2004 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format
Every Grand Prix weekend is split into two races, both held on the same day. This means, the 2004 season with its fourteen Grand Prix had originally 28 races. Each race lasts for 30 minutes plus two laps. The two races on a weekend actually get combined to determine an overall winner. While this overall winners receives no extra WC points, they usually are awarded a special trophy.


2004 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format
The first twenty teams of each race score competition points. The point system for the 2004 season was as follows:


2004 Sidecarcross World Championship, Retirements
At the end of the 2004 season a number of long-term competitors retired from the World Championship, the most successful of those being Estonian Are Kaurit, with a third place in 2004 as his best result and active since 1993, and Dutch Wilfred van Werven, third placed in 2002 and 2003 and active since 1996.


2004 Sidecarcross World Championship, Classification, Riders
Out of 56 teams in the points, the top-twenty of the 2004 season were:


2004 Siebel Open
The 2004 Siebel Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the HP Pavilion at San Jose in San Jose, California in the United States that was part of the International Series of the 2004 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from February 9 through February 15, 2004. Andy Roddick won the singles title.


2004 Siebel Open, Finals, Doubles
James Blake /  Mardy Fish defeated  Rick Leach /  Brian MacPhie 6–2, 7–5


2004 Siebel Open – Doubles
Hyung-Taik Lee and Vladimir Voltchkov were the defending champions but only Lee competed that year with Brian Vahaly.


2004 Siebel Open – Doubles
Lee and Vahaly lost in the quarterfinals to Jeff Coetzee and Chris Haggard.


2004 Siebel Open – Doubles
James Blake and Mardy Fish won in the final 6–2, 7–5 against Rick Leach and Brian MacPhie.


2004 Siebel Open – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2004 Siebel Open – Singles
Andre Agassi was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Mardy Fish.


2004 Siebel Open – Singles
Andy Roddick won in the final 7–6(15–13), 6–4 against Fish.


2004 Siebel Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2004 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election
The Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, 2004 took place on 10 May 2004 for 32 members of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly. Counting and result were declared on 13 May 2004. Sikkim Democratic Front, a regional political party, won 31 of the 32 assembly seats in this election.


2004 Silicon Valley Football Classic
The 2004 Silicon Valley Football Classic was a post-season college football bowl game between the Troy Trojans and the Northern Illinois Huskies on December 30, 2004, at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. It was the fifth and final time the Silicon Valley Football Classic was played and the final game of the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season for both teams. Northern Illinois defeated Troy 34-21.


2004 Silicon Valley Football Classic, Background
For the 2004 bowl season the Silicon Valley Classic had contractual tie-ins with the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10); neither conference had enough bowl-eligible teams. In previous years the SVC had an agreement to take the Pac-10's No. 6 team, but was displaced by the new Emerald Bowl and had to settle for No. 7, if one existed. Organizers obtained permission from the Pac-10 to look elsewhere, and on November 16 announced an agreement with the Mid-American Conference, which had five bowl-eligible teams but as yet only two bowls.


2004 Silicon Valley Football Classic, Background
Since the beginning of the bowl in 2000, the Fresno State Bulldogs represented the WAC. Although the SVC invited Fresno State back, the Bulldogs opted for the MPC Computers Bowl, where they would face #18-ranked Virginia from the ACC. Left without a WAC team, organizers turned to the Troy Trojans of the Sun Belt Conference. Troy had never played in a bowl game before, having just moved up to Division I in 2001 and joined the Sun Belt in 2004.


2004 Silicon Valley Football Classic, Game summary
Rain could not stop the Huskies from scoring 34 straight points after trailing 14-0 early in the first quarter. Northern Illinois rushed for 213 yards (as opposed to Troy's 170) while passing for 146 yards to the 122 yards of the Trojans. NIU had the ball for 32:08 of the game. Josh Hadli threw 8-of-24 for 146 yards while rushing for 11 yards on 5 carries. For Troy, DeWhitt Betterson rushed for 150 yards on 25 carries.


2004 Sinai bombings
The 2004 Sinai bombings were three bomb attacks targeting tourist hotels in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on 7 October 2004. The attacks left 34 people dead and 171 injured.


2004 Sinai bombings, The bombings
The explosions occurred on the night of 7 October, against the Hilton Taba and campsites used by Israelis in Ras al-Shitan (see in Hebrew). In the Taba attack, a truck drove into the lobby of the Taba Hilton and exploded, killing 31 people and wounding some 159 others. Ten floors of the hotel collapsed following the blast.


2004 Sinai bombings, The bombings
Some 50 kilometers (31 mi) south, at campsites at Ras al-Shitan, near Nuweiba, two more sites were targeted. A car parked in front of a restaurant at the Moon Island resort exploded, killing two Israelis and a Bedouin. Twelve were wounded. Another blast happened moments later, targeting the Baddiyah tourist camp, but no one was hurt, apparently because the bomber had been scared off by a guard and did not enter the crowded resort.


2004 Sinai bombings, The bombings
Of the 34 who were killed, 18 were Egyptians, 12 were from Israel, two from Italy, one from Russia, and one was an Israeli-American.


2004 Sinai bombings, The investigation
According to the Egyptian government, the bombers were Palestinians who had tried to enter Israel to carry out attacks there but were unsuccessful. They claimed that the mastermind, Iyad Saleh, recruited Egyptians and Bedouins to find explosives to be used in the attacks. Beginning in March 2004, the bombers used washing machine timers, mobile phones and modified gas cylinders to build the bombs. They used TNT and old explosives found in the Sinai (as it was many times a war zone), which were purchased from Bedouins, to complete the bombs. Egypt has said that Saleh and one of his aides, Suleiman Ahmed Saleh Flayfil, died in the Hilton blast, apparently because their bomb timer had run out too fast.


2004 Sinai bombings, The investigation
Three Egyptians, Younes Mohammed Mahmoud, Osama al-Nakhlawi, and Mohammed Jaez Sabbah were sentenced to death in November 2006 for their roles in the blast. Egypt arrested up to 2,400 people following the attacks.


2004 Sinai bombings, The investigation
The initial investigations by the Israeli and Egyptian governments centered on al-Qaeda, with Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom saying "The type, the planning, the scope, the simultaneous attacks in a number of places, all this points to al-Qaeda". However,  Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Majid `Abd al-Fatah later stated that there was no evidence linking the organisation to the attack, instead claiming it was the work of a lone wolf driven by "injustice, aggression and despair" over the Israeli-Palestine conflict.


2004 Sinai bombings, Aftermath
Israel had warned in September 2004 that terrorists were planning attacks in the Sinai, but most Israelis did not heed those warnings and went on vacation there instead. Many Israelis left the Sinai after the bombings, along with some foreign tourists, but the effects on the country's tourism were not too severe.


2004 Sinai bombings, Aftermath
Militants struck again in Cairo at tourists in April 2005, killing three and wounding several. Similar attacks took place in resorts in Sharm el-Sheikh in July 2005 and in Dahab in 2006.


2004 Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Rugby 7s
The 2004 Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Rugby 7s was the sixth year of the Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Rugby 7s tournament. Japan defeated Chinese Taipei 38 - 14 in the final of the Cup.


2004 Six Nations Championship
The 2004 Six Nations Championship was the fifth series of the rugby union Six Nations Championship to be held since the competition expanded in 2000 to include Italy. Overall, this was the hundred-and-tenth series of the international championship.


2004 Six Nations Championship
Match winners received two points, with one for a draw and none for a loss. The first tiebreaker was points difference.


2004 Six Nations Championship
France won the competition, also winning the Grand Slam. Ireland won the Triple Crown, sweeping their matches against Wales, England and Scotland. Scotland were whitewashed, earning the wooden spoon as a result.


2004 Skate America
The 2004 Skate America was the first event of six in the 2004–05 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 21–24. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2004–05 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz.


2004 Skate America, Results, Pairs
There was an accident during the free skating. Maxim Marinin lost his balance while attempting a difficult lasso lift and his partner Tatiana Totmianina slammed to the ice head first, sustaining a concussion, but was not seriously hurt. A short while later, Julia Obertas fell out of a lasso lift but her partner Sergei Slavnov managed to catch her to prevent her head hitting the ice.


2004 Skate Canada International
The 2004 Skate Canada International was the second event of six in the 2004–05 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Metro Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia on October 28–31. Medals were awarded in disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2004–05 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the rhumba.


2004 Skyrunner World Series
The 2004 Skyrunner World Series was the 3rd edition of the global skyrunning competition, Skyrunner World Series, organised by the International Skyrunning Federation from 2002.


2004 Skyrunner World Series, Results
The World Cup has developed in 7 races from May to October.


2004 Sligo County Council election
An election to Sligo County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.


2004 Sligo Senior Football Championship
This is a round-up of the 2004 Sligo Senior Football Championship. Tourlestrane won the title for the seventh time, defeating St. Mary's after a replay. Castleconnor were relegated, but early in 2005 the club requested that they remain in the Senior grade, which was agreed.


2004 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Group Stages
The Championship was contested by 14 teams, divided into two groups of four, and two of three. The top two sides in each group advanced to the Quarter-Finals, with the remaining sides facing the Relegation playoffs to secure Senior status for 2005.


