His local association had recently unanimously reselected him as their candidate for the forthcoming general election. |
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The NLD won the 1990 general election by a landslide but has since been blocked from coming to power. |
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But with a general election looming on the horizon, the ruling group will not risk division in its ranks. |
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After Deputy Power made his promise, the Government decided to shelve its plans for decentralisation until after the general election. |
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The last general election saw the lowest turnout since universal suffrage was introduced. |
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Congress today returning for a lame-duck session following the stunning Republican gains in the general election. |
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She claimed the Tories could win all five Labour parliamentary seats in Merton and Wandsworth at the next general election. |
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A Wright victory will lead Labour to conclude that Blair is safe to lead the party into the general election. |
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At the last general election the Labour vote held up best in the party's marginal seats. |
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The minister's mission is to hold a steady course until the next general election. |
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The government will reap an economic windfall in time for the next general election, economists have predicted. |
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A coded way of saying that it is an expensive problem on which he will not make many firm promises a year ahead of a general election. |
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He was the youngest parliamentary candidate in the general election bar one. |
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The Liberal Democrats are appealing to liberal Americans to help bankroll their general election campaign. |
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In North Carolina's 2002 general election, six touch-screen machines malfunctioned and deleted 436 electronic ballots. |
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We can only hope TV bosses would veto a general election campaign fronted by Ant and Dec on the grounds of taste. |
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At the last general election in 2001 he had a majority of 4,275 votes over the Conservative candidate. |
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Talk abounds about a rainbow coalition after the next general election here. |
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The general election is just round the corner, and the Labour party is still wittering on about ID cards. |
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And all this, mark you, before a date for the general election has even been set. |
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After all, he topped the poll and exceeded the quota by 2,440 votes in the last general election. |
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It is possible that sectionalism as expressed in a general election is in decline in 1990's America. |
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It also marked a year to the day since he clinched an unprecedented third term for Labour at the general election. |
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Remember, the turnout at the general election two years ago was just 59 percent. |
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This essay starts from the observation that the 1993 general election marked a major watershed in Canadian party politics. |
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In the last general election no one, not even the most astute of pundits, foresaw his demise. |
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That's the basis on which we shall frame our policy for the next general election. |
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This year's general election saw the media do several things which queered the pitch of the election debate. |
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A leading York Liberal Democrat is hoping to make it third time lucky and become the city's MP at the next general election. |
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They privately admit he could conceivably bring in a running mate if a general election were called. |
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The Electoral Reform Society has produced a damning analysis of the anti-democratic nature of the 2005 general election. |
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The final result of the general election was declared yesterday as Labour clung on to the marginal seat of Harlow by just 97 votes. |
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Highlights include our lead story on how tactical voting using the internet could prove crucial in the upcoming general election. |
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April's general election transformed the political landscape in Northern Ireland. |
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At the general election it held only Chelmsford, where Labour did not run a candidate. |
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One friend puts a lot of his reinvigoration down to simply knowing that he will never have to fight another general election again. |
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Tories had already suffered losses in the Irish general election of 1713, at a time when the party was still in the ascendant in England. |
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He accused them of rewriting history after what he called a failed three-card trick in the general election in May. |
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The Conservatives have won a majority of seats and votes in a Scottish general election. |
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Ciresi lost the primary, but Grams lost the general election and failed to regain his Senate seat. |
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Bachmann is so doctrinaire she seems unlikely to be a serious contender in the general election. |
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The axeman turned out to be none other than the 21-year-old PD candidate from Galway who polled 1,377 votes in the constituency in last month's general election. |
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You know, this is really pitching right into the hot days of the general election campaign and the reverberations are going to go on through the fall. |
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How much people will pay in taxes and how much they pay for their schools and hospitals are not significant issues four years shy of a general election, say his supporters. |
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The share-out of the cash would almost certainly be based on the performance of parties at the previous general election, with a threshold before you got anything. |
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Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer and the unofficial start of the general election. |
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Nine incumbents lost in the general election, while three lost in their primaries. |
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This contest is already being used as a proxy for the November general election, with tea-leaf reading being in ample supply. |
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Last week Lawlor failed to get elected as a councillor in a Clondalkin ward of the new Dublin mid-west constituency where he hopes to stand at the next general election. |
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The first few weeks of primaries, when he visited Bob Jones University and defined himself as an arch-conservative, harmed his general election standing. |
