Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...odds makers who had originally predicted a third-ballot victory for amiable William Whitelaw apparently underestimated the intensity of anti-Heath feeling within the party-a sentiment that damned Whitelaw, who was one of the former Prime Minister's closest party associates. Said one Tory backbencher: "The constituencies were pro-Heath, but in the parliamentary party there were just too many people who couldn't stand him any longer...
...will also offer Radcliffe students today and Monday a ballot on which they may register approval or rejection of a proposed allocation of RUS funds to the Edelin Defense Fund...
Although they will split the "stop Thatcher" vote on the second ballot, they are expected to rally behind White-law-the odds-on favorite-in the third...
...reelected. After all, the polls showed that he was the first choice of 63% of all Tory supporters; he had been endorsed by virtually every member of the Conservatives' shadow Cabinet, as well as by hundreds of local Tory associations across Britain. But the results of the secret ballot were a shock: maverick M.P. Margaret Thatcher (see box) received 130 votes to 119 for Heath and 16 for patrician M.P. Hugh Fraser (there were eleven abstentions). After consulting with friends and political aides, Heath announced that he would not be a candidate in the second and third rounds...
...political party. Only a few months ago, she would hardly have rated in any list of contenders. Mrs. Thatcher herself allowed that she did not think that the Conservative Party would be ready for a woman chief in her lifetime. Whether or not she manages to secure a second-ballot victory this week, the controversial M.P.-whom the London Sun once dubbed "the most unpopular woman in England"-is now firmly entrenched as a major force in the traditionally male world of British politics...