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Basingstoke (UK Parliament constituency)
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Basingstoke /ˈbeɪzᵻŋˌstoʊk/ is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the U. K. Parliament. With the exception of a 1923-1924 Liberal Party MP, since modern creation in 1885 it has elected Conservative MPs so has been a Conservative safe seat, the current MP is Maria Miller. The town was represented in the Model Parliament convened in 1295, from 1295 inclusive to the one year parliament of 1831-32 its area was part of the Hampshire constituency and from 1832-1885 its area lay in the North Hampshire constituency. 1885–1918, The Municipal Borough of Basingstoke, and the Sessional Divisions of Basingstoke, 1918–1950, The Municipal Boroughs of Andover and Basingstoke, and the Rural Districts of Andover, Basingstoke, Kingsclere, Stockbridge, and Whitchurch. 1955–1974, The Municipal Boroughs of Andover and Basingstoke, and the Rural Districts of Andover, Basingstoke, the Basingstoke constituency is based around the town of Basingstoke, and the surrounding countryside, in Hampshire. For the 2015 election, the Green Party attempted to field two candidates who would job share, sarah Cope has young children and Clare Lorraine Phipps has a disability, so neither could work as a full-time MP. Endorsed by Coalition Government General Election 1914/15, Another General Election was required to place before the end of 1915
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Together for Change
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Together for Change was a political alliance in Montenegro that existed from 2001 to 2006, originally known as Together for Yugoslavia. It based itself upon the necessity for a united Yugoslav state with Serbia, the pro-European semi-conservative coalition also based itself on economic and democratic reforms, bringing down of the authoritarian regime of Milo Đukanović. The political alliance merged after a change within the Socialist Peoples Party of Montenegro. As a result, the party became more moderate with Andrija Mandić as its new president, thus SNP CG made the Together for Yugoslavia alliance with SrNS CG and NS CG. The Montenegrin parliamentary election,2001 saw practically just two choices, this SNP-led alliance and Milos Victory is of Montenegro coalition, both very large coalition of strong potential. The coalition won the 2001 parliamentary election in Montenegro under the name Together for Yugoslavia with 148,513 votes or 40. 87% and 33 seats, but failed to form a government. At the legislative elections in Montenegro, on 21 October 2002 and it had represented the entire opposition force in Montenegro, and was a strong proponent of union with Serbia. The union became more dis-unified after the DSS CG seceded from SNS CG in 2003, the pro-Yugoslavian Alliances last major political movement was during the Montenegrin independence referendum,2006, when it made the Unionist Bloc supporting the NO option for independence. They got 185,002 votes, or 44. 51% of the total vote, however the referendum was highly and deeply controversial, so the Bloc never really accepted its results
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Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany
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The Anarchistic Pogo Party of Germany is the self-declared party of the Pöbel and social parasites. It was created in 1981 by two punks in Hannover and took part in the 1998 election to the Bundestag with the promise to pay the voters with free beer, the official communication organ is the paper Armes Deutschland, formerly Asoziale Rundschau. The name refers to the dance, the Pogo. The party took part in the German federal election,2005 with their chancellor candidate Wolfgang Wendland, in the following years it was joined by many punks and organized many demonstrations, which were sometimes ended by the police, often leading to arrests. The party was dissolved in 1986, but was recreated in 1994, in the 1997 Hamburg city elections the APPD received a stunning 5. 3% of the votes in St. Pauli and thus became the fourth-strongest party in that district. In 1998 the APPD ran in the Bundestag election with Karl Nagel as its candidate for the chancellorship, the APPD failed, however, to gain the 0. 5% of the votes needed to pay to the voters in the form of a promised large party with free beer. With approximately 35,000, or 0. 1%, of the votes, finally the party was dissolved in 1999. In December 2000 the APPD was reestablished in Munich, but did not participate in the Bundestag election of 2002, in the following year, the APPD took place in the Bundestag election of 2005 with little success. As a result, the party split into two parties in 2006 - the APPD and the Pogo-Partei, the Pogo-Partei merged with others into the joke party Die Partei. The APPD elected a new chairman, Volker Stoi, and took part in Berlin elections 2011 with little success, sichere Beschäftigungs-Zonen for strait-laced workaholics who will finance the good life of the people in the APZ. This is a pun, since the SBZ in West-German use meant the Sowjetisch besetzte Zone or Sowjetische Besatzungszone and these parks will be surrounded by very high walls and are located in former East Germany. The APPD propagated the idea of a pension, to replace the existing old-age pension. The idea was that people should enjoy life first, and work later and they claim that pogo-anarchism has nothing to do with anarchism. Saufen, saufen, jeden Tag nur saufen, = Boozing, boozing, every day nothing but boozing. Anarcho-punk List of political parties in Germany List of frivolous political parties
