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| | Women & Canadian Elections |
 | | The first federal election in which women were able to vote and run as candidates was 1921. | | | The 1993 federal election witnessed the emergence of a significant gender gap in support for the new party of the right: women were much less likely than men to vote Reform, a trend that continued in the 1997 federal election. | | | This figure represents a growth since the 2000 elections, both in the absolute numbers of women running for office and in the percentage of candidates who are women. |
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http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/women.html
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| | canadian governmnet information,canadian government |
| | The prime minister nominates Canadians to the Senate according to a formula that distributes theseats among the provinces. | | | Quebecers are usually prominent inthe federal cabinet and, by law, must hold three of the nine positions on the Supreme Court of Canada. | | | The situation may be contrasted with the written constitutional provisions of its Americanneighbour that provide for the separate elections of a president and a legislature. |
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http://www.eaa-smt.org/canadian_governmnet.html
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| | Minority governments in Canada: Information From Answers.com |
| | The tenth federal minority was elected in the 2004 Canadian election. | | | In the 1921 Canadian election the Liberals under William Lyon Mackenzie King fell one seat short of a majority government. | | | In the 1925 Canadian election the Progressives fell to 25 seats but the Liberals won only 101 seats. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/minority-governments-in-canada
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| | Hewitt Bostock biography .ms |
| | Several months later, in 1922, he became Speaker of the Canadian Senate and held the position until his death in 1930. | | | In 1904 he was appointed to the Canadian Senate by Sir Wilfrid Laurier. | | | A decade later he became Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate. |
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http://hewitt-bostock.biography.ms
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| | Conservative Party Of Canada [Definition] |
| | An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. | | | Soon afterward, he was made a parliamentary secretary in Paul Martin 's government, and he became a full cabinet minister after the 2004 federal election. | | | He ran as a Liberal in the election and retained his seat for the Liberals. |
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http://www.wikimirror.com/Conservative_Party_of_Canada
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| | Articles - Canadian federal election, 1917 |
| | The 1917 Canadian federal election was held on December 17, 1917 to elect members of the | | | Under the elections law, Canada should have had an election in 1916. | | | Thus, the 1917 election was the first federal election in which some women were allowed to vote. |
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http://www.mynotebookstore.com/articles/Canadian_federal_election,_1917
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| | The Canada Page |
| | Some, for instance, confine election fraud to the violation of the voters' "rational will" such as "falsification of the vote count by election officials," voter intimidation and "repeating" or casting multiple ballots by one voter. | | | [30] Members of the Canadian Expeditionary force serving everywhere from France to Mesopotamia were permitted to vote in the 1917 election. | | | Preliminary evidence from the 1997 Canadian Federal Election Study suggests that turnout may be declining over the long term. |
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http://www.thecanadapage.org/Machiavelli.htm
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| | Election Reform In Canada |
| | Under the hare quota during the 2000 election the Liberal Party with 40.8 % of the vote would receive one hundred-twenty-five or 41.5% of the seats in the House. | | | In the election they received thirteen seats or 4.3% of the seats in the House while they received 8.5% of the popular vote. | | | The government of a country should reflect the opinions of the voters expressed in the votes cast during an election. |
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http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/ensign2/politicsNpoliticalSc/electionReform/electionreform.html
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| | EnciclopedyList of Canadian electoral districts 1914-1924 - |
| | This is a list of electoral districts or ridings in Canada for the Canadian federal election of 1917 and 1921. | | | The arrangment with only three PEI seats was never used in an election. | | | After public complaints the rule that a province could not have fewer MPs than Senators was introduced giving PEI back a foruth seat. |
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http://www.adago.com/List_of_Canadian_electoral_districts_1914-1924.html
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| | Canada 2004 · Voter Turnout · Canadian Federal Election 2004 |
| | In many general elections, several electoral districts were won by acclamation, hence, no eligible voters nor actual votes were recorded. | | | Furthermore, in some of the more remote districts, votes were cast but no voters' lists had been prepared. | | | Canada 2004 · Voter Turnout · Canadian Federal Election 2004 |
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http://www.nodice.ca/election2004/voterturnout.html
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| | CBC News Indepth: Canadian Government |
| | Result: Having won a slim election victory, Diefenbaker and his ministers campaigned to increase their popularity before calling a general election in 1958. | | | The controversy led to a vote of non-confidence in February 1963, forcing Diefenbaker to call a general election. | | | King campaigned on the constitutional issue of the Governor General refusing to accept his earlier request for dissolution, and won the election. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/cdngovernment/minoritygovernment.html
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| | Canada/US Relations |
| | A Canadian judge refused to grant him immigration status and was overruled from the Canadian cabinet. | | | As a result, the practice of law in Canada involves the use of US decisions, cases, and precedents in a greater degree than it did before 1982 because the United States has always had its Supreme Court superior to legislatures in matters of the US Rights document and the interpretation of the US Constitution. | | | The Supreme Court of Canada existed already, but the Charter of Rights and Freedoms gave the court priority in the interpretation of that document and the right to call legislation passed by the parliaments of Canada invalid if judged offensive to the Charter. |
