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| | Conservative Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Conservative modernisers point to Afriyie's election as evidence that the party is changing, though opponents argue that the election of a single black MP doesn't count for much against the perceived right-wing anti-immigrant campaign fought by the Conservatives in 2005. | | | Though the Conservatives were considered to be the dominant governing party in the United Kingdom for much of the 19th and 20th Centuries, since losing the 1997 election to the Labour Party under Tony Blair, they have been in 'opposition' in Parliament. | | | Howard reduced the Labour majority at the 2005 general election, but the day after the poll he announced that he would resign "sooner rather than later", citing his age as the principal reason for his resignation. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
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| | CNN - Labour grabs majority; John Major concedes - 1997 UK Elections |
| | Blair won his seat with 33,526 votes to the Conservative candidate's 8,383; the voter swing from Conservative to Labour in Sedgefield, a solid Labour seat, was 9.6 percent, according to the initial count. | | | Conservative Prime Minister John Major, who held onto his own seat of Huntingdonshire, conceded defeat for his party about 3:30 a.m. | | | Paddy Ashdown, leader of the third party Liberal Democrats, handily held onto his seat in Yeovil with 26,349 votes to the Conservatives 14,946, and Labour's 8,053. |
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http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9705/01/brit.election.9p
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| | Open Directory - Reference: Encyclopedias: Subject Encyclopedias: Spartacus Educational: Members of Parliament |
| | Campaigned for many causes, such as against child labour in the textile industry, argued against the death penalty, for the improvement in working class education and for the establishment of public walks and open spaces in 1835. | | | Became leader of the Labour Party in the House of Lords. | | | A pacifist, he was opposed to Britain's involvement in the World War I. Jennie Lee - Elected to the House of Commons. |
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http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Encyclopedias/Subject_Encyclopedias/Spartacus_Educational/Members_of_Parliament
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| | Labour’s Labor Problem by Gerald A. Dorfman |
| | Finally in 1997—after 18 unbroken years in power—the Conservative Party was swept from office by a Labour electoral landslide led by Tony Blair, who became prime minister; and with Labour’s return to office came union leaders’ hopes that “their” government would restore a significant measure of their influence and participation. | | | The Labour government, headed by Prime Minister James Callaghan who ironically had been a favorite of the union movement, was turned out, largely for its failure to control union militancy. | | | In short, when Tony Blair took office as prime minister he enjoyed the advantage of the union movement’s accepting that “its” new Labour government would not be restoring it to the position of power and influence that it had enjoyed 25 years earlier. |
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| | The Norwegian Electoral survey 2001. The first results - Historical party-switch among voters |
| | Of the Conservative Party's voters, 47 per cent is comprised of those who supported the party also in 1997, whereas 17 per cent is former Labour voters and 16 per cent former Progress Party voters. | | | Former Labour voters comprised the largest group of new voters (23 per cent), followed by former Centre Party voters (8 per cent) and former Christian Democratic Party voters and Liberal Party voters (both 5 per cent). | | | Another 12 per cent of the 1997 Labour supporters chose to abstain from voting in the election. |
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| | Stephen Pollard |
| | Above all, Britain's future prosperity is at stake, and it is deeply worrying that critical decisions are being made in the context of a poisonous political fight - not on their intrinsic merits for the good of voters. | | | One minister close to the Prime Minister (alleged by the Mail on Sunday yesterday to be James Purnell) told one journalist over lunch that Mr Brown was plotting to oust Mr Blair. | | | The pattern has been the same ever since Mr Blair became leader of Labour Party, a position which Mr Brown has always felt was rightfully his. |
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http://www.stephenpollard.net
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| | Politics Labour plays down poll defeat |
| | The Tory chairman, Liam Fox, explained his party's poor performance - coming a distant third in two seats it came second in at the last general election despite bussing in of almost its entire parliamentary party - as the result of tactical voting. | | | "Clearly, a lot of Labour voters decided to switch to the Liberals, or stay at home, while some of the people who voted for us in 2001 decided to make a tactical vote to give Tony Blair a bloody nose. | | | The Lib Dem leader, Charles Kennedy, however, called Leicester South a "hugely significant victory" which showed that Tony Blair's government is "becoming more and more unpopular". |
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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4972706-110252,00.html
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Labour dominates new peers list |
| | Labour names dominate the 46 new working peers being appointed to the House of Lords on Saturday. | | | Independent peers have also chosen an extra seven people to join the cross benches and Tony Blair has personally nominated former Bank of England governor Sir Edward George and ex-head of the diplomatic service Sir John Kerr. | | | Tony Blair's pollster Philip Gould and controversial Labour donor Paul Drayson feature in the 23 new Labour peers. |
