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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Reform Blil Clinton is a nice touch.
I wanted to play around with the New Democrats failing. Considering the cliche of Jerry Brown being the hero of reform it seemed fun.

It reminds me a bit of that list @AlfieJ did where Tony Blair goes off in a huff when Neil Kinnock decides to hang on in 1992.
 
Mao-jong

1949-74: Deng Xiaoping (Deng Xiaoping Thought)
1974-77: Mao Zedong (Zongfa-Honour the Patriarch)
1977-87: Hua Gaofeng (Hua Gaofeng Thought) (Slow and Steady Progress)
1987-2001: Hu Jintao (Hua Gaofeng Thought) (Great Unity)
2001-2005: Xi Jinping (The Great Whatever)
2005- : Jiang Zemin (Socialism with a Chinese Face)

Could you explain this? I know the rightist tendency was strong in the Party from the beginning, but it would take a drastically changed post-war situation for someone like Deng to rise to the top in '49, especially if Mao is still alive as he apparently is.
 
Could you explain this? I know the rightist tendency was strong in the Party from the beginning, but it would take a drastically changed post-war situation for someone like Deng to rise to the top in '49, especially if Mao is still alive as he apparently is.

Mao gets malaria on the Long March and isn't at his most presenatble when the time comes. Then again "Shuffling-the-Decks" aren't generally about hard periodical accuracy. They're more about the comedy.
 
Three Lions '97

POD: England beats Germany in penalties and eventually wins Euro '96. This causes John Majors numbers to increase enough so that Blair is forced into a coalition with Ashdown. Side note, Roger Knapman doesn't lose his seat meaning Kilroy doesn't leave UKIP.

1997-2004: Tony Blair (Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition)

1997: Tony Blair (Labour), John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Lib.Dem.), David Trimble (UUP)
2001: Tony Blair (Labour), Michael Portillo (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Lib.Dem.)

2004-05: Tony Blair (Labour-Lib.Dem. minority)
2005-15: Sebastian Coe (Conservative)

2005: Sebastian Coe (Conservative), Progressive Alliance (Tony Blair (Labour), Simon Hughes (Lib.Dem.)), George Galloway (RESPECT), Robert Kilroy-Silk (UKIP)
2010: Sebastian Coe (Conservative), Vince Cable (Progressives), Jeremy Corbyn (RESPECT), Robert Kilroy-Silk (UKIP), Caroline Lucas (Green)
2015: Jack Straw (Progressive)

2015: Jack Straw (Progressive), Sebastian Coe (Conservative), Dianne Abbot (RESPECT), Mike Hookem (UKIP), Caroline Lucas (Green)
 
The Cherry Blossom Blooms: a 2-26 timeline
On the 26th February 1936 a coup removed the legitimate Japanese government and led to the rise of the ultranationalist Shōwa Clique dictatorship. Following the ideology of the "Imperial Way" the Shōwa clique took Japan to war with the USA in 1939 after "provocation" by President Roosevelt. The ultimate collapse of the Empire of Japan and its successor the Kodaha Shogunate led to the emergence of the modern Republic of Japan, based on Konoe's ideology of the "new direction". Since 1950 with the election of independents calling for a a second Shōwa Restoration to both the Presidency and a parliamentary majority, the future of the Republic seems grim.

Prime Ministers of the Empire of Japan

1936-1938: Hiranuma Kiichirō (Independent backed by Shōwa Clique)
1938-1939: Sadao Araki (Independent backed by Shōwa Clique)
1939-1940: Sadaro Araki (Military Government backed by Shōwa Clique and Imperial Household)
1940-1940: Ikki Kita (Independent backed by Shōwa Radicals and Militarist Soldiers)

Shogun of the Kodaha Shogunate

1940-1942: Ikki Kita (Kodaha)
1942-1942: Hiranuma Kiichirō (Independent)
1942-1942: Fumimaro Konoe (Atarashī Hōkō-sei)

President of the Republic of Japan

1942-1945: Fumimaro Konoe (Atarashī Hōkō-sei)
1942 def. Hiranuma Kiichirō (Ōrudou~ei)
1945-1946: Tetsu Katayama (Socialist)
1946-1949: Tetsu Katayama (Independent - United Reform)
1946 def. Shūmei Ōkawa (Independent - National Anti-Capitalists)

1949-1950: Tetsu Katayama (Socialist)
1950-0000: Shūmei Ōkawa (Independent - Shōwa Restoration)
1950 def. Tetsu Katayama (Socialist), Jōtarō Kawakami (Independent - United Reform)
 
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Three Lions '97

POD: England beats Germany in penalties and eventually wins Euro '96. This causes John Majors numbers to increase enough so that Blair is forced into a coalition with Ashdown. Side note, Roger Knapman doesn't lose his seat meaning Kilroy doesn't leave UKIP.

