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Topic: Tatton (UK Parliament constituency)

	British politics
		The country is divided into parliamentary constituencies of broadly equal population (decided by the Boundaries Commission), each of which elects a Member of Parliament to the House of Commons.
		This contrasts with a federal system, in which sub-parliaments or state parliaments and assemblies have a clearly defined constitutional right to exist and a right to exercise certain constitutionally guaranteed and defined functions and cannot be unilaterally abolished by Acts of the central parliament.
		Dr. Richard Taylor MP[?], was elected for the Wyre Forest[?] constituency in the 2002 election, on a platform opposing the closure of Kidderminster hospital.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/uk/UK_government.html (3065 words)

	Tatton (UK Parliament constituency) - Slider (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The constituency is in Cheshire, north-west England covering the towns of Knutsford and Wilmslow as well as a number of villages.
		Tatton shot to fame during the 1997 general election when the sitting MP lost his seat to an independent backed by the other two major parties.
		Tatton was the constituency of disgraced former Tory member of Parliament, Neil Hamilton; who lost the seat in the 1997 election to independent candidate Martin Bell.
	enc.slider.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Enc/Tatton_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (238 words)

	Happy Dogs Clup, The biggest dog resource center,breeds,cloths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Parliament is bicameral, consisting of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
		The UK is divided into parliamentary constituencies of broadly equal population (decided by the Boundary Commission), each of which elects a Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons.
		Richard Taylor MP was elected for the Wyre Forest constituency in the 2001 on a platform opposing the closure of Kidderminster hospital.
	www.happydogsclup.com /sdmc_Politics_of_the_United_Kingdom (5673 words)

	Sally Clark: Parliament 24 Feb 04
		When I became the MP for Tatton two and a half years ago, my predecessor, Martin Bell, briefed me on several issues but particularly on the Clark case, which had been a large constituency case for him.
		Member for Tatton mentioned were not jury trials, but cases in which the decisions were taken by the judges, who followed the professional evidence to the end.
		Member for Tatton has said about those cases in which expert evidence was not challenged, and it is a concern that these matters are not really being considered.
	www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk /sallyclark/Parliament0204.html (12437 words)

	BBC News \| UK Politics \| Tatton contenders unveiled
		Tatton Conservatives have unveiled the shortlist from which they will select their parliamentary candidate for the next election.
		The last Tory MP for Tatton, ex-minister Neil Hamilton, put the constituency in the spotlight as a result of his central role in the "cash for questions" scandal.
		In his interview, the Tatton MP also criticised the New Labour government for being out of touch and for its treatment of Parliament.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/292579.stm (627 words)

	Penguin UK - Collectors
		Described as 'A nice enough man but totally unsuited to politics' by his Tatton election opponent Neil Hamilton, Martin Bell was one of the BBC's most recognised and respected reporters before his high-profile entrance into politics.
		The Tatton campaign was itself a war zone, requiring a certain steadiness under fire.
		Because Hamish Hamilton is one of the imprints which rest under the Penguin's wings, In Harm's Way was duly published a year later, with a couple of added chapters in the Penguin edition.
	www.penguin.co.uk /static/cs/uk/0/collectors/extract.html (1054 words)

	Blackburn (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Blackburn is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		The constituency encompasses the town of Blackburn in the North West of England.
		The electoral wards in the Blackburn seat to be fought at the next UK general election in either 2009 or 2010 are entirely within the district of Blackburn with Darwen.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Blackburn_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (359 words)

	Politics of the United Kingdom (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Main article: British House of Commons The UK is divided into parliamentary constituencies of broadly equal population (decided by the Boundaries Commission), each of which elects a Member of Parliament to the House of Commons.
		Parliament meets at the [[Palace of Westminster]] There is usually a majority in Parliament, thanks to the First Past the Post electoral system (which without the element of proportionality can magnify swings and so make it difficult not to win a majority of seats), so coalitions are rare.
		Richard Taylor MP was elected for the Wyre Forest constituency in the 2001 and 2005 elections, on a platform opposing the closure of Kidderminster hospital.
	politics-of-the-united-kingdom.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (4297 words)

