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2013 Event - Iceland's center-right opposition party is set to return to power after the country's parliamentary election results are finalized

2013 Event - In Italy, a deal on forming a new government is finalized two months after the 2013 Italian parliamentary election

2013 Event - In Greenland, the Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, setting up Aleqa Hammond to become the country's first female Prime Minister

2013 Event - Egypt's government announces the country will hold parliamentary elections in April, 2013

2013 Event - Parliamentary elections are held in Monaco, with the the Horizon Monaco alliance winning 50.3% of the vote, securing 20 of 24 seats in the country's National Council

2012 Event - Prime Minister Victor Ponta, of the Social Liberal Union, is nominated by Romanian President, Traian Basescu, to form a new government after Romania holds its parliamentary election later this December

2012 Event - The parliamentary election in Georgia is determined to be 'fair and free' by the OSCE

2012 Event - Belarus holds parliamentary elections; the opposition boycotts the vote, claiming it is undemocratic

2012 Event - Angola holds Parliamentary elections

2012 Event - In Kuwait, voters go to the polls for a parliamentary election

2012 Event - The main opposition leader of the Democratic Republic of the congo condemns parliamentary election as rigged; he calls for a strike in protest of his house arrest

2011 Event - The Cote d'Ivoire holds Parliamentary elections

2011 Event - The Justice and Development party of Morocco claims victory after Moroccans vote in a parliamentary election

2011 Event - In Spain, voters go to the polls for the general election; the center-right Popular Party wins a parliamentary majority

2011 Event - Latvian voters head to the polls for a parliamentary election

2010 Event - The outcome of Egypt's recent parliamentary elections spark protests in Cairo

2010 Event - Results from the Afghan parliamentary election are announced since September balloting

2010 Event - Hungary's parliamentary election results in 28 regional seats for the left-wing Hungarian Socialist Party, and 26 regional seats for the far-right Movement for a Better Hungary

2010 Event - Iraqi voters take part in parliamentary elections and a referendum on the Status of Forces Agreement

2005 Event - Parliamentary elections in Iraq, the first since 1958

1995 Event - Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election

1995 Event - Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election

1994 Event - Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election

1994 Event - Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election

1994 Event - Botswana President Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election

1994 Event - Vladimir Meciars HZDDS wins Slovakia parliamentary election

1994 Event - Parliamentary election in Ukraine

1994 Event - Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election

1994 Event - Parti Quebecois wins parliamentary election

1994 Event - H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election

1994 Event - Parliamentary election in Aruba

1994 Event - Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election

1994 Event - Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election

1994 Event - D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election

1993 Event - Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Quebecois wins parliamentary election

1993 Event - Parliamentary election in Poland

1993 Event - Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election

1993 Event - Parliamentary election in Morocco

1993 Event - Paraguay holds its 1st President and parliamentary elections in 50 years

1993 Event - Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election

1993 Event - Conservatives win French parliamentary election

1992 Event - Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election

1991 Event - Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election

1989 Event - Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election

1989 Event - Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election

1988 Event - Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins parliamentary election

1987 Event - Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election

1986 Event - Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados

1986 Event - Joaquin Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election

1985 Event - PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election

1985 Event - Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election

1983 Event - Margaret Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election

1983 Event - Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election

1983 Event - Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election

1981 Event - Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election

1981 Event - Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election

1980 Event - Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe

1977 Event - Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election

1977 Event - Christian-democrats win Belgium parliamentary election

1977 Event - Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election

1975 Event - Australian Conservatives and Liberals win parliamentary election

1974 Event - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election

1974 Event - Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election

1974 Event - Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election

1974 Event - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election

1973 Event - Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"

1972 Event - Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election

1971 Event - Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election

1970 Event - Conservatives win British parliamentary election

1970 Event - Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election

1968 Event - Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 chairs

1966 Event - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election

1959 Event - Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election

1959 Event - Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections

1958 Event - Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election

1957 Event - Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany

1957 Birthday - Alan Donnelly, born in England, politician, Labor Party, leader, European Parliamentary Labor Party, 1998 - 2005, founded, serves, as executive chairman of public affairs company, Sovereign Strategy, represents President of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, at Grand Prix

1957 Event - Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election

1956 Event - Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49

1956 Event - Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections

1955 Event - Conservatives win British parliamentary election

1954 Birthday - Michael O'Brien, born in Worcester, England, Mike O'Brien, politician, Labor Party, since 1992, serves as Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire, served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs, became Minister of State for Health Services, 2009

1952 Event - Papagos' Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election

1951 Event - David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election

1951 Event - De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election

1951 Event - Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)

1950 Event - CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election

1950 Event - Labour wins British parliamentary election

1949 Event - 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)

1947 Event - Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy

1946 Event - Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election

1946 Event - KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections

1945 Event - France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%)

1945 Birthday - John Bowis, born in Brighton, England, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Battersea, member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

1945 Event - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election

1944 Birthday - Quentin Davies, born in Oxford, England, Member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford 1987 - 1997, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defense under Prime Minister, Gordon Brown

1936 Event - 1st parliamentary debate on New Zealand radio

1933 Event - Hitler promises parliamentary democracy

1925 Event - Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election

1924 Event - Labour loses British parliamentary election

1924 Event - Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election

1924 Event - Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections

1913 Event - Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)

1909 Event - Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections

1908 Event - Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election

1897 Event - Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election

1894 Event - Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium

1694 Event - English parliamentary election set for every 3 years

1659 Event - General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland

1644 Event - 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies

1644 Event - Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeat royalists

1644 Event - Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win

1643 Event - Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies

1643 Event - Battle at Atherton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary armies

1643 Event - Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies

1643 Event - Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists

1612 Birthday - Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary general

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