2004 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Group Stages, Playoffs
Two groups required playoffs. A week after their drawn game, St. Mary's and Bunninadden met again to decide second place in Group A. St. Mary's won out, though only after extra time. In Group C, Ballymote had defeated Easkey, but in the playoff the result was reversed, as Easkey edged through by the minimum.


2004 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Quarterfinals
The quarter finals of the Championship saw the demise of holders Curry, eliminated by St. Mary's. Elsewhere Coolera/Strandhill, Tourlestrane and Easkey won, Tourlestrane beating Shamrock Gaels after a replay. Eastern Harps' defeat to Coolera/Strandhill meant that the East Sligo club did not reach the last four for the first time in a decade.


2004 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Semifinals
Both semi-final pairings had previously met in the group stages. St. Mary's repeated their victory over Coolera, but Tourlestrane, this time not having to travel to Tireragh, gained revenge over Easkey.


2004 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final
Team:F. KennedyB. KirraneC. NearyD. HenryS. KingD. DurkinD. DunneE. O'Hara (Capt)S. DunneB. EganM. Walsh (0-4)P. BrennanJ. Marren (1-1)G. McGowan (0-3)E. Haran


2004 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final
Team:D. MorrisseyD. CarrollJ. Martyn (Capt)A. ColleryC. CarrollJ. DaveyC. WalshS. Burns (0-1)P. MullenN. SmithG. Heavin (0-1)D. CaffreyA. RooneyM. Breheny (2-3)M. Rooney


2004 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final Replay
Team:F. KennedyB. KirraneC. NearyD. HenryS. KingD. Durkin (0-1)D. DunneE. O'Hara (Capt) (1-0)S. Dunne (0- 1)B. EganM. Walsh (0-3)S. LeonardJ. MarrenG. McGowan (0-4)E. Haran


2004 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final Replay
Team:D. MorriseyN. MurrayJ. Martyn (Capt)A. ColleryC. CarrollJ. DaveyC. WalshS. BurnsP. MullenA. BoyleG. HeavinD. CaffreyA. RoonyM. Breheny (0-3)M. Rooney (2-1)


2004 Slough Borough Council election
An election to Slough Borough Council was held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election. This was the 120th Slough general local authority election, since Slough became a local government unit in 1863, including both whole Council elections and elections by thirds.


2004 Slough Borough Council election
The Borough had been re-warded for this election. For the previous three Slough elections, which had each returned a third of the council, see 2001 Slough Council election, 2002 Slough Council election and 2003 Slough Council election.


2004 Slough Borough Council election
The 2004 election was to fill forty-one seats. The leading vote winner in each of the fourteen wards was elected for the term 2004–2008. The second placed candidates were elected for 2004–2007. In all the wards, except Colnbrook with Poyle, the candidate with the third highest number of votes was elected for the term 2004–2006.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Recent political history of Slough to 2004
Slough Borough Council, between 1983 and 2004, had been controlled by the Labour Party.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Recent political history of Slough to 2004
Between 2003 and 2004, there were three groups of Councillors. In addition to the Labour Group and the Conservative Group there was the Britwellian, Independent, Liberal and Liberal Democrat Group (BILLD).


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Recent political history of Slough to 2004
The BILLD Group was composed of all the Councillors, who were not Labour or Conservative. It was a coalition of a number of parties and independents. These included a Councillor or Councillors elected in particular wards; Liberal Democrat (Foxborough ward), Liberal (Haymill ward), Independent Britwellian Residents (Britwell ward) and Independent (Wexham Lea ward).


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Recent political history of Slough to 2004
The existing members of the Group had an electoral pact for the 2004 election, which also extended to the Independent Farnham Residents candidates in Farnham ward and the Independent Langley Residents candidates in Langley St Mary's ward.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Recent political history of Slough to 2004
In 2003–2004, the composition of the 41 member council was:-


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Recent political history of Slough to 2004
In the 2004 election 105 candidates were nominated for the 41 seats up for election. The list is broken down by Party, with a residual category of an Independent candidate not affiliated to BILLD.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Council by Party before and after 2004 Elections
Before the elections held on 10 June 2004, the composition of Slough Borough Council was as follows:


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Council by Party before and after 2004 Elections
Note: The Others category in this table includes all non-Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat Councillors. Richard Stokes (Liberal-Haymill) is the BILLD Group Leader, which includes the Liberal Democrats and all the Others category Councillors.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election result (overall summary)
Note: Due to boundary changes and this being a whole Council election, non-comparable to the 2003 election of a third of the Council, no attempt is made to provide numbers to fill the gain, loss and plus/minus columns.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, History of Slough boundaries and wards
The Slough local government area came into existence in 1863. It comprised a part of the parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, roughly corresponding to the modern Central and Upton wards.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, History of Slough boundaries and wards
In 1894 Slough became a civil parish and then an Urban District.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, History of Slough boundaries and wards
In 1900 the boundaries of the Slough district were expanded for the first time, increasing its size to 1,684 acres (6.81 km2). The northern boundary was extended up Stoke Road, as far as the Slough branch of the Grand Union Canal. To the south and west, Chalvey and the Salt Hill area, as far as the Montem Mound, were absorbed. To the east, part of Langley joined the district. The Agar's Plough area left Slough, to become part of Eton and provide playing fields for Eton College.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, History of Slough boundaries and wards
In 1930-1931 there was a major extension of the boundaries, increasing the district to 6,202 acres (25.10 km2). Parts of the parishes of Burnham, Dorney, Farnham Royal, Horton, Langley Marish and Stoke Poges were added to Slough.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, History of Slough boundaries and wards
Slough was first warded in 1930. The original seven wards were Burnham, Central, Chalvey, Farnham, Langley, Stoke and Upton.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, History of Slough boundaries and wards
The town was re-warded in 1950, when four of the previous wards (Burnham, Central, Farnham and Stoke) were split into north and south wards, to make a total of eleven.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, History of Slough boundaries and wards
Britwell and Wexham Court were added to Slough in 1973 (when these two new wards and the eleven existing wards were allocated between two and nine seats, instead of the three per ward which had existed previously).


2004 Slough Borough Council election, History of Slough boundaries and wards
There was another re-warding in 1983, which created thirteen three-member wards with revised boundaries.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, History of Slough boundaries and wards
Colnbrook & Poyle was added to Slough in 1995 and became a fourteenth ward, with one member 1995-1997 and two from 1997.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, History of Slough boundaries and wards
For Slough Council election 2004 the Borough was re-warded. There were still fourteen wards, but only Colnbrook with Poyle (formerly Colnbrook & Poyle) and Haymill had unchanged boundaries.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Baylis & Stoke
Baylis & Stoke (born 2004) is a three-member ward in the north of the Borough, to the west of Central ward and to the east of Haymill. It broadly combined the former Baylis and Stoke wards. Baylis was named after Baylis House and the estate of Baylis, which from the sixteenth century was a sub-division of the old parish of Stoke Poges (the southern part of which is included in Slough). Stoke was named after the parish. 2003-2004: the six seats in the former wards were all held by Labour. 2004: The Liberal Democrats, building on the Liberal tradition of the marginal former Stoke ward and overcoming the Labour leanings of the former Baylis ward, won all three seats in 2004.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Britwell
Britwell (born 1973) is a three-member ward in the north-west of the Borough. It includes Britwell parish, although since 1983 some unparished territory was added. Before Britwell became a civil parish it was a district of the old parish of Burnham. Britwell elected some Liberal Councillors in the 1980s but was otherwise safely Labour until 2000. Since then Britwellian and Independent Britwellian Residents Councillors have become increasingly successful. In 1997 Labour won all three seats, but by 2003-2004 the Residents held the three seats. 2004: Independent Britwellian Residents retained the three seats.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Central
Central (1930-1950 and 1983-) has had different boundaries during the three of the four Slough redistributions in which it has existed (it was divided between Central North and Central South wards 1950-1983), but it has always been a three-member ward with Wexham to the north, Langley to the east, Upton to the south, Chalvey to the south-west and Baylis & Stoke to the west.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Central
It was part of the original parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, although the hamlet of Slough (a few scattered houses and coaching inns along the Great West Road and Windsor Road) was smaller than the villages of Upton and Chalvey until the Great Western Railway arrived in the 1840s. 2003-2004: Labour held the three seats under the 1983 boundaries. 2004: Labour won one and the Conservatives two of the three seats of the revised ward.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Chalvey
Chalvey (born 1930), (in the south of the Borough) is a three-member ward. In the nineteenth century it was a village that was part of the ancient parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey. It became an original ward of Slough. The ward has existed in some form continuously since the district was first warded in 1930. Before 1970 Chalvey was Conservative but since then it has been safely Labour. 2003-2004: Three Labour seats. 2004: The Liberal Democrats came within ten votes of winning a seat in the ward in 2004, but Labour retained the three seats.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Cippenham Green
Cippenham Green (born 2004) is a three-member ward in the south-west of the Borough. Cippenham was a district of the old parish of Burnham. It was one of the two wards based on the old Cippenham ward, which was a Labour/Conservative marginal (six Conservative and eleven Labour wins between 1983 and 2003). This area is the western part of the previous ward, incorporates the Cippenham village area (including the Green which the ward is named after). 2003-2004: The former Cippenham ward was represented by two Labour and one Conservative Councillors. 2004: this ward elected one Conservative and two Labour Councillors.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Cippenham Meadows
Cippenham Meadows (born 2004) is a three-member ward in the south-west of the Borough. It was one of the two wards based on the old Cippenham Ward, which was a Labour/Conservative marginal (six Conservative and eleven Labour wins between 1983 and 2003). This area is the eastern part of the previous ward, incorporates the Windsor Meadows development which caused a large population growth since the 1983 redistribution of wards. Presumably these are the Meadows which the ward is named after. 2003-2004: see Cippenham Green. 2004: The new ward elected three Labour Councillors.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Colnbrook with Poyle
Colnbrook & Poyle (1995–2004), Colnbrook with Poyle (born 2004) is a (since 1997) two-member ward in the furthest east part of the Borough between to the M4 motorway and Greater London. Labour elected some Councillors here, in 1995 and 1997 (1 seat), but by 2000 the ward was safely Conservative. 2003-2004: Two Conservative Councillors. 2004: Two Conservative Councillors re-elected.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Farnham
Farnham (1930-1950 and 1983-) is a three-member ward in the west of the Borough, to the south of Britwell and west of Haymill. It was named after the old Farnham Royal parish, of which it was the southern part. This was an original Slough ward. There were Farnham North and Farnham South wards 1950–1983. A single Farnham ward was re-created in 1983. 2003-2004: Three Labour Councillors. 2004: This was a safe Labour Ward, with three Labour representatives.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Foxborough
Foxborough (born 1983) is a three-member ward in south-east Langley in the eastern part of the Borough. In the 2004 redistribution the ward lost its extension west along the southern border of Langley. It is named after a 4-acre (16,000 m2) area mentioned in connection with the inclosure of Langley Marish parish in 1809. This was the ward where the Liberal Democrats won their first election in Slough in 2000. 2003-2004: Two Labour and one Liberal Democrat Councillors. 2004: The Liberal Democrats held all three seats after the election.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Haymill
Haymill (born 1983) is a three-member ward in the west of the Borough (to the east of Farnham ward), which was left unchanged by the 2004 redistribution. It is a safe Liberal ward having last elected a non-Liberal Councillor in 1984. 2003-2004: Three Liberal Councillors. 2004: Three Liberal holds.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Kedermister
Kedermister (born 1983) is a three-member ward in south-west Langley, in the eastern part of the Borough. In 2004 it was extended south a bit. The ward was named after Sir John Kedermister (or Kidderminster), who was Warden of Langley Park and founded some almshouses in Langley in 1617. 2003-2004: three Labour Councillors. 2004: This was a safe Labour Ward, with three Labour representatives.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Langley St Mary's
Langley St Mary's (born 1983) is a three-member ward in north Langley, in the eastern part of the Borough. St Mary's is named after the church in Langley. This has been a Labour/Conservative marginal ward. 2003-2004: There were two Tory and one Labour Councillors. 2004: The Independent Langley Residents won two seats and tied for the third (which the Conservative candidate won on a roll of dice, so he was credited with an additional vote).


