General Election stories:
Pennsylvania: Vote to Fill Murtha Seat Is Scheduled
Feb 17th, 2010 - New York Times
district held that day. one will decide the republican and democratic nominees to run in the general election in november. the other will fill the remainder of mr. murtha's term, which ends in january. he died feb. 8 after complications
Murtha's immediate successor to be decided May 18
Feb 17th, 2010 - Boston
in the general election in november. the other will fill the remainder of murtha's term, which ends in january
OAS secretary-general Insulza expresses confidence he has votes to be elected to second term
Feb 11th, 2010 - WashingtonExaminer
santiago, chile - jose miguel insulza expressed confidence thursday that he will be elected to a second 6-year term as secretary-general of the organization of american states. insulza, who is the only candidate in the march 24 vote
Clashes erupt in Sri Lanka over general's arrest
Feb 10th, 2010 - Washington Post
colombo (reuters) - thousands of sri lankans, protesting the arrest of losing presidential candidate sarath fonseka, clashed with government supporters on wednesday, a day after parliamentary elections were called. tensions have risen on the island
Sri Lanka to Hold April Elections; Rajapaksa Dissolves Assembly
Feb 9th, 2010 - BusinessWeek
feb. 10 (bloomberg) -- sri lanka will hold general elections in april as president mahinda rajapaksa dismissed parliament a day after the arrest of general sarath fonseka, the defeated opposition candidate in january’s presidential ballot
General Election videos from YouTube:
3:55Alan Partridge - The Election Night Armistice
Rare footage of Patridge from Armando Iannucci's 'Election Night Armistice' on BBC2, 1997.
7:00UK General Election 1997 - Election Night Results Aftermath Report
Blair victorious, Major concedes & Ashdown celebrates. In 1997 Labour ended 18 years in the political wilderness in spectacular style. The party returned to power with a parliamentary landslide, winning the biggest majority held by any government since 1935 ...
2:57UK General Election of 1992 and the 'Shy Tory' Factor
Political journalist and documentarian Adam Curtis examines the UK General Election of 1992 and discusses the 'Shy Tory' factor - a phenomenon observed by British pollsters which explained why despite poor opinion poll ratings in the late 1980's and 1990's ...
General Election from WikiPedia:
In a parliamentary political system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election. The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.
The term originates in the United Kingdom general elections for the House of Commons.
The term general election in the United Kingdom often refers to the election of Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons. These must be held every five years, but may be held more often at the discretion of the British Prime Minister.
The term may of course also be used to refer to an election to any democratically elected body in which all of the members are up for election. Section 2 of the Scotland Act 1998, for example, specifically refers to ordinary elections to the Scottish Parliament as general elections.
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