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Bush, by contrast, ignored those subjects almost completely, seeking to safeguard his reputation among general election moderates. |
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Tkachuk was elected reeve in the general election last fall. |
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Nearly two years out, the battle lines of the 2016 general election are slowly starting to taking shape. |
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We must arrange to vote by absentee ballot in the general election, so that we can go to the swing states and work to get out the vote on election day. |
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Imagine if this were the case in the run-up to the next general election! |
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He says he had decided before the May election that if the electorate returned Fine Gael to the opposition benches, it would be his last general election. |
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The man has an uncanny grasp of the public mood and once again he seized it, reminding us all how right we were to re-elect him as Prime Minister at the last general election. |
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The party faces further losses at the polls tomorrow when the counts begin for the local government elections, which were held on the same day as the general election. |
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Come November, MacArthur will challenge Democrat Aimee Belgard, a Burlington County Freeholder in the general election. |
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They have been catering to these reckless elements in the Tea Party and hurting themselves in a general election. |
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The solution to the puzzle may be to admit that the GOP has forfeited 2012 before the general election even starts. |
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The register of mesne conveyances in Berkeley County is elected for a term of four years, and until his successor is elected in the general election and qualifies. |
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Not every Palin-powered primary candidate won, and her backing may be a mixed blessing in a general election. |
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Strangely for the staunchly Democratic city, there may be a competitive general election in November. |
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On Sunday, Bangladesh held the 10th general election since it became an independent state. |
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He said the UDM's ostensible affinity to traditional leadership failed to accrue any benefits to the party this time, as it did in the 1999 general election. |
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He resigned his Westminster seat at the last general election. |
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The lieutenant governor is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors of the state of Utah at the next general election in the manner provided by law. |
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This would be an obvious problem in a general election, but I think even in a primary. |
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Jeremy Wright chose to stand for Kenilworth and Southam in the 2010 general election and was successful. |
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Prior to the United Kingdom's May 2010 general election, all three major political parties pledged not to approve a second runway. |
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Clement Attlee and the Labour Party defeated Winston Churchill's Conservative Party in the 1945 general election. |
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The BNP boycotted the general election in 2014 due to Sheikh Hasina's cancellation of the caretaker government system. |
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Before the 2010 boundary changes Cornwall had five constituencies all of which were won by Liberal Democrats in the 2005 general election. |
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At the 2015 general election all six Cornish seats were won by Conservative candidates. |
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It has supported the UK Labour Party in the past, including at the general election in 1992 when Neil Kinnock was Labour leader. |
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He returned finally to London to cover the 1945 general election at the beginning of July. |
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After the general election of February 1701 until the parliamentary dissolution in 1705 he held the office of Speaker. |
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In the general election of 1747, the Prince of Wales again campaigned actively for the opposition but Pelham's party won easily. |
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Following the 2010 general election, ministerial responsibility for the Olympics returned to the Secretary of State. |
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After the 2015 general election, John Whittingdale was appointed as Secretary of State, tasked with initiating the BBC Charter review process. |
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The most recent general election to the Parliament was held on 5 May 2016, with the Scottish National Party winning a plurality. |
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It passed by one vote on 28 March 1979, forcing the May 1979 general election, which was won by the Conservatives led by Margaret Thatcher. |
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In the 2015 UK general election, Belfast elected one MP from each constituency to the House of Commons at Westminster, London. |
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The Government usually resigns immediately after defeat in a general election, though this is not strictly required. |
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Walpole's political career began in January 1701 when he won a seat in the general election at Castle Rising. |
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In the 1874 general election Gladstone was defeated by the Conservatives under Disraeli during a sharp economic recession. |
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The death of King George IV on 26 June 1830 dissolved Parliament by law, and a general election was held. |
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In the 1847 general election, Disraeli stood, successfully, for the Buckinghamshire constituency. |
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In that year's general election, Lionel de Rothschild had been returned for the City of London. |
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Derby dissolved Parliament, and the ensuing general election resulted in modest Tory gains, but not enough to control the Commons. |
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Disraeli's term as Prime Minister, which began in February 1868, would therefore be short unless the Conservatives won the general election. |
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Without a general election, a Conservative government would be another minority, dependent for survival on the division of its opponents. |
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In January 1874, Gladstone called a general election, convinced that if he waited longer, he would do worse at the polls. |
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Following the 1895 general election, the Conservatives were in power for ten years. |
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At the 1945 general election, to the surprise of many observers, Winston Churchill was defeated by the Labour Party headed by Clement Attlee. |
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The Labour Party narrowly defeated the Conservative Party at the February 1950 general election. |
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Labour formed a minority government and went on to win a narrow majority in the October 1974 general election. |
