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 Elections in Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While both Irish and UK citizens resident in the state may vote in elections to Dáil Éireann (the lower house of parliament), only Irish citizens, who must be at least eighteen years of age, may vote in the election of the President.
Irish general election, 1922 leading to the Irish Free State
The Republic of Ireland elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_general_elections   (515 words)

  
 Charles Haughey - Free Encyclopedia
However, in the Irish General Election, 1957 he was elected to D?l ?reann.
In the Irish General Election, 1987 Haughey became Taoiseach in a minority Fianna F?l government.
After the landslide victory in the Irish General Election, 1977 Haughey was appointed Minister for Health.
http://www.wacklepedia.com/c/ch/charles_haughey.html   (942 words)

  
 Irish general election, 1932 - Wiki Ireland
The 1932 General Election was one of the most important general elections held in Ireland in the 20th Century.
The general election took place in 30 parliamentary constituencies throught the Republic of Ireland for 153 seats in the lower house of parliament, Dáil Éireann.
After a brief and uneventful meeting in the Dáil chamber, Eamon de Valera was elected President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
http://www.wiki.ie/wiki/Irish_general_election,_1932   (644 words)

  
 Bertie Ahern - Encyclopedia of Political Information
In 1981 and 1982 Ireland was faced with three general elections Ahern increased his personal vote on all three elections, on one occassion he even out-polled his running mate George Colley, a man who hoped to be Taoiseach less than three years earlier.
In the Irish General Election, 1969 Ahern helped in the election campaign in his constituency again.
Bertie Ahern was born on September 12, 1951 in Dublin into a traditional Republican family.
http://www.politicalinformation.net/encyclopedia/Bertie_Ahern.htm   (1416 words)

  
 No. 03-1164: Veneman v. Livestock Mktg. Ass'n - Petition
The generic advertising of beef under that program serves public purposes identified by Congress, is confined to a message specified by Congress, and is disseminated by a governmental entity that was created by Congress and is subject to the supervision of the Secretary.
The opinion of the court of appeals (App., infra, 1a-30a) is reported at 335 F.3d 711.
In also holding that the Beef Act cannot be sustained under the intermediate scrutiny generally applied to commercial speech regulations, the Eighth Circuit has rendered a decision that cannot be reconciled with the Third Circuit's decision in United States v.
http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/2003/2pet/7pet/2003-1164.pet.aa.html   (17087 words)

  
 Irish general election, 1973: Encyclopedia topic
The of the new Dáil Éireann (Dáil Éireann: The lower house of the parliament of the Irish Free State) assembled on March 14, 2002.
November 27, 1973: Following the election of Erskine Childers (Erskine Childers: erskine hamilton childers (11 november 1905 - 17 november 1974), the son...
The election for the 20th Dáil (20th Dáil: more facts about this subject) was elected on February 28, 1973.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/irish_general_election_1973   (581 words)

  
 Irish general election, 1977 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following the election defeat the leaders of Fine Gael and the Labour Party, Liam Cosgrave and Brendan Corish resigned, the first occasion in which a defeated Taoiseach or Tánaiste had done so.
Categories: Elections in the Republic of Ireland
In contrast to Fianna Fáil, the government parties of Fine Gael and Labour fought the general election on their record in government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_general_election,_1977   (646 words)

  
 Andrew Jackson
This tactic proved successful and Jackson defeated Adams in the 1828 election and four years later defeated Clay in the election of 1832.
Therefore the election had to be decided by the House of Representatives.
Jacksonians often referred to the 1824 election as the "Stolen Election" because while Jackson swept the popular vote hands down, he did not have enough electoral votes to automatically win the presidency.
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/bio/public/jackson.htm   (2046 words)

  
 The Irish General Election, to be held on Friday, May 17th
Fianna Fáil was founded in 1926 by Eamon de Valera (he was born in the United States; his mother was Irish and his father Spanish).
Following a general election in June, 1989, Fianna Fáil entered coalition with the Progressive Democrats.
Reynolds led to the collapse of the government in late 1994 in a controversy over the appointment of a judge.
http://www.eire.dk/library/general_election_2002.htm   (2877 words)

  
 Elections législatives en Irlande
June 2001 elections in the UK, 18 to the local Assembly of Northern Ireland where they won 20% of the vote and where two ministers of this movement have a seat in the government of Belfast.
This is equal to an advance of 4.5% in comparison with the General Election in 1997 and at this stage of the count Sinn Fein has won 5 seats in Dublin.
The real surprise of these elections was the advent of Sinn Fein, Ireland's Catholic Republican party, political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) that succeeded in making a magnificent breakthrough with 7% of the vote.
http://www.robert-schuman.org/anglais/oee/irlande/resultats   (1582 words)