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Upton
Upton (born 1930), part of the old parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey (in the south of the modern Borough), was an original ward which has existed in some form continuously since 1930. In the early nineteenth century Upton was a village about a mile and a half south-east of the hamlet of Slough. It is a three-seat ward. Upton was the most Conservative area of Slough until demographic change made Labour competitive. Labour won the ward for the first time ever in 1990. In 1997 Labour won two seats and the Conservatives one. 2003-2004: 2 Labour and 1 Conservative Councillors. 2004: The Conservatives won all three seats.


2004 Slough Borough Council election, Election results by wards 2004, Wexham Lea
Wexham Lea (born 1983) is a three-member ward in the north of the Borough, to the north-east of Baylis & Stoke and the north of Central ward. It combines Wexham Court parish and an area known as Upton Lea. The ward was formerly safely Labour. 2003-2004: 1 Labour and 2 Independent Councillors. 2004: Securely held by Independent Councillors who won all three seats in 2004.


2004 Slovak Cup Final
The 2004 Slovak Cup Final was the final match of the 2003–04 Slovak Cup, the 35th season of the top cup competition in Slovak football. The match was played at the DAC Stadion in Dunajská Streda on 8 May 2004 between FC Artmedia Petržalka and FC Steel Trans Ličartovce. Artmedia defeated Ličartovce 2-0.


2004 Slovak Figure Skating Championships
The 2004 Slovak Figure Skating Championships (Slovak: Majstrovstva Slovenska seniorov a juniorov 2004) were held in Bratislava from 10 to 11 January 2004. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior level.


2004 Slovak early parliamentary elections referendum
A referendum on holding early parliamentary elections was held in Slovakia on 3 April 2004. Although approved by 87.9% of those voting, voter turnout was just 35.9% and the referendum was declared invalid due to insufficient turnout.


2004 Slovak presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Slovakia on 3 April 2004, with a second round on 17 April. Although former Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar received the most votes in the first round, he was defeated by Ivan Gašparovič in the run-off.


2004 Slovak presidential election
Eduard Kukan, who had led the opinion polling prior to the elections, was surprisingly eliminated in the first round, narrowly beaten into third place by Gašparovič. Gašparovič later admitted that he had not expect to qualify for the second round, and on first round election night he had gone home to sleep and only found out about his success when he was woken up by phone calls from friends.


2004 Slovak presidential election
Incumbent president Rudolf Schuster finished fourth with just 7% of the vote. He subsequently retired from politics.


2004 Slovenian minority rights referendum
A referendum on minority rights was held in Slovenia on 4 April 2004. Voters were asked whether they approved government proposals to restore basic rights to ethnic minorities who had been erased from the citizen registry in 1992. The proposal was rejected by 96.05% of voters, with a turnout of 31.55%.


2004 Slovenian minority rights referendum
The referendum was backed by oppositional Slovenian Democratic Party, while the government called for a boycott.


2004 Slovenian parliamentary election
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2004 Slovenian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on Sunday, 3 October 2004 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. A total of 1,390 male and female candidates ran in the election, organized into 155 lists. The lists were compiled both by official political parties and the groups of voters not registered as political parties. Five candidates applied for the seat of the representative of the Hungarian "national community" (as minorities are officially called in Slovenia) and only one candidate applied for the seat of the representative of the Italian national community. In the previous election (2000), fewer than 1000 candidates on 155 lists applied.


2004 Slovenian parliamentary election, Electoral system
In Slovenia, elections in the National Assembly are held in eight voting units, each of which further divides into 11 districts. Different candidates apply in each of the eighty-eight districts. From each of eight units, 11 deputies get elected; however, not necessarily one deputy from each district (from some districts nobody gets elected, from others up to four candidates enter the parliament). Deputy's mandates are distributed at two levels: at the level of the voting unit and at the level of the state.


2004 Slovenian parliamentary election, Electoral system
In practice, at the level of voting units two thirds of mandates get allotted, while one third gets allotted at the level of the state. In this manner, 88 mandates get distributed. The remaining two seats are assigned to the representatives of the Italian and Hungarian minorities, which get elected separately (in the ninth and tenth voting units) by the  Borda count. Altogether, 90 deputies are elected in the parliament. The election threshold for a party to enter the parliament is four per cent.


2004 Slovenian parliamentary election, Structure of the National Assembly
The structure of parties was modified in April 2007, so the following roster is different from 2004. The list can change further, because some deputies can still be promoted to ministers.


2004 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2004 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council in the West Midlands, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003. The Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2004 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election, Campaign
During the lead up to the election the Labour Party suffered 2 defections. Firstly councillor Jim Ryan quit the party to sit as an independent after disagreements over policy. He was then followed in May 2004 by Jeff Potts who defected to join the Conservatives and blamed infighting within the Labour Party for his decision. Both councillors contested the election, Jim Ryan as an independent, and Jeff Potts as a Conservative in Kingshurst and Fordbridge ward.


2004 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election, Campaign
The election saw the British National Party (BNP) contest 2 seats in Chelmsley Wood and Olton wards, while the National Front contested Silhill ward. The presence of these candidates led the leaders of each of the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour parties on the council to condemn the policies of both the BNP and National Front.


2004 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
The results saw the Conservatives stay in control of the council but with their majority cut from 5 to 3 seats. The Conservative dropped by 1 seat, while the Liberal Democrats became the next largest party on the council after gaining 5 seats. Labour dropped by 5 seats, 3 of which could be put down to the boundary changes, while another seat was lost by Labour to the Conservatives in Kingshurst and Fordbridge. The final Labour loss came in Bickenhill where former Labour councillor Jim Ryan was re-elected onto the council as an independent. Overall turnout increased by 10% from 2003 to reach 39%.


2004 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections :


2004 Solomon Islands National Club Championship
The 2004 Solomon Islands National Club Championship was the 2nd season of the National Club Championship in the Solomon Islands. Central Realas FC won the league for the first time . All matches were played at the hillside ground called Lawson Tama Stadium, with an approximate capacity of 20,000.


2004 Soul Train Music Awards
The 2004 Soul Train Music Awards were held on March 27, 2004 at the International Cultural Center Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The show was hosted by Alicia Keys and Babyface.