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Independent Moralizing Front
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The Independent Moralizing Front was a Peruvian political party. At the legislative elections,8 April 2001, the party won 11. 0% of the vote and 11 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic. Its presidential candidate at the elections of the day, Luis Fernando Olivera Vega. It was allied with former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledos party, Peru Possible, at the legislative elections held on 9 April 2006, the party won 1. 5% of the popular vote but no seats in Congress. Some months after the results in the 2006 elections, the party became disbanded. Party Website on the Congresses server
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Islamic Party of Britain
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The Islamic Party of Britain is a defunct political party in the United Kingdom that was active from its formation in 1989 until 2006. The IPB was Islamist, opposed to capitalism and communism. David Musa Pidcock, a Sheffield man who converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam while working as an engineer in Saudi Arabia, the IPB published a quarterly magazine entitled Common Sense. The party entered the 1992 general election, standing three unsuccessful candidates in the constituencies of Bradford, a city with a large Muslim minority, the Islamic Party never achieved a seat in either house of Parliament. Pidcock represented the party in the Bradford North by-election,1990, earning 800 votes, in the 1992 General Election, the party stood candidates in each of the three constituencies in the City of Bradford. All of them finished last, with Pidcock in Bradford West doing the best and it also stood a candidate in Streatham, coming fifth of seven. In its first year, Pidcock claimed that his party was planning co-operation with the ecologist Green Party, members of the party have supported the Respect Party, one of their leading members, home affairs spokesman Mohammad Naseem, stood for and funded the party. The party believed in equal treatment under the law regardless of an individuals status, the IPB argued that religion is the most important thing in life. It called for reform of the British banking system to make it interest-free and Islamic, at one time, the party answered questions sent in by readers
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National Alliance (Norway)
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The National Alliance was a Norwegian political party that was founded on 25 February 1999. The two main forces behind the party were Arnljot Moseng and Kjell Tore Vogsland, both of them, along with the vice leaders Kenneth Hartmann and Tore Petersen, had a past in the Fatherland Party. In the summer of 2000, Oddbjørn Jonstad, who had founded the Norwegian Peoples Party the year before, became new chairman, after receiving merely 0. 06% of the votes in the 2001 election the party chose to take its old name and profile back. Shortly after, with some internal turmoil, Jonstad left the party, at the annual meeting in May 2004 a new board was selected, however, shortly after this the party was left inactive. The National Alliance was finally disestablished on 13 March 2006, the party had officially no clearly defined ideology, however, it was clearly nationalistic in nature. Its main issues were to stop immigration to Norway, as well as repatriate all immigrants who already were in the country. In addition, the party focused on district-, and green politics. Party leader Kjell Tore Vogsland also expressed an admiration for Jörg Haider, the youth organization of the party was Norwegian Youth
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Northern Ireland Women's Coalition
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The Northern Ireland Womens Coalition was a minor cross-community political party in Northern Ireland from 1996-2006. The party campaigned principally around the fact that it was led by women, the pair discussed ways in which women could be written into, rather than out of the Northern Ireland peace process. Having failed, the NIWC was hastily assembled to contest the election, around 150 women attended the first NIWC meeting, and subsequent meetings regularly attracted up to 60 people. Meetings were held in Belfast on a fortnightly and later weekly basis to debate positions, additional members could be co-opted to maintain the cross-community balance. Monthly meetings continued to be open to the full membership, in the 1996 Forum elections, McWilliams, Sagar and eight other Coalition candidates secured 7,731 votes. They did not win any seats, but under a top-up mechanism to ensure the representation of minor parties. They attended the negotiations dominated by the other 108 representatives and supported the ensuing intergovernmental Good Friday Agreement, the NIWC also advocated the creation of a Civic Forum for Northern Ireland, which was included in the Agreement and set up in 2000. The NIWC fielded three candidates in the United Kingdom general election,1997, collecting a total of 3,024 votes, some academics have speculated that the NIWCs existence forced other party leaders to pay more attention to womens interests in their campaigning during the election. The main parties put forward numbers of women in response to the advent of the NIWC. In the Northern Ireland local elections,2001, the party secured 3,301 