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	Labour Party (UK) - The Encyclopedia
		The 1923 general election was fought on the Conservatives' protectionist proposals; although they got the most votes and remained the largest party, they lost their majority in parliament, requiring a government supporting free trade to be formed.
		In the 1979 general election, Labour suffered electoral defeat to the Conservatives led by Margaret Thatcher.
		At the 1987 general election, the party was again defeated in a landslide, but had at least re-established itself as the clear challengers to the Conservatives and gained 20 seats reducing the Conservative majority to 102 from 143 in 1983, despite a sharp rise in turnout.
	www.the-encyclopedia.com /description/Labour_Party_(UK) (9027 words)

	UK Parliament - Elections FAQ page
		The first general election was held on Thursday 28 February, the second on Thursday 10 October.
		The decision to call a general election is made by the Prime Minister by asking the Queen to dissolve Parliament.
		The last general election not to be held on a Thursday was on Tuesday 27 October 1931.
	www.parliament.uk /faq/elections_faq_page.cfm (307 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1992 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The UK general election, 1992 was held on April 9, 1992, and was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives.
		Given that the 1992 election resulted in a Conservative overall majority of 21, it has been stated that their victory could be said to have been decided by only 1,241 votes distributed through the 11 seats with the smallest Conservative majorities in the election.
		In the end though the SNP only held onto the three seats they won at the 1987 General Election and lost the Govan seat that they had won in 1988 with their deputy leader Jim Sillars as candidate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UK_general_election,_1992 (1326 words)

	Elections in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is relatively easy to stand for election as an independent candidate, although wins are very rare and usually involve special circumstances (for example Martin Bell's 1997 victory against the discredited Conservative MP Neil Hamilton was aided by the major parties standing aside and not contesting the election).
		United Kingdom general elections are the elections held when the Members of Parliament (MPs) forming the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are elected.
		In years with a general election it is usual practice to hold both general and local elections on the same day.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Elections_in_the_United_Kingdom (4057 words)

	Encyclopedia: Conservative Party (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Conservative modernisers point to Afriyie's election as evidence that the party is changing, though opponents argue that the election of a single fl MP doesn't count for much against the right-wing anti-immigrant campaign fought by the Tories in 2005.
		The British general election of 1945 held on July 5th 1945 but not counted and declared until July 26, 1945 (due to the time it took to transport the votes of those serving overseas) was one of the most significant general elections of the 20th century.
		The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Conservative-Party-(UK) (8176 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The United Kingdom general election of 1964 result was a very slim majority for the Labour Party, of four seats, and led to their first government since 1951.
		The Labour victory was largely due to the increased vote for the Liberals from 5.9% in 1959 to 11.2% which came at the expense of the Conservatives, rather than an increase in the vote for Labour, which was less than its 1959 total.
		The majority was unworkable and there had to be another general election in 1966.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1964 (220 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1935 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The UK general election held on 14th November 1935 resulted in a large, though reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Stanley Baldwin.
		Labour, under what was internally regarded as the caretaker leadership of Clement Attlee, made large gains over their very poor position in the 1931 general election, but the Liberals lost further ground.
		The major election issues were the continuing unemployment problems and the role of the League of Nations, particularly as regarded Japan.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1935 (264 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The date of the next general election is not fixed, but the next election must be held on or before June 3, 2010.
		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 province'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.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2005 (2640 words)

	British Asbestos Newsletter
		Tony Worthington was "proud that Clydebank is leading the way in the UK to protest against this scandal," but outraged by the insurers' betrayal of ordinary working men and women.
		As every UK verdict and settlement is meticulously examined in light of the restrictive Fairchild judgment (newsletter issue 42), asbestos litigation in the US continues to expand.
		UK historians researching issues of occupational health have found that for one hundred years those responsible for protecting working people and the public from exposure to dangerous substances and practices have repeatedly failed to do their job.
	www.lkaz.demon.co.uk /ban43.htm (3006 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1931 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The election was held in the middle of the Great Depression.
		In August 1931 MacDonald quit the government to form the multi-party National Government.
		The decision of MacDonald to join the National Government with the Conservatives had lead the Labour Party to expell him from the party, which split into two groups (The Labour Party and the National Labour Party).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UK_general_election,_1931 (200 words)

	Labour Party (UK) - SmartyBrain Encyclopedia and Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The financial crisis of 1931 caused a disastrous split in the party, with MacDonald and a few senior ministers going into alliance with the Conservatives as the "National Government" (August 24, 1931) while most of the party rank-and-file went into opposition under the leadership of first George Lansbury and (from 1935) Clement Attlee.
		The aftermath of the election defeat in 1979 provoked a period of bitter internal rivalry in Labour.
		The election of Foot to the leadership (where he proved an electoral disaster) led in March 1981 to the formation of a breakaway group, the Social Democratic Party, under the Gang of Four: new SDP leader and former Labour deputy leader Roy Jenkins, and former senior ministers David Owen, Shirley Williams and William Rodgers.
	smartybrain.com /index.php/The_Labour_Party_(UK) (3002 words)

