United Kingdom general election, 1992

Tories, but the cabinet itself. Major failed to manage the government to run effectively on European issues as the government motion had been opposed in parliament (Bale,2011; Cowley and Garry,1998). Yet, he successfully shifted the attitude of United Kingdom towards Europe from Thatcherite ultra-sceptic perspective or Labour’s Europhile perspective to somewhere in-between - while keeping in the European Community in order to gain

Democratic state and one main component is the capacity of the government to conduct an election to allow the people to voice their needs in the national level. Election is the heart or the core of a democratic state , removing this would deprive the people of their right. After five years or if the Parliament was dissolved by the Queen with of course the Prime Minister's advise, there will be an election using the "First-past-the-post" electoral system. Here the candidates can win seats in the

party’s local politics being periods of otherwise decline, notable of which being the 1999 Eastbourne by-election and the recent 22 (at time of writing) council seats gained under Farron since May, their moves towards community politics could be seen as a ploy, however due to the strong party community campaigning heritage it is difficult to see this as the case. Rennard’s ‘Winning by-elections’ is still used as the backbone of the party 's campaigning methodology, showing the consistency of the

Everything David Cameron did with his One Nation theory demonstrated what needed to happen between 1997 and 2005. With the help of this One Nation theory he won the 2010 election, though it was won through a coalition. Regardless of this, the party were winning back support from the public which then later showed in the 2015 election when Cameron won with the vote of the majority. Cameron shifted away from using the term Thatcherism and gave the party a new brand although, this brand was not any different

greater influence on the public’s political stance. Word Count: 298   Introduction Aim: With a population in excess of 1,000,000 people and over 40 different wards and constituencies, Birmingham is generally regarded as the second city of the United Kingdom. Within Birmingham, each ward must vote for their individual party counsellor who may be representing the Labour, Conservative or Liberal Democrats party . The aim of my investigation is to find out whether the different levels of qualification

Conservatives. However, it has now been challenged that the two party system is in decline and the UK is moving to a Multi-party system. A multi-party system is a system in which multiple political parties across the political board run for national election, and all have the capacity to gain control of government offices, separately or in coalition meaning, there is more chance for each party to gain power. The UK's two party system and its political reign is far from over and it may remain for the

Why do voters vote the way they do? A voter can be defined as an individual who votes, or has the right to vote, in elections. Voting behaviour is explained using the concepts of expressive voting and strategic voting. A rational voter would act more strategically, that is, the voter would vote to produce an election outcome which is as close as possible to his or her own policy preferences, rather than voting on the basis of party attachment, ideology, or social group membership (expressive voting)

undoubtedly contributed to the Conservative Party’s election victory in 1983. However, it should not be considered essential to this triumph. Historians such as Helmut Norpoth have suggested that the Falklands factor significantly increased the popularity of the Thatcher administration and resulted in her re-election. Dennis Kavanagh noted the effect on the war on Margaret Thatcher’s image and emphasised the importance of this during the election campaign. Nevertheless, the Conservative success in

The 1997 general election swept away eighteen years of Conservative government, replacing it with a Labour majority government - with a majority of 179; their largest majority ever, surpassing even the 145 seat majority won by the party in 1945. Under the Labour landslide, several prominent Tory MPs and frontbenchers were defeated by Labour, Liberal Democrat and Scottish National candidates, such as Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, Scottish Secretary Michael Forsyth, Trade Secretary Ian Lang, former

This paper is a research project that uses data from the British Election Study. The study has responses from 2987 participants selected at random for the survey. The survey asks a variety of questions regarding the elections and the perceptions of the participants. The questions include responses for voting preferences, issues faced in the elections of 2015, inclination of the voter towards left or right, taxation and spending views, views of respondents regarding immigration, economic status and