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In the 1979 general election, the Conservatives attracted voters from the National Front, whose support almost collapsed. |
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In its manifesto for the 1997 general election, the Labour party pledged to incorporate the European Convention into domestic law. |
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The previous Parliament had been dissolved on 12 April 2010 in advance of the general election on 6 May. |
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The boundaries of one constituency had been established since the 1918 general election, the other two since the 1983 general election. |
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All of the council area's constituencies were altered for the 1997 general election. |
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The Labour Party included in its 1997 general election Manifesto a commitment to remove the hereditary peerage from the House of Lords. |
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As an interim measure, appointment of new peers will reflect shares of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election. |
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In the October 1974 general election, the Labour Party gained 18 seats, giving Wilson a majority of three. |
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In the 2015 general election all Cornish seats were won by the Conservatives. |
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In a general election fought on this issue, the Liberals were weakened but still had a comfortable majority. |
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On 18 April 2017, May announced that she would call a snap general election for 8 June. |
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Following the 2005 general election she was also made Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. |
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May had previously indicated on multiple occasions she had no plans for an early general election. |
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In the 2005 United Kingdom general election, the House of Commons had 646 constituencies covering the whole of the United Kingdom. |
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The Liberals made reducing the power of the Lords an important issue of the January 1910 general election. |
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With their success in the 1923 general election, Labour were able to form their first minority government, led by Ramsay MacDonald. |
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Labour lost the 1987 general election by a wide margin, although it did manage to cut the Conservative majority significantly. |
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This general election defeat was shortly followed by Kinnock's resignation after nearly a decade as leader. |
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Galloway was elected as a Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in the 2005 general election. |
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When the Liberals lost the 1895 general election, a political crisis shook the Liberal Party. |
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The 1924 general election signed the end of the Liberal Party as government force. |
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In the 1992 general election the party added a fourth MP, Cynog Dafis, when he gained Ceredigion and Pembroke North from the Liberal Democrats. |
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They work as a single parliamentary group within Westminster, and were involved in joint campaigning during the 2005 general election campaign. |
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At the 2015 general election, the party won two seats in the House of Commons, Fermanagh and South Tyrone and South Antrim. |
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In the 1918 general election, Carson switched constituencies from his former seat of Dublin University to Belfast Duncairn. |
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The party had five TDs elected in the 2002 Republic general election, an increase of four from the previous election. |
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At the general election in 2007 the party had expectations of substantial gains, with poll predictions that they would gain five to ten seats. |
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During the campaign, the four main party leaders engaged in a series of televised debates, as they had in every previous general election. |
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Jackie Baillie compared the result to Labour's performance in the 1983 UK general election. |
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After the general election of 2015, the nation returned to one party government after the Tories won an outright majority. |
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However, the party lost the 1945 general election to the resurgent Labour Party. |
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The Conservatives, for example, won a majority in the 1859 general election in Ireland. |
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Houghton and Sunderland South was the first constituency to declare in the 2015 general election. |
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Each Parliament comes to an end, after a number of sessions, in anticipation of a general election. |
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Labour displaced the Liberal Party for second place and achieved major success with the 1922 general election. |
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This would clash with the proposed date of the next United Kingdom general election. |
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A referendum was then held on the same day as the 1937 general election, when a relatively narrow majority approved it. |
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The Sheriff is Jonathan Tyler, who stood for the Green Party for York in the last general election. |
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The Long Parliament dissolved itself and for the first time in almost 20 years, there was a general election. |
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Finally, on 24 August 1688, James ordered writs to be issued for a general election. |
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By this second mechanism, the government of the United Kingdom can change without an intervening general election. |
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The resulting general election returned a hung parliament, but Asquith remained prime minister with the support of the smaller parties. |
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Over a decade later he was elected unopposed for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis at the November 1701 general election. |
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Finally, on 24 August 1688, James ordered the issue of writs for a general election. |
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That year, John Wilkes returned to England, stood as a candidate in the general election, and came top of the poll in the Middlesex constituency. |
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During this conference, the United Kingdom held its general election, and Clement Attlee replaced Churchill as Prime Minister. |
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He won the seat at the 1906 general election with a majority of 1,214 and represented the seat for two years. |
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He stood for the Liberals again in the 1923 general election, losing in Leicester. |
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Any plans that Churchill may have had to create a Constitutionalist Party were shelved with the calling of another general election. |
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After leaving the premiership, Churchill spent less time in parliament until he stood down at the 1964 general election. |