	ASPECT: Digital Election Ephemera to Support E-Democracy in Scotland
		The parliamentary term in the UK is fixed to a maximum of five years, although the actual timing of elections is largely at the discretion of the sitting government.
		Turnout in the UK general election fell to a record low of 59% in 2001, while for the Scottish Parliamentary election turnout fell from 58% in 1999 to 49% in 2003 [6].
		In the 1999 elections to the European Parliament, the UK had the lowest turnout of any country, with only 24% of the electorate voting, compared to an average turnout of 54% for the other 14 member states of the European Union [7].
	cdlr.strath.ac.uk /pubs/williamsona/aw200402.htm (4820 words)

	Amazon.ca: Accidental Mp: Books: Martin Bell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was then suggested as a candidate for Neil Hamilton's parliamentary constituency of Tatton--the fourth safest Conservative seat in the country.
		After the most unusual and quixotic campaign of recent memory, Martin Bell was elected to Parliament by a landslide as an Independent--a species thought to have been extinct since 1950.
		An Accidental MP is an account of that campaign and the fascinating years in Parliament that followed--constituency work, committee work and trying to find an independent place in the traditional structures of the House of Commons.
	www.amazon.ca /Accidental-Mp-Martin-Bell/dp/0141802413 (615 words)

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		In a constituency with N seats, the lowest-polling candidate is dropped (and their votes redistributed) until there are only N candidates remaining.
		STV has to round up to the nearest 1/N in an N-member constituency, which is obviously less proportional than giving each elected member a weighting exactly proportional to their support.
		It is not possible to do when there are a large number of members per constituency, unless you either know the proportion voting for each party accurately in advance, or you make the number of voters per MP smaller in districts where your supporters live (which is usually illegal).
	pl.atyp.us /misc/votefaq.txt (3471 words)

	Fruits and Votes » Great Britain
		She had been repeatedly warned by party leaders that her support for a hung parliament meant she was opposed to the election of some Labour MPs.
		The Tory Party in the U.K. proposes that MPs elected from Scotland be prohibited from voting on issues that affect England.
		It is not clear to me how typical it is for municipal elections in the UK (or England, specifically) to serve as electoral barometers on the popularity of the national government.
	fruitsandvotes.com /?cat=68 (3527 words)

	Defra, UK - Flood Management - UK Parliament, House of Commons 2003-04 Session: Questions
		This is an attempt to Index Questions asked by Members of Parliament in the House of Commons during the 2003-04 Session which relate to Flood Management.
		It may not be fully comprehensive - the definitive source of information on the World Wide Web remains the UK Parliament website which has a full search facility and other indices.
		what discussions she has had with her ministerial colleagues in the Netherlands on similarities between the approaches taken in the UK and in the Netherlands to (a) the protection of the coastline, (b) the use of soft defences in coastal protection, (c) managed retreat and (d) managed realignment; and if she will make a statement.
	www.defra.gov.uk /environ/fcd/parliament/pq2003-04.htm (4236 words)

	BBC News \| Politics \| Parliament's 'Mr Clean' defends himself
		At a news conference in Knutsford, Cheshire, in his Tatton constituency, the former war correspondent said he would repay the bill if his constituents asked him to.
		Sir Gordon's office indicated he may look into the matter once he is aware in writing of the "full details of the complaint".
		While accepting that he had a £8,000 campaign budget at his disposal, Mr Hamilton said that he had little or no legal expenses during the election compared to Mr Bell, who took advice on billing himself as an anti-corruption candidate on the ballot paper.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/politics/49890.stm (634 words)

	Tatton (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tatton shown within Cheshire, and Cheshire shown within England
		Data for the 1997 and 1992 results are taken from The Guardian.
		Categories: Parliamentary constituencies in the North West
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tatton_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (430 words)

	spiked-politics \| Article \| The politics of 'Ethics man'
		In Tatton they could say "Okay, he was a war reporter, what does he know about politics?".
		Bell pledged that he would only serve one term as MP in Tatton - a pledge that added to the impression of a man with no interest in political fame or power.
		Talking of the relationship between church and politics, I recall that the discussion surrounding the 1997 Tatton contest, in which the dominant issue was sleaze, often seemed more like a sermon on the morality of good v evil, with the self-righteous Bell giving the disgraced Hamilton his comeuppance.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000002D0C5.htm (922 words)

