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	United Kingdom general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	United Kingdom general election, 1983 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The UK general election, 1983 was held on June 9, 1983 and gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945.
		The Independent Republican elected in the 1979 election died in 1981.
		In the ensuring by-election the seat was won by Bobby Sands, an Anti-H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner who then died and was succeeded by an Anti-H-Block Proxy Political Prisoner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UK_general_election,_1983 (513 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	Tutor2u - low voter turnout - a threat to democracy in the uk?
		By 1983, turnout was doen to 72% - and despite an improvement in participation in both 1987 and 1992 (when the closeness of the battle prompted more voters to cast their vote) - the last two general elections has seen a sharp fall in turnout.
		Perceived importance of the election: Turnout tends to be strongest when, at a national level, the election is seen as being of special political significance or when local political issues are of sufficient salience to draw out voters from all parties.
		General elections in particular should be a key moment in the political cycle when voters have political power in their hands.
	www.tutor2u.net /politics/content/topics/elections/voter_turnout.htm (900 words)

	Tony Blair - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The seat was safely Labour despite the party's collapse in the 1983 UK general election; Blair was helped on the campaign trail by soap actress Patricia Phoenix, the girlfriend of his father-in-law Anthony Booth.
		He worked to produce a more moderate and electable party in the run-up to the 1992 general election, in which he had responsibility for developing the minimum wage policy which was expected to be strongly attacked by the Conservatives.
		The traditional tendency of governments to manipulate interest rates around the time of General Elections for political gain is thought to have been deleterious to the UK economy and helped reinforce a cyclical pattern of boom and bust, for which Blair frequently criticises previous governments.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /tony_blair.htm (5892 words)

	Tony Blair - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the 1983 UK general election he was elected as the MP for Sedgefield, a constituency that he has held until the present day.
		Following two general election defeats by Margaret Thatcher in 1983 and 1987, Blair aligned himself firmly with the reforming tendencies in the party, headed by leader Neil Kinnock who gave Blair his first shadow cabinet post, and worked to produce a more moderate and electable party.
		In the 2001 UK general election, the Labour Party preserved its majority at an unprecedented level, even in the face of a reduced turnout, and Blair became the first Labour Prime Minister to win a full second term.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Tony_Blair (1224 words)

	Tony Blair article - Tony Blair 1997 John Major 1953 Edinburgh Scotland Political Party Labour - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The traditional tendency of governments to manipulate interest rates around the time of General Elections for political gain had been deleterious to the UK economy and helped reinforce a cyclical pattern of boom and bust.
		In the 2001 UK general election, the Labour Party preserved its majority, even in the face of a reduced turnout, and Blair became the first Labour Prime Minister to win a full second term.
		Following the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, Blair was quick to align the UK with the US, engaging in a round of shuttle diplomacy to help form and maintain the allied coalition prior to their attack on Afghanistan (in which British troops participated).
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Tony_Blair (4137 words)

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		It is currently the third-largest party in the UK Parliament, behind Labour and the Conservatives, and currently has 55 members of Parliament, the most a third party has had since the 1930s.
		This was especially true in 1983 and 1987 when their popular electoral support was greatest; their increase in the number of seats in 1997 and 2001 was largely due to the weakness of the Conservative Party in the later elections.
		They are in favour of proportional representation for elections to both the House of Commons and a second chamber to replace the House of Lords, preferably by the STV system.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Liberal_Democrats_(UK) (2605 words)

	Leicester South (constituency) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In susbequent elections the majority grew to the point where it was considered substantially safe.
		Marshall died in 2004 and the Leicester South by-election, 2004 was fiercely contested.
		Along with a Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election, 2004 held on the same day, the seat saw a fierce challenge by the Liberal Democrats (UK), hoping to build on their previous Brent East by-election, 2003, as well as competition for the anti-war vote from RESPECT The Unity Coalition.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /UK-Parliamentary-constituencies/Leicester-South-(constituency).html (342 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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 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)

	United Kingdom general election, 1924 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	BBC NEWS \| VOTE2001 \| THE ELECTION BATTLES 1945-1997
		Under Margaret Thatcher the Conservatives coasted to their third election victory in a row in 1987.
		It was a feat helped, as in 1983, by the struggle between Labour and the Alliance to be the Tories' main challenger.
		Perhaps the real fight it had undertaken at this election was for second place against the Alliance rather than against the government - and this at least was a fight it could say it was winning.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/vote2001/in_depth/election_battles/1987_over.stm (129 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".
		Undoubtedly the best-remembered moment from the 1983 election came from the BBC: the incident on Nationwide when Mrs Thatcher was rattled by Cirencester housewife Diane Gould's questioning her approach to the Falklands War.
		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)