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| | Blair Heads for a Third Landslide with 10-point Lead |
| | Labour has widened its lead over the Conservatives to 10 points and is heading for a third successive landslide general election win on May 5 with a majority of more than 150, an ICM opinion poll for The Telegraph reveals today. | | | That's going to draw the Labour Party as well as the U.K even closer to America, no matter who suceeds Blair. | | | Using the same calculation, three senior shadow cabinet ministers, David Davis, Oliver Letwin and Tim Collins, would lose their seats, all to the Liberal Democrats. |
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| | CNN - Blair faces great expectations -- from both sides - 1997 UK Elections |
| | The Labour campaign has been all about Blair, but the Parliament may be different. | | | They are sure to put to the test Blair's success at keeping Labour in step during the campaign. | | | Now that Blair and his "new" Labour Party are in office, will that mean he will have to deliver all things to all people? |
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http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9705/02/britain.expectations
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| | For example, given Profile 1 sincere approval voting can select Labour (if each voter votes for his most preferred candidate only), Conservative (if only voters in the 20-voter bloc cast two approval votes), or Liberal (if only voters in the 34-voter bloc cast two approval votes or if all voters cast two approval votes). | | | We would think this voter mighty peculiar if he changed his choice to Labour in the event Liberal is added as a third option. | | | Notice that, while all 54 voters prefer to see Labour defeated, they disagree as to how to defeat him, i.e., by voting Conservative or by voting Liberal. |
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http://research.umbc.edu/~nmiller/POLI325/WINNERS.htm
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| | Panchromatica: Labour isn't conservative enough for the Republicans |
| | Labour MPs are to be barred from the floor of the Republican Convention for the first time because the US governing party has ruled they are not conservative enough to attend. | | | The Labour Party said that the Democrats had called for an all-Labour delegation this year because the Republican Party had invited only Tories to their convention. | | | "I find it singularly strange that Labour MPs can be welcomed on the floor of Congress but not at the Republican convention." |
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http://ibanda.blogs.com/panchromatica/2004/08/labour_isnt_con.html
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| | PlanetOut News: Demoted Tory Moves to Labour |
| | Shaun Woodward, Britain's Conservative Party's spokesperson on London affairs until his December 2 demotion for seeking a compromise position on anti-gay legislation, on December 18 announced his resignation from the Tories and defection to the ruling Labour Party. | | | There were calls for him to resign his post and face a special election, but Woodward has already made clear that he will not do that. | | | After Woodward's unceremonious firing-by-pager from his party spokesperson role on December 2, Keen arranged a December 3 meeting with Alistair Campbell, spokesperson for Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair. |
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| | CNN.com - Conservative boost in Norway poll - September 12, 2001 |
| | Labour Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg pledged to try to stay on even though voters slashed support for his Labour Party to 24.4 percent in Monday's vote from 35 percent in 1997. | | | The Conservatives will have 38 seats in the 165-member parliament and can count on informal support from the 26 seats of the far-right anti-immigrant Progress Party. | | | Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg became PM of one of the world's richest nations last year at the age of 41 after he and his Labour Party ousted a three-party moderate coalition led by Christian Democrat Kjell Magne Bondevik in a parliamentary showdown. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/11/norway.poll/index.html
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| | NewsHour Extra: England's Election - June 8, 2001 |
| | Tony Blair was the party's leader and became Prime Minister. | | | The election of Margaret Thatcher as Britain's first female prime minister in 1979 was to be the start of an extraordinary period of electoral success for the Tories. | | | There are three main political parties in the United Kingdom: The Conservative Party, the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats. |
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| | Manchester City Council: Local Election Results May 2003 |
| | Susan Christine Murphy (The Labour and Co-operative Party Candidate) | | | Andrew Rowan Turvey (Known As Andrew) (Liberal Democrat) | | | John Brian Frederick Grant (Commonly Known As John) (Liberal Democrat) |
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http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/types/local/2003.htm
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| | Conservative Party - News Story |
| | Labour's election campaign has suffered a fresh reverse after Tony Blair's claims that a new Conservative government would slash back on front line public services blew up in his face. | | | Tony Blair is rattled and wants to distract attention from the fact that he will put up taxes if re-elected." | | | "Labour are taking us into an election on a falsehood. |
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| | BMJ No 7072 Editorial |