1997-2004: Tony Blair (Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition)
1997: Tony Blair (Labour), John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Lib.Dem.), David Trimble (UUP)
2001: Tony Blair (Labour), Michael Portillo (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Lib.Dem.)

2004-05: Tony Blair (Labour-Lib.Dem. minority)
2005-15: Sebastian Coe (Conservative)

2005: Sebastian Coe (Conservative), Progressive Alliance (Tony Blair (Labour), Simon Hughes (Lib.Dem.)), George Galloway (RESPECT), Robert Kilroy-Silk (UKIP)
2010: Sebastian Coe (Conservative), Vince Cable (Progressives), Jeremy Corbyn (RESPECT), Robert Kilroy-Silk (UKIP), Caroline Lucas (Green)
2015: Jack Straw (Progressive)

2015: Jack Straw (Progressive), Sebastian Coe (Conservative), Dianne Abbot (RESPECT), Mike Hookem (UKIP), Caroline Lucas (Green)

If Gareth Southgate Had Not Played

This is very good! :D and a great title!
 
Prime Ministers of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

1951 - 1952: Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi (National Umma Party)
1951: Boycotted by pro-Egyptian opposition

Prime Ministers of Egyptian Sudan

1952 - 1954: Ismail al-Azhari ("Nile Valley" Unionist)
1954 - 1954: Babiker Awadalla (Independent)

Presidents of the Republic of Egypt and Sudan

1954 - 1957: Abdel Gamal Nasser (Revolutionary Command Council represented by Sudanese Council of Delegates)

Presidents of the Republic of Sudan

1957 - 1958: Hassan at-Taheer Zarouq (Democratic Front)
1957 def: Ismail al-Azhari (National Union), Mahmoud Mohammed Taha (Republican Brothers)
1958 - 1961: Mustafa Othman Makkawi † (Military leading National Union)
1961 - 0000: Tijani al-Mahi (National Union)
1962 def: Ali al-Mirghani (People's Party)

Sudan achieves home rule in 1951 after accelerated negotiations with Attlee and Farouk, three years after its first parliamentary elections. Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi is easily elected Prime Minister, but quickly alienates his nominal allies in the south by filling the government with members of his own National Umma Party. Seizing on the momentum of Naguib's coup in Cairo, Ismail al-Azhari allies himself with the Khatmiyya Sufi order and junior army officers to overthrow al-Mahdi and the Umma. A new deal is struck between al-Azhari, Naguib, and a significantly wearier Attlee ending British co-rule. Al-Azhari attempts to keep Sudan united with Egypt while battling a growing insurrection in the largely Christian south, but Naguib, despite his own Sudanese heritage, proves less than enthusiastic to provide aid. Naguib's replacement by Nasser in 1954 coincides with al-Azhari's own forced resignation. The succeeding government is fraught and reluctantly persuaded by Nasser to come to a negotiated settlement with the de facto independent south; the Republic of Equatoria declares its independence from Egyptian Sudan on 1 February 1956. In Khartoum, the office of Prime Minister is abolished and Nasser becomes President of Egypt and Sudan.

The Ansar led by al-Mahdi from his exile in Mecca forms a lasting bond with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, while Mirghani's Khatmiyya takes up the banner of independence for the north as well and calls for a return to Islamic governance. Nasser and his allies on the Sudanese Delegate Council crack down on all three groups, with varying success; many junior officers in Sudan turn away from Nasserism to join the clandestine Sudanese Communist Party, which also agitates from separation from Egypt. With the situation spiraling out of control, the Delegate Council dissolves itself and calls for new assembly elections in 1957, hoping to force a referendum on independence. The Communist-led Democratic Front sweep the election and immediately declare an independent Republic of Sudan. Faced with a potentially devastating conflict, Nasser acquiesces but begins cultivating dissent within the Sudanese officer corps. A Nasser-backed coup takes place the following year, ensuring a friendly government on Egypt's southern border.
 
wen u say something as a joke and it doesnt go away

@Comisario @Meadow @Lord Roem

1945-1952: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1945 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (National Government - Conservatives, Liberal Nationals, National Labour), Sir Archibald Sinclair, 4th Baronet (Liberal)
1950 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Woolton-Teviot-Palmer Pact - Conservatives, National Liberals, National Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal)

