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1997 United Kingdom general election

election for members of the British House of Commons
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1997 United Kingdom general election

Summary

1997 United Kingdom general election is an United Kingdom general election[1]. It draws 3,677 Wikipedia views per month (united_kingdom_general_election category, ranking #7 of 65).[2]

Key Facts

  • 1997 United Kingdom general election is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's instance of is recorded as United Kingdom general election[4].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's follows is recorded as 1992 United Kingdom general election[5].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's followed by is recorded as 2001 United Kingdom general election[6].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's Commons category is recorded as 1997 United Kingdom general election[7].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's office contested is recorded as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom[8].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's office contested is recorded as member of the 52nd Parliament of the United Kingdom[9].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's point in time is recorded as +1997-05-01T00:00:00Z[10].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08s24[11].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's candidate is recorded as Tony Blair[12].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's topic's main category is recorded as Category:1997 United Kingdom general election[13].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's successful candidate is recorded as Tony Blair[14].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's number of seats is recorded as {'amount': '+659'}[15].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's BBC Things ID is recorded as 580e13d6-6c19-481d-80ad-a3e4f33b2475[16].
  • 1997 United Kingdom general election's UK Parliament thesaurus ID is recorded as 10427[17].

Why It Matters

1997 United Kingdom general election draws 3,677 Wikipedia views per month (united_kingdom_general_election category, ranking #7 of 65).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Alex Salmond David Amess David Davis David Trimble Donald Dewar Edward Heath George Galloway Gerry Adams Glenda Jackson Gordon Brown Harriet Harman Iain Duncan Smith Ian Paisley Jack Straw Jacob Rees-Mogg Jacqui Smith Jeremy Corbyn John Bercow John Hume John Major John Prescott John Swinney Ken Livingstone Liam Fox Margaret Beckett Martin McGuinness Michael Howard Nick Palmer Nigel Farage Nigel Jones, Baron Jones of Cheltenham

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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