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| | CNEWS Politics - ADQ wins three byelections |
 | | The votes were also considered important for Charest, who has struggled to make a positive impact among francophone voters since he jumped to provincial politics in 1998. | | | Dumont will also remember that the PQ won 71 seats in the 1976 election after entering the campaign with only six members of the legislature. | | | David Levine, who ran for the PQ in Berthier, announced his resignation from cabinet immediately after his defeat. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports Blair hit by Lib Dem poll surge |
| | Labour will be disturbed that voters have been giving Mr Blair's leadership short shrift for more than 12 months, including the local and European elections. | | | In Birmingham his party took only 17% of the vote. | | | Labour had previously held the Birmingham seat with a 11,618. |
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| | Byelection voters give Blair a kick - Iraq - www.theage.com.au |
| | Byelection voters give Blair a kick - Iraq - www.theage.com.au | | | The Leicester South result is the second significant byelection victory for the Liberal Democrats, who opposed the war, in the past year. | | | Labour strategists said that voters traditionally used byelections to give the government a kicking. |
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| | CNEWS - World: Koizumi's party wins Japan byelections |
| | A top judge in Ontario prefers that controversial social issues (like same-sex marriages) be handled by elected politicians rather than the courts. | | | The voting for three vacancies in the 480-seat lower house of Parliament was considered a preview of a major electoral battle looming in July in the legislature's upper chamber. | | | The outcome helped the LDP regain ground lost to the centrist Democrats in general elections last November, when frustrated voters rewarded the opposition party with impressive gains. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports Special report: byelections |
| | February 13: An extreme right group has broken away from the British National party (BNP) and is fighting a byelection in a bid to win its first council seat. | | | November 22 2001: Tony Blair yesterday sent a message of support to Labour's candidate in today's Ipswich byelection which managed to include the same spelling mistake three times. | | | The Liberal Democrats snatched the safe Labour seat of Brent East in a parliamentary byelection upset which will send shockwaves through Tony Blair's government. |
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| | In the most sweeping of their decisions, the board voted 3 to 1 to annul the results of the byelection, dismiss chief electoral officer Jessica Lajambe, who was paid $1,500 for her work, and recommend that she never be appointed to that position again. | | | After an intensive week of interviewing and debating, the judicial board decided mid-afternoon on Jan. 20 to annul the byelection held at Concordia Nov. 27 to 29. | | | In his dissenting position, board member Youri Courmier stated that he believed the perceived mismanagement was not significant enough to annul the election. |
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| | CBC News:Landry's PQ loses three Quebec byelections |
| | Charest said he was pleased with his party's showing, and repeated his call for a general election. | | | Since Landry became premier in early 2001, the PQ has won two of five byelections but retains a legislative majority with 69 seats. | | | The Liberals follow with 51, ADQ has two, and three seats are vacant. |
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| | British voters turn on Blair in byelections - Iraq - www.theage.com.au |
| | British voters turn on Blair in byelections - Iraq - www.theage.com.au | | | But Mr Blair's backbench opponents, the anti-war lobby, the Opposition parties and sections of the media made it clear that Iraq will continue to dog the Prime Minister as an issue up to the next election, expected next May, or until he leaves office. | | | The byelection results are likely to be known early this morning. |
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| | CTV.ca Quebec Liberals win two of four byelections |
| | The Liberals also took the riding of Laviolette, which has been a PQ stronghold since 1976, with candidate Julie Boulet who lost a seat in the last federal election by only three votes. | | | The byelections weren't considered a life-and-death matter for the PQ, which enjoys a comfortable majority in the legislature. | | | PQ cabinet minister Richard Legendre was declared the winner of a byelection in the riding of Blainville. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports Polls open for two byelections that nobody expects to lose |
