Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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An estimated 60 to 70 percent of HUCTW's 2300 members cast votes in the largely uncontested election, HUCTW coordinator Marie C. Manna said.
For the time being, Manna said last week's election marked "the culmination of all the organization we did to establish a union."
THE reasons for participating in this week's march are many. We are in the midst of election time--candidates must be shown that men and women nationwide are not about to silently sit back and let Washington take away abortion rights. And the states, to whom the Supreme Court...
Cincinnati repealed PR in 1957 shortly afterthe election of Theodore Barry--a Black man--toits city council, says Joseph F. Zimmerman, anexpert on PR at the State University of New Yorkat Albany. And he says the timing of the twoevents is probably not a coincidence.
In the 1983 general election, for example, analliance between the Liberal Party and the SocialDemocratic Party (SDP) received 25 percent of thevote nationwide but only 23 seats in Parliament.The minority Labour party won more than 250 seatswith 27 percent of the vote.