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[dubdobdee]

3.

i: Who was returned for Condaford in the general election?
ii: In what election were 45 green umbrellas used to influence voters?
iii: In which constituency was Mr Browborough’s election reversed due to bribery?
iv: In which West Indian constituency was the election “sweetness done and turning sour”?
v: Which crusader’s ultimate election was so prolonged that electors were threatened with starvation?
vi: Who won the election, having engineered the demise of the four favourites, and then chose self-cremation?
vii: Which MP for Aylesbury was expelled, but later headed the poll when he stood for Middlesex?
viii: Who spoke in support of the Liberal candidate in Brattleburn, a Tory stronghold?
ix: Whose supposedly forged red letter led to the government’s electoral defeat?
x: Whose election was declared by Albert Theophylus Despard-Smith?

INCOMPLETE: we need vi and viii!

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

was barbarossa ever elected? he was an emperor, don't they inherit titles (or seize them by war)?

(also can i again request that entrants append some kind of recognisable cognomen in the body of their answer posts if they aren't signing in to LJ? primary reason: to avoid a multiple carcrash of anons…)

edit: it seems this was lj user = carsmilesteve

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

The Holy Roman Emperors were indeed elected - according to the Golden Bull of 1384 (or thereabouts - Wikipedia will tell us tomorrow) they were to be elected by the seven leading princes of the Empire, namely the Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, and Köln, the King of Bohemia, the Margrave of Brandenburg, the Duke of Brunswick, and the Duke of Bavaria. Subsequent changes added the Elector Palatine of the Rhine and one other that I can't remember. Napoleon tried adding a bunch more - the Duke of Hesse and the Archbishop of Salzburg, but Franz II (for whom Haydn wrote 'The Emperor' eg the tune of the Deutschlandlied) abolished the Holy Roman Empire and made himself hereditary Emperor of Austria instead, so Napoleon's electors never voted.

There may have been imperial elections that were threatened with starvation - I forget - but it wouldn't be particularly misleading to refer to, eg, Pope Urban II as a crusader. (Assuming I have remembered correctly and he was the one who called the First Crusade in 1099.)