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe
The 2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe was a series of matches played by the Springboks during November and December 2004 in Great Britain, Ireland, and Argentina.


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe
Their goal of obtaining a Grand Slam failed due to losses against Ireland and England. While the Springboks were in the British Isles, the South Africa A team made a three match tour of Argentina.


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe, The Springboks tour, Wales
In the first match, South Africa obtained a narrow victory over Wales thanks to a great performance from their goal kicker Percy Montgomery.


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe, The Springboks tour, Wales
South Africa: 15.Percy Montgomery, 14.Breyton Paulse, 13.Marius Joubert, 12.De Wet Barry, 11.Ashwin Willemse, 10.Jaco van der Westhuyzen, 9.Fourie du Preez, 8.Joe van Niekerk, 7.Juan Smith, 6.Schalk Burger , 5.Victor Matfield, 4.Bakkies Botha, 3.Eddie Andrews, 2.John Smit (capt. ), 1.Os du Randt,  – Replacements: 16.Hanyani Shimange, 17.CJ van der Linde, 19.Tim Dlulane, 20.Michael Claassens, 21.Jean de Villiers, 22.Brent Russell –  Not used: 18.Gerrie Britz


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe, The Springboks tour, Ireland
The dream of obtaining the Grand Slam vanished in the second match. Ronan O' Gara on one side, and Percy Montgomery on the other, were the only scorers for their respective teams. Ireland obtained their first victory against the Springboks in 39 years.


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe, The Springboks tour, Ireland
South Africa: 15.Percy Montgomery, 14.Breyton Paulse, 13.Marius Joubert, 12.De Wet Barry, 11.Ashwin Willemse, 10.Jaco van der Westhuyzen, 9.Fourie du Preez, 8.Joe van Niekerk, 7.AJ Venter, 6.Schalk Burger , 5.Victor Matfield, 4.Bakkies Botha, 3.Eddie Andrews, 2.John Smit (capt. ), 1.Os du Randt,  – Replacements: 16.Hanyani Shimange, 17.CJ van der Linde, 18.Gerrie Britz, 19.Danie Rossouw, 20.Michael Claassens, 21.Jean de Villiers, 22.Gaffie du Toit


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe, The Springboks tour, England
England, led by fly-half Charlie Hodgson, beat South Africa for a sixth consecutive time, in the match which featured the debut of Brian Habana


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe, The Springboks tour, England
South Africa: 15.Percy Montgomery, 14.Breyton Paulse, 13.Marius Joubert, 12.De Wet Barry, 11.Jean de Villiers, 10.Jaco van der Westhuyzen, 9.Fourie du Preez, 8.Joe van Niekerk, 7.AJ Venter, 6.Schalk Burger, 5.Victor Matfield, 4.Bakkies Botha, 3.Eddie Andrews, 2.John Smit (capt. ), 1.Os du Randt,  – Replacements: 16.Hanyani Shimange, 17.CJ van der Linde, 18.Danie Rossouw, 19.Gerrie Britz, 20.Michael Claassens, 21.Jaque Fourie, 22.Bryan Habana


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe, The Springboks tour, Scotland
The Springboks defeated Scotland easily in the fourth match of the tour.


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe, The Springboks tour, Scotland
South Africa: 15.Percy Montgomery, 14.Jaque Fourie, 13.Marius Joubert, 12.Wayne Julies, 11.Bryan Habana, 10.Jaco van der Westhuyzen, 9.Fourie du Preez, 8.Joe van Niekerk, 7.Danie Rossouw, 6.Solly Tyibilika, 5.Victor Matfield , 4.Bakkies Botha , 3.CJ van der Linde, 2.John Smit (capt. ), 1.Gurthro Steenkamp,  – Replacements: 16.Danie Coetzee, 17.Os du Randt, 18.Gerrie Britz, 19.Jacques Cronje, 20.Michael Claassens, 21.Gcobani Bobo, 22.Gaffie du Toit


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe, The Springboks tour, Argentina
The last match against the "Pumas" was won by South Africa, with many of Argentina's best players remaining in Europe to play for their clubs.


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe, South Africa "A" tour
South Africa "A" won all three of their tour matches in Argentina.


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe, South Africa "A" tour
South Africa "A":  Conrad Jantjes; Egon Seconds, Adrian Jacobs, Ettiene Botha, Odwa Ndungane; Andre Pretorius, Heini Adams; Pedrie Wanneburg , Wickus Van Heerden (capt. ), Cobus Grobbelaar; Albert van der Berg, Barend Pierterse; Richard Bands, Schalk Bris, Wessel Roux – Replacements: Norman Jordaan, Willem Waal, Lawrence Sephaka, Lukas van Biljon, Zolani Mofu, Duploy.


2004 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina and Europe, South Africa "A" tour
South Africa "A" Tiger Mangweni; Egon Seconds, Adriaan Jacobs, Ettienne Botha, Odwa Ndungane; Andre Pretorius, Norman Jordaan; Pediré Wannenburg, Wikus van Heerden, Kobus Grobelaar; Willem Stoltz, Boela Du Plooy; Richard Bands, Lukas van Biljon y Wessel Roux. ---Replacements Lawrence Sephaka, Schalk Brits, Albert Van Der Berg, Zolani Mofu, Noel Oelshig, Willem De Waal, Jorrie Muller.


2004 South African Figure Skating Championships
The 2004 South African Figure Skating Championships was held in Cape Town. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's and ladies' singles at the senior, novice, and pre-novice levels. There was also a junior and juvenile ladies' competition.


2004 South African general election
General elections were held in South Africa on Wednesday, 14 April 2004. The African National Congress (ANC) of President Thabo Mbeki, which came to power after the end of the apartheid system in 1994, was re-elected with an increased majority.


2004 South African general election
These were the third elections held since the end of the apartheid era. The South African National Assembly consists of 400 members, elected by proportional representation. 200 members are elected from national party lists, the other 200 are elected from party lists in each of the nine provinces. The President of South Africa is chosen by the National Assembly after each election.


2004 South African general election
The ANC, which has been in power since 1994, obtained 69.7% of votes cast on the national ballot, theoretically allowing them to change the constitution.


2004 South African general election
Some 20.6-million people were registered for the 2004 general elections, which was about 2 million more than in 1999. About 76% of registered voters took part in the election, with the ANC receiving 69.7% of the votes cast. However, only 56% of eligible voters (South African citizens of voting age) took part in the 2004 election, which means that the ANC received votes from only about 38% of all eligible voters. The year 2004 saw an increase in voter abstention and there was at least one high-profile election and registration boycotts campaign, the No Land! No House! No Vote! Campaign.


2004 South African general election
The main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, also obtained an increased percentage on the national ballot, most likely from former supporters of the New National Party, possibly losing some support to Patricia de Lille's new Independent Democrats. The New National Party, a descendant of the ruling party of the apartheid era, collapsed and lost most of their support, dropping from 6.9% in 1999 to 1.7% (it was 20.4% in 1994), many of their supporters being unhappy with their alliance with the ANC.


2004 South African general election
The Independent Democrats surprised many observers by obtaining more votes than the New National Party, becoming the fifth largest party. The Inkatha Freedom Party lost some support, including the majority in their stronghold province of Kwazulu-Natal, while the United Democratic Movement also lost support, barely hanging on as opposition in their stronghold, the Eastern Cape.


2004 South African general election, National Assembly results, Contested seat
When the official results were released, the ACDP successfully challenged the outcome. As a result, one of the two seats AZAPO won initially was handed over to the ACDP.


2004 South African general election, Provincial legislature results
Elections for the nine provincial parliaments were held at the same time as for the National Assembly.


2004 South African general election, Provincial legislature results, NCOP seats
The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) consists of 90 members, ten elected by each provincial legislature. The Members of NCOP have to be elected in proportion to the party membership of the provincial legislature.


2004 South African motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2004 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2004 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 16–18 April 2004 at the Phakisa Freeway. This was the last South African MotoGP round at Phakisa, because the race was not contracted for 2005 and beyond.


2004 South African motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (motoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded.


2004 South American Cross Country Championships
The 2004 South American Cross Country Championships took place on February 14–15, 2004. The races were held at the Forte Marechal Hermes in Macaé, Brazil.


2004 South American Cross Country Championships
Complete results, results for junior and youth competitions, and medal winners were published.


2004 South American Cross Country Championships, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 89 athletes from 10 countries participated.


2004 South American Race Walking Championships
The 2004 South American Race Walking Championships were held in Los Ángeles, Chile, on April 3–4, 2004. The track of the championship runs in the Avenida Ricardo Vicuña. For the first time, the men's long race was 50 km rather than 35 km.


2004 South American Race Walking Championships
Complete results were published. The junior events are documented on the World Junior Athletics History webpages.


2004 South American Race Walking Championships, Participation
The participation of 83 athletes from 8 countries is reported.


2004 South American Rugby Championship "A"
The 2004 South American Rugby Championship was the 26th edition of the competition of the leading national Rugby Union teams in South America.


2004 South American Rugby Championship "A"
The tournament was played in Santiago, Chile with four team participating.


2004 South American Rugby Championship "A"
Argentina won the tournament. Venezuela participate for the first time as winner of the  (winner of 2003 "B" championship


2004 South American Rugby Championship "A", Standings
Three point for victory, two for draw, and one for lost


2004 South American Rugby Championship "B"
The 2004 South American Rugby Championship "B" was the fifth edition of the competition of the second level national Rugby Union teams in South America.