| | Mr Blair will want to be woken if the news is good. | | | With Labour defending substantial majorities in the Midlands seats Leicester South and Birmingham Hodge Hill, the main parties are all claiming that they can win both. | | | Two byelections that could seal Tony Blair's fate, or save him, reach their climax tonight in a flurry of leaflets and recriminations over dirty tricks. |
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| | CNEWS Politics - Quebec byelections to test 'Mariomania' |
| | A surprise byelection win in April gave the party only its second seat in the legislature but triggered a surge in support for the ADQ. | | | The party held a commanding lead among francophone voters and was neck-and-neck with the Liberals atop recent polls, far ahead of the Parti Quebecois government. | | | The ADQ's snowballing support hasn't melted away all spring, and the byelections in four distant ridings may hint at the party's chances in the general election expected within a year. |
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| | Municipal byelections / Acclamations in five municipalities (00/04/25) |
| | Byelections for vacant positions are not held within twelve months of a triennial election. | | | The town of Saint-Quentin will have one vacant council position until the next triennial election, May 14, 2001. | | | FREDERICTON (CNB) -- Chief Electoral Officer Barbara J. Landry announced Saturday, April 22 that nominations closed at 2 p.m. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Sri Lanka - Electoral System Sri Lankan Information Resource |
| | On February 20, 1983, however, Parliament passed a constitutional amendment, the fifth, which provides for byelections if the incumbent party fails to nominate a successor within thirty days of the seat becoming vacant. | | | The Constitution stated that by-elections to fill vacancies in Parliament before a general election were not necessary because the political parties themselves could appoint successors. | | | On May 18, 1983, by-elections for eighteen seats were held. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports Labour vote slumps in byelections |
| | Labour's vote slumped dramatically in the latest council byelections, the first voting tests since David Blunkett's resignation as home secretary. | | | Although the party held the only seat it was defending, analysis of four comparable results gives a projected 13.3% Tory lead. | | | Council byelections in December 2000 - less than six months before Tony Blair's 2001 triumph - suggested Labour was 2.3% ahead, after adjustments to allow for differences in relative party performance between local and national polls. |
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| | The Hindu : Other States / Uttar Pradesh News : Four-cornered contest in U.P. byelections |
| | On September 17, the Election Commission had scrapped the byelection to the Akbarpur (reserved) Lok Sabha seat on technical grounds. | | | While on one hand, Opposition leaders met Election Commissioner N Gopalswami during his visit to Lucknow and lodged complaints, on the other, Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav met the Chief Election Commissioner the same day to clarify his party's position. | | | The Hindu : Other States / Uttar Pradesh News : Four-cornered contest in U.P. byelections |
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| | The Hindu : The byelections pointers |
| | There are, indeed, other reasons too for the Congress to rejoice. | | | Madan Lal Khurana, in charge of the BJP's Gujarat unit) had raised the stakes high by declaring that the polls were a referendum on the performance of the Patel Ministry in the State. | | | Keshubhai Patel, cannot escape trouble from within his own party in the coming days. |
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| | Ruling PML-Q bags four seats in Pak byelections |
| | The byelections for one of the two Rawalpindi Parliamentary seats was held after Rashid, who won both seats as independent in the October elections resigned from one. | | | It won two national Assembly seats in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), where it is in power. | | | MMA's main electoral plank in the byelections was the US decision to make it mandatory for Pakistanis living in America to get themselves registered. |
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| | Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Cong, JD (S) are two sides of same coin: Naidu |
| | Bangalore: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader M Venkaiah Naidu claimed on January 24 that Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) and the Congress who are fighting the byelections to Kanakapura Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka would join hands after the polls. | | | If they are voting for JD-S, they will be voting for the Congress," he said, claiming that the two parties would definitely join hands after the byelections. | | | Naidu, who is the Union Rural Development Minister, told reporters "JD-S and the Congress have said 'yes' before and will definitely say 'yes' again after the polls". |
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| | CBC News:Liberals lose two 'safe' ridings in byelections |