	A bereaved father's stand makes Iraq the key to Sedgefield : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At the urban end of the constituency in Newton Aycliffe, Susan Walters, a housewife, 42, was almost swayed by Mr Keys: "I voted for Labour the last two times, but not this time.
		With opposition to the Iraq war at the centre of her manifesto, she also promises to "adhere in Parliament to the democratic principle of voting for what the electorate wants".
		The small, well-heeled town of Sedgefield itself is not typical: more than a third of constituents are in council housing and house prices are half the UK average.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1713689 (2918 words)

	CNN.com - Soldier father bid to unseat Blair - Apr 21, 2005
		Keys has been touring the County Durham constituency's small towns, former pit villages and rolling countryside in an open-top bus.
		The key plank of his campaign for the May 5 election is the accusation that the prime minister misled the British parliament over the reasons for going to war.
		The Sedgefield Constituency has received a total of 15 nominations for the election on May 5.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/04/21/uk.blair.opponent (714 words)

	Don't fall asleep yet
		I live in Nicholas Soames' constituency, Mid Sussex, and even if I could vote as often as a Birmingham Labour councillor it wouldn't move him an inch closer to being thrown out on his ear.
		If an individual MP is particularly craven or hopeless, their constituents can gang up and turf them out of the Commons; and if they're particularly good, keep them in office despite a national swing, as under the present system.
		As you say, the underlying notion of PR-Squared -- allocating MPs to constituencies by a global minimisation of some plausible utility function, in his case the number of voters who did not vote for the party of their local MP -- could be used to allocate seats in a straight PR system.
	ex-parrot.com /~chris/wwwitter/20050421-dont_fall_asleep_yet.html (5144 words)

	Kidderminster (UK Parliament constituency) at AllExperts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kidderminster was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		The constituency was created by the 1832 Reform Act and lasted until 1983.
		In 1983, it was itself absorbed into the Wyre Forest constituency.
	experts.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /e/k/ki/kidderminster_(uk_parliament_constituency).htm (106 words)

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		In a local contest which is shaping up to focus on Iraq, Mr Blair will also face anti-war candidate Reg Keys, the father of a killed military policeman, and David Shayler, the ex-MI5 spy turned campaigner, who have declared their intention to stand against him.
		Totally different demographic in Tatton, where I believe Hamilton's majority was over 20k.
		The people of Sedgefield may well have sympathy for the man, and certainly many of them will have been as anti war as most people here.
	www.ureader.co.uk /message/162233.aspx (908 words)

	Nick Hurd - Member of UK Parliament for Ruislip-Northwood
		My constituents ask where the money has gone, who is responsible for the mess, who will sort it out and how that will be done.
		It is in the Budget's failure to address the two key concerns of health and attitudes towards saving that it fails the first test of relevance to the concerns of my constituents.
		The bottom line is that, when I hear the Chancellor speak, I do not believe that I am listening to someone with any real understanding of what it is like to run a business or to take risks in the pursuit of prosperity and the creation of wealth.
	www.nickhurd.com /search/article.php?id=176 (2096 words)

	www.publicfinance.co.uk - Features - Profile – Martin Bell – Cleaning up again?
		After challenging sleaze in Westminster, the former MP for Tatton is set to tackle the practices of the European Parliament, he tells Paul Gosling
		Subsequently, Bell was approached by people in Vaz’s Leicester East constituency, asking him to stand in the last general election.
		He criticises the ethos and practices of many MEPs, especially those who have been found to attend Parliament merely to sign the book of attendance to enable them to claim attendance allowance, before getting the first train or plane out again.
	www.cipfa.org.uk /publicfinance/features_details.cfm?News_id=20217 (1157 words)

	Ipsos MORI - Political Attitudes In Tatton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MORI interviewed 525 adults aged 18+ in the constituency of Tatton
		All interviews were conducted by telephone on 9 April 1997, and the results published in The Sun on 11 April 1997.
		MORI interviewed a sample of 525 adults aged 18+ in the constituency of Tatton.
	www.mori.com /polls/1997/s970409.shtml (415 words)

	Frodsham Administration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		UK Parliamentary elections can be held at any time up to five years from the last election.
		Weaver Vale was a new constituency at the 1997 election, created by a Boundary Commission review of Cheshire.
		UK government information is available from the open.gov.uk and UK parliament sites.
	www.mainstreetchapel.org.uk /frodsham/admin.html (840 words)

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