2004 South American Rugby Championship "B"
The tournament was played in São Paulo, with four team participating.


2004 South American Rugby Championship "B", Standings
Three point for victory, two for draw, and one for lost


2004 South American Summit
The 2004 South American Summit – the third of its kind, after earlier events in Brasília (September 2000) and Guayaquil (July 2002) – was held in Cuzco and Ayacucho, Peru, on 7 –9 December 2004. Officially it constituted the Extraordinary Meeting of the Andean Presidential Council (Reunión Extraordinaria del Consejo Presidencial Andino ) and was also billed as the Third Meeting of Presidents of South America (III Reunión de Presidentes de América del Sur).


2004 South American Summit
The main item on the agenda was the signature, by heads of state and plenipotentiary representatives of 12 South American nations, of the Cuzco Declaration, a two-page document containing a preamble to the deed of foundation of the South American Community of Nations (or "South American Union"), uniting the region's two existing free-trade organisations – Mercosur and the Andean Community.


2004 South American Summit
Ayacucho was chosen for symbolic reasons: it was there that Antonio José de Sucre, fighting under the banner of  Simón Bolívar "the Liberator", defeated the last Imperial Spanish troops in South America on  9 December 1824.


2004 South American Summit
While the organisation's exact nature and functions – and even its name – remain unclear, it aspires to evolve along the lines followed by the continental integration efforts of the European Union, rather than becoming a mere free-trade area. The initiative emerged – largely at the instigation of Brazil – in response to the failed negotiations of the Free Trade Area of the Americas. The FTAA process has been stalemated for more than 12 months in the wake of irreconcilable differences, largely along the geopolitical faultlines between Latin America and the Caribbean on the one hand and the United States and Canada on the other.


2004 South American Summit, Participating nations
Mexico (Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez) and Panama (President Martín Torrijos) are also attending the event, with nonparticipating observer status.


2004 South American Swimming Championships
The 2004 South American Swimming Championships were swum March 25-28 in Maldonado, Uruguay. The championships featured competition in 40 long course (50m) events.


2004 South American Swimming Championships, Participating nations
As an event organized by CONSANAT, the confederation that oversees Aquatics in South America, the meet featured its members, including: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.


2004 South American U-19 Women's Championship
The 2004 South American Under-19 Women's Football Championship was held in Encarnación, Paraguay (group A), Caracas, Venezuela (group B), Sucre, Bolivia (group C) and in Angra dos Reis, Brazil (Final round), from 11 to 29 May 2004. It was the first edition of the South American Youth Women's Championship and the only one with an age limit of 19 years. Team Brazil won this tournament and qualified for the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship.


2004 South American U-19 Women's Championship, Final round
Three group winners from the first round advanced to the final round. Team Brazil received a bye to this round.


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics
The 1st South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics were heldin Barquisimeto, Venezuela, at the Polideportivo Máximo Viloria onJune 26–27, 2004.


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics, Participation
A total of 310 athletes from 13 countries were announced to participate:


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics, Participation
Argentina (29),  Bolivia (5), Brazil (84), Chile (43), Colombia (36), Ecuador (24),Guyana (4), Panamá (2), Paraguay (3), Perú (5), Surinam (2), Uruguay (6),Venezuela (68). Athletes from the Dominican Republic (4), from the NetherlandsAntilles (4), and from Trinidad and Tobago (11) were invited as guestathletes in accordance with the regulations of CONSUDATLE. In addition, one source also lists results from 4 athletes representing Saint Kitts and Nevis.


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Medal winners are published. Detailed results can be found on the CACAC website, and on the Tilastopaja website,


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics, Medal summary, Women
* Keisa Monterola from Venezuela was then only 16 years old and could notofficially participate at the championships. Out of competition, shecleared 3.80m in the first attempt, which would have placed her in thesecond place of the competition.


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics, Medal summary, Women
* * Some sources list Jéssica Quispe from Perú to finish second in 4:27.68 inthe 1500m women's event. Just as pole vaulter Keisa Monterola, she mighthave started out of competition because of her age (she was then only 17 years old).


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics, Team trophies
The final scoring per country for the team trophy was published.


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results
These are the full results of the 2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics which took place between June 26 and June 27, 2004, at Polideportivo Máximo Viloria in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results, Men's results, 100 meters
Heats – 26 JuneWind: Heat 1: +0.1 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results, Men's results, 200 meters
Heats – 27 JuneWind: Heat 1: -0.6 m/s, Heat 2: -1.3 m/s


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results, Women's results, 100 meters
Heats – 26 JuneWind: Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results, Women's results, 200 meters
Heats – 27 JuneWind: Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results, Women's results, 100 meters hurdles
Heats – 26 JuneWind: Heat 1: +0.0 m/s, Heat 2: -1.5 m/s


2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results, Note
The names of the Brazilian athletes were completed using the published list of participants.


2004 South American Youth Championships in Athletics
The 17th South American Youth Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Modelo  in Guayaquil, Ecuador from September 25–26, 2004.


2004 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Medal winners are published for boys and girls. Complete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.


2004 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, Trophies, Individual
The trophies for the most outstanding performance were awarded to Jonathan Davis (Venezuela) and Franciela Krasucki (Brazil). Jessica Quispe (Peru) gained the trophy for the most improved athlete.


2004 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, Participation (unofficial)
Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 259 athletes from about 12 countries:


2004 South Asian Games
The 2004 South Asian Games, officially known as the IX South Asian Federation Games, were held in Islamabad, Pakistan in 2004. Originally scheduled for 2001, the games were postponed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the United States in which the US later declared Pakistan a Major non-NATO ally. The slogan for the Games was Rising Above. For the first time, Afghanistan was included at the games.


2004 South Asian Games, Delay
The games in Islamabad were originally to be held in 2001, but they were inevitably rescheduled (with the location remaining unchanged) for March 29 through April 6, 2003, due to the invasion of Afghanistan. Afghanistan was invited for the games, however Bhutan and India withdrew.


2004 South Asian Games, Delay
The entire event was postponed once again due to the war against Iraq. Pakistan retained the organisational authority, despite Sri Lanka being offered to host the games for 2004. Nevertheless, the honour was returned to Sri Lanka as they were given the 10th edition for 2006 instead. The 9th edition was then rescheduled in Pakistan, for 29 March through 7 April 2004. Despite not entering in the previous schedule, Bhutan and India now entered, though the Maldives withdrew from the football tournament.


2004 South Cambridgeshire District Council election
Elections to South Cambridgeshire District Council took place on Thursday 10 June 2004, as part of the 2004 United Kingdom local elections and at the same time as the European Parliament election, 2004. Due to new ward boundaries, all 57 seats on the council were up for election, increasing the number of councillors by two. Seats up for election in 2004 were subsequently contested by thirds at the 2006, 2007 and 2008 elections.


2004 South Cambridgeshire District Council election, Summary
The Conservative Party remained the largest party while the Liberal Democrats made gains, but the council remained under no overall control. Labour lost two seats, halving their representation on the council.


2004 South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team
The 2004 South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team represented the University of South Carolina in the 2004 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Gamecocks played their home games at Sarge Frye Field. The team was coached by Ray Tanner in his 8th season at South Carolina.


2004 South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team, Gamecocks in the 2004 MLB Draft
The following members of the South Carolina Gamecocks baseball program were drafted in the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft.


2004 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
The 2004 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Gamecocks were led by Lou Holtz in his sixth and final season as head coach and played their home games in Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina. Although they were bowl eligible, South Carolina declined to accept a bid due to the team's involvement in the Clemson–South Carolina football brawl.


2004 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Schedule
The September 11 game against Georgia played host to ESPN's College Gameday.


2004 South Carolina Gamecocks men's soccer team
The following contains the names of the members of the 2004 South Carolina Gamecocks men's soccer team and the results of each match. The 2004 season was a successful one for Gamecock soccer that would include a berth in the NCAA Tournament, their 17th all-time. The team finished the season with a 12-7-1 record that included four wins over top-25 opponents. The 2004 roster was a star-studded one that included three future professionals; Brad Guzan, Mike Sambursky, and Josh Alcala.


2004 South Carolina Gamecocks men's soccer team, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2004 South Dakota Democratic presidential primary
The 2004 South Dakota Democratic presidential primary was held on June 1 in the U.S. state of South Dakota as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 2004 presidential election.


2004 South Dakota's at-large congressional district special election
The 2004 South Dakota's at-large congressional district special election was held on July 12, 2004 to select the successor to Republican Representative Bill Janklow who resigned on July 11, 2004, following a conviction of vehicular manslaughter after an accident that had occurred months earlier, creating an open seat and necessitating a special election. Each party held a nominating convention to choose their nominee for the special election. Republicans selected state Senator Larry Diedrich over Barbara Everist, also a member of the South Dakota State Senate, as their nominee while Democrats chose attorney Stephanie Herseth, who had unsuccessfully challenged Janklow in 2002.


