[…] Arsen Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – […]
[…] Arsen Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – […]
[…] Arsen Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – […]
[PDF file]: […] were met, with the exception of annual Parliaments, the process took decades. It was not until 1914 that all males over 21 won 4 the right to vote in general elections. This process of painstaking gradual reform over the best part of seven decades, also visible in the recognition of trade union rights, ensured […]
[PDF file]: […] By 2015, however, its strength was also growing at the national level. In that year’s General Election it secured 3.8 million votes (12.6 per cent of the vote) and replaced the Liberal Democrats as Britain’s third party. Despite the UKIP success, the Tories did win a majority in 2015. The 2017 General Election result, […]
[…] would be that the “unknown subscriber” was the British tax-payer. We think Stewart-Smith was being funded in these ventures by MI5, probably using money from “the secret vote’.) The anti-Liberal pamphlet was distributed in seats where the Liberals were thought likely to do well. (21) Among the themes being promoted by MI5 against the […]
[PDF file]: […] he got a fellow Catholic, Steve Webb (Lib Dem), as Pensions Minister during the Coalition. In 2013 Mr Webb boldly announced that the Good Lord himself would vote Lib Dem,9 although as it turned out practically no other bugger would. He was supported in this extravagant claim by the party president at the time, […]
[…] do. The formation of the SDP ensured that Mrs Thatcher won the 1983 election: forming a new centre-left party in 1981 was bound to split the anti-Conservative vote at the general election which followed. The question is: was it formed with that purpose in mind? On this the evidence is mixed. Three of the […]
