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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: UK general election, 1966
		The UK general election in 1966 was called by Harold Wilson because his government, elected in the 1964 election, had an unworkably small majority.
		Wilson's hope, that he would be returned to office with an increased majority, was excited by the government's victory in a by-election at Kingston upon Hull and was vindicated; the government was able to survive.
		Of the 16 general elections between 1945 and 2001, four have been in October, four in June, three in May and two in February.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/UK-general-election,-1966 (237 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.
		The elections were marked by apathy from the voting public, with turnout falling by to 59%, the lowest since the Coupon Election of 1918.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2001_UK_general_election (615 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: UK general election, 1964
		The United Kingdom general election of 1964 result was a very slim majority for the Labour Party, of 4, and led to their first government since 1951.
		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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/UK-general-election,-1964 (426 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UK_general_election,_2005 (3573 words)

	Smethwick - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In 1966, Smethwick was merged with the boroughs of Oldbury and Rowley Regis to form the new County Borough of Warley.
		In 1966, Smethwick ceased to be a single County Borough and was absorbed into the new County Borough of Warley, geographically although not administratively in Worcestershire.
		In the UK general election, 1964, Gordon Walker, who was Shadow Foreign Secretary, was defeated in controversial circumstances in the constituency by Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Smethwick (1136 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 2001 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Outside Northern Ireland (which mostly has different parties and a different electoral landscape from the rest of the UK although a few UK-wide parties stand with minimal success), 620 out of 641 seats remained with the same party as they had been in 1997.
		The elections were also marked by apathy from the voting public, turnout being only 59%, the lowest since 1918.
		In Northern Ireland, the election was far more dramatic and marked a move away from the Good Friday Agreement, with the moderate unionist and nationalist parties (UUP and SDLP) losing to the more extreme parties (DUP and Sinn Féin).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2001 (481 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 2005 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		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.
		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 Unionist parties.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2005 (2682 words)

	West Belfast (constituency) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		He previously held the seat between UK general election, 1983 and UK general election, 1992 when he lost it to Joe Hendron of the Social Democratic and Labour Party but regained it in UK general election, 1997.
		In the UK general election, 1966 the seat was won by Gerry Fitt of the Republican Labour Party.
		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.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /UK-Parliamentary-constituencies/West-Belfast-(constituency).html (988 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
		Independence from the UK was approved in 1960 with constitutional guarantees by the Greek Cypriot majority to the Turkish Cypriot minority.
		Spain and the UK are discussing the issue of Gibraltar and have set the goal of reaching an agreement by mid-2002.
		In 1966 the Marxist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) guerrilla group launched a war of independence for the area that was soon named Namibia, but it was not until 1988 that South Africa agreed to end its administration in accordance with a UN peace plan for the entire region.
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html (15451 words)

	OFF THE TELLY: Factual/Election Television/Good Morning Prime Minister
		During the 1951 election, however, average audiences for radio broadcasts fell, and not just because, as political academic David Butler wrote at the time, "far more people are away from their firesides in a clement October than in a less temperate February".
		The next General Election, in February 1974, was called during an energy crisis that had meant all British television had been closing down at 10.30pm.
		Maybe a closer election, with a smaller majority held by the party in government, would help, but the general cynicism of the public seems to have got through to the broadcasters this year.
	www.offthetelly.co.uk /factual/election/primeminister.htm (3666 words)

	::GB v USA general elections::
		For the UK 2001 general election, political pundits spoke in terms of tens of millions being spent in total by all parties.
		The announcement of an election in the UK on April 5th 2005 was described in one broadsheet as “the lull before the lull.”
		In the UK an election manifesto is traditionally considered to be binding.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /gb_v_usa_general_elections.htm (912 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1966 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The UK general election in 1966 was held on March 31, 1966 and was called by Harold Wilson because his government, elected in the 1964 election, had an unworkably small majority.
		Wilson's hope, that he would be returned to office with an increased majority, was excited by the government's victory in a by-election in Kingston upon Hull North and was vindicated; the government increased its majority significantly.
		MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1966
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UK_general_election%2C_1966 (135 words)

	UK General Election 1966: voting results and statistics
		Approximately 36 'parties' stood in the election - see the full list of parties for details.
		These figures may be seen in comparison with other elections here.
		There is a list of constituencies in order of percentage majority, together with separate lists for the three main parties in order of marginality.
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/ge66/results.htm (296 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1945
		The United Kingdom General Election of 1945 was one of the most significant general elections of the 20th century.
		It resulted in the shock election defeat of the Conservatives led by Winston Churchill and the landslide victory of the Labour Party led by Clement Attlee, who won a majority of 145 seats.
		Election statistics for UK general elections, including results by constituency and region for the last three general elections.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=1945_election (2006 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1966
		the election which could be in the year after the general election.
		British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1964 by B.R. Mitchell and Klaus Boehm (1966) is not to be...
		In March 1966 the Labour Party won the general election with a greatly increased majority.
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election%2C_1966 (339 words)

	BBC Politics 97
		The Conservatives under Edward Heath were confident of victory at the next election, although the Tories were not without their own problems.
		Powell, a member of Heath's shadow cabinet, was horrified by the number of people seeking to enter the UK and believed Britain would come to suffer from race rioting similar to that in the USA.
		A good showing in the local elections in May 1970 convinced Wilson that Labour could win an early election, and the day was set for 18 June.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/background/pastelec/ge70.shtml (1159 words)

