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**Labor Party**: A political party who is based off of the interest of working people. · Founded in 1900 as Labour Representation Committee. Received name of Labor Party in 1906. · About 350,000 members.
 * Electoral Process**: They are normally run by the people.
 * **Conservative**: disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
 * Founded in 1830’s by being in the Tory Party. It got its name “Conservative”
 * Membership shrunk from 3 Million to 250,000 from 1958 to 1998.

· **Liberal Democrats**: a government based off of equality and freedom. · Founded in 1859 as a successor to the Whigs Party. (Party of land owners and wealthy business men.) · Mostly had no more than about a dozen seats in parliament. It has about 100,000 members

British, Irish, and qualifying Commonwealth people that are 18 and older. They can vote in local elections but not in UK parliamentary elections.
 * Who can vote??**

Parliament has a 5 year life span with now fixed terms. General elections are 4 year terms. They have an electoral district ( single constituency) that comes out to about 65,000 registered voters. First past the post determines the election of the Commons or members of parliament. They use single plurality as their source of election selection. Prime Minister David Cameron was the most recently added in Great Britain