| | The opposition called for voters to use the byelections to pass judgment on the Liberals over allegations of corruption. | | | CBC's Nancy Wilson talks with Rex Barnes about his upset win in Newfoundland | | | The Liberals won the other Newfoundland seat, Bonavista-Trinity-Conception, former premier and MP Brian Tobin's riding until his resignation in January. |
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| | Tory vote slips massively in two Ontario byelections |
| | In Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey, picked by Eves as the safest seat in the province for his personal return to the legislature, after he took over from Mike Harris last month, the Tory vote sank nearly 20% over the margin the party recorded in the last provincial election. | | | Clinging by four lonely votes to Mike Harris' old seat | | | Tory vote slips massively in two Ontario byelections |
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| | CNEWS - Canada: Quebecers to vote in byelections |
| | A top judge in Ontario prefers that controversial social issues (like same-sex marriages) be handled by elected politicians rather than the courts. | | | Byelections will also be held in the Quebec City riding of Vanier to replace former Liberal justice minister Marc Bellemare, who resigned, and in two other Montreal ridings. | | | (CP) - Quebecers will vote in four byelections on Sept. 20 to fill vacancies by three Liberals and one Parti Quebecois member who have left politics. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports Lib Dem byelection triumph |
| | Downing Street's nightmare became reality just as the prime minister reorganises his kitchen cabinet in the wake of months of controversy over Iraq and the Hutton inquiry and continuing voter scepticism about the pace of public service reform. | | | What Labour dismissed as the inevitable mid-term blip was the party's first byelection defeat in 15 years. | | | Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, who saw his candidate, local community nurse and Brent councillor Uma Fernandes fall to third place, will face pressure on his own leadership in Blackpool next month. |
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| | CBC Saskatchewan - Byelections serve as example of things to come |
| | This time the Liberals hope it will work against the New Democrats. | | | Byelections serve as example of things to come | | | The Saskatchewan Party already has a strong grip on the rural areas and it snatched Battleford-Cut Knife away from the New Democrats during the last election. |
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| | Byelections will set stage for fall showdown |
| | Day, who faces seven other candidates, says his 14 years in Alberta provincial politics have served as his apprenticeship for the job as Alliance leader and possible prime minister. | | | As Kings-Hants New Democrat Kaye Johnson insisted Sunday, all of this proves that the two byelections are not about local issues. | | | Voter turnout is steady under sunny skies in the federal byelection in Nova Scotia's Kings-Hants riding. |
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| | CPM rigged byelections, says Mamata - Sify.com |
| | Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee charged that the CPI(M) with rigging the byelections to Nabadwip Lok Sabha and Vidyasagar Assembly seats and demanded a CBI inquiry. | | | Speaking at a meeting in front of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), she alleged that the people of the two constituencies were not allowed to exercise their franchise by the CPI(M) cadres, who resorted to scientific rigging. |
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| | babble: NDP disputes results in 2 Saskatchewan ridings |
| | Probably there should be legislative limits on how long a seat can remain vacant. | | | If the elections are decalred controverted, they both revert to being vacant. | | | I think the NDP should push for a law on byelections stating that a byelection must be called within three weeks of a vacancy occurring and that the byelection be set for the same 35 day campaign period as a general election. |
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| | He has surrounded himself with Ministers and MLAs who voted for every wrong-headed and destructive measure taken by the Savage government. | | | The New Democratic Party is ready for these four byelections. | | | And that's just the cost of campaigning and running the election It doesn't includes the millions the Liberals are already spreading around in an attempt to buy a seat or two on November 4th. |
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| | Causes of Byelections since the ‘Reform Act’ |
| | The notes list those which derive from statute law. | | | Most causes of byelections are matters of common law. | | | This analysis does not include vacancies for which no byelections were held because of a dissolution of parliament. |
