The final Clangers programme, however, was a four-minute election special, broadcast on October 10, 1974.

* November 10 – Clangers ( UK ) ( 1969 – 1972 ) ( with a special broadcast on October 10, 1974 ).

Mr. Martinelli has, in recent weeks, been of the opinion that a special town meeting would be called for the vote, while Mr. Bourcier said that a special election might be called instead.

In the Netherlands, Denmark and in Belgium, for example, the Monarch formally appoints a representative to preside over the creation of a coalition government following a parliamentary election, while in Norway the King chairs special meetings of the cabinet.

The day following the election a sheriff's posse left the city for Manton by special train to seize the county records.

In practice, this means the government remains in power for close to its full term, and choose an election date it calculates to be in its best interests ( unless something special happens, such as a motion of no-confidence ).

Mimault became unnerved because of the decision, and after an incident where he shot at and wounded two students of the École Polytechnique ( charges for which were dropped ), he demanded a special act to prolong the duration of his patents, 100, 000 Francs, and election to the Légion d ' honneur.

The President is elected every five years by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ), a special body convened only for this purpose, comprising the entire Bundestag and an equal number of state delegates selected especially for this purpose in proportion to election results for the state diets.

Through the patriarchs God announces the election of Israel, meaning that he has chosen Israel to be his special people and committed himself to their future.

Election usually is the constitutional way to choose the head of state of a republic, and some monarchies, either directly through popular election, indirectly by members of the legislature or of a special college of electors ( such as the Electoral College in the United States ), or as an exclusive prerogative.

The junior ( Class I ) Senator, elected in a special election on January 19, 2010, is Scott Brown.

The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted in a victory for the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Chen Chu, the first elected female mayor of special municipality in Taiwan, defeating her Kuomintang rival and former deputy mayor, Huang Chun-ying.

The special functions of the Assembly included the admission of new members, the periodical election of non-permanent members to the Council, the election with the Council of the judges of the Permanent Court, and control of the budget.

The NLP was invited to take part in the special elections to the Northern Ireland Forum, but withdrew before the election, bringing praise from sections of the political spectrum in Northern Ireland.

There are also 50 + special seats for women now, and women are selected ( i. e. not directly elected in the general election but given representation according to how their parties performed in the general election ) on these seat by their party head: another seventeenth amendment innovation.

On March 20, 1973, the Baseball Writers Association of America held a special election for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Conservative talk show hosts also lent their unified support for Congressional candidate Doug Hoffman, a conservative third-party candidate who was running in New York's 23rd congressional district special election, 2009 against a liberal Republican ( Dierdre Scozzafava ) and a mainstream Democrat ( Bill Owens ).

Since Representatives are to be " chosen ... by the People ," State Governors are not allowed to appoint temporary replacements when vacancies occur in a state's delegation to the House of Representatives ; instead, the Governor of the state is required by clause 4 to issue a writ of election calling a special election to fill the vacancy.

Moreover, the State Governor may not appoint a temporary replacement, but must instead arrange for a special election to fill the vacancy.

In a nod to the less populist nature of the Senate, the Amendment tracks the vacancy procedures for the House of Representatives in requiring that the Governor call a special election to fill the vacancy, but ( unlike in the House ) it vests in the State Legislature the authority to allow the Governor to appoint a temporary replacement until the special election is held.

* The 1981 election, when, due to a quirk in that country's Single Transferrable Vote system, the party winning more than half the votes won fewer than half the seats

In the 1935 election, Holyoake retained his seat under the motto " Follow England and Vote Holyoake " despite a massive swing against the Reform-United coalition.

The King of Spain nominates a candidate for the presidency who stands before the Congress of Deputies for a Vote of Confidence in a process known as a Congressional Investiture, effectively an indirect election of the head of government by the elected Congressional delegates.

During the Investiture proceedings the nominee presents his political agenda in an Investiture Speech to be debated and submitted for a Vote of Confidence ( Cuestión de confianza ) by the Congress, effecting an indirect election of the head of government.

In 2008, from the time the king nominated José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for a second term as president immediately following the 2008 general election, almost a month passed before Zapatero was able to present his Investiture Speech before the Congress and stand for a Vote of Confidence.

Where the original version featured samples of Jesse Jackson, this " Vote ' 08 Remix " used samples of Barack Obama, marking the presidential election.

Vote pairing is a voter strategy for single-winner elections, but it is made moot by the election system of instant-runoff voting, or ranked choice voting.

Vote pairing allows a person to electorally support a candidate that is unlikely to win an election, without inadvertently preventing the election of another candidate that they would otherwise prefer.

Vote data may be transmitted as individual ballots as they are cast, periodically as batches of ballots throughout the election day, or as one batch at the close of voting.

For the 1952 provincial election, the Liberal-Conservative provincial coalition government switched the electoral system from first past the post to the Alternative Vote, The coalition was nervous about the growing popularity of the socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( forerunner of the NDP ).

A tally ( also see tally sticks ) is an unofficial private observation of an election count carried out under Proportional Representation using the Single Transferable Vote.

A 2004 episode about the importance of voting on election day seemed to suggest that the men in the family were voting for President George W. Bush, while the women were voting for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry — however, the script went out of the way to make sure that no mention of either candidate was ever made directly by name, leaving the viewer to decide ; the episode's message was " Vote, no matter who you vote for.

* Your Vote, Your Choice – the aim of the program is to make the citizens interested in the problems of their communities and encourage them to get involved in public life, including local elections, as well as build a sense of shared responsibility of both the voters and the elected authorities for the decisions made during the election.

Cells have also supported various large-scale campaigns with publicity work, including the " Unabomber for President " and the " Don't Just ( Not ) Vote " election campaigns as well as the protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas of 2003 in Miami, Florida.

Vote data may be transmitted as individual ballots as they are cast, periodically as batches of ballots throughout the election day, or as one batch at the close of voting.

Other pieces include his life growing up with one of the earliest transgendered women (“ Dawn ”), an hour long program on a group of prisoners in a maximum security prison putting on a production of Hamlet (“ Act V ”, # 218 ), a segment on voter fraud in the 2008 American Presidential election (" Cold-cock The Vote.

She and her brother Jake filmed a commercial for Rock the Vote, and visited the University of Southern California ( USC ) campus to encourage students to vote in the 2004 U. S. presidential election, in which she supported John Kerry.

While there they filmed a PSA for Rock the Vote saying why they thought voting was important and the issues they cared about that election year.

Their election slogans were " Vote for new politics " (" Vali uus poliitika ") and " Choose order " (" Vali kord ").

This prompted Transparency International Vanuatu to applaud his election and his first days in office: " Port Vila MP Ralph Regenvanu was elected by the “ Protest Vote ” – essentially by those people who were sick and tired of the traditional politics, and it is encouraging to see him exercising his mandate.

These individuals are encouraged to vote through an absentee ballot and assist the candidates with election day Get Out The Vote efforts.

He has appeared in Rock the Vote advertising, campaigned for the Democratic Party in the 2004 U. S. presidential election, promoted environmental causes, and campaigned on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union.

He courted controversy in 1983 when he appeared as a guest newspaper reviewer on the BBC TV's early morning magazine show Breakfast Time, when in an outburst he encouraged viewers to " Vote Conservative " at the upcoming election, and claimed that " a vote for Labour would be a vote for communism, and may God have mercy on your soul ".