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	Labour Party (UK)
		In 1979 they faced the disastrous winter of discontent, and in the 1979 general election they suffered electoral defeat to the Tories, led by Margaret Thatcher.
		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.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/labour_party__uk_ (2890 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		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 usually affairs in which public opinion changes gradually from general election from election.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=United_Kingdom_general_election (1177 words)

	Labour Party (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		At the UK general election, 19871987 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.
		By the time of the UK general election, 19921992 general election, the party had reformed to such an extent that it was perceived as a credible candidate for government.
		The UK was one of the allies of the United States that actually participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
	www.infothis.com /find/Labour_Party_(UK) (3635 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		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: 2007-08-19)
		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)

	Casino Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The UK general election, 1979 was held on May 3, 1979 and is regarded as a pivotal point in 20th century British politics.
		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.
		When the Scottish Nationalist Party withdrew support for the Scottish Devolution bill, a vote of no confidence was held on March 28, 1979 which the Government lost, forcing an election to be called.
	www.casinoencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=United_Kingdom_general_election,_1979 (436 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Established as a territory of the UK in 1965, a number of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) islands were transferred to the Seychelles when it attained independence in 1976.
		Presidential elections scheduled for 2005 are unlikely to bring change since the opposition remains weak, divided, and financially dependent on the current regime.
		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.
	www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html (16146 words)

	Encyclopedia: Concorde
		Bernard Charles Bernie Ecclestone (born October 28, 1930 in the UK) is the president and CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, and as such is generally considered the primary authority in Formula One racing.
		Concorde lead directly to a general reduction of noise of aircraft flying out of JFK- it was found that Concorde was actually quieter than the other aircraft (due to the pilots temporarily throttling back their engines to reduce noise during overflight of residential areas).
		Due to the heat generated by the compression of the air as Concorde traveled supersonically, the fuselage would extend by as much as thirty centimetres, the most obvious manifestation of this being a gap that would open up on the flight deck between the flight engineer's console and the bulkhead.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Concorde (8957 words)

	Labour Party (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		In 1979 they faced the disastrous winter of discontent, and in the UK general election, 1979 they suffered electoral defeat to the Tories, led by Margaret Thatcher.
		By UK general election, 1992, the party had reformed to such an extent that it was perceived as a credible candidate for government.
		The European Parliament election, 2004 also saw a poor performance by the party, however, the performance of the main opposition Conservative Party has been lacklustre and has led to a widespread assumption that it is not in a position realistically to challenge for government in the general election expected in May 2005.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /UK-Labour-Party/Labour-Party-(UK).html (2816 words)

	BBC NEWS
		Since the first European election in 1979, voter turnout has been in steady decline.
		The overall turnout figure in 1979 was 63%; in 2004 it was 45.7%.
		However, participation in European elections is lower than in national elections - by an average of 22% in the 15 older member states.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/shared/spl/hi/europe/04/eu_parliament_guide/html/apathy.stm (212 words)

	World political party UK Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		I have analysed the voting results of the General Election and implemented an Election Lottery where each vote serves as a lottery ticket with the preferred candidate's name on it.
		But there are exemplified further to the right in columns 5 possible parliaments of 659 MPs that could have resulted from an Election Lottery had it been held this General Election, based on the actual votes counted.
		An Election Lottery achieves this Proportional Representation, while tying the selection of every candidate firmly to the electorates in his or her constituency, thus avoiding any charges of cronyism.
	www.eudaimonic.com /ukelection.htm (615 words)

	East Belfast (constituency) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Denny Vitty Democratic Unionist Party In 1975 elections were held to a Constitutional Convention which sought (unsuccessfully) to generate a consensus on the future of the province.
		The seat was consistently held by the UUP until UK general election, 1974 (February) when the sitting MP, Stanley McMaster, defended it as a Pro-Assembly Unionist against a united anti-Sunningdale Agreement coalition which nominated William Craig of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party.
		In the UK general election, 1979 the constituency witnessed a very closed three way fight between Peter Robinson of the Democratic Unionist Party, William Craig for the Ulster Unionists and Oliver Napier for the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /UK-Parliamentary-constituencies/East-Belfast-(constituency).html (792 words)

	General Election odds & betting
		General elections are held at least every five years.
		Other reasons for calling early elections can be to seek support from the general public for difficult changes or to get more time knowing that items going onto the statutes books will possibly make the Government unpopular before the full time would have elapsed.
		The General Election is very popular with punters who can wager with bets on the overall result or individual results by constituency, though sometimes the odds are not very attractive.
	www.place-bets.co.uk /election.html (225 words)