1952-1957: Anthony Eden (Conservative - Anti-Socialist)
1952 (Anti-Socialist Union with Liberals and ASWM) def. Clement Attlee (Labour)
1957-1960: Rab Butler (Conservative - Anti-Socialist)
1957 (Anti-Socialist Union with ASWM and Liberals) def. Herbert Morrison (Labour)
1960-1961: Iain Macleod (Conservative - Anti-Socialist)
1961-1971: Tony Greenwood (Labour)
1961 (Majority) def. Iain Macleod (Anti-Socialist Union - Conservatives, Liberals, Anti-Socialist Workers' Movement)
1966 (Majority) def. Iain Macleod (Anti-Socialist Union)

1971-1976: Francis Noel-Baker (Anti-Socialist Union)
1971 (Majority) def. Tony Greenwood (Labour), Desmond Donnelly (Independent Workers' Movement)
1975 (Minority) def. Barbara Castle (Labour), John Kingsley Read (British Workers' Front)

1976-1978: Enoch Powell (Anti-Socialist-BWF Coalition)
 
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2010-2015: David Cameron (Conservative)

2015: David Cameron (Conservative) [330] Ed Miliband (Labour) [232] Nicola Sturgeon (SNP) [56] Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat) [8] Peter Robinson (DUP) [8] Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein) [4] Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru) [3] Alasdair McDonnell (SDLP) [3] Mike Nesbitt (UUP) [2] Nigel Farage (UKIP) [1] Natalie Bennett (Green Party England & Wales) [1] Sylvia Herman (Independent) [1] John Bercow (Speaker) [1]

Just months after taking office, David Cameron was hit by a most unusual scandal. A major Tory donor accused him of fucking a dead pig as part of a University initiation. This was originally treated as a humourous aside, but as further allegations against Oxford drinking societies emerged it rapidly became clear that this would turn into a major national scandal. Cameron was deposed very quickly, leaving a battle for new leader of the party.

Conservative 2015 Leadership Election

First Ballot
Theresa May: 95
Michael Gove: 76
Oliver Letwin: 73
Philip Hollobone: 43
Stephen Crabb: 41


Second Ballot
Theresa May: 119
Michael Gove: 91
Stephen Crabb: 73
Philip Hollobone: 66
Oliver Letwin: 42


David Cameron was the fourth major party leader to be replaced since the start of 2015, and even the hint of a Tory leadership election caused a surge of membership to the party. Support for Hollobone surprised many people in the parliamentary party, worse still, surprise revelations against Stephen Crabb and Michael Gove meant that he would have been placed on the member's ballot. After frenzied negotiations he stood down for Theresa May and was made Home Secretary.

2015-2016: Theresa May (Conservative)

Theresa May attempted to reboot the Conservative government, offering national investment and a "small but strong state". Her first challenge, however, was to complete the EU renegotiation deal that Cameron had started and win the referendum. She refused help from Labour and attempted to brand the Referendum materials with as much Conservative colours as possible. She refused debates but wrote a personal letter from the Office of the Prime Minister to all voters, and used her signature and face on billboards. The "Britain Remain: A Strong, Stable EU in the National Interest" campaign was not entirely successful.

2016 EU Referendum: Leave: 59.2% Remain 40.8%

Conservative 2016 Leadership Election

First Ballot
Amber Rudd: 189
Theresa Villiers: 99
Philip Hollobone: 89
Zac Goldsmith: 32


Second Ballot
Amber Rudd: 178
Theresa Villiers: 138
Philip Hollobone: 93


Third Ballot
Theresa Villiers: 166
Amber Rudd: 163


Membership Ballot
Theresa Villiers: 63.2%
Amber Rudd: 36.8%


A concerted effort was made, in the 2016 Conservative Leadership election, to keep Hollobone off the nominations list. Meanwhile other candidates attempted to take his vote.

July 2016-September 2016: Theresa Villiers (Conservative)

Promising a hard Brexit and policies including a Burqa ban and increased military funding, Villiers attempted to push her party to the right. She had also, during the campaign, agreed with one of Hollobone's policies: to hold a snap election. This was believed to be a safe bet. Labour were attempting to unseat Jeremy Corbyn and the painful, drawn out, procedure was affecting them in the polls while the Conservatives experienced their second membership surge with a meaningful vote for Prime Minister on offer for members.