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| | Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> EC notifies LS byelections along with Guj polls |
| | Along with Gujarat Assembly polls, byelections will be held for three vacant Lok Sabha seats of Mehsana (Gujarat), Godda (Jharkhand) and Nainital (Uttaranchal). | | | Some vacancies in three state Assemblies would also be filled through byelections in Daporiji (Arunachal Pradesh), Khumtai (Assam) and Bansur, Sagwara and Bali (all three in Rajasthan). | | | Is the time ripe to hold Gujarat elections? |
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| | CBC Montreal - Byelections called in three ridings |
| | Bus stop rapist to be sentenced Feb. 2 | | | Opposition leader Jean Charest is criticizing the government for calling byelections for next month, instead of a general election. | | | Opposition says government should call a general election |
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| | Day/ Clark win byelections |
| | Clark announced that two of his MPs are leaving the party to join the Liberals.CP PHOTO/Andrew Vaughan) | | | Joe Clark, the federal Conservative leader, appears subdued as his daughter Catherine looks on after winning the byelection in the riding of Kings-Hants in Wolfville, N.S. on Monday, Sept. 11, 2000. | | | The byelections bring two party leaders into the Commons: Day, the 50-year-old former Alberta treasurer and Clark, the 61-year-old former prime minister. |
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| | CBC Montreal - It's official: Sept. 20 byelections |
| | Bus stop rapist to be sentenced Feb. 2 | | | Voters in three provincial ridings will be going to the polls to fill three vacant seats in the National Assembly, Premier Jean Charest's office said Monday. | | | The seats have been left vacant by the Marc Bellemare, Christos Sirros and Russell Williams. |
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| | The Hindu : Byelections likely in May |
| | The three seats fell vacant following the death of V. Perumal, DMK MLA elected from Saidapet, Abdul Latheef, Indian National League leader, who represented Vaniyambadi, and A. Selvaraj of the Pattali Makkal Katchi from Acharapakkam. | | | Though the byelection in Saidapet and Vaniyambadi was initially scheduled to be held along with the poll in Andipatti on February 21, it was cancelled after the Election Commission Secretary, K.J. Rao, found largescale bogus inclusions in the draft rolls in the two constituencies. | | | The final electoral rolls for these constituencies would be published on April 25, paving the way for the byelections either in the middle or at the end of May, Election department sources said here. |
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| | CBC Manitoba |
| | CBC Television will have a wrap of the election news at 11:30 p.m. | | | People who live in some parts of the Louis Riel School Division will also cast a ballot for school trustee. | | | Richard Kachur describes turnout at the polls today as "incredibly busy." He says in the first two hours of voting, 28,000 people cast ballots – that's 40 per cent more than for the same time period in the 2002 mayoral election. |
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| | CTV.ca Liberals win pair of federal byelections in Que. |
| | CTV News: Bloc defeated in two federal byelections | | | Duceppe has faced internal dissent over his stewardship of the party as public support for Quebec independence has waned. | | | It was a sweet victory for Prime Minister Jean Chretien in his closing months in office -- although one he may have to share with former finance minister Paul Martin. |
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| | Byelections in the 1992-97 Parliament |
| | Bremner opposed the provisions of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill, which was proceeding through Parliament at the time of the byelection. | | | Kellaway had been nominated as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the byelection. | | | Frequently candidates who are to all intents and purposes Independents start a nominal political party of which they are the only candidate. |
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| | The Hindu : Byelections in Bijapur pass off peacefully |
| | Byelections were held for 14 gram panchayat seats spread across the district. | | | Elections were also held for a seat in the city municipal council and a taluk panchayat segment in Muddebihal taluk. | | | Voting was brisk in the elections to Ward No. 18 of the city municipal council. |
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| | CNEWS Politics - Grits, ADQ win Quebec byelections |
| | Landry was hoping the PQ could post some positive results Monday in order to dispel the perception his government has lost its fastball deep into its second mandate. | | | Before Monday, the PQ had won only two of five byelections held since Landry became premier early in 2001. | | | Landry, who was expected to comment on the byelections only on Tuesday, can hold off on calling a provincewide vote until the fall of 2003. |
