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1980 Invercargill Mayoral Election
The 1980 Invercargill mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method. In the toughest challenge of his mayoralty, the incumbent F. Russell Miller defeated deputy mayor Eve Poole. Results The following table gives the election results: References 1980 elections in New Zealand Mayoral elections in Invercargill October 1980 events in New Zealand {{NewZealand-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Miller (crop)
Russell Miller (born 1938) is a British journalist and author of fifteen books, including biographies of Hugh Hefner, J. Paul Getty and L. Ron Hubbard. While under contract to '' The Sunday Times Magazine'' he won four press awards and was voted Writer of the Year by the Society of British Magazine Editors. His book ''Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History: The Story of the Legendary Photo Agency'' (1999) on Magnum Photos, was described by John Simpson as "the best book on photo-journalism I have ever read". His oral histories of D-Day, ''Nothing Less Than Victory'' (1993), and the SOE, ''Behind The Lines'' (2002) were widely acclaimed, both in Britain and in the United States. Life and work Miller was born in east London and began his career in journalism at the age of sixteen. In the early 1980s, Miller decided to write a biographical trilogy on the subjects of sex, money, and religion. The books that followed were ''Bunny'' (on Hugh Hefner, publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Miller (mayor)
Francis Russell Miller (2 February 1914 – 25 February 1992) was a New Zealand politician who served as Mayor of Invercargill from 1971 to 1983. Early life Miller was born in Dunedin and raised in Invercargill. He attended St. George Primary School and Southland Boys' High School. After graduating from the University of Otago Medical School with Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery, he spent seven years in Britain studying at the University of Edinburgh and practising as a surgeon during World War II. He returned to Invercargill in 1946 and worked as a general practitioner until 1957. Political career Miller entered politics in 1962, winning a seat on the Invercargill City Council as the highest polling non-incumbent candidate. He topped the poll at the next election and was subsequently appointed deputy mayor, a position he held for two terms. In 1971, Miller successfully ran for mayor, defeating fellow councillor F. W. Harvey. He was re-elected in 1974 and did not face ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Poole (crop)
Eve Poole (born Eva Auerbach; 29 December 1924 – 26 December 1992) was a New Zealand politician who served as Mayor of Invercargill from 1983 until her death in 1992. She was the first woman and Jew to hold this position. Early life Poole was born in Frankfurt, Germany on 29 December 1924 to Polish migrants Hinde and Nachman Auerbach. She was named Eva after her maternal aunt. The family moved to Berlin in the late 1920s. Her father was brutally beaten in a Nazi street demonstration against Jews in 1932, and thus began a years-long struggle to migrate the family to Palestine. While much of Poole's maternal family also made it to Palestine, her father's family was largely wiped out in The Holocaust. Poole and her sister Pnina would often have to give up their beds to fellow refugees that their family would shelter. Following in the footsteps of many of her older siblings, Poole enlisted in the British Eighth Army as a driver in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, lying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Poole
Eve Poole (born Eva Auerbach; 29 December 1924 – 26 December 1992) was a New Zealand politician who served as Mayor of Invercargill from 1983 until her death in 1992. She was the first woman and Jew to hold this position. Early life Poole was born in Frankfurt, Germany on 29 December 1924 to Polish migrants Hinde and Nachman Auerbach. She was named Eva after her maternal aunt. The family moved to Berlin in the late 1920s. Her father was brutally beaten in a Nazi street demonstration against Jews in 1932, and thus began a years-long struggle to migrate the family to Palestine. While much of Poole's maternal family also made it to Palestine, her father's family was largely wiped out in The Holocaust. Poole and her sister Pnina would often have to give up their beds to fellow refugees that their family would shelter. Following in the footsteps of many of her older siblings, Poole enlisted in the British Eighth Army as a driver in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, lying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-past-the-post
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their vote for a candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins even if the top candidate gets less than 50%, which can happen when there are more than two popular candidates. As a winner-take-all method, FPTP often produces disproportional results (when electing members of an assembly, such as a parliament) in the sense that political parties do not get representation according to their share of the popular vote. This usually favours the largest party and parties with strong regional support to the detriment of smaller parties without a geographically concentrated base. Supporters of electoral reform are generally highly critical of FPTP because of this and point out other flaws, such as FPTP's vulnerability t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 Elections In New Zealand
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayoral Elections In Invercargill
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