  
 Wikinfo Fine Gael
In 1987 the party was defeated in the general election.
Noonan resigned on the night of the election result, and was replaced by Enda Kenny, who had been a Minister under Bruton.
W.T. Cosgrave, TD (former President of the Executive Council (prime minister) from 1922-1932) served as parliamentary leader between 1933 and 1934.
http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=Fine_Gael   (1311 words)

  
 The Irish General Election of 1918
European Parliament election of 1994 (in fact since a number of constituencies were not contested in 1918, 1994 is a rather better barometer of the opinion of the island as a whole), and the last time the island voted on the same day for anything at all was in
The December 1918 election for the House of Commons in Westminster is regarded by some as the defining act of Irish self-determination, as the last occasion when the whole of Ireland voted on the same day.
The votes given here for Unionists are the aggregate of two candidates, of whom one (Samuels) was successful.
http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/h1918.htm   (752 words)

  
 The 1995 North Down by-election
Although he had not been a candidate in 1992 he had nonetheless played a role in the eventual outcome: as Joe Hendron's barrister in the famous electoral court case over the election result in West Belfast, he had managed to persuade the judge not to penalise the SDLP for numerous well-documented violations of electoral law.
In 1979 he had two good election results, easily keeping his own seat in North Down with one of the largest majorities in the country and finishing as runner-up in the first direct election to the European Parliament.
The result was widely seen as the trigger for James Molyneux's resignation and the election of David Trimble as leader of the UUP.
http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/fnd95.htm   (4405 words)

  
 Timeline 1977
1977 Mar 12, The California Commission on Judicial Appointments confirmed Rose Elizabeth Bird (40) as state’s 25th chief justice and the 1st woman to sit on its Supreme Court.
1977 In Israel Ariel Sharon was elected to parliament and was appointed minister of agriculture in the Begin government.
1977 Aug 31, Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, won the Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote.
http://timelines.ws/20thcent/1977.HTML   (8460 words)

  
 Malta: Election of Women
Their voter turnout has exceeded 90 per cent in all recent elections; nearly half of the major parties' registered members are women; and the parties have extensive local women's associations (Bestler, 1991) But these involvements remain essentially marginal and fail to serve as a springboard for political careers.
Indeed, incumbency is strongly related to electoral success generally: seventy percent of the male winners were incumbents, as were sixty-four percent of the successful women.
It has conducted competitive elections since 1921 and has moved from multi-party to two-party competition in the years since World War II.
http://www.maltadata.com/m-women.htm   (6365 words)

  
 Elections and Electoral Systems by Country
The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented.
Adam Carr's Electoral Archive has complete (ie, seat by seat) federal elections statistics from 1901 (federation) to the present, and statistics for all Australian state elections since 1990.
Parliamentary Election 1994 names and state of the parties
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/election.htm   (1465 words)

  
 NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: IR: IRI
Irish Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach
Irish Minister for Justice, Equality & Law Reform
Irish Minister for Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs
http://pedia.nodeworks.com/I/IR/IRI   (78 words)

  
 Guide to Microforms
For his adherence to the crown his estate was confiscated.
Letterbooks, 1754-99: general correspondence; Congress, 1789-97; Dept. of State, 1789-96; Dept.
Prevost was a British major general in the War for American Independence.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/hist/mfguide.html   (10591 words)

  
 Irish Echo Online - News
Doherty, who was based in Cootehall near Boyle, lost his seat in the 1989 general election and served for a time as cathaoirleach (or chairman) of the Senate.
When Haughey won the Fianna Fail leadership in 1979, Doherty became a junior minister at the Justice Department, serving until the general election defeat of 1981.
Former Minister for Justice Seán Doherty, one of the most controversial and colorful figures ever to serve at Cabinet level, died yesterday after suffering a brain hemorrhage.
http://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=16615   (666 words)

  
 Electoral Reform Society
The most striking aspect of the 1992 election was the success of the Labour Party with 19.3% of the vote and 33 seats.
This paper has been produced in response to requests from a number of MPs for a briefing on the last Irish General Election.
Fianna Fáil originally came out of the Sinn Féin movement and opposed the treaty, which was signed with the British in 1921, establishing the Irish Free State.
http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/publications/briefings/nireland.htm   (1630 words)

