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  Encyclopedia: Labour Party (UK)
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.
The UK general election, 1987 was held on June 11, 1987 and was the third victory in a row for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives.
The UK general election, 1992 was held on April 9, 1992, and was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Also known as the Khaki Election (the first of several election to bear this sobriquet), it was held in the midst of the return of soldiers from the Boer War.
1983 election 1987 election 1992 election The general election of June 11, 1987 was the third victory in a row for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives.
1987 election 1992 election 1997 election The general election of April 9, 1992, was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives.
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 English-Speaking Protestantism
The definitive statement of the Church of England was produced in the form of the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1563, which combine a Lutheran understanding of justification and a reformed understanding of election and the sacraments.
The General Baptists accepted the Arminian view of salvation; that grace was available to all people and that people had the freedom to resist grace.
The beginnings of Pentecostalism are generally attributed to the work of William Seymour, a Black Holiness minister who founded a mission on Asuza Street, Los Angeles in 1906.
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 United Kingdom general elections
United Kingdom general elections are the times when the Members of Parliament forming the House of Commons are elected.
Since the maximum term of a parliament is five years, the interval between successive general elections can exceed that period by no more than the combined length of the election campaign and time for the new parliament to assemble (typically five to eight weeks).
In the UK general elections are generally affairs in which public opinion changes gradually from general election from election.
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 United Kingdom general elections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For information on UK elections in general, see Elections in the United Kingdom.
Until 1918, general elections did not occur on a single day and polling was spread over several weeks.
The date given in the table before 1918 is the date Parliament assembled after the election which could be in the year after the general election.
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In the past four general elections, the number of postal votes has varied between 620,000 and nearly 800,000, representing between 2.0% and 2.4% of the votes cast.
The general council of the constituency then made the shortlist which was circulated to the local membership who could vote via postal ballot or on a hustings meetings which resulted in the selection.
The pending period varies depending on the type of election but in a general election it is from when the Queen announces the intention to dissolve parliament or, if an announcement is not made, then from when parliament is actually dissolved.
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 World War 1 and 2 - United Kingdom general elections
General elections of the United Kingdom are the elections held when the British Members of Parliament ("MPs") forming the House of Commons are elected.
At the 2001 general election, there were 659 constituencies (typically called "seats"), and thus 659 MPs.
At the 2005 general election there will be a slightly fewer 646 seats in the UK.
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 United Kingdom General Election, 2009/10 Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The previous election in the UK was the general election of 2005 held on 5 May 2005.
There are currently 646 seats in the house, although the number of constituencies and their boundaries will change from those used at the previous general election, especially in England and Wales where a ten-year review is due for completion in 2007.
With both Tony Blair and Michael Howard having declared their intention to stand down before the next general election, it will be the first general election since 1979 in which both of the two main parties have leaders who are contesting their first general election as leader.
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 Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - United_Kingdom_general_election,_2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
In Northern Ireland, the election was dominated in the unionist community by a battle between the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to be the region's largest unionist party in Parliament.
Other elections in the province have shown both a shift in votes towards the DUP but also a collapse of support for the cross-community Alliance Party which is likely to be more marked in a first past the post election and thus which may work in the UUP's favour.
The results were interpreted by the UK media as an indicator of a breakdown in trust in the government, and in the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in particular.
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 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Glossary: US elections
By the presidential campaign of 1880 the symbol was firmly established.
In the run-up to the 2000 general election, PACs contributed $259.8m to candidates for Congress.
The Senate is generally considered to be the upper house of the United States Congress, although members of the other house - the House of Representatives - traditionally regard it as a co-equal body.
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 United Kingdom general election, 1906 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The UK general election of 1906 was from 12th January – 8th February 1906.
The Conservatives under Arthur Balfour lost more than half their seats, while the newly-formed Labour Party were far more successful than the Labour Representation Committee had been in the 1900 general election.
The Irish Nationalists achieved their seats on a low number of votes as 74 of their members were elected in uncontested seats.
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 Dedekind   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The general laws that are to be developed do not depend on this at all.
The general term 'ring' does not appear, it was introduced later by Hilbert.
(1880), the Academy of Rome, the Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum Academia, and the
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 A global balancing act: New structures in the Russian Media / 2002/1 / Archive / Media Development / Publications / ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
General societal transformations occurred in a direction more ‘top-down’ than ‘bottom-up,’ were followed by shifts within the old media system.
In terms of general media typology the structure of the modern Russian media appears to be non-specific.
Nowadays the Russian media are influenced by several factors of a general nature, of which some obviously play a crucial role in the still ongoing process of change.
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Members of the Royal Family, including the Monarch, are eligible to vote, although in practice it would be seen as unconstitutional if they ever did.
In the UK general elections are usually affairs in which public opinion changes gradually from general election from election.
