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what if the third republic still on tv todayDon't mind me and my love-filled eyes.
what if the third republic still on tv todayDon't mind me and my love-filled eyes.
I have written somewhere that the number’s grown from 65 to 71 - I think part of that would be from splitting the Hudson in three (covering very roughly Long Island, New Jersey and the Hudson Valley), but that leaves four new departments if that old scribble is to be followed. Which it probably isn’t.Are there plans to redivide départements should some of them grow enormously in population? Looking at Florida pre AC, there.
They technically did stand in 1966, but the only constituency where they got more than about fifty votes was the 7th (which still had a decent amount of farmland in its northern half in 1966).Obvious question being - what was the story behind Centre's decision to stand in Stockholm?
Thanks for this. Interesting to see GE turnout in local elections helping a minor party, when obviously in the UK it has the opposite effect.They technically did stand in 1966, but the only constituency where they got more than about fifty votes was the 7th (which still had a decent amount of farmland in its northern half in 1966).
Between 1966 and 1973, two big things happened that I’d say changed the dynamic. Firstly, the Liberals flagged quite badly without Ohlin, and the Centre took over their role as the party of sensible centrist non-socialists (in the terminology of the day) who felt a bit scared of the Moderates. Fälldin came to be seen as the natural leader of the non-socialist bloc, and his message of decentralisation and an end to overbearing state bureaucracy was beginning to resonate with urban voters as well.
Secondly, the municipal reform happened, and while it hardly changed Stockholm’s boundaries, it did change the election cycle from four-year terms with elections held in between parliamentary ones to three-year terms with all levels of government elected on the same day. This had been a Social Democratic demand, because their voters had a (rumoured) tendency to skip local elections and this was thought to have caused the massive losses in 1966. But it also had the obvious side effect of “nationalising” local party systems, which includes the Centre winning seats on urban councils for the first time ever.