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    General elections were held in Sark on 10 December 2008, the first elections on the island. Fifty-seven candidates (12% of the 474 eligible electors) stood...
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    until 2008. It has a population of about 500. Sark (including the nearby island of Brecqhou) has an area of 2.10 square miles (5.44 km2). Little Sark is...
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    General elections were held in Sark on 12 December 2012 to elect half of the 28 members of the Chief Pleas. Ten conseillers were re-elected, four candidates...
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    The Seigneur of Sark is the lord of the manor of Sark in the Channel Islands. A female seigneur of Sark is called Dame of Sark, of which there have been...
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    General elections were held in Sark on 8 December 2010, the second elections held on the island under the 2008 Constitution. The elections were for 14...
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    States of Election". Guernsey Royal Court. "Government and Administration". States of Alderney. Retrieved 23 March 2013. "The Reform (Sark) Law, 2008" (PDF)...
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    Since 2008, Elections in Sark take place every two years to elect 14 members (called Conseillers) of the Chief Pleas, the parliament of Sark, to serve...
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    the 'establishment' Sark leaders that are still aligned with the feudal lord then they would pull out of Sark. After the 2008 election, the brothers claimed...
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  • The Privy Council approved the Sark law reforms, and the first elections under the new law will be held in December 2008 and the new chamber will first...
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    2017. "Sark Election: the candidates". BBC Guernsey. December 9, 2008. Archived from the original on December 12, 2008. Retrieved December 11, 2008. "Trio...
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  • five types of elections in the United Kingdom: elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom (commonly called 'general elections' when all seats...
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    of Guernsey overlooking Herm and tiny Jethou; a further channel separates Sark and surrounding islets such as Brecqhou; Normandy's long Cotentin Peninsula...
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    of Representatives election was held on November 5, 2024, alongside the 2024 United States elections. This was the first election under new legislative...
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  • In the 2005 general election, numerous minor or single issue candidates stood for election. Due to the first past the post electoral system, national fourth...
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    islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and some smaller islands. Historically, they are the remnants of the...
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    October 2018. Pact will 'empower NI electorate' BBC News, 6 December 2008 "General Election results". The Co-operative Party. "Human Rights Act 1988 – overview...
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    for the 2008 Guernsey general election. In 2022, both Alderney and Sark passed legislation which lowered the voting age to 16 for all elections going forward...
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    part of the Equiniti group. However, in 2008, the government announced that the Office of the Paymaster General would be incorporated into a new body,...
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    an independent, and finally joining the Labour Party. At the 1924 general election he stood in Birmingham Ladywood against the future prime minister,...
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    includes five other inhabited islands (Alderney, Herm, Jethou, Lihou, and Sark) and many small islets and rocks. The Bailiwick has a population of 63,950...
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    Starmer, who succeeded Rishi Sunak on 5 July 2024, following the 2024 general election. The position of prime minister was not created; it evolved slowly...
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    17 December 2019, having been unanimously re-elected after the 2019 general election. The speaker presides over the House's debates, determining which members...
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    ordinances approved by the States of Guernsey also apply to Alderney and Sark (the other component parts of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, along with Herm)...
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    1964 general election. He lost his seat in the election but was appointed to the post anyway. He resigned after fighting and losing a 1965 by-election in...
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  • opposition party. This has been the Liberal Democrats since the 2024 General Election. Although the Opposition has no more formal powers in setting the Parliamentary...
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    representatives from Alderney, a self-governing dependency within the Bailiwick, but Sark sends no representative. There are also two non-voting members - HM Procureur...
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    The Liberal Democrats were the third largest party until the 2015 general election when they were overtaken by the Scottish National Party in terms of...
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  • Alberta general election, while the first woman elected to the House of Commons of Canada was Agnes Macphail, in the 1921 Canadian federal election. Although...
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    constituencies at the United Kingdom general election on 4 July 2024. The number of seats rose from 646 to 650 at the 2010 general election after proposals made by...
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