ELECTIONS

• Đỗ Minh Anh
• Nguyễn Thị Ánh
• Nguyễn Thị Thảo 342
• Nguyễn Thu Trang
• Lưu Thành Vinh
MONDAY, 28th,
FEBRUARY

OUTLINE OF OUR
PRESENTATION 1. ELECTON-
NIGHT

2. RECENT
RESULTS &
THE FUTURE
WATCHING VIDEO
1. ELECTIONS- NIGHT

• Voting is broadcast on BBC and

ITV with milions watching and
become a television extravaganza.
 • The election takes place
at 2 intervals:

- 2am-finish: at least half of

- Opening the constituencies will have
time-11pm: declared the results, and the
the race to prediction will be spoken
declare and by experts on the television
the count is :’ which party will have a
in progress majority in the House of
Commons, and which party
leader is going to be the
Prime Minister.
• It takes a long time to bring all the
ballot papers together or the necessity
of one or more “recounts” in rural areas
(mostly in Scotland or Nothern
Ireland).
• In some cases the election results differ
by a handful of votes, a recount will be
carried out if there is any doubt
2. Recent results and the future

• The middle of 20th century :

election is the fight between
Labour and Conservative
- The north of England : Labour
MPs
- The south of England:
Conservative MPs
• During the 1980s : the vast
majority

- Since the 1970s : the

respective nationalist parties in
both countries have regularly
won a few seats in Parliament.
• The Liberal party was strong in
Scotland and Wales

- Protestant Unionist MPs and Catholic

Nationalist MPs has about the same
proportion in Northern Ireland

- Protestant Unionist MPs :2/3

- Catholic Nationalist MPs:1/3

• From 1945 to 1987 : The
Conservatives were more
successful than the Labour.

- Labour : 2/5 occasions was

the majority comfortable

- Conservatives : won a
majority 7 times
• In the 1992 election , the
Conservative won for the fourth

- Is the first time this party had

been achieved for more than 160
years

- 1970s :Labour's has declined in

the previous four decades

- Possible reorganization of British

politics
• In 1997 ,the picture changed
dramatically

- Voting habits in Britain, reflecting the

weakening of the class system, are no
longer tribal.
- Labour party was regarded as the
political arm of the trade unions.

- Labour has now got rid of its trade-union

image.
- It is capable of winning as many middle-
class votes as the Conservatives
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