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| | New Zealand general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The 2005 New Zealand general election was held on 17 September 2005. | | | New Zealand First said it would support, or at least abstain from opposing in confidence motions, the party with the most seats. | | | Most of the minor parties polled poorly, losing votes and seats, but the new Māori Party took four electorate seats, including three from Labour. |
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| | Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the New Zealand House of Representatives |
| | This was the case in the 2005 general election, in which the Mâori Party won four electorate seats, but was awarded a total of three seats. | | | Labour became the largest party in the second MMP general election, held in November 1999. | | | Meanwhile, New Zealand First was able to secure five seats in Parliament with only 4.2% of the party vote by winning the electorate seat of Tauranga, where party leader Winston Peters was elected with a majority of sixty-three votes out of 33,781 valid votes. |
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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background |
| | A caretaker government oversaw new elections in the spring of 2001, which ushered in Alejandro TOLEDO as the new head of government. | | | Free and peaceful elections in 1999 resulted in a government led by an Indo-Fijian, but a coup in May of 2000 ushered in a prolonged period of political turmoil. | | | A new transitional government, inaugurated on 1 November 2001, was to be the first step towards holding national elections in three years. |
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| | New Zealand (09/05) |
| | Executive authority is vested in a cabinet led by the prime minister, who is the leader of the political party or coalition of parties holding the majority of seats in parliament. | | | Branches: Executive--Queen Elizabeth II (chief of state, represented by a governor general), prime minister (head of government), cabinet. | | | Women received the right to vote in national elections in 1893. |
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| | New Zealand Election Study - Books Based on NZES Data |
| | MMP ushered in a larger parliament, a new balance of parties, and ended the era of one-party majority governments. | | | is the third major study of voters and electoral choice conducted by the New Zealand Election Study. | | | The date was also a political and constitutional turning point; for at the same time voters had rejected the first-past-the-post electoral system in favour of MMP, a form of proportional representation that would re-shape the structure of future party competition. |
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| | Bloomberg.com: U.S. |
| | Bush, a Republican, nominated Olson to be the nation's 42nd solicitor general on Feb. 14, 2001. | | | In his first stint at the U.S. Justice Department, Olson worked as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel from 1981 to 1984 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan. | | | Olson, who represents the administration in cases before the Supreme Court, was appointed in 2001 after President George W. Bush took office. |
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| | New_Zealand_general_election_1984 |
| | There were 95 seats being contested in the 1984 election, three more than were in the previous parliament. | | | The Values Party, an environmentalist group, gained fifth place, but no seats. | | | The National Party won only 37 seats, a loss of ten. |
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| | Political Science Journal - Articles by Author Victoria University of Wellington |
| | McPhetres, Samuel, 'Elections in the Northern Mariana Islands', 35:1 (1983), 103-16. | | | Jupp, James, 'Elections in Vanuatu', 35:1 (1983), 1-15. | | | Nagel, Jack H., 'Voter Turnout in New Zealand General Elections, 1928-1988', 40:2 (1988), 16-38. |
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| | Secret Power - Chapter 1: 1984 |
| | While other New Zealand diplomatic staff in Washington were frozen out by their United States government contacts, Tucker was envied because his position was largely unaffected. | | | After nine years as an increasingly embattled prime minister, his rule was disintegrating. | | | Paid in American dollars and living in a house rented for him by the local United States embassy, Singleton was an employee of an organisation called the National Security Agency (NSA). |
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| | Search Results for caucus politics - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The controversial politics of the Jesse Jackson 1984 election campaign. | | | While the war continued in Korea, the battlefield of politics was heating up here in the states during this pivotal election year. | | | In 1990 the Bloc Québécois was formed in Canada to promote sovereignty for the province of Quebec on the federal level. |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=caucus%20politics&ref=news0204tscaucus
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| | Bloomberg.com: Europe |
| | Born in Tullamore in the Irish midlands, Cowen studied law at University College Dublin and worked as a solicitor before he was elected to parliament for Fianna Fail in 1984 in a by- | | | He is also seeking to win back support after his Fianna Fail party, which has led a coalition government with Progressive Democrats since 1997, scored its lowest since 1927 in June 11 local elections. | | | He also helped persuade the leaders of 25 European Union countries agree on a constitution during Ireland's EU presidency that ended June and win agreement on the appointment of Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso as the new European Commission president. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Country profiles Country profile: New Zealand |
| | Ms Clark is a former political scientist who figured prominently in the Labour administration of the mid-1980s which ushered in free-market economics to New Zealand. | | | Helen Clark secured a record third term in September 2005's closely-fought elections. | | | Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright |
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| | Articles - New Zealand general election 1957 |
| | The date for the main 1957 elections was 30 November. | | | National made no great changes to its policy platform, and Holyoake largely retained the Cabinet he had inherited from his predecessor. | | | The National Party had formed its first administration after the 1949 elections, and had been re-elected in the 1951 elections and the 1954 elections. |
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| | New WRL Titles |
| | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave ; Oxford : In Association with St. Antony's College, 2000. | | | General Services Administration ; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. v. | | | METHODOLOGY OF THE OPPRESSED / CHELA SANDOVAL ; FOREWORD B ANGELA Y. Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2000. |
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| | ! International Angler |
| | Long before his appointment as IGFA Representative in 1977 Peter Goadby represented IGFA ideals, and he has continued to serve as a vital link between the organization and the fishermen of the world. | | | Retiring as a Brigadier General after the 1956 Suez Campaign, Clostermann continued to serve his country as an eight-term member of the French Parliament and President Charles DeGaulle's Under Secretary of State. | | | Born in upstate New York, Hunt moved with his family to Michigan when he was twelve. |
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| | Honolulu Star-Bulletin Editorial Column |
| | The law broke union labor monopolies in both the government and the private sector. | | | Business and government leaders cite the fact that since a new right-to-work law was enacted in 1991 jobs have increased by 220,000, which is more than were previously unemployed. | | | People committed to the reforms stayed in power after the national election last October. |
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| | Don't say the New York Times or Washington Post, either. | | | We're number one in the least amount of federal and state government expenditure (as a percentage of GDP). | | | If you're running for office and your position on any issue has change the slightest bit since you were in grade school, then you're waffling, and you're forever after labeled a waffler. |
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| | Mondo Vocifero |
| | Discussion Forums: Mondo Vocifero: U.S.A. General Politics: 1984 | | | A valid username and password combination is required to post messages to this discussion. | | | It was written primarily with the former Soviet Union and Stalin as an inspiration. |
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