Until the Prime Minister reacts to the election result, either by deciding to remain on or resign, the monarch has no role.
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 United_Kingdom_general_election,_1923   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The UK general election of 1923 was held on 5th December 1923.
As the election had been fought on the Conservative proposals for tariff reform it was inevitable that they could not retain office and so the first ever Labour government was formed.
Being in a minority it only lasted 10 months and another election was held in 1924.
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 Dail Elections since 1918
Constituted from the successful Sinn Fein candidates for the UK General Election of December 1918 (voting took place in most constituencies on 14 December).
Afer this sequence of elections, there was general relief among the political classes when Hillery announced that he would seek a second term as President, and he was re-elected unopposed.
General expectations were that Fine Gael and the Progressive Democrats would form a coalition with Labour; but instead Labour opted to do a deal with Fianna Fáil, keeping Albert Reynolds as Taoiseach of a government with a massive majority.
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 Kovalevskaya
In 1878, Kovalevskaya gave birth to a daughter, but from 1880 increasingly returned to her study of mathematics.
Although the Tsarist government had repeatedly refused her a university position in her own country, the rules at the Imperial Academy were changed to allow the election of a woman.
Kovalevskaya's last published work was a short article Sur un théorème de M. Bruns in which she gave a new, simpler proof of Bruns' theorem on a property of the potential function of a homogeneous body.
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 UK General Election, 1880 Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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 UK General Election, 1931 Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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The UK general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday.
The election was held in the middle of the Great Depression.
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 THE CASH NEXUS - Niall Ferguson - Penguin UK
However, the falling percentages for Austria and Germany between 1880 and 1910 - from 82 per cent to just 52 per cent in the German case - should not be mistaken for defence cuts.
Economics is generally conceived as a difficult, dry subject.
Yes, it is. I felt utter glee when Bush won the election, for no other reason than that it meant that what I had always felt about the relationship between economics and politics was right.
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 United Kingdom general election, 1918 - Enpsychlopedia
The United Kingdom general election of 1918 held on 14th December 1918, after the Representation of the People Act 1918.
The election was won by a coalition of the Conservatives, most of the Liberals and a few Labour and independent MPs, and produced a government led by David Lloyd George.
The aftermath of the elections saw the convention of an extra-legal parliament, called the First Dáil, by the elected Sinn Féin candidates, and the outbreak of the Irish War of Independence.
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 VoteUK.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The UK Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, has written to the SNP saying the party would be breaking telephone marketing rules if the calls are made without the consent of those receiving them.
Hot off the back of Tony Blair announcing the date of the election, ASDA said on Wednesday (6th April) that it would be selling a specially selected range of election ales which would be available in 220 stores across Britain from next week.
The Lib Dems are set for their best results in both the general election and the local council polls, one of their frontbenchers has predicted.
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 Articles - United Kingdom general election, 1979   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The administration had been a minority government for most of its term, and from March 1977 to August 1978 the government had reached an agreement with the Liberal Party, in a so-called Lib-Lab Pact.
Callaghan had been tempted to call an election in the autumn of 1978, which it is likely he would have won, albeit with a small majority.
See also MPs elected in the UK general election, 1979.
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 Into the 20th Century - British Association of Dermatologists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
No steps to foster dermatology could be taken, but some who had caught a glimpse of one of the great European Centres, must have been considering their own future and the future prospects of dermatology in Britain.
Archibald Gray (1880-1967), son of a country doctor, was born in Ottery St Mary in 1880; his grandfather had served as a naval surgeon at the battle of Trafalgar.
His wide-ranging knowledge was to revolutionise pathology at St George's where his erudition, wisdom and experience were readily acknowledged; furthermore an interest in the skin manifestations of general disease is apparent in several of his papers.
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 BBC NEWS | Politics | Election 2005 | Campaigning 'cost more in 1880'
Many of the tactics now regarded as absolutely standard in modern campaigns had their origins in the mid-19th Century, with the rise of printed handbills and posters to inform the burgeoning electorate.
The study said that in pre-World War I elections, up to £70m was spent - adjusted to today's prices - at a typical election.
The 1880 General Election was the most expensive in British electoral history, with over £100 million spent, the study said.
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 Gladstone and Ireland 1880-1886
When Gladstone returned to power after defeating Disraeli in the 1880 General Election, Parnell and the Land League were conducting a violent campaign to stop the 1870 Land Act from working.
Gladstone was dubbed a 'dictator' because of this; the Act was allowed to lapse on 1 June 1880.
A general election was not possible because the new electoral rolls had not yet been compiled, following the 1884 (third) Reform Act, so Salisbury formed a Conservative ministry - it is sometimes called the "Ministry of Caretakers".
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The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on May 26, 1955, four years after the previous general election.
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