2004 South Dakota's at-large congressional district special election
The special election was closely watched by both parties in an effort to gain momentum going into the 2004 House elections. The Hill committees of both parties spent a combined total of two million dollars on advertising in South Dakota. This election was especially important considering that five months later in addition to this House seat, Democratic Senator and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's, who was facing a tough race against former Representative John Thune (R), who had come within 524 votes of defeating South Dakota's other Senator in 2002, U.S. Senate seat would also be up for election.


2004 South Dakota's at-large congressional district special election
Herseth benefitted from her high name recognition from her previous run as well as her relation to the prominent Herseth family (one notable member of whom includes her grandfather Ralph Herseth, a former Governor of South Dakota). However, Vice President Dick Cheney (R) came to the Mount Rushmore state in March to campaign for Diedrich.


2004 South Dakota's at-large congressional district special election
Herseth ultimately narrowly prevailed over Diedrich. The both of them won their primaries held on the same day as the special election and would face off against each other in November. Some Democrats claimed this victory, as well as another one in a special election in Kentucky's 6th congressional district months earlier, were harbingers of major Democratic victories in November. However, instead Republicans would achieve a net-gain of three seats in the House and a net-gain of four in the Senate (including a victory in South Dakota).


2004 South Dublin County Council election
An election to South Dublin County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions using the Single transferable vote system for a five-year term of office.


2004 South Florida Bulls football team
The 2004 South Florida Bulls football team represented the University of South Florida (USF) in the 2004 college football season. Their head coach was Jim Leavitt, and the USF Bulls played their home games at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL. The 2004 college football season was only the 8th season overall for the Bulls, and their second and final season in Conference USA.


2004 South Korean legislative election
Legislative elections were held in the Republic of Korea on April 15, 2004. In the 17th election for the National Assembly, voters elected 299 members of the legislature. The newly formed Uri Party and other parties supporting President Roh Moo-hyun, who was impeached by the outgoing National Assembly, won a majority of seats. This was the first time a centre-left liberal party won a majority in the National Assembly.


2004 South Korean legislative election, Parties
The newly formed liberal Uri Party (Uri-dang or Our Party) gained support through its opposition to the impeachment of President Roh. It won 32 out of 49 seats in Seoul, 44 out of 62 in Incheon and Gyeonggi, confirming that a majority of voters supported the President Roh.


2004 South Korean legislative election, Parties
The conservative Grand National Party, which supported the impeachment of President Roh, suffered a loss of support, but won a majority in North Gyeongsang and South Gyeongsang regions and retained the 100 seats necessary to block constitutional changes.


2004 South Korean legislative election, Parties
The progressive Democratic Labor Party got 13.03% of vote share, but won only 10 out of 299 seats because of FPTP system. But this was considered a great triumph considering that South Koreans are traditionally anti-communist and against left-wing policies.


2004 South Korean legislative election, Parties
The Millennium Democratic Party, formerly the major liberal party, was the second-largest party prior to the election but sustained the biggest loss in the backlash following its leading role in the impeachment of Roh, as much of its support shifted to the Uri Party.


2004 South Korean legislative election, Parties
The United Liberal Democrats, a conservative regional party based on North Chungcheong and South Chungcheong regions, has lost support since its leader, Kim Jong-pil, did not contest the last presidential election.


2004 South Lakeland District Council election
The 2004 South Lakeland District Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of South Lakeland District Council in Cumbria, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.


2004 South Lakeland District Council election, Campaign
Before the election the Liberal Democrats had 22 seats, the Conservatives 18, Labour 8 and independents 2, with a further 2 seats being vacant. The 2 vacant seats were in Milnthorpe, after the resignation of the Liberal Democrat councillor Malcolm Alston, and Ulverston East, following the death of Labour councillor Bob Bolton. 18 seats were being contested in the 2004 election, with 6 of them being in Ulverston. Apart from the 2 vacant seats, the Conservatives defended 7 seats, the Liberal Democrats 6, Labour 2 and 1 independent.


2004 South Lakeland District Council election, Campaign
Issues for the 3 parties represented on the council included the council tax, improving facilities, attracting more businesses to the area, street cleaning and plans to upgrade the Furness Line and create an A590 bypass. There was controversy at the election over the decision of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Westmorland and Lonsdale Tim Farron to stand in the election for Milnthorpe. The Conservatives attacked the decision saying it was an indication the Liberal Democrats would not win the parliamentary seat, but Tim Farron said there would be no problem with him doing both roles.


2004 South Lakeland District Council election, Campaign
The election in South Lakeland, along with all of North West England, had a trial of all postal voting.


2004 South Lakeland District Council election, Election result
The results saw no party win a majority, but the Conservatives made 2 gains. They took Grange-over-Sands from the Liberal Democrats by 1,129 votes to 1,054 and gained Ulverston Central from Labour by 263 votes to 226. Successful candidates included the Conservative leader of the council Colin Hodgson and the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate Tim Farron. Overall turnout in the election was 55.88%.


2004 South Ossetian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in South Ossetia on 23 May 2004.


2004 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Electoral system
At the time of the election, South Ossetia's parliament had 34 seats. Of these, 15 were filled using the party-list proportional representation, 15 were filled using Single-member district plurality voting, and another 4 were vacant seats, designated for representatives from villages then under Georgian control, where elections were impossible to hold. This election was the last time this system was used, as in the 2009 election, all 34 seats were filled using party-list proportional representation.


2004 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Results
As of 13:00 local time, 52% of registered voters had cast their votes, crossing the electoral threshold of 50% plus one vote. The South Ossetian election commission has thus declared the elections valid.


2004 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Results
The election was won by President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity's Unity Party, which got 9 of the 15 party-list seats (54.6% of all votes), as well as another 11 constituency seats, giving the party a controlling 20-seat majority. Znaur Gassiyev of the Unity Party was elected speaker, replacing Stanislav Kochiev of the Communist Party of South Ossetia. Gassiyev was one of the leaders of the Republic of South Ossetia in its forming days in the early 1990s, and acted as Head of State in 1991.


2004 South Sydney Rabbitohs season
The 2004 South Sydney Rabbitohs season was the 95th in the club's history. Coached by Arthur Kitinas and Paul Langmack and captained by Bryan Fletcher and Ashley Harrison, they competed in the National Rugby League's 2004 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season 15th out of 15 teams, failing to reach the finals.


2004 South Tipperary County Council election
An election to South Tipperary County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.


2004 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2004 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council in Tyne and Wear, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 reducing the number of seats by 6. The Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


2004 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election, Campaign
Before the election, South Tyneside was seen as one of Labour's safest councils in the north east of England – Labour having 49 of the 60 councillors; they were expected to remain in control of the council. The Boundary Committee for England had made changes in South Tyneside's wards since the 2003 election and these meant there would be 54 councillors elected from 18 wards, instead of the previous 60 councillors from 20 wards. The changes abolished All Saints and Rekendyke wards and new ward names included Biddick and All Saints, Hebburn North and Simonside and Rekendyke.


2004 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election, Campaign
Labour was the only party which contested all 54 seats that were up for election, with the other candidates being made up of 23 Conservatives, 22 Liberal Democrats, 13 independents, 12 Progressives, 3 British National Party and 1 each from the Green party and the National Front. The independent candidates included 4 former Labour councillors who had quit the party to stand as independents, Mervyn Owen, Tom Defty, Jim Caine and Allen Branley, as well as Allen Branley's wife Jane Branley.


2004 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election, Campaign
The election was held with all postal voting, but delays relating to the printers meant that many voters received their ballot papers almost a week late.


2004 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
The results saw Labour defend a reduced majority on the council after winning 35 of the 54 seats. The independents and Progressives were jointly the largest opposition groups after the election after winning 6 seats each, with the Progressive leader, Jim Capstick, saying that the boundary changes had helped them to win all of the seats in Harton and West Park wards. The gains for the independents included the former Labour councillors, Tom Defty, who defeated the mayor and wife of the council leader, Linda Waggott, in Bede ward, and Allen Braley in Westoe ward, who was elected along with his wife Jane.


2004 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
Meanwhile, the Conservatives had 3 councillors after the election, the most for decades, after winning all 3 seats in Cleadon and East Boldon ward at the expense of the Liberal Democrats. Among the Liberal Democrats who failed to be elected in Cleadon and East Boldon was the leader of the party on the council, Jim Selby, but the party did gain one seat in Biddick & All Saints ward.


2004 Southampton City Council election
The 2004 Southampton Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Southampton Unitary Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.


2004 Southampton City Council election, Campaign
Since the last election in 2003 the Liberal Democrats had run the council as a minority administration, after Labour had previously been in charge for 19 years. The record of the Liberal Democrats for the previous year was a major issue in the election, with the Liberal Democrats pointing to investment in road repairs and in addressing anti-social behaviour, while campaigning for council tax to be replaced by a local income tax. However the Labour and Conservative parties attacked the Liberal Democrats for u-turns such as the stopping of plans for fortnightly refuse collection, charges for parking in the town centre and the dropping of schemes to close football pitches and a leisure centre.


2004 Southampton City Council election, Campaign
Crucial wards in the election were seen as being Sholing and Bitterne Park. Meanwhile, as well as the three main parties, there were also candidates from the United Kingdom Independence Party, British National Party and the Green Party.


