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The New Zealand general election of 1919 was held December 17 to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 20h session of the New Zealand Parliament.
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 New Zealand general election 1951 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The 1951 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's.
The most significant issue in the 1951 elections was the growing industrial unrest of the time, particularly the ongoing dockworkers dispute.
The 1951 election saw a the governing National Party re-elected with a twenty-seat margin, a substantial improvement on the twelve-seat margin it previously held.
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 New Zealand general election 1993 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The 1993 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament.
This referendum asked voters whether New Zealand's electoral system should be changed from the first-past-the-post system to the MMP system, which would implement proportional representation (and thus make it easier for smaller parties to win seats).
The 1993 election saw the National Party win 50 of the 99 seats in parliament, a drop of 14 from before the election (and a drop of 17 from 1990).
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In the 2002 general election, six parties, namely the Labour Party, the National Party, the New Zealand First Party, ACT New Zealand, the Green Party and United Future, won at least five percent of all valid party votes cast.
In the third MMP general election, held four months early in July 2002, Labour remained by far the largest party but fell short of an absolute majority in the House of Representatives, while the Alliance lost its parliamentary representation.
However, this trend was reversed in the fourth MMP general election, held in September 2005.
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Following the elections of a reformist president and Majlis in the late 1990s, attempts to foster political reform in response to popular dissatisfaction have floundered as conservative politicians have prevented reform measures from being enacted, increased repressive measures, and consolidated their control over the government.
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 Articles - New Zealand general election 1943   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The 1943 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 27th term.
With the onset of World War II, elections were initially postponed, but it was eventually decided to hold a general election in September 1943, around two years after it would normally have occurred.
The election saw the governing Labour Party re-elected by a comfortable margin, although the party nevertheless lost considerable ground to the expanding National Party.
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The area comprised two-thirds of the electoral district, and, in the previous election (1969), voting for the various political parties was largely in the same proportions as the electorate as a whole.
The influence of leadership on voting behaviour in New Zealand: a case study.
New Zealand at the polls - the general election of 1978.
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 Bloomberg.com: Asia
Election results will be available in the early hours of Saturday, Assistant Elections Commissioner K.Senanayake said.
If the polls fail to give either side a clear mandate, analysts say the resulting inaction could jeapordize $4.5 billion in foreign aid and new investment at a time when the economy is expanding and tourist numbers are rebounding.
While Kumaratunga won't be personally contesting this Friday's elections, she could resume control of parliament by winning an electoral vote majority through her alliance with a Marxist-oriented party.
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 Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation
All concerned citizens agree that the General Elections held on 5th December 2001, was the most important since independence in 1978.
They too called for elections to be held, and they demonstrated their concern for democracy by fully funding the general elections.
The 5th December general elections is over and we have heard and seen the results.
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Always looking for new and better ways to do things, he believes that tradition is good for fly fishing so long as it doesn’t stand in the way of progress.
In 1978 Frank Mather was honored with Scientist Emeritus status at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
On August 21, 1978 in Havana, Cuba, Pate finally caught a blue marlin, the fish that had proven to be the most difficult, fulfilling his long-sought dream and also becoming the first to catch this species on fly.
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 Political Science Journal - Articles by Author | Victoria University of Wellington
Fleras, Augie, 'The Politics of Maori Lobbying: The Case of the New Zealand Maori Council', 38:1 (1986), 27-43.
Johnston, R. and Forrest, J., 'On the Geography of Voting in the 1984 New Zealand General Election', 37:2 (1985), 151-9.
McPhetres, Samuel, 'Elections in the Northern Mariana Islands', 35:1 (1983), 103-16.
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Fraga, 82, a government member during General Francisco Franco's dictatorship and a founder of the country's conservative party, will fall at least two seats short of a majority in the 75-seat regional parliament, a poll by Cadena Ser radio station on June 13 predicted.
Since their surprise victory in national elections on March 14 last year, the Socialists gained support in another regional election in the Basque country, in April.
He was a founder of the Popular Alliance party, the predecessor of the PP, and led the party to three consecutive general election defeats.
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 New Zealand at the Polls: The General Election of 1978 - Questia Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
New Zealand at the Polls: The General Election of 1978
- Appendix A: Aftermath -- the Election Petitions
Publication Information: Book Title: New Zealand at the Polls: The General Election of 1978.
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 Bloomberg.com: U.S.
Crude oil for December delivery fell $1.63, or 3.2 percent, to close at $50.13 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the lowest since Oct. 4.
It was the biggest margin forecasting a decline since the survey began in April.
``There is a general feeling that a Kerry victory would mean less oil going into the SPR,'' said Tom Bentz, an oil broker at BNP Paribas Commodity Futures Inc. in New York.
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 Articles - New Zealand general election 1951   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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The 1951 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 30th term.
The National Party had formed its first administration after the 1949 elections, in which it had ended four terms of government by the Labour Party.
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