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By the time of the 1959 general election Churchill seldom attended the House of Commons. |
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This was only the second general election since World War II to return a hung parliament, the first being the February 1974 election. |
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The Democratic Unionist Party had 8 MPs elected at the 2015 general election. |
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Plaid Cymru has enjoyed parliamentary representation continuously since 1974 and had 3 MPs elected at the 2015 general election. |
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The United Kingdom general election of 7 May 2015 elected 650 members to the British House of Commons. |
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This was the first UK general election to use individual rather than household voter registration. |
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One result of the 2015 general election was that a different political party won the popular vote in each of the countries of the United Kingdom. |
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Labour also lost a further nine seats to the Conservatives to record their lowest share of the seats since the 1987 general election. |
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It is currently the governing party, having won a majority of seats in the House of Commons at the 2015 general election. |
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With a narrow win in the 1951 general election, despite losing the popular vote, Churchill was back. |
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However a general election was held in February 1974 in a bid to win public support during a national emergency caused by the miners' strike. |
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In the year after the 2010 general election, half the Tories' funding came from the financial sector. |
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The 2010 general election led to Cameron becoming Prime Minister as the head of a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats. |
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Instead, Cameron was given the responsibility for briefing Major for his press conferences during the 1992 general election. |
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Having been approved for the Candidates' list, Cameron began looking for a seat to contest for the 1997 general election. |
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Having won 232 seats in the 2015 general election, the party is the Official Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. |
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In the 1895 general election, the Independent Labour Party put up 28 candidates but won only 44,325 votes. |
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Arthur Henderson, elected in 1931 to succeed MacDonald, lost his seat in the 1931 general election. |
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Labour went on to win the 1950 general election, but with a much reduced majority of five seats. |
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Labour went on to lose the 1970 general election to the Conservatives under Edward Heath. |
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After losing the 1970 general election, Labour returned to opposition, but retained Harold Wilson as Leader. |
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Callaghan had been widely expected to call a general election in the autumn of 1978 when most opinion polls showed Labour to have a narrow lead. |
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In the 1979 general election Labour was heavily defeated by the Conservatives now led by Margaret Thatcher. |
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He led his party into several elections, including the 2014 European Parliament election and the 2015 general election. |
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Gordon Brown visited Doncaster North during the general election campaign to support his former adviser. |
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He was additionally given the task of drafting Labour's manifesto for the 2010 general election. |
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On 30 March 2015, the Parliament of the United Kingdom dissolved and a general election was called for 7 May. |
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Scottish Westminster constituencies were first used in the 1708 general election. |
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The results of the First Periodical Review became effective for the 1955 general election. |
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The results of the Third Periodical Review became effective for the 1983 general election. |
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The results of the Fifth Periodical Review became effective in Scotland for the 2005 general election. |
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This resulted in significant breakthroughs at the 2013 local elections, 2014 European elections, and 2015 general election. |
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Shortly before the 1970 general election, she was promoted to Shadow Transport spokesman and later to Education. |
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The party fielded more candidates than it had ever done before in the 1992 general election but was widely deemed to have performed poorly. |
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In the United Kingdom general election, 2015, Labour held Newport West with a reduced majority of 3,510 votes over the Conservative Party. |
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At the 1992 general election, local Greens entered an electoral alliance with Plaid Cymru in the constituency of Ceredigion and Pembroke North. |
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Following the Labour Party's victory in the 1997 general election, the government created regional development agencies. |
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The governance of England featured in the 2015 general election manifestos of the three major political parties. |
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In the 2015 general election the South West contained 55 seats in the House of Commons. |
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Dissolution ends a parliamentary term, and is followed by a general election for all seats in the House of Commons. |
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They won the 1970 general election, and set to work defining their own scheme. |
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Peel, as a Conservative, had opposed income tax in the 1841 general election, but a growing budget deficit required a new source of funds. |
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A leaked memo from Downing Street reports that the Prime Minister is planning to call a general election next week. |
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Wilson formed a minority government in March 1974 after the general election on 28 February ended in a hung parliament. |
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This triggered the May 1979 general election which resulted in Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party forming a new government. |
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The handing over of monetary policy to the Bank had been a key plank of the Liberal Democrats' economic policy since the 1992 general election. |
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At the 2005 general election Jeremy Wright regained the seat for the Conservatives. |
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In the 2010 general election, the existing Rugby and Kenilworth constituency was abolished and split in two. |
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Salmond was once again elected SNP leader in 2004 and the following year held his Banff and Buchan seat in the 2005 general election. |
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His first test as leader was the general election in 1992, with the SNP having high hopes of making an electoral breakthrough. |
