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1987 and election
She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).
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 ).
After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.
In addition, Michael Noonan received £ 3, 000 in 1992 towards his election campaign, Ivan Yates received £ 5, 000, Michael Lowry received £ 5, 000 and Sean Barrett received £ 1, 000 in the earlier 1987 election.
Partly due to the impact of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and to growing awareness of the threat of air pollution and acid rain to German forests (" Waldsterben "), the Greens increased their share of the vote to 8. 3 % in the 1987 federal election.
The November 1987 elections was cancelled after troops massacred 30 – 300 voters on election day.
Major was promoted to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1987, following the general election, and in a surprise re-shuffle in July 1989, a relatively inexperienced Major was appointed Foreign Secretary, succeeding Sir Geoffrey Howe.
Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.
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.
A separate party, the Joh-inspired NT Nationals, competed in the 1987 election with former Chief Minister Ian Tuxworth winning his seat of Barkly by a small margin.
As a result, Labour faced the 1987 election in some danger of coming third in the popular vote.
However, the traditional Labour supporting Daily Mirror had backed Kinnock in the 1987 election and again in 1992.
He continued to serve as SDP Member of Parliament for Glasgow Hillhead until his defeat at the 1987 general election by the Labour candidate George Galloway.
In April 1987, President Chun made a declaration in an attempt to overpower the opposition that measures would be taken to protect the current constitution at the end of his term, instead of contemplating constitutional reform that would call for direct election of the president.
He appeared as himself in the first episode of ITV comedy The New Statesman, coming second in the 1987 election, ahead of the Labour and SDP, which saw Alan B ' Stard elected to Parliament.
After revising the constitution in 1987 and after years of resisting the United States-supported Contras the FSLN lost the election in 1990 to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, but they retained a plurality of seats in the legislature.
The elections of 1990, which had been mandated by the constitution passed in 1987, saw the Bush administration funnel $ 49. 75 million of ‘ non-lethal ’ aid to the Contras, as well as $ 9m to the opposition UNO — equivalent to $ 2 billion worth of intervention by a foreign power in a US election at the time, and proportionately five times the amount George Bush had spent on his own election campaign.
* June 11 – The Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected for a third term at the 1987 general election.
DC re-gained the post of Prime Minister in 1987, after a mild recovery in the 1987 general election ( 34. 2 %), and the Pentapartito coalition governed Italy almost continuously until 1993.
He returned to the House of Commons in October 1974 as the Ulster Unionist Party MP for the Northern Irish constituency of South Down until he was defeated in the 1987 general election.
Nonetheless, in the 1987 general election that he lost, Powell campaigned in Bangor for James Kilfedder, the devolutionist North Down Popular Unionist Party MP and against Robert McCartney, who was standing as a Real Unionist on a policy of integration and equal citizenship for Northern Ireland.

1987 and saw
Despite problems over the previous acquisition of AC Cars, Hayes saw the potential of the brand and the discussion resulted in Ford taking a share holding in September 1987.
Murto departed Compaq in 1987, while Canion ( President and CEO ) and Harris ( SVP of Engineering ) left under a shakeup in 1991 that saw Eckhard Pfeiffer appointed President and CEO.
This era saw a resurgence of militancy with direct action groups like AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT UP ) ( formed in 1987 ), and its offshoots Queer Nation ( 1990 ) and the Lesbian Avengers ( 1992 ).
In late 1987, political pundits saw that Kemp needed to gain support from the far right on non-social issues.
With the sale of Ian Rush to Juventus in 1987, Dalglish formed a new striker partnership of new signings John Aldridge and Peter Beardsley for the 1987 – 88 season, and he played only twice in a league campaign which saw Liverpool gain their 17th title.
1987 saw the publication of Mackal's book, A Living Dinosaur ?, in which Mackal detailed his expedition and his conclusions about the Mokèlé-mbèmbé.
While New Order toured North America with friends Echo & the Bunnymen, the summer of 1987 saw the release of the compilation Substance, which featured the new single " True Faith ".
1987 saw a reintroduction in northeastern North Carolina through a captive breeding program and the animals are considered to be successfully breeding in the wild.
When recalling the incident for Eyes on the Prize, a 1987 public television series on the Civil Rights Movement, Parks said, " When he saw me still sitting, he asked if I was going to stand up, and I said, ' No, I'm not.
More recently, in 1980 and 1987, hurricanes devastated banana and coconut plantations ; 1998 and 1999 also saw very active hurricane seasons, with Hurricane Lenny in 1999 causing extensive damage to the west coast of the island.
The United States saw dramatic growth in the popularity of talk radio during the 1990s due to the repeal of the Federal Communications Commission's post-war Fairness Doctrine of 1949, in 1987.
From 1987 to 1996, Thailand also saw a huge current account deficit with an average of-5. 4 percent of the GDP per year, and the deficit continued to be increasing.
1987 also saw the band embark on another national tour, appearances on national television – including playing the final episode of Countdown and the lead single " At First Sight " making the Young Einstein soundtrack.
A major expansion was undertaken for the 1987 Canada Winter Games which saw extensive sports facilities built at the campus.
ZZ Top's grueling Afterburner World Tour lasted well into 1987, which also saw the release of The ZZ Top Sixpack, a three-disc collection of ZZ Top's albums from 1970 to 1981, with the exception of Degüello.
The 1980s also saw the birth of the grunge genre, with the arrival of such bands as Soundgarden, Green River, Melvins, Screaming Trees, Malfunkshun, Skin Yard, The U-Men, Blood Circus, Nirvana, Tad, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone and Alice in Chains ( who formed in 1987, but did not release their first album until three years later ).
The general elections that followed in 1987 saw the Nationalist Party achieve such a majority of votes.
The 1987 National Tournament, on the Disney Channel, saw additional controversy, as a number of protested matches proved to strain the television format.
1987 also saw the departure of drummer Rat Skates.
The principal administrative and teaching facilities were originally housed in the Pathfoot Building, which was completed in 1968 and subsequently saw several extensions over the years, including a Tropical Aquarium in 1979 and a Virology unit in 1987.
The year 1987 saw Douglas star in the horror thriller Fatal Attraction with Glenn Close.

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