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 Tutor2u - low voter turnout - a threat to democracy in the uk?
By 1983, turnout was doen to 72% - and despite an improvement in participation in both 1987 and 1992 (when the closeness of the battle prompted more voters to cast their vote) - the last two general elections has seen a sharp fall in turnout.
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.
General elections in particular should be a key moment in the political cycle when voters have political power in their hands.
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 Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
MPs elected in the UK general election, 1945
MPs elected in the UK general election, 1974 (February)
MPs elected in the UK general election, 1974 (October)
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 Asian Center for Democratic Governance
MPs sponsored by political parties present their policies to the people in a rather structured and formal way through the election manifestos of their parties.
Election manifestos are, of course, quoted in the parliament from time to time to make points and counter points in debates and other proceedings.
Generally, ombudsmen can be concerned with larger issues of morality in public life; their findings do not necessarily have the force of law, while the office could only be as effective as the stature of the office holder.
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 tScholars.com | Nicholas Soames
He has served as a Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food between 1992 and 1994, Minister of State for the Armed Forces at the Ministry of Defence under John Major between 1994 and 1997 and as the Shadow Secretary of State for Defence 2003-2005.
Soames, known as a bon viveur (he was once called a "one man food mountain" by Tony Banks, Labour MP) with little appetite for political correctness, clashed with a businessman at a top Chinese restaurant in summer 2004.
Soames' alleged anti-Semitism and general cultural fogeyism seems to put him at odds with much of the modern Conservative party.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Nicholas_Soames   (898 words)

  
 All World Knowledge - The UK Electoral System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The MP, who need not live in or near the constituency, or know anything about it, sits in parliament and may debate the issues of the day.
The UK is split into one hundred constituencies: one for each English county, and one each for Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland.
When the election is called, the MPs visit their constituencies: they have just four weeks to persuade the local people that they are worth voting for.
www.allworldknowledge.com /ukelections   (708 words)

  
 History of the Labour Party
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.
Immediately after the election the Tories were wrong-footed by the crisis in sterling and exit from the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
www.telfordlabourparty.org.uk /site/history.htm   (2825 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, 1885
MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005
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 Mps Org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
MPs elected in the UK general election, 199752nd Par 11: l election, 2001, arranged by constituency.
MPs elected in the UK general election, 200153rd Par 12: l election, 1997, arranged by constituency.
New MPs elected since the general election are noted at t 14: MPs elected in the UK general election, 1992, MPs elected in the UK general election, 2001 233:
East Hamps hire Michael Mates Conservative
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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, 2001 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed "the quiet landslide" by the media.
Throughout the election the Labour Party had maintained a significant lead in the opinion polls and the result was deemed to be so certain that some bookmakers paid out for a Labour majority before the election day.
The election had been expected in May, to coincide with local elections, but both were postponed because of rural movement restrictions imposed in response to a foot and mouth outbreak.
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 MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1997
This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the 52nd House of Commons at the 1997 general election, held on 1 May 1997.
New MPs elected since the general election are noted at the bottom of the page.
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 MP 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
MPs elected in the British general election, 1754
MPs elected in the UK general election, December 1910
MPs elected in the UK general election, January 1910
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 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).
The 1987 General Election was as disappointing for the Alliance as the 1983 election and it lost one seat.
In 1987 immediately after the election, the Liberal leader David Steel openly suggested a full merger of the Liberal and SDP parties and was supported for the SDP by Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Similarly, Michael Foot, as the only remaining MP from the 1945 election between 1987 and 1992 was never Father of the House because he was out of Parliament between 1955 and a by-election in 1960.
The election of the presiding officers is conducted by the Clerk of the House and the Clerk of the Senate respectively.
In New Zealand's first elections of 1854, the Bay of Islands electorate was the first to declare the election of a successful candidate, the unopposed candidate Hugh Francis Carleton.
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 FT.com - Special Reports / UK Election 2001
The Conservatives had tried to organise in the province but have met little success; their strongest showing in the 1997 general election was 6.8% in Antrim East, and they achieved truly derisory votes in the 1998 Assembly elections.
If the next election were to produce a very close result, the affiliations of Northern Ireland MPs could have implications for the direction of the UK government.
Anti-Agreement UUP MP Roy Beggs held the seat in 1997, although with only 38.8% of the vote because the Unionist vote was so splintered; the Alliance Party and the Conservatives accounted for over a quarter of the vote between them.
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 Australian Parliamentary Library - Research Note 47 1996-97
Then in 1987, conference delegates passed the compulsory short listing rule for women: if a woman is nominated for preselection in a constituency, at least one woman must be on the final short list.
Despite this large number, opportunities for candidate selection are generally restricted to the number of members retiring and the number of marginal seats won or lost, which is itself dependent on the swing.
This figure surpassed the figure of 80 Labour women MPs predicted by analysts based on the possibility of a strong swing to Labour.(5) The 10 per cent swing was considerably higher than expected, with the average swing to Labour between 1983 and 1992 being only around 3.5.
www.aph.gov.au /library/Pubs/RN/1996-97/97rn47.htm   (1038 words)

