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Recent content by Uhura's Mazda

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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    One of my hobby-horses on NZ historical politics is that the people designated as 'conservatives' were closer to what we would now think of as the left than the 'liberals' were, being more interested in things like social welfare (Harry Atkinson made the first NZ proposal for sickness, old age...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    I've described at length how Chile's centrist parties (the Liberals, Liberal Democrats and Nationals) basically didn't exist, either as defined parliamentary parties or as genuine political-ideological tendencies. But surely the poles of the party system, the Radicals and Conservatives, were a...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    In 1896, there was a Presidential election in Chile which exemplifies the political situation I've been talking about: a very close face-off between two members of the Liberal Party, one aligned with the centre-right Coalition, and the other with the centre-left Liberal Alliance. Unfortunately I...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    I think people (people involved in politics, that is) identified quite strongly with their parties, they just didn't let their party identification have any undue influence over their policy positions or their support of a government. Certainly you wouldn't have 14 people whose affiliation to...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    @Ares96 That would be really useful actually! Turning our gaze back to the 1890s, let's look at how elections in Chile were perverted at this time. In the years 1829-1891, the strong Presidency guaranteed that all national elections would be won by the side favoured by the government - the only...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    No - Puerto Montt is down in Llanquihue, the southern province represented by a single unopposed Conservative. I've seen it split up, with the bottom half next to the top half. I've also seen it presented sideways, which would make it easier to fit on a single laptop screen. But these options...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    After a long time bashing my head against a brick wall looking for sources, I think I'm now in a position to map some Chilean elections. There are some provisos to this: my source for the numbers of votes and seats between 1891 and 1925 comes from some scans of a book (German Urzua Valenzuela's...
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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    NZ General Election 2023 Freethinkers' Party - 73 seats (55.61%) NZ People's Party - 18 seats (9.61%) Anti-Revolutionary Party - 15 seats (7.63%) Third Way - 13 seats (6.85%) Rātana - 1 seat (1.42%) This is the results of the religion question in the last NZ census applied to NZ's electoral...
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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    P.J. Kelly (1869-1936) 1924-1925: Leader of the Irish Democratic Party 1924-1925: Irish Democratic Party MP for Liverpool Exchange 1924 def: Sir Leslie Scott (Unionist) 1925-1928: Leader of the Catholic Representation Association 1925-1928: Catholic Representation Association MP for Liverpool...
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    Prime Ministers of the Kingdom of Ireland 1889-1893: John Ballance (Liberal) 1893-1894: John Thompson (Tory) 1894-1910: Joseph Ward (Liberal) 1910: Frederick Boyd (Liberal) 1910-1919: William Massey (Tory) 1919: Henry Mitchell (Tory) 1919-1928: Arthur Meighen (Progressive) 1928-1932: James...
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    Max's election maps and assorted others

    I'm only seeing four single-member constituencies - should the large eastern one have one less representative? Or does it have two because one of them is a 'best-loser' and you're not differentiating them visually?
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    Kings of England 1422-1487: Henry VI (House of Plantagenet-Lancaster) 1487-1516: Edward IV (House of Plantagenet-Lancaster) 1516-1528: Henry VII (House of Plantagenet-Lancaster) 1528-1582: Henry VIII (House of Plantagenet-Lancaster) 1582-1588: Edward V (House of Plantagenet-York) 1588-1602...
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    Cartographicum Thandeum

    Love the little flurries of Discharged Servicemen in 1919 and Communists in 1945.
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    UK General Election 2024 - Limited Vote Limited Vote (often called the 'Ley de Tercios' or similar) is an electoral system historically used in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain and Portugal - basically, if STV can be said to be Proportional Representation English Stylee, then this is the...
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    Nanwe's Maps and Graphics Thread

    And the Ecclesiastical districts are presumably elected by all the Catholic clergy (regular and secular?) therein? Would clergy also have a vote in the normal lower house elections?
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