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| | Tories, NDP win upsets in byelections |
| | Opposition politicians had billed the byelections as a referendum on sleaze and urged voters to reject Liberal candidates to show Prime Minister Jean Chretien they were upset by alleged corruption in the handling of government advertising and sponsorship contracts. | | | Heading into the byelections, the Liberals had 166 seats in the House of Commons. | | | In the east-Winnipeg riding of Saint Boniface, Raymond Simard won for the Liberals, who have held the seat in all but two elections since 1924. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports Lib Dems trounce BNP in council byelections |
| | The majority which Ms Pearson pushed up by more than a third was won in May by her husband Stephen, an inveterate opponent of racism who died of cancer three months later, prompting the byelection. | | | Jennifer Pearson had personal as well as Liberal Democratic reasons for satisfaction at defeating the far right in their Yorkshire toehold of Mixenden, which was gained in a byelection in January. | | | The three major parties were cheered by the double defeat, and by evidence that the protest vote earned by BNP candidates has been wasted. |
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| | Guardian Labour fears low turnout in byelections |
| | The byelections are caused by the deaths of two MPs and the decision of Betty Boothroyd to step down from parliament when she resigned as speaker. | | | Voters are going to the polls in three parliamentary byelections today, in what could prove to be the last big test of the government's popularity before the next general election. | | | But any sharp slumps in Labour support or signs of a Tory revival could delay a widely expected plan for the prime minister, Tony Blair, to go to the country next May. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Byelections are serious |
| | Labour candidate Huw Irranca-Davies is congratulated by Captain Beany after gaining victory in the Ogmore byelection at Maesteg, south Wales. |
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| | CTV.ca Stakes high in Quebec's coming byelections |
| | The ADQ won only four seats and 18 per cent of the popular vote in the general election in April 2003, failing to gain official party status. | | | — Voters in four Quebec ridings go to the polls Monday in the first byelections in the province since Jean Charest's Liberals swept the Parti Quebecois from power nearly 18 months ago. | | | Traditionally, byelections are a perfect opportunity for voters to express their disenchantment with the governing party but Monday's contests are just as crucial for the PQ and the Action democratique du Quebec. |
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| | CBC News:Quebec votes for change, ADQ wins three byelections |
| | CBC News:Quebec votes for change, ADQ wins three byelections | | | Quebec votes for change, ADQ wins three byelections | | | Including Monday's results, it has won only three of twelve contests since Landry became premier in early 2001. |
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| | Mulayam not to join UPA Govt - NDTV.com - News on Mulayam not to join UPA Govt |
| | The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister also ruled out joining the UPA government even if invited. | | | Buoyed by the victory in recent Lok Sabha byelections in Mainpuri and Akbarpur, Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav today said he would continue to work for the formation of the third front. | | | Mulayam not to join UPA Govt - NDTV.com - News on Mulayam not to join UPA Govt |
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| | Winnipeg Sun: NEWS - Byelections cost city $1.2M |
| | Three election races, about 20 candidates and more than 400,000 voters have combined to give Winnipeg taxpayers a $1.2-million bill. | | | City hall will now be forced to dig deep into its wallet to cover the cost of this past June's municipal byelections, which sent a new mayor and two councillors to their Main Street seats. | | | Taxpayers will fork out a total of $1,215,569 for the mid-term vote. |
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| | Premier announces date for byelections |
| | These vacancies were created by the resignations of Paul Dicks and John Efford. | | | Premier Roger Grimes announced today that byelections for the districts of Humber West and Port de Grave will be held on June 19. | | | According to legislation, a byelection must be called within three months of the effective date of a vacancy. |
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| | Chretien sets date for four byelections |
| | Irwin Cotler, a human rights activist, will be the Liberal candidate in the byelection. | | | OTTAWA (CP) -- Four byelections will be held Nov. 15, Prime Minister Jean Chretien said Sunday in a statement. |
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