2004 Southampton City Council election, Election result
The results saw the council remain with no party having a majority, but the Labour party lost 2 seats and the Conservatives gained 2. The Liberal Democrats remained the largest party with 18 seats after gaining Coxford from Labour, but losing Bitterne Park to the Conservatives. The Conservatives grew to 14 seats after also gaining Freemantle from Labour, who thus dropped to 15 seats.


2004 Southampton City Council election, Election result
The Labour group leader, June Bridle, held her seat in Sholing by 84 votes, with both Labour and the Conservatives saying that the 657 won by the United Kingdom Independence Party had probably enabled Labour to hold on there. Overall turnout in the election increased to 31.6% from 29% in 2003.


2004 Southampton City Council election, Election result
Following the election Liberal Democrat Adrian Vinson remained as leader of the council, after being confirmed by a vote of 18 to 0 at a council meeting.


2004 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2004 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, AL from May 26 through May 30. South Carolina won the tournament and earned the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Tournament.


2004 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election
The 2004 Southend-on-Sea Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Southend-on-Sea Unitary Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


2004 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election, Election result
The results saw the Conservatives make one gain in the election to hold control of the council with 33 seats. The Conservative gain came in St Lukes ward where they defeated the Labour councillor, Reg Copley, who had been first elected to the council in 1963. They also came within 4 votes of gaining Kursaal, but the only other change was an independent gain from the Liberal Democrats in Westborough.


2004 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2004 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park in Charleston, SC from May 26 through May 30. Third seeded The Citadel won the tournament and earned the Southern Conference's automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was the Bulldogs seventh SoCon tournament win.


2004 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
The top eight baseball programs in the conference participated in the double-elimination tournament. Furman, Wofford, and Appalachian State were not in the field. College of Charleston claimed its first top seed by winning its first regular season championship.


2004 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2004 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 3–6, 2004 at the North Charleston Coliseum in North Charleston, South Carolina. The East Tennessee State Buccaneers defeated their in-state rival Chattanooga in the championship game to win their sixth title in school history and receive the automatic berth to the 2004 NCAA Tournament. Tim Smith of ETSU was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.


2004 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
All twelve teams were eligible for the tournament. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of four rounds, the first of which featured four games, with the winners moving on to the quarterfinal round. The top two finishers in each division received first round byes, and the division winners were seeded first and second overall.


2004 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team
The 2004 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team represented the University of Southern Mississippi in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Golden Eagles were led by head coach Jeff Bower and played their home games at M. M. Roberts Stadium. They were a member of Conference USA.


2004 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2004 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 26 through May 29, 2004 to determine the champion of the Southland Conference in the sport of college baseball for the 2004 season. The event pitted the top six finishers from the conference's regular season in a double-elimination tournament held at Alumni Field, home field of Southeastern Louisiana in Hammond, Louisiana. Top-seeded Lamar won their second overall championship and claimed the automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2004 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The top six finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six. They played a double-elimination tournament.


2004 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Jordan Foster was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Foster was an outfielder for Lamar.


2004 Spa 24 Hours
The 2004 Proximus Spa 24 Hours was the 57th running of the Spa 24 Hours and the seventh round the 2004 FIA GT Championship season. This event combined the FIA GT's two classes (GT and N-GT) with cars from national series and one-make series, designated G2 and G3. It took place at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, from July 31 to August 1, 2004.


2004 Spa 24 Hours, Half-point leaders
For the FIA GT Championship, the top eight cars in the GT and N-GT classes are awarded half points for their positions after six hours and twelve hours into the race. Points to the top eight were awarded in the order of 4.0 – 3.0 – 2.5 – 2.0 – 1.5 – 1.0 – 0.5.


2004 Spa 24 Hours, Official results
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2004 Spanish Figure Skating Championships
The 2004 Spanish Figure Skating Championships (Spanish: Campeonato De España De Patinaje Sobre Hielo 2003-04) took place between 12 and 14 December 2003 in Madrid. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles on the senior, junior, and novice levels.


2004 Spanish Formula Three Championship
The 2004 Spanish Formula Three Championship was the fourth Spanish Formula Three season. It began on 25 April at Albacete and ended on 14 November at Circuit de Catalunya in Montmeló after fourteen races. Borja García was crowned series champion.


2004 Spanish Formula Three Championship, Teams and drivers
† From the second round, CLM Motorsport retired and were purchased by Meycom Sport.


2004 Spanish Formula Three Championship, Standings, Drivers' standings
† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.


2004 Spanish Grand Prix
The 2004 Spanish Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Gran Premio Marlboro de España 2004) was a Formula One motor race held on 9 May 2004 at the Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. It was Race 5 of 18 in the 2004 FIA Formula One World Championship. The 66-lap race was won by Michael Schumacher for the Ferrari team. His teammate Rubens Barrichello finished second with Jarno Trulli third in a Renault car.


2004 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background
Heading into the fifth race of the season, Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher was leading the World Drivers' Championship with 40 points; Rubens Barrichello was second on 24 points, 16 points behind Schumacher. Behind Schumacher and Barrichello in the Drivers' Championship, BAR driver Jenson Button was third on 23 points, with Juan Pablo Montoya and Fernando Alonso on 18 and 16 points respectively. In the World Constructors' Championship, Ferrari were leading on 64 points and Renault were second on 31 points, with Williams third on 27 points.


2004 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Friday drivers
The bottom 6 teams in the 2003 Constructors' Championship were entitled to run a third car in free practice on Friday. These drivers drove on Friday but did not compete in qualifying or the race.


2004 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying
Four practice sessions were held before the Sunday race—two on Friday, and two on Saturday. The Friday morning and afternoon sessions each lasted an hour. The third and final practice sessions were held on Saturday morning and lasted 45 minutes.


2004 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying
The qualifying session was run as a one-lap session and took place on Friday and Saturday afternoon. The cars were run one at a time; the Friday running order was determined with the Championship leading heading out first. The Saturday running order was determined by times set in Friday afternoon qualifying with the fastest heading out last and the slowest running first. The lap times from the Friday afternoon session did not determine the grid order.


2004 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race
The race started at 14:00 local time. During the warm-up lap of the race, a man calling himself Jimmy Jump ran through the starting grid, only to be apprehended soon by the security. While he claimed to have many fans (due to his other performances at football matches), he was criticized for risking the lives of the drivers, even though the cars were still travelling at low speed at this point.


2004 Spanish general election
The 2004 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 14 March 2004, to elect the 8th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 259 seats in the Senate.


2004 Spanish general election
The electoral outcome was heavily influenced by the aftermath of the Madrid train bombings on 11 March, as a result of which all parties suspended their electoral campaigns. For two days following the attacks, the People's Party (PP) government kept blaming the terrorist organization ETA for the bombings, even in spite of mounting evidence suggesting the involvement of Islamist groups. The government was accused of misinformation, as an Islamist attack would have been perceived as the direct result of Spain's involvement in the Iraq War, which had been highly unpopular among the public.


2004 Spanish general election
The election result was described by some media as an "unprecedented electoral upset". The perceived abuse of the PP's absolute majority throughout the legislature, with a focus on Spain's involvement in Iraq, was said to have helped fuel a wave of discontent against the incumbent ruling party, with the government's mismanagement on the bombings serving as the final catalyst for change to happen. At 11 million votes and 42.6%, the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) increased by 3.1 million its 2000 result, securing 164 seats—a net gain of 39.


2004 Spanish general election
In contrast, the PP, which opinion polls earlier in the year had predicted would secure a diminished but still commanding victory, lost 35 seats and 7 percentage points, resulting in the worst defeat for a sitting government in Spain up to that point since 1982. The 75.7% turnout was among the highest since the Spanish transition to democracy, with no future general election having exceeded such a figure. The number of votes cast, at 26.1 million votes, remained the highest figure in gross terms for any Spanish general election until the April 2019 election.


2004 Spanish general election
The day after the election, Zapatero announced his will to form a minority PSOE government, supported by other parties in a confidence and supply basis. Two minor left-wing parties, Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and United Left (IU), immediately announced their intention to support Zapatero's government. On 16 April 2004, Zapatero was elected as new prime minister by an outright majority of the new Congress, with 183 out of 350 members voting for him, being sworn in the next day.


2004 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system
The Spanish Cortes Generales were envisaged as an imperfect bicameral system. The Congress of Deputies had greater legislative power than the Senate, having the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a prime minister and to override Senate vetoes by an absolute majority of votes. Nonetheless, the Senate possessed a few exclusive, yet limited in number functions—such as its role in constitutional amendment—which were not subject to the Congress' override. Voting for the Cortes Generales was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen and in full enjoyment of their political rights.


2004 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system
For the Congress of Deputies, 348 seats were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of three percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Spain, with each being allocated an initial minimum of two seats and the remaining 248 being distributed in proportion to their populations. Ceuta and Melilla were allocated the two remaining seats, which were elected using plurality voting. The use of the D'Hondt method might result in a higher effective threshold, depending on the district magnitude.


2004 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system
For the Senate, 208 seats were elected using an open list partial block voting, with electors voting for individual candidates instead of parties. In constituencies electing four seats, electors could vote for up to three candidates; in those with two or three seats, for up to two candidates; and for one candidate in single-member districts.


