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1983 Feb 2 - 1986 Oct 21
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1735
Elections (Election procedure)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2018 Jul 18
Classification: Secret
Page count: 361
Any docs withheld? 12

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83 May 31 Tu Major Elections: Cabinet Office minute to Pym PS ("Election Business Committee") [guidance material for Conservative candidates on Arab/Israeli relations] [released July 2018]
83 Jun 1 We Major Elections: First Parliamentary Counsel letter to No.10 ("Procedure for General Elections") [updates to guide] [released July 2018]
83 Jun 2 Th Major Elections: Ingham minute to MT ("Media on June 10") [proposed arrangements "on the assumption that you are re-elected"] [released July 2018]
83 Jun 3 Fr Major Elections: No.10 minute to MT ("Arrangements for next Friday and Saturday and things to be done subsequently") [new Cabinet; election of Speaker; Special Advisers; machinery of Government; diary; Trooping the Colour] [released July 2018]
83 Jun 7 Tu Major Elections: No.10 minute to MT ("Election Media") [latest proposals/plans for Election Day victory] [released July 2018]
83 Jun 10 Fr Major Elections: Chancellor Kohl message to MT (UK General Election) [congratulations; next European Council meeting] [released July 2018]
83 Jun 15 We Major Elections: No.10 minute to MT ("Election Results") [analysis of results] [released July 2018]
83 Jun 16 Th Major Elections: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("General Election - Messages of Congratulation") [Leka of Albania; Chairman of the Organisation of Ukranian Nationalists] [released July 2018]
83 Jun 21 Tu Major Elections: No.10 minute to MT ("1983 Election Records") [Election victory's record-breaking statistics] [released July 2018]
83 Jul 6 We Major Elections: Attorney General letter to Leon Brittan (Meeting of Parliament Act 1797) [constitutional significance of Monarch's death occurring between a dissolution of one Parliament and formation of the next, and the terrorist/anarchist threat, by implication, posed to Queen & country during a General Election campaign] [released July 2018]
84 Jul 19 Th Minor Elections: First Parliamentary Counsel letter to No.10 ("Elections: Christmas and Bank Holiday Breaks") [correction to legislation paraphrase] [released July 2018]
85 Jun 17 Mo Minor Elections: No.10 letter to Office of the Parliamentary Counsel ("Procedure for General Elections") [circulation of amended version of guidance & notification of further changes to be made in due course] [released July 2018]
85 Jun 26 We Minor Elections: First Parliamentary Counsel letter to No.10 ("Procedure for General Elections") [comments on latest version of guidance; Representation of the People Act 1985 provisions in regard to Parliamentary dissoulution & polling] [released July 2018]
85 Jul 5 Fr Minor Elections: First Parliamentary Counsel letter to No.10 ("Procedure for General Elections") [dissolution of Parliament without prorogation] [released July 2018]
85 Jul 16 Tu Minor Elections: First Parliamentary Counsel letter to No.10 ("Procedure for General Elections") [amendments to guidance, due to Local Government Bill] [released July 2018]
86 Jul 3 Th Minor Elections: First Parliamentary Counsel letter to No.10 ("Procedure for General Elections") [relationship between dissolution of Parliament and polling day] [released July 2018]
86 Jul 29 Tu Minor Elections: First Parliamentary Counsel letter to No.10 ("Proceedings Leading Up to a General Election") [review of guidance] [released July 2018]
86 Sep 23 Tu Minor Elections: First Parliamentary Counsel letter to No.10 ("Procedure for General Elections") [review of guidance] [released July 2018]
86 Sep 26 Fr Major Elections: No.10 minute to MT ("Election Diary") [first draft of timetable for anticipated General Election in 1987] [released July 2018]