	West Belfast (constituency) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the UK general election, 1966 the seat was won by Gerry Fitt of the Republican Labour Party.
		In the UK general election, 1974 (February), West Belfast was the only constituency in Northern Ireland to elect an MP supporting the Sunningdale Agreement.
		In the UK general election, 1987 Adams narrowly held his seat, but lost it in the UK general election, 1992 amidst a strong tactical voting campaign in favour of Joe Hendron of the Social Democratic and Labour Party by unionists in the Shankill Road area of the constituency.
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	Liberal Party (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The result was a catastrophic split in the Liberal Party, and heavy defeat in the UK general election, 18861886 election at the hands of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of SalisburyLord Salisbury.
		At the UK general election, 19221922 and UK general election, 19231923 elections the Liberals won barely a third of the vote and a quarter of the seats in the House of Commons as many radical voters abandoned the divided Liberals and went over to Labour.
		In the UK general election, 19291929 general election he made a final bid to return the Liberals to the political mainstream, with an ambitious programme of state stimulation of the economy called ''We Can Conquer Unemployment!'', largely written for him by the Liberal economist John Maynard Keynes.
	www.infothis.com /find/Liberal_Party_(UK) (4008 words)

	EAP Vocabulary - Exercise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The 1931 general election gave the Conservatives a huge overall majority in the House of Commons, enabling them to pursue their tariff policy with little hindrance.
		The 1931 general election was the last election until that of February 1974 at which the electoral performance of the Liberals was of significance to the two major parties.
		It was the general election, then, and not the formation of the first National Government, that was the crucial event in the politics of the 1930s.
	www.uefap.co.uk /vocab/exercise/awl/1931ge.htm (927 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997.
		The election brought the first change in UK Government for 18 years.
		The election was fought under new boundaries, with an additional 8 seats across the UK.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1997 (482 words)

	United Kingdom Parliamentary Byelection results 1997-2001
		Contested Eastbourne in the 1990 byelection, West Hertfordshire in the 1992 general election, Hertfordshire in the 1994 European Parliamentary elections, Beckenham at the 1997 election, and the Uxbridge byelection in July 1997.
		He was the UK Independence Party's candidate for the Littleborough and Saddleworth byelection in July 1995, and fought Lancaster and Wyre in the 1997 general election.
		Fought Belfast East in the 1997 general election and the 1998 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /by1997.html (6118 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1924 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The 1924 UK general election was held on 29th October 1924.
		The Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin did dramatically better than in the 1923 general election and obtained a large parliamentary majority.
		Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald, lost a few seats, but the big losers were Herbert Henry Asquith's Liberals who lost 118 of their 158 seats.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1924 (141 words)

	Biography of Ernest Bevin
		Bevin was born in Winsford, Somerset in 1881.
		Bevin, a member of the Labour Party, was unsuccessful in his attempt to become the MP for Bristol Central in the 1918 General Election.
		Bevin was elected general secretary, a post he was to hold for the next nineteen years.
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	Election manifesto of Emmanuel Shinwell, 1924
		Shinwell's parliamentary career began with his election to the House of Commons in 1922 as one of the ten Red Clydesider's.
		Shinwell lost his seat at Linlithgow in the 1931 General Election although he returned to the House of Commons in 1935 after defeating Ramsay MacDonald at Seaham.
		He lost office after the Conservative Party victory in the 1951 General Election but held his seat in the House of Commons and between November 1964 and March 1967 was Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /redclyde/redclyde/rc142.htm (273 words)

	Articles - United Kingdom general election, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		The big shock of the election came in South Belfast where the SDLP won the traditionally unionist seat, aided by a split between the two big unionist parties.
		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.
	www.1hunting.com /articles/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2005 (2494 words)

	United_Kingdom_general_election,_1923 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
	www.exoticfelines.com /search.php?title=United_Kingdom_general_election,_1923 (95 words)

	General Election Results 1885-1979
		The figures given here for elections from 1885 to 1945 differ from those in F.W.S. Craig’s “British Electoral Facts” because they are adjusted for votes cast in the two-member seats.
		In 1931, the Independent Labour Party was still officially part of the Labour Party but refused to accept the Standing Orders of the Parliamentary Labour Party; in addition, several Labour candidates were members of the ILP but sponsored by local parties.
		Constitutionalists This label was used by a number of right-wing Liberals in the 1924 general election who wanted to distance themselves from the party’s temporary support for the Labour Government.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /geresults.html (687 words)

	No election under occupation .... - Physics Help and Math Help - Physics Forums
		The election was the culmination of a constitutional development that began in January, 1966, to which President Johnson gave his personal commitment when he met Premier Ky and General Thieu, the chief of state, in Honolulu in February.
		That was the figure in the election in September for the Constituent Assembly.
		Before the results of the presidential election started to come in, the American officials warned that the turnout might be less than 80 per cent because the polling place would be open for two or three hours less than in the election a year ago.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=66752&page=1 (2158 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		(He contended unsuccessfully for the seat in 1931 and then won it in a by-election one year later, becoming the youngest parliament member at the time.) He played a key role in establishing the National Party in 1936 but failed to win re-election in 1938.
		National gained a majority in the 1949 election and Holyoake became Minister of Agriculture and the first person to be formally appointed Deputy Prime Minister.
		Upon Labour's defeat in the December 1975 general elections, he remained in the Cabinet as the first Minister of State until 1977 when he became Governor-General.
	www.askmytutor.co.uk /k/ke/keith_holyoake.html (331 words)

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