September 2016-February 2017: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour) coalition with Nicola Sturgeon (SNP)

2016: Theresa Villiers (Conservative) [281] Jeremy Corbyn (Labour) [279] Nicola Sturgeon (SNP) [49] Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat) [17] Arlene Foster (DUP) [9] Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein) [6] Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru) [4] Colum Eastwood (SDLP) [1] Mike Nesbitt (UUP) [1] Caroline Lucas (Green Party England & Wales) [1] Sylvia Herman (Independent) [1] John Bercow (Speaker) [1]

Pulling themselves together quickly and rallying around the newly re-elected Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party did surprisingly well in the national elections. While they were placed second it became clear that the SNP could not feasibly work with anyone else. They were however unhappy backing a Labour government, the government collapsed on the issue of Scotland remaining in the Customs Union.

2017-????: Philip Hollobone (Conservative)

2017: Philip Hollobone (Conservative) [345] Jeremy Corbyn (Labour) [256] Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat) [14] Nicola Sturgeon (SNP) [13] Arlene Foster (DUP) [10] Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein) [7] Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru) [2] Caroline Lucas (Green Party England & Wales) [1] Sylvia Herman (Independent) [1] John Bercow (Speaker) [1]

Finally in a position of leadership, Hollobone pushed his "Brexit Army" across the country, taking seats that had previously been considered unwinnable, such as Mansfield. Finally, the Conservatives had a healthy majority. Already the government has repealed laws against ocean plastics pollution and deadlines on carbon reduction, which they felt was making the country uncompetitive, affirmative action and positive discrimination have been banned, and the government is moving towards its targets to ban burqas in public buildings and legalise fox hunting. Perhaps most significantly, Britain is set to leave the EU on 2 August. The long battle towards Brexit is finally coming to an end and stability seems to have returned.
 
The Electoral History of Douglas Carswell (2001-2017)

2001: Conservative, candidate for Sedgefield
2001 defeated by Tony Blair (Labour)
2005-2010: Conservative, MP for Harwich
2005 def. Ivan Henderson (Labour), Keith Tully (Liberal Democrat), Jeffrey Titford (UKIP)
2010-2014: Conservative, MP for Clacton
2010 def. Ivan Henderson (Labour), Michael Green (Liberal Democrat), Jim Taylor (BNP), Terry Allen (Tendring First), Chris Southall (Green)
2014-2017: UKIP, MP for Clacton
2014 def. Giles Watling (Conservative), Tim Young (Labour), Chris Southall (Green), Andy Graham (Liberal Democrat)
2015 def. Giles Watling (Conservative), Tim Young (Labour), Chris Southall (Green), David Grace (Liberal Democrat)

2017-2017: Independent, MP for Clacton
2017-2017: Anti-Federalist, MP for Clacton
2017: Anti-Federalist, candidate for Clacton
2017 defeated by Giles Watling (Conservative)
 
I got extremely carried away doing a list to explain an infobox that @Gonzo did in his test thread on AH.com which I will link in the title to this list.

A Theoretical Look... Backward?

Presidents of the Second Republic of the United States of America

1909-1913: William Howard Taft (Republican)
1908 (with James S. Sherman) def. William Jennings Bryan (Democratic)
1913-1917: Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive)
1912 (with Hiram Johnson) def. Champ Clark (Democratic), William Howard Taft (Republican)
1917-1919: Theodore Roosevelt (Second National Union)
1916 (with Thomas R. Marshall) def. Hiram Johnson ('Peace Union')
1919-1921: Thomas R. Marshall (Second National Union)
1921-1925: Leonard Wood (Independent)
1920 (with Herbert Hoover) def. William Gibbs McAdoo (Democratic), Hiram Johnson (Progressive), Frank Orren Lowden (Republican)
1925-1927: Leonard Wood (Americanist Union)
1924 (with Robert L. Bullard) def. Herbert Hoover (Progressive), William Gibbs McAdoo (Democratic), Irvine Lenroot (Republican)
1927-1933: Robert L. Bullard (Americanist Union)
1928 (with Alvin M. Owsley) def. Joe T. Robinson (Constitutional Union), Theodore G. Bilbo ('Klan Kandidate' Democrat)
1933-1938: Hugh S. Johnson (Americanist Union)
1932 (with Ellison D. Smith) def. Herbert Hoover (Constitutional Union)
1936 (with Ellison D. Smith) def. no effective opposition


Directors of the Third Republic of the United States of America

1938-1945: Hugh S. Johnson (Americanist Union)
1940 def. Ellison D. Smith (Independent)
1945-1953: Huey Long (Americanist Union)
1944 def. no effective opposition
1948 def. no effective opposition
1952 def. no effective opposition

