After the Election: Is this a turning point for the United Kingdom?
23-April-2005 @ 11:21:06
After the Election: Is this a turning point for the United Kingdom? Panel discussion, Friday 6 May 2005, New York City
The Election Night Party and our panel discussion in London in November 2004 showed how much interest there was in elections on the other side of the Atlantic (see http://www.t-i.org.uk/pastevents.php for details). In similar spirit, the TI are planning a panel discussion in New York City about the UK General Election.
Voters go to the polls in the United Kingdom on Thursday 5 May. The polls close at 10 PM British Summer Time (5 PM EDT) and the first electoral constituency result (legislator's seat in the House of Commons) is usually declared within an hour. As the results were announced at the general election in 2001, the Labour Party passed the "winning post" of 330 seats, giving them an overall majority in the House of Commons, five hours after the polls closed, but counts in outlying regions were not completed until the following day. Will Labour win a historic third landslide, or will this election be a much closer contest than 1997 and 2001? The outcome should be clear on the morning of Friday 6 May, but details of event format and content are subject to change depending on the circumstances.
Further details of this event -- venue, timing and content -- will be posted on this page. Please visit again soon.
Posted by William Arthurs
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The Election Night Party and our panel discussion in London in November 2004 showed how much interest there was in elections on the other side of the Atlantic (see http://www.t-i.org.uk/pastevents.php for details). In similar spirit, the TI are planning a panel discussion in New York City about the UK General Election.
Voters go to the polls in the United Kingdom on Thursday 5 May. The polls close at 10 PM British Summer Time (5 PM EDT) and the first electoral constituency result (legislator's seat in the House of Commons) is usually declared within an hour. As the results were announced at the general election in 2001, the Labour Party passed the "winning post" of 330 seats, giving them an overall majority in the House of Commons, five hours after the polls closed, but counts in outlying regions were not completed until the following day. Will Labour win a historic third landslide, or will this election be a much closer contest than 1997 and 2001? The outcome should be clear on the morning of Friday 6 May, but details of event format and content are subject to change depending on the circumstances.
Further details of this event -- venue, timing and content -- will be posted on this page. Please visit again soon.
Posted by William Arthurs
.