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In the 2005 general election, the Liberal Democrats elected 62 MPs to the House of Commons, a far cry from the days when the Liberals had just 5 MPs and Liberalism as a political force had seemed moribund.
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In October 2005 the Diamondbacks hired 35-year-old Josh Byrnes, assistant general manager of the Boston Red Sox, to replace the outgoing Joe Garagiola, Jr. as Diamondbacks General Manager.
In 2004 – 2005 Aon, along with other brokers including Marsh & McLennan and Willis, fell under regulatory investigation under New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and other state attorneys general.
* In March 2006 it emerged that the Labour party had borrowed millions of pounds in 2005 to help fund their general election campaign.
The main issue, the flight of general Gotovina, however, remained unsolved and despite the agreement on an accession negotiation framework, the negotiations did not begin in March 2005.
The first inductee was Bob Lilly in 1975 and by 2005, the ring contained 17 names, all former Dallas players except for one head coach and one general manager / president.
* 2005 – Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
Ethiopia held another general election in May 2005, which drew a record number of voters, with 90 % of the electorate turning out to cast their vote.
Ethiopia held another general election in May 2005, which drew a record number of voters, with 90 % of the electorate turning out to cast their vote.
During the run-up to the German general election in 2005, which was held ahead of schedule, Stoiber created controversy through a campaign speech held in the beginning of August 2005 in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.
Many, including members of the CDU, attribute Stoiber's comments and behavior as a contributing factor to the CDU's losses in the 2005 general election.
In the 2005 general election the party won 9. 8 percent of the vote and 61 federal deputies, an unpredicted improvement from prior opinion polls.
* The Problem With First-Past-The-Post Electing ( data from UK general election 2005 )
Additionally in 2005, the theorem was proven by Georges Gonthier with general purpose theorem proving software.
According to the U. S. National Transportation Safety Board, in 2005 general aviation in the United States ( excluding charter ) suffered 1. 31 fatal accidents for every 100, 000 hours of flying in that country, compared to 0. 016 for scheduled airline flights.
On November 29, democratic general elections were held, with former Congressional president and 2005 nominee, Pepe Lobo as victor.
Since the 2005 general election the government has floated the idea of voluntary mergers of local councils, avoiding a costly reorganisation but achieving desired reform.
Following the ratification of the Constitution of Iraq on 15 October 2005, a general election was held on 15 December to elect the permanent 275-member Iraqi Council of Representatives.
On November 9, 2004, following George W. Bush's re-election, Ashcroft announced his resignation, which took effect on February 3, 2005 when the Senate confirmed White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales as the next attorney general.
He has stood as a Parliamentary candidate in the general elections on several of occasions, most recently in 2005 as an Alliance list-candidate.
As of November 13, 2005, LambdaMOO had 10 official wizards ( administrators ) and approximately 2, 900 general users.
At the 2005 general elections, the MLP led Alliance Sociale coalition won the elections and Navin Ramgoolam became Prime Minister while Sir Anerood Jugnauth remained the president.
In 2005, he was voted the 4th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
Charlie Manuel took over the reins of the club from Bowa after the 2004 season, and general manager Ed Wade was replaced by Pat Gillick in November 2005.
2005 and election
In the 2005 leadership election, she initially supported Kenneth Clarke again.
Parties that gain more than 5 % of the second votes or win at least 3 direct mandates are allocated seats in the Bundestag in proportion to the number of votes it has received ( d ' Hondt method until 1987, largest remainder method until the 2005 election, now Sainte-Laguë method ).
On July 28, 1999 Bal Thackeray was banned from voting and contesting in any election for six years from December 11, 1999 till December 10, 2005 on the recommendations of the Election Commission.
Gabon hosted a meeting in 2005, to solve the crisis following Bozizé barring of some candidates in the election.
During the election in 2005, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso openly supported Bozizé.
A new presidential election was expected to be held in October 2005.
The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.
In the 2005 election it won 18 out of 179 seats in the Folketing and became a junior partner in coalition with the Liberals.
In the presidential election held April 8, 2005 Ismail Omar Guelleh was re-elected to a second 6-year term at the head of a multi-party coalition that included the FRUD and other major parties.
