After Premier Vander Zalm resigned, Socred members voted the lesser-known Johnston, a close ally of Vander Zalm, over Grace McCarthy.

After Premier Vander Zalm resigned, Socred members voted the lesser-known Rita Johnston, a close ally of Vander Zalm, to be their new leader, over Grace McCarthy, a longtime associate of former Premier Bill Bennett.

This naturally attracted the anger of numerous cabinet ministers, such as Grace McCarthy, an influential Socred MLA who resigned in protest from Vander Zalm's cabinet in 1988.

* Socred had been beset by scandals during Bill Vander Zalm's last term as premier.

" The five Socred MPs had demanded the tax revenues be allocated to Quebec and when that was turned down, they abstained, which ensured the vote's passage on a 139-133 margin.

Furthermore, many moderate Socred supporters switched their support to the Liberals, relegating the Socreds to third place, with only seven seats.

This caused the party to split: most of the Quebec Socred Members of Parliament ( MPs ) followed Caouette into his new Ralliement créditiste in 1963.

He was elected the leader of the Socred Party in November 1973, at a convention in Whistler, British Columbia.

In February 1994, McCarthy lost a by-election for Matsqui, a longtime Socred stronghold ( Liberal Mike de Jong won the seat by fewer than 100 votes ).

Clark managed to lure Socred MP Richard Janelle to the government caucus but this still left the PCs short.

The Liberal campaign gained tremendous momentum, and siphoned off much support from the Socred campaign.

All Socred governments attempted to curb the power of trade unions and also limited social welfare spending.

The New Zealand Social Credit Party ( sometimes called " Socred ") was a political party which served as the country's " third party " from the 1950s through into the 1980s.

It was said of both Blackmore and Low that they " frequently gave public aid and comfort to anti-Semitism " In 1945, Solon Low alleged there was a conspiracy of Jewish bankers behind the world's problems, and in 1947, Norman Jaques, the Socred Member of Parliament for Wetaskiwin, even read excerpts of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion into the parliamentary Hansard.

BC's Socred Premier, W. A. C.

He encouraged Thompson to try to bring about a merger of the federal Socred and PC parties.

While BC Socred Premier Bennett campaigned actively for the federal party, its internal strain, Manning ’ s call to merge with the PCs, the defections of Thompson and Olson, and the wave of Trudeaumania swept the Socreds aside.

While the party did manage to somewhat increase its vote in Péquiste areas, it also lost much support in areas of traditional Socred strength, with the end result being a drop from eleven to six MPs and a slightly reduced share of the popular vote compared to the 1974 election.

Clark convinced one Socred MP, Richard Janelle from Lotbinière, to cross the floor and join the government caucus.

Caya placed 6th in a field of seven candidates, winning 367 votes ( 1. 1 % of the total ), ahead of renegade Socred John C. Turmel.

Social Credit ( often called Socred ) was a populist political movement strongest in Alberta and neighboring British Columbia, 1930s-1970s.

All nine members of the Inter-American Center Authority voted for Goodbody & Company's proposal to finance the long-awaited trade and cultural center.

All Dallas members voted with Roberts, except Rep. Bill Jones, who was absent.

Most SDP members voted in favour of the merger, but SDP leader David Owen objected and continued to lead a " rump " SDP, with the merger of the two parties being completed in March 1988 to form the Social and Liberal Democrats, becoming the Liberal Democrats in October 1989.

If more than 75 % of members voted in favour, the building society would then become a limited company like any other.

Each league's award is voted on by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, with one representative from each team, which means 14 ballots are cast for the American League winner, and 16 ballots are cast for the National League.

On 19 March, a constitutional referendum was voted on and passed reforming the laws surrounding the power and election of the presidency, limiting the presidency to two four-year terms, providing judicial supervision of elections, requiring the president to appoint a deputy, calling for a commission to draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election, and providing easier access to presidential elections by candidates ( 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature ).

In 1953, he was voted "# 1 Fan Personality " by the members of the World Science Fiction Society, a unique Hugo Award never granted to anyone else.

" This " reluctance " diminished as the general strike appeared to take effect, and the Workers ' Revolutionary Council voted by a narrow majority to seize power on 16 November ; however, the supreme revolutionary Executive Committee was unable to recruit enough members to carry out its plans for armed uprising, and had to call off the proposed revolution the same day.

57 % of all party members voted in the member referendum, with 67 % voting in favor of the change.

Furthermore, 63 members of Parliament elected in 1852, were members of the " Irish Brigade ," who voted with the Peelites and the Whigs for the repeal of the Corn Laws because they sought an end the Great Irish Famine by means of cheaper wheat and bread prices for the poor and middle classes in Ireland.

The Mountain had 302 members during its reign in 1793 and 1794, including committee members and deputies who voted with the faction.

Only eight out of 385 assembly members voted against the resolution.

In expelling the Soviet Union, the League broke its own rule: only 7 of 15 members of the Council voted for expulsion ( Great Britain, France, Belgium, Bolivia, Egypt, South Africa, and the Dominican Republic ), short of the majority required by the Covenant.

' Having said this, he and most of the members who had a right to sit in Parliament, withdrew from the House ; so that there was not the fourth part of a quorum of lawful members present in the House when the Secluded Members, who had been voted out of the Parliament by those that had an undisputed authority over their own members, undertook to dissolve the Parliament, which was not to be done, unless by their own consent ; and whether that consent was ever given, is submitted to the judgment of all impartial men.

Dench won the 1977 SWET Best Actress award for her performance and in 2004, members of the RSC voted her performance the greatest by an actress in the history of the company.

Candidates for members of parliament are voted upon when the prime minister asks the Governor-General to call a national election, a maximum of five years after the previous national election.

On 19 March 2006, the voting members of the South Sydney club voted ( in a 75. 8 % majority ) to allow Crowe and businessman Peter Holmes à Court to purchase 75 % of the organisation, leaving 25 % ownership with the members.

On April 27, 1997, one of the last bastions of rowing was breached when, at an Extraordinary General Meeting, Leander Club voted to admit women as members.

Changes in the council occur typically only if one of the members resigns ( merely four incumbent members were voted out of the office in over 150 years ); this member is almost always replaced by someone from the same party ( and often also from the same linguistic group ).

The original, if lesser-known list was compiled in 1990 by members of the now-defunct FidoNet Science Fiction and Fandom ( SFFAN ) email echo.

A lesser-known example of industrial death metal is Meathook Seed, made up of members of Napalm Death and the Florida death metal group Obituary.

Apart from the movement's five chief members, several lesser-known poets and critics adhered to its principles.

Glory Daze is notable for being such a small production featuring so many then lesser-known actors ( Affleck, Damon, Stewart, Rockwell, McConaughey, Remini, Fraser ) who would all soon achieve a level of mainstream success that, in many cases, surpassed that of the cast members who were more recognizable at the time it was made ( Milano, Rhys-Davies, Gray ).