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UK General Election, 1988
Willie Whitelaw had a stroke in December 1987 and resigned in early January. In the resultant leadership election the Tories' Crown Princess Margaret Thatcher beat Trade Secretary Michael Heseltine to the leadership by a landslide. She quickly called a general election, campaigning on the seven consecutive years of economic growth and how she faced down the unpopular Ted Kennedy as Foreign Secretary. Hattersley got little credit for casting out his party's "militants" and Steel was nowhere to be seen in between the election debates, where he was sidelined. Now in power with an increased majority, Thatcher got to work on the neoliberal and local government reforms which her aged predecessor had restrained from.

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Canadian Federal Election, 1988
Joe Clark by 1988 had become "Mr Dithers". This came from inaction over everything from the constitution to free trade. Every wing of the party was becoming increasingly intolerant of him, especially after his dynamic foreign minister Brian Mulroney resigned after being injured in the Whitehall Bombing. Their main threat wasn't the Liberals, however: they were more divided then ever after Turner decided to stay as leader after 1984. Rather Preston Manning's Reform movement was what was scaring the PCs. Born from dissatisfaction at Clark's Red Toryism and his focus on Quebec there was the risk that the Prairie Populists might split the Tory votes and let the Liberals in, something that Clark drilled down hard to supporters. In the end, the PCs won a minority which Reform only backed up as long as Clark resigned within a year.

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Turquoise Blue

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timeforce red said:
i should have mentioned that it is a series of Infoboxs about Female Celebrities who made different life choices from what they did in OTL
now i am think what is acceptable to put up and what is not acceptable to put up.
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If its like the really nasty one a while ago, don't bother.

But if you think they are not, then why not post those up and let us judge?
 
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timeforce red

no i meant like instead of say becoming an actress they become a Dancer or a skater or a journalist maybe a TV Presenter or a Sports start nothing like the nasty one that i put up quite some time ago hey they could even be a Lawyer or a police officer ther are so many careers to choose from that are not Nasty ones.
 
Callan

Callan

US Presidential Election, 1988
Vice President Reubin Askew looked like a very good bet going into the Primaries: he was close enough to the outgoing President Ted Kennedy to take credit for his popular public service reforms, but at the same time far away enough from him to avoid association with his alleged dodgy dealings with the mafia and the IRA. Sailing through the primaries, he picks one of his primary challengers Joe Biden to balance the ticket. Promising "cleaner politics" following the many tribulations of Ted Kennedy's presidency is attractive to many centrists but turns off some liberals. Meanwhile the Republicans, following the disaster of 1984, are also looking for a new, moderate image. They find it in congressman Jack Kemp, who unlike his rivals has appeal in the conservative wing of the party. He also promises to keep many of Kennedy's policies but streamline and eliminate inefficient and corrupt projects, promising to finance tax cuts by introducing a spending freeze. He makes history by making moderate Kansas senator Nancy Kassebaum the first female running mate in US history.

Going into the general election both candidates make a number of gaffes: Kemp's previous criticism of soccer as a "European socialist sport" is widely mocked and Askew and Biden contradict each other on tax policy at separate rallies. The two candidates, both reformers with frank personalities promising to streamline popular Kennedy initiatives mean that the election is seen as "too close to care": the candidates are at 50-50 for most of the campaign.

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There is much embarrassment for pollsters when, contradictory to the exit polls, Kemp wins a convincing majority over Askew. In his inauguration speech, Kemp promises "a fresh start" and offers to rebuild the shattered "special relationship" with Britain.

Canadian Federal Election, 1989
Clark initially tries to stay on as PM, only to resign when he realises how serious the Reformers are at deposing him. In the Liberal camp Turner was quickly knifed in the back following his defeat and is replaced by former rival Jean Chretien. Justice Minister Lucien Bouchard unexpectedly wins the PC leadership race: in spite of his Quebec nationalism, he is seen as the best choice to keep hold of the party's base in the province, reinforced when he comes up against the monolingual John Crosbie in the final round of the election. Knowing that Reformers will not support him, he calls a snap election in the Autumn of 1989, catching everyone else off-guard. While the PCs sweep Quebec and the Maritimes, many westerners are put off by Chretien's bickering with Bouchard over Quebec's status within Canada. As a result Reform eats away at the PC's traditional Albertan base. Chretien is forced out immediately after leading his party to a fourth consecutive defeat and Bouchard sets to work on something that even Trudeau never got to: reforming and repatriating the Canadian Constitution.

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TL-74
UK General Election, February 1974
UK General Election, October 1974
UK General Election, 1978 & Canadian Federal Election 1979
US Presidential Elections, 1976 & 1980
Canadian Federal Election 1980 & UK General Election 1981
Labour Leadership Election, 1981 & Scottish Assembly Election 1982
Canadian Federal Election, 1984; US Presidential Election, 1984 & UK General Election 1985
The Troubles and Ted Kennedy
UK General Election, 1988 & Canadian Federal Election 1988
 
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timeforce red said:
no i meant like instead of say becoming an actress they become a Dancer or a skater or a journalist maybe a TV Presenter or a Sports start nothing like the nasty one that i put up quite some time ago hey they could even be a Lawyer or a police officer ther are so many careers to choose from that are not Nasty ones.
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Then put those up. They sounds fine.
 

