Lloyd George still claimed to be leading a Liberal government, but he was increasingly under the influence of the rejuvenated Conservative party.

Ivor Crewe and Anthony King found five defectors who claimed to have voted for Foot in order to saddle Labour with an unelectable leader and make life easier in their new party.

The party led the 1917 October Revolution that overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and claimed to have established the world's first socialist state.

When Defoe visited in the mid 1720s, he claimed that the hostility towards his party was, " because they were English and because of the Union, which they were almost universally exclaimed against ".

During the 1984 Convention, with Trent Lott as Republican Party Platform Committee Chairman, Congressmen Kemp and Newt Gingrich claimed control of the party platform to the consternation of G. O. P.

In Songs My Mother Taught Me, Brando claimed he met Marilyn Monroe at a party where she played piano, unnoticed by anybody else there, and they had an affair and maintained an intermittent relationship for many years, receiving a telephone call from her several days before she died.

The distances and speeds that Peary claimed to have achieved once the last support party turned back seem incredible to many people, almost three times that which he had accomplished up to that point.

A central problem with the use of public-key cryptography is confidence ( ideally, proof ) that a particular public key is correct, and belongs to the person or entity claimed ( i. e. is " authentic "), and has not been tampered with, or replaced by, a malicious third party ( a " man-in-the-middle ").

As the Pramukh ( Chief ) of the party Balasaheb Thackeray takes all major decisions, and has claimed that he ran the Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government of 1995 to 1999 with what he called a ' remote control.

When Heath called a leadership election at the end of 1974, Powell claimed they would have to find someone who was not a member of the Cabinet that " without a single resignation or public dissent, not merely swallowed but advocated every single reversal of election pledge or party principle ".

They claimed that all citizens and not just the enfranchised were entitled to a voice, but they did not form a political party ; there were no parties.

Blatter's 2002 candidacy has been marked with rumours of financial irregularities and backroom dealings, culminating with direct accusations of bribery, by a third party, made in the British press by Farra Ado, vice-president of the Confederation of African Football and president of the Somali Football Federation, who claimed to have been offered $ 100, 000 to vote for Blatter in 1998.

In any event, there is no evidence that either the Dutch or the Indians believed they had swindled, or been swindled by, the other party to the deal An 1877 embellishment of the myth claimed that the Dutch offered " beads, buttons and other trinkets ," though there is no evidence for this.

The Rockingham Whigs claimed the mantle of " Old Whigs ", as the purported successors of the party of the Pelhams and the great Whig families.

However, most party members who claimed conscientious objection status did so in the context of their moral and religious beliefs, rather than on political policy.

He claimed that an early election would jeopardize both the September 2005 Gaza withdrawal plan and the standing of the party in a national unity government with Sharon.

In the 2006 elections, several parties claimed to be motivated by his ideas, including the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy ( PPRD ), the political party initiated by the incumbent President Joseph Kabila.

A confidential informant is someone who claimed to have witnessed an event or have hearsay information, but whose identity is being withheld from at least one party ( typically the criminal defendant ).

The first German raiding party to enter the fort was led by Leutnant Eugen Radtke, Hauptmann Hans Joachim Haupt and Oberleutnant Cordt von Brandis ( after the war, a certain Feldwebel Kunze claimed to have been first to enter Fort Douaumont but this was never confirmed officially ).

Keitel claimed he did so as a formality at the Nuremberg Trials, but never received formal party membership.

Later, for example, the Cuban association was refused because its statutes claimed to respect the leading role of the communist party in Cuba.

Of all the party members who died in the Putsch, Hitler claimed Scheubner-Richter to be the only " irreplaceable loss ".

Democrats used violence and intimidation to keep blacks from the polls, while Democrats claimed that Republicans weren't simply disallowing votes tainted by violence but also legitimate returns that favored the Democratic party.

By 1912, the party claimed the most votes of any German party.

In the resulting February 1990 elections, Violeta Chamorro and her party the UNO won an upset victory of 55 % to 41 % over Daniel Ortega, even though polls leading up to the election had clearly indicated an FSLN victory.

Even when the impact of the Great Depression led to an enormous surge in support for the Nazis across Germany, Berlin resisted the party ’ s appeal more than any other part of Germany: at its peak in 1932, the Nazi Party polled 28 % in Berlin to the combined left ’ s 55 %.

This gave the party 55 seats, barely a quarter of what it had had prior to the election.

The result was a victory for the No campaign, with 55 percent of voters rejecting the treaty on a turnout of 69 percent, dealing a devastating blow to Chirac and the UMP party, as well as to part of the center-left which had supported the TCE.

Curtin is credited with leading the Australian Labor Party to its best federal election success in history, with a record 55. 1 percent of the primary half-senate vote, winning all seats, and a two party preferred lower house estimate of 58. 2 percent at the 1943 election, winning two-thirds of seats.

On June 7, 1999, Lord's PC party overcame an early deficit in the polls to pull out a landslide victory in the provincial general election, winning 44 of 55 seats in the legislature.

K. S. Venkatakrishna Reddiar was elected President and the party fielded candidates in 55 constituencies in the 1957 state assembly elections, to emerge as the second largest party in Madras state with 13 seats in the legislative assembly.

The party won only 14 seats out of 55, though Archibald was personally re-elected in Colchester South.

The Newark entertainment started at 7 o ' clock: a children's half-hour of music and fairy stories ; 7 :, Hawaiian airs and violin solo ; 8: 00, news of the day ; and at 8: 20 a radio party with nationally known comedians participating ; 9: 55, Arlington time signals and 10: 01, a government weather report.

The party won 75. 1 % of popular votes and 55 out of 78 seats in the parliamentary election held on November 15, 2004.

Ralph Klein was premier of Alberta from 1992 to 2006, and, despite making many controversial statements and having had problems with alcohol, remained the leader of the Progressive Conservative party and thus the province, although only 55 % of delegates from his party signified their approval of his leadership on the spring of 2006, pushing him into early retirement.

Four years later he switched to provincial politics, and was elected leader of the provincial Liberal Party ( April 1972 ), then the third party in the provincial legislature with 5 out of 55 seats.

Dunne's party received 5. 55 %, while the Green Party, which Dunne had criticised heavily in the campaign, received 5. 84 %.

In 1969, membership of the party was only 55, 000 or 0. 7 % of the population, making the PCC the smallest ruling Communist party in the world.

However public opinion-polls prior to the election suggested that the ruling party could count on the support of 45 – 55 percent of voters, which may suggest that there were no mass falsifications, despite isolated cases of fraud.

Lucas won with 55 per cent of the party ballot against Keith Taylor's 45 per cent.

With the election call, the party gave him the authority to appoint the 25 MLAs seeking re-election as candidates bringing the total number of nominated Liberal candidates to 30 of 55 .< ref > Nathan White, < nowiki >'</ nowiki > It's do or die ' time for leaders, New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, page A2, August 11, 2006 Graham said he would pursue education, economic development and energy as three key issues during the campaign.

While most House committees maintain membership in a rough proportion to the full chamber ( If the majority party controls 55 % of the House, it will tend to have 55 % of committee seats ), membership on the Rules Committee is disproportionately in favor of the majority party.