  
 Irish Augustinians in Rome, Italy
At the General Chapter of 1977 the ancient province of England was re-established.
...from St. Patrick's College and the Irish National Church in Rome.
Visit Mary McAleese - The President of Ireland.
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/1197/irishosa.html   (1752 words)

  
 Liam Cosgrave
He became leader of the party in 1965, and in Mar., 1973, following the general election, he was made prime minister.
In the face of continuing deterioration of the political situation in Northern Ireland, Cosgrave supported the British government in its establishment of a coalition executive there and its plans for a Council of Ireland to link the governments of the republic and the North.
William Thomas Cosgrave - Cosgrave, William Thomas, 1880–1965, Irish statesman; father of Liam Cosgrave.
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0813695.html   (209 words)

  
 Voting matters, Issue 10: pp 7-10
O'Leary, C (1979): Irish Elections, 1918-1977: Parties, Voters and Proportional Representation.
According to the 1937 Irish Constitution, not only parliamentary deputies (multi-member STV), but also the President (AV), shall be elected "on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote".
Dáil Éireann (1998): 28th Dáil General election, June 1997.
http://www.mcdougall.org.uk/VM/ISSUE10/P6.HTM   (1463 words)

  
 Wikinfo Taoiseach
One or two ministers may be appointed from Seanad Éireann, the Irish Senate.
The office, whose title literally means The Chief or The Leader (though translated in the constitution as 'prime minister') was created in Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Irish constitutution adopted in 1937 and drafted by Eamon de Valera.
He heads a Fianna Fáil/Progressive Democrat coalition government, which was re-elected in the Irish general election, 2002.
http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=Taoiseach   (793 words)

  
 General Election, 16th June 1977 -Factfile
18 year-olds vote in their first ever general election, representing one-fifth of the electorate
Back to General Elections, 18th June 1969 - 25th November 1992
Three outgoing Coalition Ministers lose their seats : Conor Cruise O& (Posts and Telegraphs), Paddy Cooney (Justice) and Justin Keating (Industry and Commerce)
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/cominfo/democracy/election_factfiles_16june1977.htm   (372 words)

  
 Martin O'Donoghue -
In November O'Donoghue lost his Dáil seat in the general election, however, he was elected to Seanad Éireann as a senator.
In 1977 O'Donoghue was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD.
In 1998 O'Donoghue became a director of the Irish Central Bank and is currently a Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin, having retired from his lacklustre performance as a Lecturer and Associate Professor of Economics there.
http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Martin_O'Donoghue   (355 words)

  
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Burns, Robert E. The Irish Popery Laws: A Study of Eighteenth Century Legislation and Behavior
The Escalation of Insurgency: The Provisional Irish Republican Army's Experience, 1969-1971
McCaffrey, Lawrence J. Home rule and the general election of 1874 in Ireland
http://library.sau.edu/irish/new_page_2.htm   (425 words)

  
 Periodbot output starting #21135108
He failed to be elected to [[Dáil Éireann]] on his first attempt in [[1973]], but succeeded four years later at the [[Irish general election, 19771977 General Election]].
The entire election proved to be a landslide for [[Fianna Fáil]] and in particular showed the popularity of the party leader and [[Taoiseach]], [[Jack Lynch]].
'''Major General George Owen Squier''' (March 21, [[1863]] - March 24, [[1934]])
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 Wikisource:Election data - Wikisource
For now see: Federal Electoral Institute (results for elections 1991-2003)
This can include the results of elections from federal, sub-national and municipal authorities, and can include referendum results.
This page links to data about election results anywhere in the world.
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Election_Data   (184 words)

  
 General Election, 24th November 1982 -Factfile
Within days he joins FG Back to General Elections, 18th June 1969 - 25th November 1992
Snap election called after FF minority govt loses Dail confidence motion by 82 votes to 80
Others include: The Workers Party; the Democratic Socialist Party; the Irish Republican Socialist Party; the Communist Party of Ireland; and non - party candidates
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/cominfo/democracy/election_factfiles_24nov1982.htm   (397 words)

  
 Who's going to win the Battle of Ireland - Foot.ie
Should be an option on all General Election ballot papers.
Only just felt the irony there of actually polling Don't care.
Last edited by Badweather Fan : 02/03/2003 at 4:49 PM.
http://foot.ie/forums/showthread.php?t=6281   (543 words)

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