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History Paper 2: Sections 10 - Blair > General Elections - Key Facts > Flashcards

General Elections - Key Facts Flashcards

1
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Leader of the Liberal Democrats

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Paddy Ashdown

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2
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Opinion polls were predicting …

1997 General Election

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Large Labour lead

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Labour campaign was run by as a …

1997 General Election

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‘Spin’ Machine

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4
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Key catchphrases of Blair

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  • Tough on Crime, Tough on the Causes of Crime
  • Education, Education, Education!
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Campaign slogans of the Conservative Party in 1997

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  • Labour had ‘Stolen Conservative Policies’
  • ‘New Labour was Old Labour in disguise’
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6
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Person who set up the Referndum Party

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Sir James Goldsmith

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Seat that the Referendum Party helped to defeat the Conservative candidate in

1997 General Election

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Putney - David Mellor

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8
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Fraction of Conservatives that lost their seats

1997 General Election

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Half

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Prominent Conservatives that lost their seats

1997 General Election

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  • Michael Portillo
  • David Mellor
  • Norman Lamont
  • Malcolm Rikind
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Number of seats the Conservatives Won

1997 General Election

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165

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Number of seats Labour won

1997 General Election

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418

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Name given to the two sides of the Conservative Party

2001 General Election

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  • Mods - Modernisers
  • Rockers - conservatives
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Leader of the Conservative Party

2001 General Election

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William Hague

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Things that William Hague was mocked for

2001 General Election

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  • Wearning a baseball cap
  • Drinking 14 pints a day as a teenager
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15
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Right wing campaign slogan adopted by the Conservatives

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‘The Fight to save the £’

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Number of seats Labour won

2001 General Election

17
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Number of Seats the Conservatives won

2001 General Election

18
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Number of seats the Liberal Democrats won

2001 General Election

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Issues within the Labour Party

2005 General Election

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  • Iraq War
  • Divisions between the Blairites and the Brownites
20
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Leader of the Conservatives

2005 General Election

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Michael Howard

21
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Conservative Manifesto Policies

2005 General Election

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  • Tough line on Immigration
  • Law and Order
  • Cut Taxes
  • Reduction in the Public Sector
22
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Nickname Michael Portillo gave to the Conservaitve Party manifesto

2005 General Election

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Victor Meldrew Manifesto

23
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Number of seats Labour won

2005 General Election

24
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Number of seats the Conservatives won

2005 General Election

25
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Number of seats the Liberal Democrats won

2005 General Election

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62 - Most successful general election in history

26
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Number of seats that UKIP secured in the 1999 European elections

27
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Percentage of the Popular vote that UKIP recieved

2005 General Election

History Paper 2: Sections 10 - Blair (7 decks)

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