The DPP suffered a significant election defeat in nationwide local and county elections in December 2005.
In June 2005, with the results of the election still unclear, a group of university students protested these alleged discrepancies, encouraged by supporters of the Coalition for Unity opposition party, despite a ban on protests imposed by the government.
On September 5, 2005, the National Elections Board of Ethiopia released the final election results, which confirmed that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front retained its control of the government, but showed that opposition parties had increased their share of parliamentary seats, from 12 to 176.
In June 2005, with the results of the election still unclear, a group of opposition supporters protested these alleged discrepancies despite a one month ban on protests imposed by the government.
On September 5, 2005, the National Elections Board of Ethiopia released the final election results in which confirmed that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front retained its control of the government, but showed that opposition parties had increased their share of parliamentary seats, from 12 to 176.
New for the 2005 election was the alliance between the newly formed Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ) and the PDS, planning to fuse into a common party ( see Left Party. PDS ).
2005 and Liberal
Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales of the Liberal Party of Honduras won the 27 November 2005 presidential elections with less than a 4 % margin of victory, the smallest margin ever in Honduran electoral history.
However, the situation in Western Australia and South Australia, where the party is more clearly differentiable from the Liberals, is quite different, with the Nationals narrowly missing out on winning a second seat in South Australia in 2006 and winning a safe Liberal seat in Western Australia in 2005.
Ujjal Dosanjh was the New Democratic Party Premier of British Columbia from July 2004 until February 2005, and currently serves as a Liberal frontbench MP in Ottawa.
* Liberal Reformers, a dissenting Italian radical party formed in 2005
The last Liberal Manifesto of the VVD was published in September 2005.
In the general election of 5 May 2005, Plaid Cymru lost the Ceredigion seat to the Liberal Democrats, the result was a disappointment to Plaid, who had hoped to gain Ynys Môn.
A draft of the proposed constitution was released by the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) on 22 November 2005 as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the party's founding.
As released by the Liberal Democratic Party on 22 November 2005.
" Neoloberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy " in Edgework: critical essays on knowledge and politics Princeton University Press, 2005, ch 3.
Dr Jenny Tonge took Richmond Park constituency and in 2005 Susan Kramer became its Liberal Democrat MP with a majority of 3, 731 but she was beaten in the May 2010 election by Conservative Zac Goldsmith with a majority of 4, 091.
The Penge & District Trade Union & Labour Social Club ( CIU ) built by local tradesmen in 1922, the former Liberal Club closed in 2005.
Since 2005, the seat has been represented in the House of Commons by the Liberal Democrat MP, Lynne Featherstone.
* Danny Alexander — Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament ( MP ) ( 2005 —), currently Chief Secretary to the Treasury
The country saw extensive deregulation of the labor market beginning in 2005 under John Howard's Liberal Party of Australia through their WorkChoices policy.
The 2005 East Sussex County Council election resulted in 29 Conservatives, 15 Liberal Democrats, 5 Labours, and 1 Independent, of which Bexhill provided 1 Liberal Democrat and 2 Conservatives .< REF NAME = ELECTION />
The Liberal Democrat David Rogers OBE was elected in the 2005 election.
In the 2005 General Election, the Conservatives gained 33 new seats in Westminster, including five from the Liberal Democrats, but this still only gave them 198 seats to Labour's 355.
In the 2005 general election ( on 5 May 2005 ), Howard's Conservative Party failed to unseat the Labour government, although the Conservatives did gain 33 seats ( including five from the Liberal Democrats ) and Labour's majority shrank from 167 to 66.
Returning to Colombia in early 2005 after several visits in late 2004, Gaviria once again became active in politics, and was proclaimed as the sole chief of the Colombian Liberal Party in June 2005.
When he reemerged in late 2005 he had already changed his lifestyle: he had become a vegan, moved out of the capital into the countryside, and withdrew from party politics completely, ending his already frozen membership in the Liberal Democracy.
* Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper filed a suit against the Liberal Party of Canada, the Official Opposition, after the latter paid for trucks to drive through the streets playing a journalist's tape of Harper admitting he knew of " financial considerations " offered to dying MP Chuck Cadman before a critical Canadian House of Commons vote in 2005.
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