The general impression was that, as much as the senate was packed with men devoted to the royal couple and the government obtained a large majority at the general elections, King Alexander would not hesitate any longer to proclaim Queen Draga's brother as the heir to the throne.

* 1956 – In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S. W. R. D.

The Prime Minister and Cabinet is formed by the political party which gains a simple majority in the general elections held in Barbados.

The 1965 constitution led to the first general elections and to independence on 30 September 1966.

In the 1920s, the Labour Party permanently replaced the Liberals as the largest opponent of the Conservative Party in British politics, and the Liberals went into decline, which culminated in their winning as few as 6 seats at general elections during the 1950s.

A crowd waits outside Leeds Town Hall to see them elect a Liberal Party candidate during the United Kingdom general election, 1880 | 1880 general elections.

The cost was high, however, as the government was required by the king to call two general elections in 1910 to validate its position and ended up frittering away most of its large majority, being left once again dependent on the Irish Nationalists.

Share of the vote received by Conservatives ( blue ), Whigs / Liberals / Liberal Democrats ( orange ), Labour ( red ) and others ( grey ) in general elections since 1832.

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In the Romanian general election elections of 1946, the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) employed widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud to obtain 80 percent of the vote and, thereafter, eliminated the role of the centrist parties and forced mergers, the result of which was that, by 1948, most non-Communist politicians were either executed, in exile or in prison.

To deal with a situation in which no clear majorities appear through general elections, parties either form coalition cabinets, supported by a parliamentary majority, or minority cabinets which may consist of one or more parties.

As far as general elections, he only dipped below 55. 0 % once ( 2008 ).

There have been no general elections since its official rise to power in 1993.

A new constitution was promulgated in 1997 but has not yet been implemented, and general elections have been postponed.

The support for state autonomy grew when Awami League introduced the Six point movement in 1966, and participated with full force in the 1970 general elections in which the Awami League had won and secured the exclusive mandate of East-Pakistan.

After the general elections, President General Yahya Khan attempted to negotiate with both Pakistan Peoples Party and Awami League to share power in the central government but talks were failed when President Yahya Khan authorized an armed operation ( codename Searchlight ) to attack the Awami League.

All over the country, the political parties had favored the general elections in Pakistan with the exception of Muslim League.

The Conscription Crisis of 1918 further intensified public support for Sinn Féin before the general elections to the British Parliament on 14 December 1918, which resulted in a landslide victory for Sinn Féin, whose MPs gathered in Dublin on 21 January 1919 to form Dáil Éireann and adopt the Declaration of Independence.

The United Kingdom continues to use the first-past-the-post electoral system for general elections, and for local government elections in England and Wales.

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Republic of Ireland, Australia and New Zealand are notable examples of countries within the UK, or with previous links to it, that use non-FPTP electoral systems ( Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales use First Past the Post in United Kingdom general elections, however ).

Under the terms of the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez, Díaz and Corral agreed to resign by the end of May 1911, with Díaz's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Francisco León de la Barra, taking over as interim president solely for the purpose of calling general elections.

As a consequence of the unbalanced social development and the labour movement's continuous position in the political opposition, the Social Democratic Party had gained an absolute majority in the Parliament of Finland, in the general elections of 1916.

This patient was a 65-year-old white male accountant who entered the New York Hospital for his fourth and terminal admission on June 26, 1959, because of disabling weakness and general debility.

Abner Doubleday ( June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893 ) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.

AIX 6 was announced in May 2007 and ran an open beta from June 2007 until the general availability ( GA ) of AIX 6. 1 on November 9, 2007.

The AMD Athlon processor launched on June 23, 1999, with general availability by August ' 99.

The International Court of Justice ruled on 27 June 1986 that by disseminating the manual to the contras, the United States of America had " encouraged ... acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law.

He was advanced to that grade on June 5, 1989, and assigned duties as the commanding general, 10th < nowiki > MEB / Assistant </ nowiki > division commander, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina on July 10, 1989.

On June 1, 1990, he assumed duties as the commanding general, 2nd Force Service Support Group < nowiki > Group / Commanding </ nowiki > general, 6th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic and commanded the 2d FSSG during the Gulf War.

On June, 29, he was promoted to general and assumed duties as the 31st commandant on June 30, 1995.

Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.

Drier-than-normal conditions are also in general observed in Queensland, inland Victoria, inland New South Wales, and eastern Tasmania from June to August.

The man behind the Frisbee's phenomenal success, however, was Edward " Steady Ed " Headrick ( Pasadena, Cal., June 28, 1924 — La Selva Beach, Cal., August 12, 2002 ), hired in 1964 as Wham-O's new general manager and vice president in charge of marketing.

The Haitian general election, 1995 in June 1995 saw Aristide's coalition, the Lavalas ( Waterfall ) Political Organization, gain a sweeping victory, and René Préval, a prominent Aristide political ally, elected President with 88 % of the vote.

This report was accepted by the Labour Party government of the time despite considerable opposition, but the Conservative Party won the June 1970 general election, and on a manifesto that committed them to a two-tier structure.

In the 1997 unrest in Albania the general elections of June 1997 brought the Socialists and their allies to power.

A general election in June 1999 produced the first freely elected national, provincial, and regional parliaments in over forty years.

He was promoted to general on June 30, 1999, and assumed the post on July 1, 1999.

That the Constitution of the United States, having delegated to Congress a power to punish treason, counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States, piracies, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations, and no other crimes, whatsoever ; and it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that " the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people ," therefore the act of Congress, passed on the 14th day of July, 1798, and intitled " An Act in addition to the act intitled An Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States ," as also the act passed by them on the — day of June, 1798, intitled " An Act to punish frauds committed on the bank of the United States ," ( and all their other acts which assume to create, define, or punish crimes, other than those so enumerated in the Constitution ,) are altogether void, and of no force watsoever.

* Jimmy Bonthrone, footballer and manager: born Kinglassie, Fife 16 June 1929 ; played for East Fife 1947-58, Dundee 1958-60 ; manager, East Fife 1963-69, Aberdeen 1971-75 ; general manager, East Fife 1980-94 ; married ( two sons ); died Kirkcaldy, Fife 7 June 2008.

In June 2011, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said his father would agree to internationally monitored general elections, and would step down if he lost them, but his offer was refused by the rebels and ignored by the UN Security Council.

And finally in June and July 1905 he declared the relativity principle a general law of nature, including gravitation.

At a general meeting of the WRU in June 1953, they made a decision, " That until such time as the facilities at Swansea were improved, all international matches be played at Cardiff ".