1953-1958: Earl Long (Americanist Union - Longist Faction)
1956 def. Alvin M. Owsley (Americanist Union - Legionary Faction)
1958-1961: Dwight D. Eisenhower (Independent leading Military Regime, backed by Legionary Faction)

Presidents of the Fourth Republic of the United States of America

1961-1965: Dwight D. Eisenhower (Constitutional Union)
1960 (with Henry Cabot Lodge) def. Strom Thurmond (Americans United)
1965-1969: Henry Cabot Lodge (Constitutional Union)
1964 (with George Wallace) def. Hubert Humphrey (Independent)
1969-1973: George Wallace (National Renovation)
1968 (with Winthrop Rockefeller) def. Hubert Humphrey (Progressive)
1973-1977: George McGovern (Progressive)
1972 (with Pete McCloskey) def. Winthrop Rockefeller (National Renovation), Hector P. Garcia (Raza Unida)
1977-1985: Harry Byrd Jr. (National Renovation)
1976 (with Harry D. Boivin) def. Pete McCloskey (Progressive), Xenaro Ayala (Raza Unida)
1980 (with Harry D. Boivin) def. Frank Church (Progressive), Cesar Chavez (Raza Unida)


So in this world, Taft takes a more forceful position in trying to back up Diaz, drawing America into an unpleasant multi-sided guerrilla war. Clark triumphs over Wilson at the Democratic Convention and Roosevelt is able to articulate a stronger position, triumphing over the Republicans and Democrats alike. He sponsors a 'progressive alternative' in Mexico, but the war causes a big refugee crisis and distinctly blurs the border between America and Mexico with a lot migrants heading north to safer climes. Roosevelt then takes America into WW1 in 1915, when the new ultranationalist dictatorship of Mexico opposed to the fractious American-sponsored client state accepts a much earlier and undetected version of the Zimmerman Telegram. Many in America argue that the Mexican situation should be treated separately from the war in Europe but Roosevelt isn't having any of it and in 1916 forms a new National Union for the duration of the war with an aligned Democratic Vice President and he wins in a landslide. His death in 1919 only worsens the continuing fragmentation of American politics. The devotion of American resources and funds to the bloody war in Mexico means less support for the Entente, ironically leading a wheezing stalemate in Europe in 1920. America triumphs over Mexico and installs a puppet dictator, the progressive alternative long forgotten but a lot of Americans feel hard done by out of the war.

Military hero Leonard Wood triumphs over a divided field and is forced to deal with the post-war economic slump. Much blame is put on 'cheap migrant workers' from Europe and Mexico who come to America from their wartorn and depressed home nations. He forms the Americanist Union ahead of the 1924 election, which is grounded in 'common sense' economics, anti-socialism and nativism. With the Republicans increasingly irrelevant and the Democrats more and more confined to the South, they win in a landslide. Wood's death in 1927 leads to the Bullard Presidency, where the Americanist Union becomes increasingly 'fascist'. Progressives and fellow travellers in the Republican and Democratic parties gather together in Opposition. Then in 1929 the Square Mile Crash occurs, leading to rise of the Popular Front in Britain, and a renewed economic crisis in America. Bullard's common sense economics aren't enough and he is primaried by Hugh S. Johnson who has a far more radical solution to America's travails. He narrowly triumphs over Hoover in 1932, having integrated the white supremacist rump of the Democrats, and over the next four years slowly tears the Constitution to shreds. After a farcical election in 1936 where there is no actual opposition, he takes the final step and establishes America is a fascist military dictatorship.

The dictatorship lasts until the 1950s when tensions between the Long political machine and the military establishment grow too much to bear. With the death of Huey Long there is some hope for change, but his mentally unstable brother triumphs over the elderly Owsley. The dictatorship disintegrates rapidly and retired General Eisenhower launches a military coup that re-establishes a much amended Constitution and he wins the 1960 Presidential election on the old Hoover Constitutional Union ticket.