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http://www.ola.bc.ca/online/cf/module-4/usrel.html
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| | Articles - Canadian federal election, 1896 |
| | In the 1896 election, the Conservative Party was led by Sir Charles Tupper, a Father of Confederation and former Premier of | | | The Canadian federal election of 1896 was held on July 11, | | | * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. |
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http://www.greensky.biz/articles/1896_Canadian_election
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| | Articles - Canadian federal election, 1925 |
| | This plan was complicated by the fact that his party lost the election, and that King himself had lost his seat in the House of Commons. | | | The Canadian federal election of 1925 was held to elect members of the | | | 1921 election, held the balance of the seats. |
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http://www.xclimbing.net/articles/Canadian_federal_election,_1925
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| | Inmagic DB/Text WebPublisher PRO found 536 records |
| | Canadian National Election Study, 1984: 1988 Election follow-up | | | Attitudes Towards Civil Liberties and the Canadian Charter of Rights: Decision Mak | | | Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey, 1999: Person file |
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http://janus.ssc.uwo.ca/idls/select.html
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| | Articles - Canadian federal election, 1963 |
| | The Canadian federal election of 1963 was held to elect members of the | | | * The party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. | | | The 1963 election was the second vote contested by the NDP. |
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http://www.greensky.biz/articles/Canadian_federal_election,_1963
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| | Articles - Canadian federal election, 1957 |
| | The Canadian federal election of 1957 was held June 10, | | | The Liberal defeat caused many high profile Liberals to resign and be replaced by younger members. | | | * - not applicable - the party was not recognized in the previous election |
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http://www.mynotebookstore.com/articles/Canadian_federal_election,_1957
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| | Political Science Resources/Foreign Politics |
| | Highlights of the 1996 Canadian Elections Act, its changes on campaigns and voter registration | | | Includes election laws, results, and documents from both observers and the Central Committee for Elections | | | Electoral laws and election data from Latin American countries |
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http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psfp.html
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| | Articles - Charles Stewart (Canadian politician) |
| | Canadian politician who was Premier of Alberta from 1917 to 1921. | | | When Premier Sifton joined the federal government, Stewart became the new Premier. | | | His Liberals, however, were divided by railway scandals and by the Conscription crisis of 1917, The party lost the 1921 election to the |
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http://www.x-moto.net/articles/Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician)
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| | Articles - Canadian federal election, 1965 |
| | Granby zoo, did not seek election because Canadian election law does not permit | | | Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson was re-elected with a larger number of seats in the | | | This was the first election for the Rhinoceros Party of Canada, a satirical party led by Cornelius the First. |
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http://www.free-biz.org/articles/Canadian_federal_election,_1965
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| | Ray Argyle - Turning Points of Canadian Politics |
| | This percentage rises to 70.9 when the number of electors on the lists is adjusted to account for electors who had moved or died between the enumeration for the 1992 referendum and the election of 1993, for which a separate enumeration was not carried out except in Quebec, as the 1992 electoral lists were reused. | | | Source : Reports of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery (1867-1917); reports of the Chief Electoral Officer (1921-2000); unpublished summary data prepared by Elections Canada; R. Pomfret, The Economic Development of Canada (1987); H.A. Scarrow, Canada Votes (1962); Contact (1985). | | | Only the prohibition referendum of 1898 brought a lower turn-out. |
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| | Women Candidates in Canadian Elections: 1921-2000 |
| | (The late John Wilson noted to me that the Library of Parliament mistakenly recorded 11 women candidates in the 1949 election when there were in fact 15; however, I have not been able to verify this). | | | 1921 - Women as % of 235 MPs Elected: 0.4% |
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http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/women-elected.html
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| | Canadian Census and Election Data, 1908-1968 |
| | DATA SOURCE = Canadian Census and Election data | | | The election data include the total valid vote cast and the percentage of the total vote received by each of the major parties as well as a total for all other parties. | | | STUDY DESCRIPTION: This collection contains seven machine-readable files of Canadian census and election data, each corresponding to a particular electoral period when the number of constituencies was fixed. |
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http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/ssdc/icp00039.html
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| | William Lyon Mackenzie King |
| | [We are hampered] by a set of unprincipled agents of government on one side and by a speculating nobleman on the other ⓠequally, it appears, bent on the same subject ⓠto exclude Canada and Canadians from this too famous trade ⦠The H.B. Company, you see, [we] intend to oppose seriously. |
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http://www.infothis.com/find/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King
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| | Canadian Census and Federal Election Data |
| | The following is a list of Canadian Census and Federal Election Data files (collected by Don Blake) currently available on the central UNIX service. | | | For a full listing of files available from Data Services, check the UBC Library's online catalogue. | | | NOTE: Some of the data files on the central UNIX service are compressed (.gz) because of their large size. |
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http://data.library.ubc.ca/datalib/gen/files_unixg/blake.html
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