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The SNP increased its number of MPs from four to six in the 1997 general election, which saw a landslide victory for the Labour Party. |
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If an incumbent First Minister is defeated in a general election, they do not immediately vacate office. |
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She was selected as the DUP's candidate for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the 2005 UK general election. |
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The elections were carried out after each general election, with 12 members elected for two parliaments each time. |
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The 2016 general election was called before the reforms could be brought to the Senate for a final vote. |
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He was replaced in 1962 by his brother, Albert, who was defeated by Siaka Stevens in the 1967 general election. |
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The Conservative government of John Major lost the 1997 general election, replaced by Labour. |
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The Labour Party won the 2005 general election and a third consecutive term. |
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The proposal was criticised by the UK parliament opposition parties for not proposing to implement any changes before the next general election. |
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In the 2017 general election, Moore expressed support for the Labour Party, though he does not vote as a matter of political principle. |
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Nationally, the 1906 general election produced a huge Liberal majority and an intake of 29 Labour members. |
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At the primary election, the two candidates with the top votes will advance to the general election regardless of party affiliation. |
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In the subsequent 1970 general election, the party gained its first seat in a UK Parliamentary election in the Western Isles. |
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The referendum was a Labour manifesto commitment, held four months after their landslide victory in the 1997 UK general election. |
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Dumfries got its nickname 'Queen of the South' from David Dunbar, a local poet, who in 1857 stood in the general election. |
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Gladstone unexpectedly dissolved Parliament in January 1874 and called a general election. |
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The general election of 1892 resulted in a minority Liberal government with Gladstone as Prime Minister. |
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The party did not fare well in its first major test of national support, the 1895 general election. |
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At the 1945 general election it retained three MPs, all in Glasgow, although only one of them had a Labour opponent. |
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Kinnock had vowed to abolish the poll tax if he won the next general election. |
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Prior to this, Charles Kennedy, a Liberal Democrat, had represented the area since the 1983 general election. |
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This marked the party's best electoral performance in Scotland since the 1992 UK general election. |
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Labour's dominance of Scotland's Westminster seats continued in the 2001 general election, with a small loss of votes but no losses of seats. |
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It was the first time since 1959 that the party hadn't won the most seats in Scotland at a general election. |
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In 2017 the party generated some controversy by standing only 3 candidates at the general election. |
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The SNP, which won 56 of the 59 Scottish seats at the previous general election in 2015, lost 21 seats. |
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The general election came soon after the Northern Ireland Assembly election on 2 March. |
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The manifesto was noted for containing similar policies to those found in Labour's 2015 general election manifesto. |
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Smith was appointed Shadow Chancellor by Neil Kinnock in July 1987 after the Labour Party's general election defeat. |
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In the 2005 general election, Mundell was elected as MP for the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale constituency. |
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Prior to the 2010 general election, Mundell served as the Conservative Shadow Scottish Secretary. |
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In this post, Smith was the youngest member of the cabinet, and served there until the 1979 general election. |
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Following the Conservative victory in the May 2015 UK general election, a referendum on UK membership of the EU was organised. |
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At the 1964 general election Labour came to power, and the scheme was not pursued. |
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For a time Macpherson desired a seat in Parliament and he finally received it in the 1780 general election. |
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The Conservatives returned the three MP's elected in the 2005 general election as well as adding 5 more. |
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The Liberal manifesto at the 1906 general election included a commitment to reduce military expenditure. |
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Even with the money the results at the 1929 general election were disappointing. |
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This election was also the Conservatives' worst defeat until the 1997 general election, 91 years later. |
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The constituency was abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney constituency. |
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He was unsuccessful in the 1983 general election, and did not contest any further elections. |
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The Labour Party proposed the creation of a Welsh Office run by a Secretary of State for Wales in their manifesto for the 1959 general election. |
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It was expected that the referendum date would not be set until after the general election. |
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At the 2015 general election, the party saw its best election for thirty years. |
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In the 1997 general election, she contested the constituency of Ogmore, coming third. |
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Wood was one of seven party leaders who took part in a televised debate ahead of the 2015 general election. |
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He defeated Douglas in the general election, and this set the stage for the American Civil War. |
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The Mayor of Chicago is the chief executive, elected by general election for a term of four years, with no term limits. |
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He stood, unsuccessfully, as Conservative Party candidate for the Chippenham constituency in the 2010 general election. |
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Abbott became the first black woman Member of Parliament when she was elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election. |
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The timing for polling day in a general election is decided on by the Taoiseach. |
