and there were strong personalities around, and nothing tests the strength of character of individuals more than a by-election campaign.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/mcintyre/chap12.htm (2749 words)

	Robert Menzies Summary
		In 1945 he was the prime mover in the creation of the Liberal party as the political voice of suburbia.
		The election gave Menzies a majority in both houses; however, an ensuring referendum seeking federal power to legislate against the Communist party and known Communists was defeated.
		Shortly before the elections, Menzies announced that a Soviet diplomat in Australia Vladimir Petrov (see Petrov affair), had defected, and that there was evidence of a Soviet spy ring in Australia, including members of Evatt's staff.
	www.bookrags.com /Robert_Menzies (3104 words)

	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, 1983
		MPs elected in the UK general election, 1987
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_British_MPs (193 words)

	Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics
		Listed below are all the women who were elected to the House of Commons from the 1918 election in which women stood and voted for the first time until the election of 1997 which saw the number of women MPs double.
		MPs are listed in the decade in which they were first elected: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
		Fourteen of the 51 women elected in by-elections were elected for seats vacated by a father or husband.
	www.qub.ac.uk /cawp/UKhtmls/MPs2.htm (242 words)

	More about our electoral administration : Key dates in New Zealand electoral reform
		Parliament consisted of a Legislative Council appointed by the Crown, and a House of Representatives elected every five years by males over the age of 21 who owned, leased or rented property of a certain value.
		1853 First election for the House of Representatives held; 37 MPs elected using First-Past-the-Post in a mix of single-member and multi-member electorates; although some Māori (almost invariably tribal leaders) voted, Māori were effectively excluded because they owned their lands under communal title.
		This marked the beginning of a period of considerable interest by various MPs in proportional representation voting systems lasting until the emergence of a two-party political system in the 1930s.
	www.elections.org.nz /administration/key_dates_electoral_reform.html (1171 words)

	New Leader, New Labour?
		He joined the Labour Party in 1975 and was elected MP for Sedgefield, one of the safest Labour seats in the country in 1983.
		One of the primary reasons for the defeat in the 1992 General Election was the distrust on the part of the electorate in the Party's approach to taxation and spending.
		The 1997 election manifesto adopts a somewhat noncommittal attitude by not stating a fixed amount but advocating a "[...] sensibly set national minimum wage." The reason for this difference from 1992 (fixed minimum wage at o3.40) is again to be found in New Labour's cautious handling of possible spending commitments.
	www.geocities.com /b_kjeldsen/TBLA.HTM (7417 words)

	Liberal Democrats : Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank
		Indeed, as a schoolboy I played a minor part in the General Election of 1945 in Liverpool, where I was born and brought up.
		I was General Secretary of the Fabian Society for most of the 1950s.
		I was elected to succeed Lord Jenkins as Leader of the Lib Dems in the House of Lords in 1997.
	www.libdems.org.uk /party/people/lord-rodgers-of-quarry-bank.html (511 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Election 2005 \| Blair secures historic third term
		Mr Blair is the only Labour leader to have won three elections in a row but his margin of victory is less than half what it was in the Labour landslides of 1997 and 2001 - and he has the lowest share of the vote for a ruling party in modern times.
		Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy said voters had ushered in a new era of three-party politics as he was returned as an MP by an overwhelming majority.
		In a further sign of the impact of the Iraq war, there was a significant swing from Labour to Lib Dem in most of the 40 seats with a large Muslim population.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4519863.stm (1177 words)

	History of the Labour Party: The Labour Party: securing Britain's future
		We are right to regard as historic the establishment of the National Health Service,the enshrining in law of equality of opportunity for all and the creation and maintenance of an empowering welfare state – all Labour achievements.
		The election of that year saw Labourand#8217;s majority cut to only five, and the new government could not remain in office for long.
		On the steps of Downing Street the next day, Tony Blair said: "It's a tremendous honour and privilege to be elected for a third term and I'm acutely conscious of that honour and that privilege.
	www.labour.org.uk /428 (2304 words)

	Area Studies, UK: politics, elections and government in Britain
		This gives access to the election result for each constituency, and where known, the email address and website address for each MP.
		It should be noted that MPs email addresses seem to be in a period of flux - some have their own private addresses, some have constituency-based addresses, and some are linked to the Parliamentary server.
		UK Ratifiers for Democracy - democratic reform in the UK a portal for news and information in the public sector
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk.htm (1490 words)

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