Elections for the National assembly are to take place every five years, and the President is automatically the leader of the winning party or coalition.

Elections since 1998 have represented an improvement in terms of both fairness and efficiency, although they are still considered to have fallen short of international standards.

Elections are very labor intensive but efficient, and vote counting normally takes place the evening of the election day.

Elections are usually held on one day.

In General Elections, the candidates are elected for the Lok Sabha and they are called MP's ( Member of Parliament ).

Elections are held by means of the system of proportional representation using the single transferable vote.

Elections to the House of Representatives ( Kamra tad-Deputati ) are based on the single transferable vote system, which in turn is a variant of the proportional representation electoral system.

Elections are held every four years in universal suffrage ( for all citizens above 18 ), with each of the twenty-four constituencies ( see below ) electing one or more representatives ( senators ) to the lower house of RMI ’ s bicameral legislature, the Nitijela.

Elections are usually held on the first Sunday of July.

Elections within the Federal District are also organized by a local electoral institute.

* 1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held.

Elections are held in Marxist-Leninist states for all positions within the legislative structure, municipal councils, national legislatures and presidencies.

Elections for the Australian Senate use what is referred to as above-the-line voting where candidates for each party are grouped on the ballot, allowing the voter to vote for the group or for a candidate.

Elections for minority seats are held on the basis of separate electorates at the same time as the polls for Muslim seats during the general elections.

Whereas the late King James the Second by the Assistance of diverse evill Councellors Judges and Ministers imployed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of this Kingdome ( list of grievances including ) ... by causing severall good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law, ( Recital regarding the change of monarch ) ... thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation takeing into their most serious Consideration the best meanes for attaining the Ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Auncestors in like Case have usually done ) for the Vindicating and Asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, Declare ( list of rights including ) ... That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.

Elections and political parties in the United Kingdom are affected by Duverger's law, the political science principle which states that plurality voting systems, such as first-past-the-post, tend to lead to the development of two-party systems.

* March 15 – March 16 – Elections to the new Parliament of Finland are the first in the world with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied.

* May 24 – Elections are held for the first time for the new Northern Ireland Parliament.

* May 20 – The last mock Garrat Elections are held in Surrey, England.

* March 30 – Elections are held for the first Kansas Territory legislature.

Supporters claim that Clean Elections matching funds are so effective at leveling the playing field in Arizona that during the first full year of its implementation, disproportionate funding between candidates was a factor in only 2 % of the races.

Elections are held every year.

Elections are held every two years, with three members being chosen at one election and four members at the other.

Elections were held on December 10 and the fledgling legislature passed its first local legislation on December 31, 1831.

Elections were held on 13 March 2005.

Elections to the new Congress of People's Deputies were held throughout the USSR in March and April 1989.

Elections were held on May 5, 2005, with the ruling coalition maintaining power.

Elections were held in the spring of 1789 ; suffrage requirements for the Third Estate were for French-born or naturalised males only, at least 25 years of age, who resided where the vote was to take place and who paid taxes.

Elections were held in April 1964 with many opposition participants.

Elections were held in April with many opposition participants.

Elections were irregularly held by the Franks, whose successor states include France and Germany.

Elections for the national, provincial, and sub-provincial parliaments were held on 7 June 1999.

Elections for the National Assembly of Iraq were held on January 30, 2005 in Iraq.

* Elections of Japanese House of Councillors, replacing half of its seats, held every three years ( the latest one in 2007 ).

Elections for the two legislative chambers — a 35-seat full-time assembly and a 70-seat part-time assembly — were held in February 1995 after campaigns considered remarkably free and open by most international observers, although the election-day proceedings were marred by widespread irregularities.

Elections for the two legislative chambers – a 35-seat full-time assembly and a 70-seat part-time assembly – were held in February 1995 after campaigns considered remarkably free and open by most international observers, although the election-day proceedings were marred by widespread irregularities.

Elections were subsequently held on 10 October 2010.

Elections were held in 1943 and on November 8, 1943 the new Lebanese government unilaterally abolished the mandate.

Elections were held under this new system in May 2002, and the LCD won again, gaining 54 % of the vote.

Elections were held on 15 October 1985 in which Doe's National Democratic Party of Liberia ( NDPL ) was declared winner.

The Elections for Representatives in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia is held in October.

The then MLP Leader Alfred Sant said that the General Elections that was to be held within a month would settle the affair.

Elections must be held at least every 5 years and the electoral system used is single transferable vote.

Elections were held in March 2007, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was elected president and Vall stood down.