| | If Labour voters die at a younger age than Conservative voters on average then they will be alive to vote at fewer elections per lifetime. | | | Could high mortality among labour voters accentuate conservative majorities? | | | Conservative voters may therefore assume it is sensible for them to support a party that will improve their already (generally) privileged economic situation through apparent tax reductions, while dismantling the components of the welfare state that are most needed by others. |
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| | Scoop: Keith Rankin: From Labour "Landslide" to 2008 |
| | So it is imperative that the left gets its act together by the end of 2004: on organisation, on being attractive to young voters, and by offering a progressive vision backed by just economic policies that are well thought through. | | | Just 32% of registered voters voted for Labour. | | | Labour will predominate in the 2005 election, both because of the disarray within National and because the economy will be looking the best it's looked since 1973. |
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| | Encyclopedia: UK general election, 1945 |
| | This policy alone caused many to evaluate their loyalties, voting instead for labour and thus bring about one of the most dramatic swings of public opinion in the 20th century. | | | With the war drawing to an end by 1945, the national government sought to call an election in a bid to return to a two party system. | | | Held just months after VE Day, it was the first general election to be held since 1935, as general elections had been suspended during World War II. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/UK-general-election%2C-1945
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| | UK general election, 1918 |
| | The UK general election of 1918 held on 14th December 1918 was the first election at which women could vote. | | | Coalition Conservative vote is compared with Conservative vote in previous election. | | | In each other case, the non-coalition vote is compared with the party's previous vote. |
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| | This is bad news, not only for Prime Minister Tony Blair and William Hague, the leaders of the Labour and Conservative Parties in the United Kingdom, but for Gore and Bush, too. | | | Last week's Romsey bi-election in the United Kingdom is bad news for the Conservative and Labour parties, and the Republicans and Democrats, their supporters in the United States. | | | The elder Bush and the Republicans delivered the 1992 election for the Conservatives and Clinton and the Democrats were firm supporters of Labour in 1997. |
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| | UK - Labour Government's New Five Year Plan For Immigration |
| | Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, was dismayed at hearing Labour ministers claiming that migration had led to the "hospitality of the British people" being abused. | | | UK - Labour Government's New Five Year Plan For Immigration | | | Conservative shadow Home Secretary David Davis said the Government had failed to remove 250,000 failed asylum seekers from the UK and limits on economic migrants had been a "shambles". |
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| | SwindonWeb - Swindon General Elections - 1969 - present |
| | Swindon voters followed the national trend and re-elected Labour members in both the town's constituencies. | | | Interestingly, the man who preceeded Lord Stoddart as MP for Swindon was Conservative, Christopher Ward, who lost the general election on the 18th June 1970 to Stoddart after serving only 231 days as the town's Member of Parliament following his by-election victory on 30th October 1969 (the 13th shortest term in history). | | | Overall Swindon followed the national trend by giving a Labour a shock at the polls that no one really expected, although Tony Blair became their party's only three-time winner with an eventual majority of just under 70 seats - down over 100 from the last election. |
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| | BBC NEWS Health More suicides under Conservative rule |
| | They fell under 'the more moderate' John Major and after a slight rise when Tony Blair came to power, have since fallen again. | | | Conversely, the lowest rates occurred when state and federal governments were both Labour. | | | When the Conservatives ruled both state and federal governments, men were 17% more likely to commit suicide than when Labour was in power. |
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| | DeadBrain - Duncan Smith victim of Conservative-Labour bidding war |
| | Gregory T Mullet, President of BASTARDS, told DeadBrain that it would be a real tragedy for his members if Mr Duncan Smith disappeared from the scene. | | | The leader of the alleged Conservative "Party", Iain Duncan Smith, has apparently become the pawn in a fierce bidding war between rival interests concerning his continued position as leader. | | | Mr Ramsbottom said that while it did not want to get into a long bidding war, the NEC was preparing a counter to the counter-offer. |
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| | Labour Or Conservative...? |
| | Personally i agree with the principles behind 'old' labour, but the party known as labour know is pretty right wing in a number of ways......i'll probs still end up voting for them, altho dunno if we can handle anymore of blairs screw ups | | | i no the election has gone but if i was older enuff i wuld of chosen larbour coz conservative is racist and discrimination all they do is cater for the rich people who has lots of money and not the people who are strangling to bring up their children. | | | All loyal members, click here and install the new toolbar |
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| | Conservative Politics found Swiftly |
| | Find conservative republican and more at Lycos Search. | | | to a new Conservative Party" in his first... | | | Find conservative republican at one of the best sites the Internet has to offer! |
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| | National Insurance Contributions and...: 6 Jan 2004: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com) |