votes, McWilliams stood unsuccessfully as a candidate in the United Kingdom general election,2001, securing 2,968 votes in South Belfast. At its 2002 conference, the NIWC boasted of being the only party in the world that has elected representatives - that is quite some achievement. By 2003, however, both NIWC MLAs had lost their seats in the 2003 Assembly elections, where the vote fell to 5,785 votes. The party subsequently held a a frank, honest and constructive discussion about whether to continue and its electoral fortunes did not recover. The partys last remaining elected representative lost her seat on North Down Borough Council in 2005, the party never contested another election. On 11 May 2006, the Womens Coalition was formally wound up at a function held in Belfast, NIWC1998 Northern Ireland Assembly Election Manifesto - A New Voice for New Times NIWC2001 Local Government Election Manifesto
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People Power (Australia)
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People Power was a populist political movement in Australia that was federally registered as a political party in March 2006. The party contested its first election at the 2006 Victorian state election and was de-registered federally in December 2006, a Pokies-Free Victoria Policy People Power released their anti-gambling policy on 4 September 2006 which aims to attack the social problems associated with compulsive gambling. The policy aims for an end to the use of Poker Machines in Victoria by 2012. Under the policy, the Commonwealth Government would provide incentives for State Governments to ban the installation of poker machines, stopping the Drift to Private Schools Policy People Power released their Public Schools policy on 13 September 2006 which aims to target what it calls one-size-fits-all schooling in Victoria. The plan includes the abolition of Public School fees and independent reporting and monitoring of school performance, the party was first established in 2000 by Vern Hughes and Crikey founder Stephen Mayne, only to be suspended at the end of 2001. It was then re-established in 2004 and registered in 2006, a member of People Power, Deborah Locke, was one of the candidates for the 2005 Werriwa by-election that was caused by the sudden resignation of Mark Latham from parliament. However, People Power did not have official party status at the time and she received 3. 1% of the vote, placing her 9th out of 16 candidates. People Power contested the Victorian state election in November 2006, the party fielded candidates for seats in both houses of Parliament. The party did not win a seat in either house of Parliament, former Australian Labor Party member for Benalla Denise Allen contested the Northern Victoria Legislative Council seat. But later decided that his profile as an independent journalist was preventing the party receiving the media attention that it desperately needs. A short time later, he decided to contest for People Power after all and he resigned from this position on 19 September 2006. There have been contrary reports regarding his decision to resign with Stephen Mayne blaming it on the political website The Other Cheek run by Andrew Landeryou, Landeryou ran a story claiming to reveal some of Reillys alleged business activities prior to Reillys decision to quit
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Regionalist Action Party of Chile
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Regionalist Action Party of Chile, was a political party in Chile. Operated in only the regions I, II and III in the parts of the country. In the 2004 municipal elections the party presented 13 candidates and got 1,199 votes, the bulk of the votes came from the 2nd District of Region I, were the party got 600 votes. In the 2005 elections, the 2nd District of Region I elected PAR member Marta Isasi as deputy, however, Soria has been suspended from his post because of an investigation of alleged embezzlement of municipal funds. Without him, the party collapsed and its representative in the Chamber of Deputies, Marta Isasi, joined the National Renewal caucus. On 4 July 2006 the PAR merged with the National Alliance of Independents to form the Regionalist Party of Independents
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Social Alternative
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Social Alternative was a coalition of far-right political parties in Italy. Mussolini united her group with the Social Action for the 2004 European Parliament election, the group was committed to a strong Italian nationalism that celebrated and glorified its past, and has been particularly critical of Gianfranco Finis modernisation of the right. For the 2005 regional elections, also the Tricolour Flame joined the alliance, in the 2006 Italian general elections the coalition was a member of the defeated House of Freedoms and won no seats. The alliance was disbanded in late 2006 and replaced by a new pact between Social Action, New Force, the Social Idea Movement and the National Volunteers
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Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand
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The Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand was a New Zealand political party espousing Christian values. Although it never won seats in an election, it came close to doing so in 1996 as part of the Christian Coalition, on 3 October 2006, the Party said it would disband to allow new things to arise in Christian politics in New Zealand. This came after a highly publicised scandal which resulted in its leader, Graham Capill and we believe these are the key issues that need to be addressed if we are to make an impact for the next generation. It described its three key policies as Affirming Marriage, Building Families and Celebrating Life, i. e. opposition to marriage and abortion and support of law. The party espoused strongly conservative views on social policy and it favoured law changes to strengthen heterosexual marriage and to prevent same-sex marriage and civil unions. The CHP had a stance, but for most of its existence. Christian Heritage NZ supported restrictions on prostitution, as well as standards for television with a view to reducing violence. In economic policy, Christian Heritage espoused moderately right-wing views, in education the Party emphasised parental influence over the curriculum and parents rights to choose the school their child attended. CHP supported New Zealands constitutional monarchy, in foreign affairs, the party supported New Zealands alliance with Australia and a resumption of its alliance with the United States. CHP supported the Treaty of Waitangi and the work of the Waitangi Tribunal and urged settlement of Māori land claims, the party had long required its members to publicly declare themselves as Christians. Some commentators criticised this rigid confessional policy for supposedly limiting the partys base, the Christian Heritage Party of Canada was part of the inspiration behind the formation of New Zealands Christian Heritage Party, and other influences also existed. Dirk Vanderpyl noted in his book Trust and Obey that many Reformed Churches of New Zealand members came from a slice of Netherlands society, centred in Zeeland, Veluwe. In those Netherlands provinces, the Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij had existed since 1922, however, the SGP has only ever existed as a testimonial party – which raises some intriguing questions about the role of the Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand. Bill van Rij founded the party and became its first President, the partys first convention took place in 1990 and established the groups structure. In 1991 the party confirmed Graham Capill, a Reformed Churches of New Zealand pastor, during the 1990s, some non-Reformed evangelical Christians repeatedly complained that the CHP took too long to transcend this initial base. Eighteen Christian Heritage candidates contested seats in the 1990 general election, the Party did not gain any seats, but did secure over 10,000 votes across the country. In 1992 the partys candidate, Clive Thomson, finished fourth in a by-election in the electorate of Tamaki, the Christian Heritage Party supported the ultimately successful campaign to change New Zealands electoral system from first-past-the-post to mixed-member proportional. In 1994, the Christian Heritage Party gained new competition when National Party MP Graeme Lee formed the Christian Democrats, Lee had originally considered joining Christian Heritage, but eventually declined because of the partys requirement that all members declare themselves Christians
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Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)
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Democratic and Social Centre was a centrist, social liberal political party in Spain, which was founded in 1982 by former prime minister Adolfo Suárez. In 2006, most of its members merged into the Peoples Party. The followers of CDS claimed that their party was the inheritor of the legacy of the Union of the Democratic Centre. After resigning both as Prime Minister of Spain and party president of the UCD in January 1981, Suarez continued to struggle for control of the party machine. When he failed in his bid to regain party leadership in July 1982, the new centrist party fared poorly in the October general elections, gaining only two parliamentary seats. By 1986 the partys fortunes had improved dramatically under the leadership of the former Prime Minister and this strategy enabled him to draw some votes from those who had become disillusioned with the PSOE. In the municipal and the elections held in June 1987. A poll taken at the end of 1987 revealed even stronger support for the party, from 1988 onwards, the party was a member of the Liberal International. Suarez was the LIs president from 1988 to 1991, on March 25,1995 the Centrist Union was born as a federation consisting of the CDS and some liberal and green groups. Subsequently, from November 1995, the party was called UC-CDS, in October 2002 the party reverted to its original name, CDS. A party congress held in 2005 decided, under the presidency of Teresa Gómez-Limón, at that point, CDS had 54 municipal councillors and around 3,000 members. The merger of CDS with the PP took place on 18 February 2006, a minority faction refused to accept the merger with the PP. They were headed by the suarista, Fabian Villalabeitia Copena and Carlos Fernandez García, at that congress Villalabeitia was elected speaker with the purpose of presiding over a Congress to select a national president. Before they had met in Logroño, members of the Executive Committee, initially this group called itself the Liberal Democratic Centre. However, in 2007, following a review, they obtained the right to use the CDS name. In the 2007 local elections the party received 14,000 votes, the continuing party has a youth wing, the Democratic and Social Center Youth. The principal objectives of the organisation are increasing youth participation in political, economic, and social life. loc. gov/frd/cs/