The Constitutional Union disintegrates when Lodge nominates George Wallace which is seen as shaking hands with the remnants of the Americanist Union. The work of Reconstruction argue the Progressive affiliates who break away. What remains of the Constitutionalists argue that Reconstruction isn't really necessary, whats needed is more like... Renovation. And when Wallace runs for his own term in 1968 its on the National Renovation platform. Meanwhile, the Chicano population of the Southwest ballooned under the Americanist Union, hundreds of thousands being recruited to work in the fields while America's manpower was forced into conscription and into the bloody wars of 'Anti-Socialist Defence' in Latin America, Subsaharan Africa and East Asia. With the Progressive Party being socially liberal, this large Catholic population turns instead to an emergent political movement called Raza Unida which gains in leaps and bounds over the following years. The election of McGovern is done with the votes of many Chicanos, but slow progress of his term and the increasingly socially liberal and economically centrist position of McCloskey leads to Raza Unida getting a shot in the arm. With what could have been a loyal voting block lost, Harry Byrd is confident enough in 1980 to run for a second term and wins, the first two term President since the establishment of the Fourth Republic.
 
The Electoral History of Desmond Donnelly (1943-1975)

1943-1945: Common Wealth Party, MP for Burton-on-Trent
1943 def: John Gretton (Conservative)
1945: Common Wealth Party, candidate for Evesham
1945 defeated by: Rupert de la Bere (Conservative), Duncan McGuffie (Liberal)
1946-1950: Northern Ireland Labour Party, MP for Down
1946 def: J. Hastings-Little (Ulster Unionist), James Brown (Independent Unionist), Charles Heron Mullan (Independent Unionist)
1950: Northern Ireland Labour Party, candidate for North Down
1950 defeated by: Walter Smiles (Ulster Unionist)
1950-1953: Northern Ireland Labour Party, Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament for Belfast Woodvale
1950 def: Robert Harcourt (Ulster Unionist), Robert Hill (Independent Unionist), David Parker (Independent Unionist)
1953 defeated by:
Robert Harcourt (Ulster Unionist)
1955-1964: Northern Ireland Labour Party, Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament for Belfast Woodvale
1955 def: Neville Martin (Ulster Unionist), William Davies (Political Front for Britain)
1958 def: Neville Martin (Ulster Unionist)
1962 def: James Frazer Kerr (Ulster Unionist)

1964-1969: New Commonwealth Party, Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament for Belfast Woodvale
1965 def: Billy Boyd (Northern Ireland Labour), John McQuade (Independent Unionist)
1970-1972: Ulster Unionist Party, MP for North Down
1970 def: Kenneth Young (Northern Ireland Labour), Robert Samuel Nixon (Independent Unionist), Sheelagh Murnaghan (Ulster Liberal)
1972-1974: Ulster Vanguard, MP for North Down
1974 (Feb) defeated by: Roy Bradford (Unionist Party of Northern Ireland), Dermot Curran (Social Democratic and Labour)
1974: Ulster Vanguard, candidate for North Down
1974 (Oct) defeated by: Roy Bradford (Ulster Unionist), Keith Jones (Alliance)
1975: National Front, candidate for Worthing West
1975 defeated by: Peter Bottomley (Conservative), Joseph Stanyer (Labour), Sheilagh Hobday (Liberal), Ronald Mallone (Fellowship), Frank Hansford-Miller (English National)

Donnelly's unique political development took him from being a left-winger campaigning for democracy in the by-elections of the Second World War, through a stage of outspoken dedication to Northern Irish constituents, towards a committed opposition to Communism. This latter phase, which ended up with vociferous condemnation of the trade unions which had supported his NILP career, forced him to start his own party, the New Commonwealth Party, which harked back to both the Common Wealth Party of the Second World War, and the Commonwealth Labour Party of Harry Midgley in Stormont, which had been in an arms-length alliance with the Ulster Unionists in the 1940s. In 1965, Donnelly's ticket was unopposed by the UUP in Woodvale, and Donnelly was later convinced to step down for a UUP candidate in exchange for a return to Westminster. This return was quite sensible, as Donnelly was increasingly scared of Republican violence targeting his right-wing views, so he spent most of the early 1970s in Westminster, occasionally returning for the quasi-fascist rallies of the Vanguard movement, to which he defected in 1972. Defeated in 1974, he committed suicide after losing his deposit in the Worthing West by-election - although he did beat his old Common Wealth comrade, Ronald Mallone, who was leader of the proto-green Fellowship Party.

Interestingly, just as in OTL, Donnelly was opposed in 1955 by the time-travelling Politibrit @KingCrawa, who goes back in time to attempt to defeat Donnelly after it is discovered by temporal researchers that this is a sure-fire way of avoiding Brexit. In 25.6% of timelines, Crawa goes back under a 'foolproof' pseudonym, but he has only won three times. And in two of these timelines, his actions accidentally bring about the disestablishment of the Church of England, so it's a bit narratively tragic.
 
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