	BBC Politics 97
		Margaret Thatcher's second election victory in 1983 was one of the most decisive in post-war Britain.
		Although Margaret Thatcher was one of the most unpopular Prime Ministers in history during her first years in office, Britain's victory in the Falklands conflict in 1982 radically improved her personal popularity and that of the Conservative Government.
		The election of Foot as leader represented a dramatic swing to the left, and served to polarise divisions in an already divided party.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/background/pastelec/ge83.shtml (911 words)

	SN 3171 -General Election in Scotland, 1992 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Elections in the United Kingdom (including the history of general elections)
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=United_Kingdom_general_election (1177 words)

	Upper Bann (constituency) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The seat was created in boundary changes in 1983, as part of an expansion of Northern Irelands constituencies from 12 to 17, and was predominantly made up from parts of Armagh (constituency) and South Down (constituency).
		In 1990 the sitting MP, Harold McCusker, died and the subsequent by-election was noticeable as for the first time since the early 1970s two major UK political parties stood in a Northern Ireland parliamentary election, the Conservative Party (UK) and the rump of the Social Democratic Party (UK).
		In the UK general election, 2001 there was a strong rumour that the DUP leader Ian Paisley would contest the seat himself, in the hope of unseating Trimble, but in the event he stayed in his North Antrim (constituency) and the DUP instead nominated David Simpson.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /UK-Parliamentary-constituencies/Upper-Bann-(constituency).html (649 words)

	UK general election, 1979 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The British general election of May 3, 1979 was a pivotal point in 20th century British politics.
		The election was precipitated by a lost vote of confidence for the ruling The Labour Party (UK)Labour government under James CallaghanJim Callaghan.
		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.
	www.infothis.com /find/UK_general_election,_1979 (633 words)

	CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1983
		In a district council by-election in Omagh, County Tyrone, a Sinn Féin (SF) candidate won the seat.
		The by-election occurred because Seamus Mallon, then Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), was removed from his seat because he had been a member of the Irish senate at the time of the election.
		In Northern Ireland the election was contested across the new 17 constituencies.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/chron/ch83.htm (3241 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)

	Party Politics Vol. 8, Issue 5, p. 607
		David Butler's is still a strong and influential voice in the interpretation of UK elections, but he has many 'competitors' (in the best sense of that term).
		A year after the election was held, we have several books providing instant interpretations -- alongside a second group by political commentators and journalists not reviewed here -- but then interest wanes.
		Of course, major books have emerged from the British Election Survey -- Butler and Stokes' (1969, 1974) pioneering volumes, Särlvik and Crewe's (1983) synthesis of a decade of change, and several from the CREST team (Heath, Jowell and Curtice, 1985, 2001; Heath et al., 1987; Evans and Norris, 1999).
	www.partypolitics.org /volume08/v08i5p607.htm (358 words)

	UK general election, 1987 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The general election of June 11, 1987 was the third victory in a row for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party (UK)Conservatives.
		The Conservative government had survived the industrial disputes with the mine workers (1984-85) and the print unions (1985-86), the 1986 Westland HelicoptersWestland problems had been put aside with the loss of Michael Heseltine and Leon Brittan and the economy was performing well.
		The Conservatives were returned with a 102 seat majority, 42 down on 1983 with a swing of 1% or so towards Labour.
	www.infothis.com /find/UK_general_election,_1987 (332 words)

	ipedia.com: Liberal Democrats (UK) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although opposed by David Owen it was supported by a majority of members of each and the two parties formally merged in 1988, with David Steel and Robert Maclennan (who had become SDP leader in August 1987) as joint leaders.
		Ashdown controversially persued the latter course, follwing Labour's election victory in 1997.
		They have generally performed weaker in elections to the European Parliament: for example in elections on 10 June 2004, the LibDem national share of the vote was 29% (giving them second place, ahead of Labour) in the local elections that day but only 15% in the simultaneous European elections.
	www.ipedia.com /liberal_democrats__uk_.html (2437 words)

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