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"Other Parties"

"Other Parties". "Other Parties". Liberal Democrats Greens UK Independence Party (UKIP) Plaid Cymru Scottish National Party Northern Ireland Extreme Left - Communist Party, SWP, Militant Extreme Right - BNF etc. "Other Parties": 2001 general election.

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"Other Parties"

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  1. "Other Parties" "Other Parties"

  2. "Other Parties" Liberal Democrats Greens UK Independence Party (UKIP) Plaid Cymru Scottish National Party Northern Ireland Extreme Left - Communist Party, SWP, Militant Extreme Right - BNF etc ... "Other Parties"

  3. "Other Parties": 2001 general election (BUTLER & KAVANAGH, The British General Election of 2001, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002)) Lab 40.7% 412 seats Con 31.7% 166 seats Lib Dem 18.3% 52 seats Nationalists 2.5% 9 seats (SNP 5, PC 4) UKIP 1.5% Greens 0.6% Communist 0.6% BNP 0.2% "Other Parties"

  4. "Other Parties": 1999 Euro election (for the first time PR-proportional representation) "Other Parties"

  5. "Other Parties" 2004 Euro elections source BBC "Other Parties"

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  7. "Other Parties" Liberal Democrats www.libdems.org.uk founded in 1988 after a merger between the SDP (itself founded in 1981 by the "Gang of Four", four Labour MPs who had lost confidence in the Labour party) and the Liberal Party leader until 2006 Charles Kennedy. Kennedy was forced to resign in March 2006 as it was felt that an alleged drink problem was a handicap. New leader Sir Menzies Campbell. 18.3%/52 MPs in 2001 "Other Parties"

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  9. "Other Parties" UKIP: United Kingdom Independence Party www.ukip.org "Other Parties"

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  12. "Other Parties": SNP www.snp.org "Other Parties"

  13. "Other Parties": Plaid Cymru: www.plaidcymru.org "Other Parties"

  14. "Other Parties": Green Party www.greenparty.org.uk "Other Parties"

  15. "Other Parties": Northern Ireland "Unionist" Ulster Unionist Party Democratic Unionist Party (Ian Paisley) "Nationalist" Social Democratic and Labour Party Sinn Fein 2004 Euro elections: UUP 1 seat, DUP 1, Sinn Fein 1 "Other Parties"

  16. "Other Parties": "extremist" parties Far right: British National Front Far left: Militant (entrist tendency ...) Socialist Workers' Party Workers' Revolutionary Party (Vanessa Redgrave) Socialist Labour Party (Arthur Scargill) "Other Parties"

  17. "Other Parties": single issue parties UKIP Pro-Life alliance (anti-abortion) ... "Other Parties"

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  19. http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/ "Other Parties"

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