  
 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)

  
 Liberal Democrats : Charles Kennedy MP, Ross, Skye & Lochaber
The General Election followed and less than six weeks after being chosen as candidate Charles was elected to the House of Commons, defeating the sitting government minister to become the youngest MP of the time.
He was also the first SDP MP to back the merger with the Liberals after the 1987 general election, and moved a successful motion to bring this about at the SDP conference that year.
In the new party of Liberal Democrats resulting from the merger, Charles was elected UK Party President, the equivalent of party chairman, in 1990, and served in that post until 1994.
www.libdems.org.uk /party/people/person.html?id=28&navPage=mps.html   (670 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.
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 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.
On 3 December 1990 he was declared an ’absconder’ by the authorities and on 12 December the Election Commission dismissed him from Parliament by Declaration No. 985 and banned him from running in future elections.
www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/MPs_in_exile_Biography1.htm   (3807 words)

  
 Retiring MPs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Four MPs will continue to be parliamentarians as they are pursuing their careers as Members of the Scottish Parliament on the Mound.
Dennis Canavan resigned and a by-election was held on the 21 st December 2000.
Donald Dewar died on the 11 th October 2000 and a by-election was held on the 23 rd November 2000.
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At the IAU General Assembly in November 1985, a half-day session was reserved for the "WG on Peculiar Red Giants", under the auspices of Commissions 29 and 45.
Since they were not there to protest, it was a simple matter to elect Keenan and C. Jaschek to the positions of co-chairmen of the newly-formed WG and to retain Jaschek as editor of the Newsletter.
Next, the new OC elected in Baltimore was listed in the reports of both Commissions 29 and 45, but with a diff- erence: my name appears on one list but not the other.
www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu /~wing/news14.txt   (6162 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1992
Reference.com/Encyclopedia/MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1992
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1992
This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom in the 1992 general election, held on 9 April 1992.
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 The KISS Guide to UK Politics
A Member of Parliament (MP) is someone who is elected to represent a particular part of the country (a constituency) in the House of Commons.
Those banned for standing in general elections are: bankrupts; civil servants; police officers; armed forces personnel; government-nominated directors of commercial companies; judges; members of parliament in non-Commonwealth nations; those convicted of electoral malpractice; members of the House of Lords.
The local MP for Aylesbury is David Lidington and he represents the Conservative party.
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 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)

  
 The 1992 General Election - Westminster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Four of Scotland's 72 MPs - 3 Labour, and one Conservative - did not stand for re-election at the General Election on 1 st May 1997.
Of these, 63 were elected and 5 (two SNP, one Lib Dem, one Labour, and one deselected Labour MP) were defeated.
Of these, Frank Doran was elected to the new Aberdeen Central seat in 1997 while Nicol Stephen was elected to the Scottish Parliament in May 1999.
www.alba.org.uk /elections/1992election.html   (382 words)

  
 Tony Blair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The seat was safely Labour despite the party's collapse in the 1983 UK general election; Blair was helped on the campaign trail by soap actress Patricia Phoenix, the girlfriend of his father-in-law Anthony Booth.
He worked to produce a more moderate and electable party in the run-up to the 1992 general election, in which he had responsibility for developing the minimum wage policy which was expected to be strongly attacked by the Conservatives.
The traditional tendency of governments to manipulate interest rates around the time of General Elections for political gain is thought to have been deleterious to the UK economy and helped reinforce a cyclical pattern of boom and bust, for which Blair frequently criticises previous governments.
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