| | The fact that that has been to the disadvantage of the self-employed is a disgrace, and it follows on from the shoddy treatment all too often meted out to them by so many Ministers in the Government. | | | I share his concerns, but it is notable that the transfer of responsibility, which meant that one organisation dealt with both tax and national insurance, never happened under the previous Conservative Government. | | | A truly business-friendly Government would have acted sooner to cure the deficiencies under which those businesses have laboured. |
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| | Sheffield City Council - Election Results 2003 |
| | Labour gained six seats from the Liberal Democrats, but the Liberal Democrats gained one seat from the Conservative Party. The voting details are listed below by Ward. | | | The city-wide turnout for the election was 29.53%, a slight decrease compared with the 30.02% turnout in 2002. | | | The local election on May 1, 2003, saw Labour gain overall control of the Council. |
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| | icWales - 'Lib-Dems could pose a threat to a significant number of Labour MPs' |
| | He said, "If the general election results are projected forward to the next Assembly election, we believe we would become the second largest party after Labour, which would not have an overall majority. | | | He told the Western Mail, "Last year the Liberal Democrats made significant breakthroughs in local government in Wales, and this year they become the official Welsh opposition in Westminster, winning Cardiff Central and Ceredigion in addition to their two existing seats. | | | It is now the Liberal Democrats who are masquerading as a progressive alternative to Labour, and we need to expose them. |
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| | The Conservative Party |
| | David Cameron has urged Conservatives to "fast forward to a new Conservative Party" in his first conference speech as leader. | | | The Conservative leader told his Party's Spring Conference in Manchester that the way it selects candidates, the way it governs locally and the causes it champions all need to reflect that pace of change. | | | He declared, "this change in our Party has to get faster. |
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| | BBC News UK Politics Conservative: Labour failing to deliver |
| | They are very anxious indeed about the crushing of small businesses by this government with their endless meddling and red tape. | | | They are desperate to see the delivery from what they have been telling me were in some cases their high hopes from Labour. | | | There is a recognition, following the local and European elections, that returning me as a Conservative to Westminster on Friday morning will send a strong message to this Labour government. |
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| | General Election Results |
| | The only instance when the Speaker was not of the governing party since World War II was in 1992, when Labour MP Betty Boothroyd was Speaker. | | | It is convention that the major parties do not challenge the Speaker in their constituency. | | | Please note that all majority figures include the Speaker because it is Parliamentary convention that the Speaker does not vote except to break a tie, and then always in the favour of the Government. |
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| | Virtual-Lancaster - community resources - County Council Elections 2005 |
| | While the Conservative vote was little changed from the 2001 election, Labour's suffered a hefty 8% drop. | | | She was named Labour's 2004 Campaigning MP of the Year for her (largely unsuccessful) attempts to have the cockling industry regulated following the 2004 cockling tragedy and the devastation of the Morecambe Bay cockle beds due to over-exploitation. | | | She beat Conservative Mark Lennox-Boyd, previously secretary to Margaret Thatcher, who had tried to bring a nuclear waste facility to Heysham. |
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| | Horninglow Branch Labour Party |
| | Ken is the deputy leader of the council's Labour Group | | | Horninglow Labour Party branch produces a regular free newsletter to all houses in Horninglow Ward telling them what's been going on at the Town Hall and how to contact their councillors. |
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| | Essay or Coursework - How similar are the Policies of the Conservative and Labour Parties? |
| | Coursework and Essays: By Level: A2 and A-Level: Politics: United Kingdom: How similar are the Policies of the Conservative and Labour Parties | | | This perhaps shows that the Conservatives are interested in totally changing the N.H.S., this is an area in which the two parties are trying achieve the same things, but by different methods. | | | Essay or Coursework - How similar are the Policies of the Conservative and Labour Parties? |
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| | Harris Interactive Europe News Room |
| | Labour Enjoys a 13-Point Lead in Party Identification, but Tories More Likely to Vote | | | Final Harris Poll Gives Labour a Five-Point Lead | | | Harris Poll Gives Labour a Four-Point Lead among Those Most Likely to Vote |
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| | BBC - London - News - Election - European Parliament candidates |
| | Robert James Macgillivray Neill - The Conservative Party Candidate | | | Robert John Blackman - The Conservative Party Candidate | | | Jennette Sarah Alfreda Arnold - The Labour Party |
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| | UKPOL Magazine - Erewash |
| | 1950-59 A Champion Labour 1959-64 F Jackson Conservative 1964-70 J Park Labour 1970-92 Peter Rost Conservative 1992- Angela Knight Conservative | | | 1970: Electorate 81,665 Turn out 75.5% Rost, PL Conservative 32,185 52.2% Ryman, J Labour 29,461 47.8% maj 2,724 4.4% 1974 (FEB) Electorate 53,336 Turn out 85.1% Rost, PL Conservative 20,016 44.1%. |
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