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I genuinely went to the weather table first and thought "Huh, how on earth did the Barom party get 30.25 votes in North East Frefh?"

In 1919 Arthur Henderson (future and former Labour leader) won the Widnes by-election by 4.6 percentage points over the Unionist candidate, Francis Fisher. The reason this is interesting is because Fisher had been in the NZ House of Representatives since 1905, inheriting his father's seat in...

Yes, in map vibe terms they've gone from 1950s Poplar to contemporary Oxfordshire over the last 120 years. And most importantly, they have a stable, democratic and liberal political system despite going through a series of dictatorships, silly constitutional reforms, and patronage competitions...

Lacking a majority in the legislature, Lacalle attempted to form a coalition with the various sectors of the Colorado Party, appointing several Pachequistas and Batllistas as Ministers. They nominally signed up to Lacalle’s programme: one of privatisations, labour reforms and trade...

As the referendum on re-election failed to gain the approval of the electorate, Jorge Pacheco Areco’s Vice-Presidential running mate, Juan Maria Bordaberry, assumed the Presidency in 1972. Bordaberry is sometimes accused of being a National Party infiltrator into the Colorado tribe, but the...

The Blancos took power in 1959 for the first time in nearly a century. The nation they were to govern was declining from its brief golden age, suffering a combination of declining exports and mounting inflation. At the same time, the state had become a sclerotic source of employment for over a...

It's this 'coparticipation' principle. The Blancos had a hereditary fear of Colorado dictatorship so being in the room where the Colorados made the decisions was seen as a valuable win - at times. Sometimes they went further and desired to be the ones making the decisions, while at other points...

Andres Martinez Trueba broke almost immediately with the Quincistas who had promoted his candidacy: for the simple reason that Martinez was a true believer in the Colegiado, the nine-member Executive Power which Jose Batlle y Ordonez had originally envisioned. He announced his intentions soon...

Shortly after Alfredo Baldomir was sworn in as President, the Second World War broke out, with Uruguay being rapidly propelled into the limelight by the affair of the Graf Spee. This German naval vessel was chased into the Rio de la Plata by British (and New Zealand) warships and took refuge in...

Have a look at the California Digital Newspaper Collection, it's digitised, open access and has the LA Daily News back to literally 1860. [/researchlibrarian] Edit: yes, just checked the Daily News for 1 June 1949 and the front page confirms that only one City Council race was contested, along...

In 1933 things got really heated. Gabriel Terra’s fourth Minister of the Interior, Demicheli, walked out of the Senate while he was being questioned on his basic principles - which seemed to be given to fluctuate more than you would expect from a statesman. After the walkout, the Senate passed a...

So, in 2021 I wrote this in about half an hour and showed it to a mate, who thought it was excellent. The other day, he sent me the first fanfic anyone's ever made of my stuff: a review of the author's attempt at a sci-fi based cookbook.

This is horrifying. So for 1922, all those 'other' victories in the east are due to all the minor party votes being summed together in your source, right? And presumably this would affect majority shades in some of the other parishes?

Now both Batlle and Herrera, the populist leaders of their respective parties, were facing each other in the Council of Administration, with the balance of power being held by a Vierista, Caviglia, who had made a lukewarm commitment to vote together with the rest of the Colorados. But Herrera...

President Serrato chose his Ministers from all factions of the Colorado Party, including the Batllistas - but the Batllista Colorados who had provided the bulk of Serrato’s votes decided to bring down every single one of his starting line-up, including one of their own. Various fights were...

The Colorado negotiations in the 1920s are some of the most complicated solutions to the problem of 'how do we pay lip service to democracy while still getting the outcome we planned' I've ever seen. At one stage the Batllistas suggested that they should run two presidential candidates against...

In 1919, the new Uruguayan Constitution came into force, providing for a two-headed Executive consisting of a nine-member ‘Colegiado’ looking after ‘administrative’ portfolios and a President with authority over the armed forces and the Police. It also instituted proportional representation in...

When Feliciano Viera took power in 1915, he was pledged to continue the progressive policies of his predecessor, Jose Batlle y Ordonez, and in particular, to push for the replacement of the President with a collegiate executive, or Colegiado. The first electoral test during the Viera...

When the results of the 1910 legislative election were counted, the Colorado Party could afford to pat itself on the back: it possessed every seat but one in the Senate, and every seat but five in the Chamber. And as almost all of these people had pledged before their election to vote for Jose...

Although Jose Batlle y Ordonez had convincingly defeated the Nationalist opposition in both war and electoral politics, he was a controversial figure - both among the bitter Blancos and the more conservative end of the Colorados, who regarded his labour-friendly and anti-rancher policies with...