Kaiser K

the 1933 American Crisis (also commonly called the Second American Civil War) was a 6 month political standoff in the aftermath of the Communist Party USA's January coup d'état against the Hoover government, and it's institutions in the wake of the of the disastrous 1932 Presidential Elections, which saw Military Police and elements of the Army harass Communist voters, beat Communist sympathizers to a point where they were sent to the Hospital, harassing Female voters young and old and preventing them from Voting in the Election, attacking and murdering Civilians and people deemed enemies of Washington's interests, all cultimating in the Black Box Ring's plan to rig the 1932 election, which resulted in Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democratic candidate winning the election, over the actual winner, the Communist Party's leader, Orman Rovelle Brussells, and resulted in the CPUSA's coup d'état on January 3rd, 1933, 3 days after the story of the rigging broke in the Washington Times, and just 17 days before Roosevelt was set to take office as the 33rd President of the United States, the standoff between the Communists, who had taken control of most of the capital city of Washington, where the rump Congress had declared Brussells President of the United States after convening about the rigged election results, and the remnants of the former Government, led by Vice President Curtis, John Nance Garner and General Douglas MacArthur, mainly took place in and around Washington, DC, as well as all over the country for control of the country as a whole, however many blunders by the Government leadership, as well as a shattered and disgruntled support base, growing Communist and Socialist support bases, and deep political infighting within the Governmental forces eventually led to a general collapse of Governmental control and strength in and outside of Washington, as states continued to gradually fall to Communist control until the Government lost it's last stronghold in New England, and ended in the consolidation of power in America for Brussells and the Communists, who eventually destroyed the last formal Governmental opposistion, capturing Charles Curtis and most of the leadership of the Black Box Ring and executing them for treason, the last Army Loyalists surrendered in July 1933, and the United States was soon formally disbanded, replaced by the Communist "Union of American Socialist Republics", which lasted until it's collapse in 1991, and many prominent Capitalist supporters, including such big businessmen as Henry Ford, Walt Disney, the Rockefeller family, and others fled the country as Communist forces solidified it's control over the former USA

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lord caedus

This is another of the "what if the election happened today" sort of deal. And since we clearly don't have enough Canadian election infoboxes, I thought I'd do one with Alberta's most recent poll numbers. Apparently, the Progressive Conservatives are *pretty* unpopular there at the moment, and the right-wing Wildrose Party is leading the current polling 46% to 19%, with the Liberals getting 16% and the New Democrats 15%.

I'm somewhat proud of this one, since I eschewed my own personal tastes to make an infobox in the same style as the OTL Canadian infoboxes, managed to make a pretty spiffy-looking map and calculated all results using a universal swing.

So here's the result:

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Complete and utter Wildrose curbstomp. The PCs get reduced to 2 seats and the only reason they don't lose those two is because of vote-splitting between Wildrose, the Liberals & NDP.

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Utgard96

Utgard96

Looks like 1935 all over again, except that here both the eclipsed party and the new government are broadly conservative, whereas 1935 saw agrarian social democrats overthrown by social-creditists-turned-right-wing-populists.
 

EmperorMing

Ease the Squeeze '04
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Howard, by delaying tax-cuts, creates a larger surplus in 2003-4, which forces the RBA to raise interest rates. Labor manages to hold its lead over the Coalition in the opinion polls throughout 2004 as Howard calls an earlier election when Latham's momentum seems to falter. Latham, however, runs a vigorous campaign, not making the mistakes he did OTL (Tasmanian Forest policy and 'The Handshake'™) and promising to redress the inequality in the education system, lower interest rates and to introduce 'Medicare Gold'. He responds to Howard's 'Who do you trust' mantra by presenting himself as an antipolitician, playing on the strong incredulity towards politicians that seemed to have developed.

Howard is replaced by Peter Costello, whose election to the leadership is closer than expected.

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TwiliAlchemist

TwiliAlchemist

An alternate timeline where the United States doesn't have a duel party system and instead have a coalition. They also took a more Roman approach to naming their government.

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Kaiser K

now, a Infobox for the former "Chief of the British State" and First Marshal of the Fascist Guard, as well as the longest served non monarchial leader in history, one Oswald Mosley

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RogueBeaver

RogueBeaver

From EOI-verse: Suzanne Sauvé, BMO executive and wife of federal Opposition Leader Mathieu Sauvé. Mme Sauvé met her future husband when they were both HEC sophomores in 1990 and by all accounts it was love at first sight. They married in 1996 and as a Desmarais, Suzanne knew well what her husband's entry into politics would entail. Like her Liberal counterpart, Arlene Perly Rae, Suzanne is popular with the party grassroots and is one of her husband's most influential advisers.

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