	UK general election, 1970 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The United Kingdom general election of 1970 was held on June 18 1970 and resulted in a surprise loss power for Labour under Harold Wilson who was replaced as Prime Minister by the Conservative leader Edward Heath.
		The election was also a setback the Liberal Party under its new leader Jeremy Thorpe which lost half its seats.
		Most opinion polls prior to the election had predicted comfortable Labour victory and had put Labour ahead of the Conservatives.
	www.freeglossary.com /UK_general_election,_1970 (442 words)

	1966 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		February 24 - A military coup in Ghana raises sacked General Ankrah to power while president Kwame Nkrumah is abroad.
		March 22 - In Washington, DC, General Motors President James M. Roche appears before a Senate subcommittee, and apologizes to consumer advocate Ralph Nader for the company's campaign of intimidation and harassment against him.
		June 28 - In Argentina, a junta deposes president Arturo Umberto Illia in a coup, and appoints General Juan Carlos Ongania to lead.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1966 (5511 words)

	SN 1799 -UK General Election Results, 1955-1970 and Associated Information
		Results of U.K. parliamentary general elections between 1955 and 1970 arranged by constituency and accompanied by certain other information.
		The electorate at each election is included along with two variables identifying the winning and second-placed party in each constituency.
		UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ.
	www.data-archive.ac.uk /findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=1799 (225 words)

	Elections and Electoral Systems by Country
		The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented.
		General Elections in the Republic of Northern Cyprus, December 2003
		UK General Election 2005, May, with full results and statistical breakdowns, and a spreadsheet version from the Electoral Commission
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /election.htm (1374 words)

	Northern Ireland Political Parties
		For general information about political parties in Northern Ireland since 1922, the whole of Ireland 1801-1922, England, Scotland, and Wales, I urge you to get hold of Politico's Guide to the History of British Political Parties by David Boothroyd available from Politico's.
		The following parties were all entitled to stand in the 1996 Forum elections, the first time that any system of party registration was used in Northern Ireland, and in most cases have not been heard from since.
		Both seats were lost to Unionists in the first 1974 election due to a split nationalist vote with the SDLP, though Frank Maguire, who held Fermanagh and South Tyrone as an independent from the second 1974 election until his death in 1981, could be seen as part of that tradition.
	www.ark.ac.uk /elections/gparties.htm (2114 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| News \| Election cartoons index
		They are also featured in Alan Mumford's 'Stabbed in the Front: post-war General Elections through political cartoons', which is available from the Centre's website.
		John Major is back on the soapbox he used in the 1992 Election campaign, but Tony Blair overshadows him with an ornate pulpit from which to deliver his message.
		In retrospect the cartoon seems also to carry a reference to the day after the election, when press photographers caught Cherie Blair on her own doorstep in her night-dress.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /gall/0,9352,488233,00.html (607 words)

	United Kingdom Parliamentary Election Results: Links and Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The first edition was compiled soon after the 1970 election and therefore does not include byelection results from later in the Parliament.
		It contains all elections from 1832 to 1853, together with statistics on the electorate and the influence possessed by various patrons in each constituency.
		The British General Election of 1945 by R.B. McCallum and Alison Readman was published in 1948.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /pollinks.html (1488 words)

	Ymgyrchu! - The Ballot Box - By-elections - 1966 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In the 1966 General Election Megan Lloyd George was elected the Labour MP for Carmarthen, beating, among others, the president of Plaid Cymru, Gwynfor Evans.
		Megan Lloyd George had held the seat for Labour since 1957, but two months after the election she died and a by-election was called.
		Gwynfor Evans once again stood for the seat as the Plaid Cymru candidate even though, three months earlier, he was beaten by both the Labour and the Liberal candidate, only receiving 16.1% of the vote.
	www.llgc.org.uk /Ymgyrchu/Pleidleisio/Is/1966/index-e.htm (207 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1966 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar)
		July 29 - Nigerian army rebels and execute the head of state general Irons, Richard Steven Horvitz is born.
		November 8 - Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /1966 (4351 words)

	Patrick Gordon Walker in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		Born in Worthing, Gordon Walker was educated at Wellington College and Christ Church, Oxford, and was elected Labour MP for Smethwick in a 1945 by-election, after the previous MP, Alfred Dobbs, had been killed in a car accident one day after the General Election.
		At the UK general election, 1964, following a successful career in opposition, he was destined to become Foreign Secretary in a widely anticipated Labour government.
		Nevertheless, he was appointed to the Foreign Office by Harold Wilson and stood for the Labour stronghold constituency of Leyton in a byelection in January 1965, losing again, and was forced to resign as Foreign Secretary.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/Patrick_Gordon_Walker (496 words)

	The Skakagrall: General Election Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Elections from 1979 to 2001 were all won by 42 to 43 percent of the vote.
		It resembles closely Vote-2005 UK Election Prediction, a popular phpbb based forum, compromised by a lot of aggressive anonymous posting, which was sponsored by Politicos Bookshop (12 February).
		Run by Tim Ireland (the UK internet’s answer to Michael Moore) and friends, this is much more ambitious than the tactical voting plan of the Save our Scottish Regiments (5 February).
	www.skakagrall.com /archives/general_election (4260 words)

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