	BBC Politics 97
		The general election of 1979 was to prove a political watershed.
		Callaghan had had the option of calling an election in the Autumn of 1978, but decided to carry on and face the country after the economy had improved.
		The immediate reasons were a by-election defeat, the defection of two of Callaghan's backbenchers to form a new 'Scottish Labour Party' and the defection of the maverick John Stonehouse.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/background/pastelec/ge79.shtml (1182 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		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 general election, 1924 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		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)

	UK general election, 1974 (October) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The UK general election of October 1974 took place on October 10, 1974.
		It was the second of two United Kingdom general elections held that year.
		It was at this election that the Scottish National Party secured their best ever representation inside the House of Commons, 11 MPs.
	mywiseowl.com /articles/UK_general_election,_1974_(October) (130 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)

	United Kingdom Election Results
		Election results from the general election of 1983 onwards are in these files in the same order.
		European Parliamentary Election in Yorkshire and the Humber region by constituency, 1999.
		All GLC election results are linked on this index page, along with results of direct elections to the Inner London Education Authority (1986-90).
	www.election.demon.co.uk (1174 words)

	UK General Election May 1979: Results and statistics
		Approximately 61 'parties', including various sorts of independent, stood in the election - see the full list for details.
		Turnout ranged from 53.31% in Stepney and Poplar to 87.12% in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
		Copies of party election manifestos are available for the Conservative, Labour, and Liberal parties
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/ge79/results.htm (269 words)

	SN 3171 -General Election in Scotland, 1992 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Scottish data: for the 1992 study, a grant by the ESRC to the University of Strathclyde enabled the representation of Scottish electors in the sample to be boosted substantially.
		The British Election Study for the 2001 general election (BES 2001), funded by the Economic and Social Research Council was once again based at the University of Essex, under the control of David Sanders, Paul Whiteley and Harold Clarke.
		Official data on turnout in the 1992 General Election were obtained independently of the survey, for both cross-section and panel studies, from records held in the Lord Chancellor's Office.
	www.data.archive.ac.uk /findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=3171 (973 words)

	British Election Study
		The purposes of the British Election Study are: (1) to study long-term trends in British voting behaviour; (2) to explain the election outcome; (3) to explain party choice; (4) to explain turnout; and (5) to examine the consequences of elections for the operation of democracy more generally.
		The 2005 BES retains all key questions that are part of long-run series since 1964, the long-standing questions on ideology, economic perceptions and issue positions that were introduced after 1979, as well as questions added in 2001 to explain turnout and to explore attitudes towards elections, parties, and the democratic process.
		In a 'first of its kind' experiment in a national election study, the BES is conducting a survey mode comparisons between face-to-face and internet surveys.
	www.essex.ac.uk /bes/2005/index2005.html (226 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.
		Change % No figures for vote change can be given for the 1922 general election because of the secession of the Irish Free State, and the existence of the Coalition in 1918.
		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)

	Results of 2005 United Kingdom General Election - Wikinews
		At 21:00 UTC yesterday, the polls closed in the United Kingdom general election.
		Speaking on BBC News, commentator David Dimbleby pointed out the uncertainty of such possibilities, and noted that a majority of 66 was larger than the 43 seat majority won by Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom general election, 1979.
		In every General Election there is an informal race amongst the constituencies to declare a result first.
	en.wikinews.org /wiki/Results_of_2005_United_Kingdom_General_Election (755 words)

	General Election Cartoons by Dr Alan Mumford
		General Elections provide the high water-mark – or low water mark depending on your point of view – for the potential impact of political cartoons.
		Research suggests that most General Election results are determined over a longer period of time than the specific campaign.
		The campaign nowadays is seen as the culmination of a usually prolonged period through which cartoonists have developed their views of those policies – and even more sharply of the personalities involved.
	www.politicalcartoon.co.uk /html/history1.html (1081 words)

	Indymedia UK - General Election Nazi Results.
		The Nazi BNP achieved their best general election result ever in Oldham, with 11% in one constituency and 16% in another.
		This was the highest far right vote in a general election since 1979.
		Their long term plan is to begin to build support in specific areas, hoping to win a council seat in the 2002 local elections.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2001/06/5996.html (745 words)

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