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 in November and the governor assumes office the following January, except in the case of death or resignation.

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 for delegates to that assembly had to be according to democratic principles, namely secret, direct, and based on proportional representation.

According to Elections New Zealand, " having the printed electoral rolls available for the public to view is a part of the open democratic process of New Zealand ".

The fall of the communist regimes in various Central and Eastern European countries forced, then President Ramiz Alia to gradually remove the old communist nomenklatura from power and government, so in the end of February 1991, Alia appointed Nano as Prime Minister of the transitional government with the purpose of organizing the first post-communist democratic elections in the country being held that year, also to prepare the transition of the country towards democracy and market economy The Parliamentary Elections were held on March 31, 1991 where Labour Party of Albania won the majority.

Elections in Czechoslovakia were held not to offer the electorate an opportunity to participate in a democratic choice of their government representatives but to confirm the representatives chosen by the KSC hierarchy.

Evolution of popular vote in the Spanish General Elections from the democratic transition until 2008.

Elections are held pursuant to NCN's own democratic Election Code.

Evolution of popular vote in the Spanish General Elections from the democratic transition until 2008.

Elections have been held regularly in the democratic period that began in 1982.

Elections in Thailand ( refers to the democratic process in which some parts of the Government of Thailand is selected.

Shaikh was very involved in the Muslim Forum on Elections – a coalition of Muslim organisations that was calling on the community to vote in South Africa ’ s first democratic elections in April 1994, and to vote for those parties " that had formerly been part of the liberation movement " – in particular, the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the Pan Africanist Congress ( PAC ).

and demanding that the House of Commons immediately undertake a public consultation to amend the Canada Elections Act to incorporate these vital democratic rights.

On 28 October 1990 this Coalition won the first multiparty and democratic Parliamentary Elections.

Evolution of popular vote in the Spanish General Elections from the democratic transition until 2008.

Evolution of popular vote in the Spanish General Elections from the democratic transition until 2008.

Evolution of popular vote in the Spanish General Elections from the democratic transition until 2008.

Elections have taken place regularly and the democratic state legislature elected peacefully.

For Lumley, the work of Green MEPs in the European Parliament in pursuing human rights and animal rights made the Green Party " the obvious choice " and urged UK voters " to cast a positive vote for a better future by voting Green in the European Elections.

In 1890, Lodge co-authored the Federal Elections Bill, along with Sen. George Frisbie Hoar, that guaranteed federal protection for African American voting rights.

Elections previously took two days but as early voting became popular they are now conducted on one day, since 2011 the third Sunday in April.

A report commissioned by Ohio ’ s top elections official on December 15, 2007 has found that all five voting systems used in Ohio ( made by Elections Systems and Software ; Premier Election Solutions ( formerly Diebold Election Systems ); and Hart InterCivic ) have critical flaws that could undermine the integrity of the 2008 general election.

Elections always take place on a Saturday, so as to minimise the effect of work or religious commitments that could inhibit people from voting.

A nonprofit organization founded by Harris, Black Box Voting, was invited by Ion Sancho, Leon County, ( Florida ) Supervisor of Elections to conduct a series of tests election of Diebold's GEMS central tabulator and Diebold's optical scan voting machines.

Elections in the Bahamas take place in the framework of a parliamentary democracy, which relies on the first past the post system of voting.

used in Indian General and State Elections to implement electronic voting in part from 1999 elections and in total since 2004 elections.

Elections are conducted by means of the alternative vote ( also called instant runoff voting ), which is the single-winner analogue of the single transferable vote used in other Irish elections.

Elections take place roughly every four years, and before 2007, 15 members were elected at each election, using partial bloc voting.

Helping to remove obstacles to voting is an important part of Elections Canada ’ s work.

In the 1971 General Elections the PNM faced only limited opposition as the major opposition parties boycotted the election citing the use of voting machines.

He supported the " McKinley Tariff and the Lodge Federal Elections Bill, a measure to protect African-American voting rights with federal supervision.

To vote in U. S. Presidential Elections, overseas voters must request a ballot from local voting authorities in the place where they last resided in the U. S., also possible at VoteFromAbroad. org.

In the Canada Elections Act, inmates serving a sentence of at least two years are prohibited from voting, but on October 31, 2002, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Sauvé v. Canada that such a law violated the section 3 of the Charter, and was rendered of no force or effect.

Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections was deemed constitutional using that standard, states may impose rules on voting as long as it is reasonably designed to promote intelligent use of the ballot.

Results were announced by the State Commission of Elections ( CEE-PUR ) on November 2 – 3, 2004 after the voting colleges closed on November 2 at 3: 00 p. m. AST.

In 2004, for the European Elections, all the tests were ended and all 44 % of the population already voting electronically did so with the magnetic card.

" Elections officials noted logistical concerns, such as the lack of separate women's voting booths and the fact that many women do not have identification cards, as well as opposition from conservative religious traditionalists.

The party uses caging lists created by themselves or by the Board of Elections to challenge the registration status of voters and potentially purge them from the voting rolls under state laws which allow voters whose registrations are suspect to be challenged.

It is reported that ' Elections Canada hopes to test web voting by 2013, beginning with a byelection.

Elections Canada has released a report requesting approval to conduct an " electronic voting test-run in a byelection by 2013 ".