2004 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system
Each of the 47 peninsular provinces was allocated four seats, whereas for insular provinces, such as the Balearic and Canary Islands, districts were the islands themselves, with the larger—Majorca, Gran Canaria and Tenerife—being allocated three seats each, and the smaller—Menorca, Ibiza–Formentera, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma—one each. Ceuta and Melilla elected two seats each. Additionally, autonomous communities could appoint at least one senator each and were entitled to one additional senator per each million inhabitants.


2004 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date
The term of each chamber of the Cortes Generales—the Congress and the Senate—expired four years from the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of the Cortes in the event that the prime minister did not make use of his prerogative of early dissolution. The decree was to be published on the following day in the Official State Gazette (BOE), with election day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication.


2004 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date
The previous election was held on 12 March 2000, which meant that the legislature's term would expire on 12 March 2004. The election decree was required to be published in the BOE no later than 17 February 2004, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Cortes Generales on Sunday, 11 April 2004.


2004 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date
The prime minister had the prerogative to dissolve both chambers at any given time—either jointly or separately—and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process, no state of emergency was in force and that dissolution did not occur before one year had elapsed since the previous one. Additionally, both chambers were to be dissolved and a new election called if an investiture process failed to elect a prime minister within a two-month period from the first ballot. Barred this exception, there was no constitutional requirement for simultaneous elections for the Congress and the Senate. Still, as of 2021 there has been no precedent of separate elections taking place under the 1978 Constitution, with governments having long preferred that elections for the two chambers of the Cortes take place simultaneously.


2004 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date
On 9 January 2004, it was announced that the general election would be held on 14 March, with the Cortes to be dissolved on 20 January. The election date was agreed with Andalusian president Manuel Chaves, to make it being held concurrently with the 2004 Andalusian regional election.


2004 Spanish general election, Parliamentary composition
The Cortes Generales were officially dissolved on 20 January 2004, after the publication of the dissolution decree in the Official State Gazette. The tables below show the composition of the parliamentary groups in both chambers at the time of dissolution.


2004 Spanish general election, Parties and candidates
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.


2004 Spanish general election, Parties and candidates
Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:


2004 Spanish general election, Parties and candidates
The Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV) agreed to continue with the Catalan Agreement of Progress alliance for the Senate with the inclusion of United and Alternative Left (EUiA). In the Balearic Islands, PSM–Nationalist Agreement (PSM–EN), United Left of the Balearic Islands (EUIB), The Greens of the Balearic Islands (EVIB) and ERC formed the Progressives for the Balearic Islands alliance. A proposal for an all-left electoral alliance for the Senate in the Valencian Community, comprising the PSOE, United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV) and the Valencian Nationalist Bloc (BNV) was ultimately discarded.


2004 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2004 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2004 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 30 April-2 May 2004 at the Circuito Permanente de Jerez.


2004 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (motoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round two has concluded.


2004 Speed World Challenge
The 2004 Speed World Challenge season was the fifteenth season of the Sports Car Club of America's World Challenge series. The series' title sponsor was television network Speed Channel, who broadcast all the races. Championships were awarded for grand touring and touring cars. The season began on March 19 and ran for ten rounds. Tommy Archer and Audi won the championships in GT, and Bill Auberlen and BMW won in Touring Car. The season marked the first wins for the Cadillac brand, a step up for General Motors after three of its brands declined in the nineties.


2004 Speedway Conference League
The 2004 Speedway Conference League was the third-tier division of British speedway.


2004 Speedway Conference League, Conference League Knockout Cup
The 2004 Conference League Knockout Cup was the seventh edition of the Knockout Cup for tier three teams. Mildenhall Fen Tigers were the winners for the second successive year.


2004 Speedway Grand Prix
The 2004 Speedway Grand Prix was the 59th edition of the official World Championship and the tenth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era used to determine the Speedway World Champion.


2004 Speedway Grand Prix
After finishing second in 2001, 2002 and 2003, Jason Crump broke through to become Australia's first Individual World Champion since Jack Young had won his second straight World title in 1952.


2004 Speedway Grand Prix, Event format
The system first used in 1998 continued to be adopted with 24 riders, divided into two classes. The eight best would be directly qualified for the "Main Event", while the sixteen others would be knocked out if they finished out of the top two in 4-man heats on two occasions – while they would go through if they finished inside the top two on two occasions. This resulted in 10 heats, where eight proceeded to the Main Event, where exactly the same system was applied to give eight riders to a semi-final.


2004 Speedway Grand Prix, Event format
The semi-finals were then two heats of four, where the top two qualified for a final – there was no consolation final. The 4 finalists scored 25, 20, 18 and 16 points, with 5th and 6th place getting 13, 7th and 8th 11, and after that 8, 8, 7, 7, etc. Places after 8th place were awarded according to the time a rider was knocked out and, secondly, according to position in the last heat he rode in.


2004 Speedway Grand Prix, Qualification for Grand Prix
The 2004 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.


2004 Speedway World Cup
The 2004 Speedway World Cup (SWC) was the 4th FIM Speedway World Cup season. The Final took place on 7 August 2004 in Poole, Great Britain. The tournament was won by Sweden (49 pts) and they beat host team Great Britain (48 pts), Denmark (32 pts) and Poland (22 pts) in the Final.


2004 Speedway World Cup Event 1
The 2004 Speedway World Cup Event 1 was the first race of the 2004 Speedway World Cup season. It took place on August 2, 2004 in the Arlington Stadium in Eastbourne, Great Britain.


2004 Speedway World Cup Event 1, Heat details
M - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2004 Speedway World Cup Event 2
The 2004 Speedway World Cup Event 2 was the second race of the 2004 Speedway World Cup season. It took place on August 3, 2004 in the Arlington Stadium in Eastbourne, Great Britain.


2004 Speedway World Cup Event 2, Heat details
M - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2004 Speedway World Cup Final
The 2004 Speedway World Cup Final was the fourth and last race of the 2004 Speedway World Cup season. It took place on August 7, 2004 in the Poole Stadium in Poole, Great Britain.


2004 Speedway World Cup Final, Heat details
M - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2004 Speedway World Cup Qualification
The 2004 Speedway World Cup Qualification (SWC) was a two events of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the two national teams who qualify for the 2004 Speedway World Cup. According to the FIM rules the top six nations (Sweden, Australia, Denmark, Poland, Great Britain and Czech Republic) from the 2003 Speedway World Cup were automatically qualified.


2004 Speedway World Cup Qualification, Heat details, Lonigo (1)
M - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2004 Speedway World Cup Qualification, Heat details, Gyula (2)
M - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2004 Speedway World Cup Race-off
The 2004 Speedway World Cup Race-off was the third race of the 2004 Speedway World Cup season. It took place on August 5, 2004 in the Poole Stadium in Poole, Great Britain.


2004 Speedway World Cup Race-off, Heat details
M - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2004 Spengler Cup
The 2004 Spengler Cup was held in Davos, Switzerland between December 26, 2004 and December 31, 2004. All matches were played at HC Davos's home arena, Eisstadion Davos. The final was won 2-0 by HC Davos over HC Sparta Praha.


2004 Sports Network Cup
The 2004 Sports Network Cup was a college football postseason NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Championship Series. The Monmouth Hawks finished ahead of the Drake Bulldogs 19-5 in first places votes to be named the NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major Football National Champions.


2004 Sports Network Cup
Note: Voting was conducted by a panel of 91 FCS media members and media relations professionals. A first-place vote is worth five points, a second- place vote is worth four points, a third-place vote is worth three points, a fourth-place vote is worth two points, and a fifth-place vote is worth one point. Votes were due by Wednesday, November 26, 2004, following the final week of the regular season. Postseason play has no effect on the outcome of the awards.


2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck
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2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck
The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami-rail disaster is the largest single rail disaster in world history by death toll, with 1,700 fatalities or more. It occurred when a crowded passenger train was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by a tsunami which followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The tsunami subsequently caused over 30,000 reported deaths and billions of rupees in property damage in the coastal areas of Sri Lanka.


2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck, Train
Train # Matara Express was a regular train operating between the cities of Colombo and Galle. The route runs along the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka, and at Telwatta, only about 200 metres (660 ft) inland from the sea. On Sunday, 26 December 2004, during both the Buddhist full moon holiday and the Christmas holiday weekend, it left Colombo's Fort Station shortly after 6:50 A.M. with over 1,500 paid passengers and an unknown number of unpaid passengers including the ones with travel passes (called Seasons) and government travel permits.


2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck, Train
The train was pulled by locomotive #591 Manitoba, a Sri Lanka Railways class M2a built in 1956 by General Motors Diesel of Canada as a model G12.


2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck, Attempts to stop the train
Sri Lanka's seismic monitoring station at Pallekele registered the earthquake within minutes but did not consider it possible for a tsunami to reach the island. When tsunami reports first reached the dispatching office in Maradana, officials were able to halt eight trains running on the Coastal Line, but were unable to reach the Matara Express.


2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck, Attempts to stop the train
Efforts to halt the train at Ambalangoda failed because all station personnel were assisting with the train, and no one was available to answer the phone until after the train had departed. Attempts to reach personnel at stations further south failed as they had fled or been killed by the waves.