Eric Mahmood Syddique (1936 - January 2020) was chief executive of the UK

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in the 1990s. From 2001 to 2013 he was secretary of Electoral Reform International Services, which provides assistance in conducting elections worldwide. He has written extensively for ''

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''Voting matters
Retrieved 27 February 2010. and ''

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''.informaworld catalogue of writing for Representation
Retrieved 27 February 2010. Syddique was a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs,

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. Retrieved 27 February 2010. and vice chairman of the UK's H S Chapman Society.Officers + Committee, H.S. Chapman Society (UK)
Retrieved 27 February 2010. He was also a member of the Council of the

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. In 1986 Syddique was Chairman of the Lewisham and Kent Islamic Centre. He wrote the entry for

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(one of his predecessors as ERS chief executive, who died in 1995) in the 2004

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Retrieved 27 February 2010. In 1971 he was elected a member of the

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Council. From 1973 to 1995 Eric Syddique was a

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member of

Sevenoaks District Council Sevenoaks is a town in Kent with a population of 29,506 situated south-east of London, England. Also classified as a civil parish, Sevenoaks is served by a commuter main line railway into London. Sevenoaks is from Charing Cross, the tradition ...

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.The Farningham & Eynsford Local History Society
Retrieved 27 February 2010.Minutes of planning enquiry 19 November 2003
. Retrieved 27 February 2010. Eric Syddique died aged 84 in January 2020 at home in

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, where he had lived for 60 years.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Syddique, Eric M Voting theorists Single transferable vote British activists Chatham House people Councillors in Kent Liberal Democrats (UK) councillors People from Eynsford 1936 births 2020 deaths