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However, the movement lost all its seats following the 1948 general election and the 1951 regional election. |
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The imperial policies of the Conservatives eventually proved unpopular and in the general election of 1906 the Liberals won a huge landslide. |
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The general election in January that year returned a hung parliament with the balance of power held by Labour and Irish Nationalist members. |
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Following the 1886 general election, a Conservative administration headed by Lord Salisbury was formed. |
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Then, following a general election in October, the incoming Labour government put the project on hold to reduce expenditure. |
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At the 2017 general election, the Conservative Party was dominant, taking all eight seats. |
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The government had hoped that the reports would then be approved by Parliament and in place for the May 2015 general election. |
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Following the incident, Turner announced that he would not contest his seat at the 2017 general election. |
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The local council elections were held on 5 May 2005, the same date as the general election of that year. |
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The local council elections were held on 7 June 2001, the same date as the general election. |
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A parliamentary general election must be called no later than three years after the previous election. |
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In May 1962, Sierra Leone held its first general election as an Independent nation. |
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Newfoundland rejected confederation with Canada in the 1869 general election. |
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The Mayor of Sucre is the head of the city government, elected for a term of five years by general election. |
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The general election was again won by the Labour Party, led this time by Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam. |
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A general election took place on 7 August 1967, and the Labour Party and its two allies obtained the majority of seats. |
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But it ceased to remain as a registered party when it failed to obtain the required number of votes in the 2008 general election. |
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In the 2006 general election, voters restricted the use of eminent domain and extended the state's discount prescription drug coverage. |
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The Prime Minister is elected from the results of a general election which takes place every five years. |
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Two thirds of the Senate is to be elected at the same time as the general election. |
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At the 2005 general election, there were 646 constituencies, thus 646 MPs were elected to Parliament. |
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The timing for this is not automatic and it can be months after the vacancy arose, or even abandoned if there is a general election due soon. |
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In years with a general election it is usual practice to hold both general and local elections on the same day. |
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After the UK 2010 general election, the new coalition government agreed to hold a referendum on voting reform. |
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The party rapidly declined in popularity and was ruined by the 1918 general election. |
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In June 1886, with the Liberal party split on the question of Irish Home Rule, Gladstone called a general election. |
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None of these bills were important enough to dissolve parliament and seek a new mandate at a general election. |
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The January 1910 general election was dominated by talk of removing the Lords' veto. |
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However, in practice, this gave the Lords a right to demand that such public support be present and to decide the timing of a general election. |
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These made special exemptions to the requirement to hold a general election every five years. |
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With Skelton's support Dunglass secured the Unionist candidacy at Coatbridge for the 1929 general election. |
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Labour left the wartime coalition in May 1945 and Churchill formed a caretaker Conservative government, pending a general election in July. |
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At the July 1945 general election Dunglass lost his Parliamentary seat in the landslide Labour victory. |
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In 1950, Clement Attlee, the Labour Prime Minister, called a general election. |
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Parliament was dissolved on 25 September and after three weeks of campaigning the general election took place on 15 October. |
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At the February 1974 general election the Heath government was narrowly defeated. |
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A year later Labour won the general election, with an overall majority of only four seats. |
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Macmillan led the Conservatives to victory in the 1959 general election, increasing his party's majority from 67 to 107 seats. |
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With a general election due before the end of the following year, Gaitskell's death threw the future of British politics into fresh doubt. |
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However, it may have had the effect of keeping the Whig party, which had won the 1715 general election, in power for a longer time. |
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At any time the Sovereign could dissolve parliament and call a general election. |
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The overall intent was to help the Conservative Party, yet it resulted in their loss of the 1868 general election. |
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Despite this prediction, in 1868 the Conservatives lost the first general election in which the newly enfranchised electors voted. |
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He is the most recent British Labour Party leader to have won a general election. |
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With a general election due, Blair had not been selected as a candidate anywhere. |
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The selection for Sedgefield did not begin until after the 1983 general election was called. |
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Labour's overall majority at the 2005 general election was reduced to from 167 to 66 seats. |
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He was Leader of the Opposition for a short period in 1931, but was ineligible to continue when he lost his seat in the 1931 general election. |
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The Whigs were defeated in the 1841 general election, and Sir Robert Peel formed a Conservative government. |
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Bolded entries indicate that party's candidate also won the general election. |
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John Woodcock has been the MP for the constituency since the 2010 general election. |
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