* 1992 – John Major's Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.

On 1 May 1992, the ED ( now largely composed of UK Conservative Party members ) dissolved, and its remaining members were accorded " associated party " status in the EPP group ; that is, being part of the parliamentary group without retaining actual membership in the EPP party organization.

The Conservative majority proved too small for effective control over his backbenchers, particularly after the United Kingdom's forced exit from the Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) on " Black Wednesday ", 16 September 1992, just five months into the new parliament, when billions of pounds were spent in a futile attempt to defend the currency's value.

In the 1992 election, Labour made considerable progress – reducing the Conservative majority to just 21 seats.

Robert Gordis ( February 6, 1908 – 1992 ) was a leading Conservative rabbi.

He founded the first Conservative Jewish day school, served as President of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Synagogue Council of America, and was a professor at Jewish Theological Seminary of America from 1940 to 1992.

The crushing defeat of the 1997 election saw the Conservative Party lose over half their seats from 1992 and saw the party re-align with public perceptions of them.

Many theatre critics in 1992 read the production as a critic of Thatcherite Conservative politics, with Goole ’ s final speech reading as a direct rebuttal of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ’ s well-known statement “ There is no such thing as society ”.

Since then Ian Gilmour ( 1974 – 1992 ) and then Cheryl Gillan have represented the constituency on behalf of the Conservative party.

Examples include the Labour government of James Callaghan 1976 – 1979 and the Conservative government of John Major 1992 – 1997.

He joined the Conservative Party in 1981, and was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1992.

At the 1992 general election, he stood in the constituency of Chingford ( where the Conservative MP, Norman Tebbit, was retiring ), and was elected to parliament.

Smith's biographer, Mark Stuart, claimed that Smith could have won Labour a Parliamentary victory in 1997 on a similar scale to that achieved by Tony Blair because of the combination of the Black Wednesday debacle and ongoing Conservative divisions over Europe between 1992 and 1997 ; however, Stuart argues that the lack of a Blair effect would have meant that the Conservative Party would have held slightly over 200 seats in the House of Commons, leaving the Conservatives in a position similar to that of Labour in 1983 than to the actual Conservative result in 1997.

Conservative John Major's 30 % lead in 1992 amongst the sought after ABC1 voters ( e. g. doctors, lawyers, managers ) had all but disappeared by 2005 ; it is widely-believed that the focus of the 2005 campaign on issues such as immigration and crime did not reverse the Conservatives's reputation as " the nasty party ", and did not return many educated professionals to the party.

In 1992 PFI was implemented for the first time in the UK by the Conservative government of John Major.

In politics and economics, Black Wednesday refers to the events of 16 September 1992 when the British Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) after they were unable to keep it above its agreed lower limit.

The Conservatives had recently won the 1992 general election, and the Gallup poll for September showed a 2. 5 % Conservative lead.

During the autumn of 1992 Lamont became a press target in a string of largely fabricated stories: that he had not paid his hotel bill for " champagne and large breakfasts " from the Conservative Party Conference ( in fact his bill had been forwarded on for settlement ); that he was in arrears on his personal Visa credit card bill ( true ); that in June 1991 he had used taxpayers ' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning sex therapist Lindi St Clair ( Miss Whiplash ), who was using a flat he owned ( the Treasury contributed £ 4, 700 of the £ 23, 000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister ; there was never any suggestion that he had ever met her ); and that he had called at a newsagent in a seedy area of Paddington late at night to purchase champagne and cheap " Raffles " cigarettes.

Having spent more time with his family, Fowler then returned twice to the Conservative front bench, first as Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1992 to 1994, during which time he oversaw the Boundary Changes in the early 1990s, then as Shadow Environment, Transport & the Regions Secretary in 1997 to 1998 and Shadow Home Secretary in 1998 to 1999.

As party chairman, he was widely considered to be the main architect of the somewhat unexpected Conservative victory in the 1992 election.

He served as leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta from 1992 until his retirement in 2006.

During the April 1992 election campaign, Owen writing in The Mail on Sunday newspaper advised voters to vote Liberal Democrat where they had a chance of victory and to vote Conservative rather than let Neil Kinnock become Prime Minister.

Their government collapsed in late 1992, and was succeeded by a technocratic team, put forward by the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ), which served until 1994, when the president dissolved the government and appointed a provisional one to serve until the pre-term elections, appointed for December in the same year.

Deng Xiaoping was the Paramount Leader of China from 1978 to 1992, although he never became the head of the party or state, and his influence within the Party led the country to significant economic reforms.

On November 30, 1992, by the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation recognized the Red Terror as unlawful, which in turn led to suspension of the Communist Party of the RSFSR.

* In Georgia, the Socialist Labour Party was founded in 1992.

A branch of " progressive " communists led by Algirdas Brazauskas established the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania in 1992.

* Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( 1992 )

They are the Rassemblement Populaire Pour le Progres ( People's Rally for Progress ) ( RPP ) which was the only legal party from 1981 until 1992, the Parti du Renouveau Démocratique ( The Party for Democratic Renewal ) ( PRD ), and the Parti National Démocratique ( National Democratic Party ) ( PND ).

While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China ( the highest position in Communist China ), he nonetheless served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992.

In 1992 John Smith made him Shadow Social Security Secretary and three years later Dewar was made a Chief Whip for the Labour Party by Tony Blair,

In 1992, Conté announced a return to civilian rule, with a presidential poll in 1993 followed by elections to parliament in 1995 ( in which his party-the Party of Unity and Progress-won 71 of 114 seats.

She resigned as leader of the Norwegian Labour Party in 1992.

Willy Brandt ( 1913 – 1992 ) was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in 1964 – 87 and West German Chancellor in 1969 – 1974.

The communist regime collapsed in 1990, and the former communist Party of Labour of Albania was routed in elections March 1992, amid economic collapse and social unrest.

On 22 March 1992 the Communists were trumped by the Democratic Party in national elections.

In 1992 the Democratic Party of Albania took control of the country through parliamentary elections, deposing the Communist Party of Albania, and Sali Berisha held the premiership of the country.

Labour Party and opposition leader Neil Kinnock made endless calls for a general election throughout 1991, but Major held out and decided not to call the election until he finally set an election date of 9 April 1992.

In the first open presidential elections in a quarter century, in December 1992, Moi won with 37 % of the vote, Matiba received 26 %, Mwai Kibaki ( of the mostly Kikuyu Democratic Party ) 19 %, and Odinga 18 %.

The 1996 elections resulted in the election of the Labour Party, by 8, 000 votes, to replace the Nationalists who had won in 1987 and 1992.

Most opposition parties boycotted the first legislative election in 1992, and for nearly a decade the Democratic and Social Republican Party ( PRDS ) dominated the parliament.

The Natural Law Party ( NLP ) was founded in the U. S. in 1992 by a group of educators, business leaders, and lawyers in Fairfield, Iowa, many of whom practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique.

In the 1992 elections the Natural Law Party won 1, 734 votes ( 0. 06 %), and in the 1999 elections, won 2, 924 votes ( 0. 09 %), both below the then 1. 5 % electoral threshold required to enter the Knesset.