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 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.

Besides Law and Order and counter-insurgency duties, the role of CRPF in the General Elections, held repeatedly during the past few years, has been very significant and vital.

" It is very important to combine forces to combat the 2006 General Elections to have a better Government ," Ganilau said.

He was very active in his community, and he was rewarded for this when in the 1990 General Elections he was elected to Parliament for the Salisbury Constituency.

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 ).

In the very crucial 1946 General Elections, conducted just on the eve of India ’ s independence, he wrested the Muslim majority Hailakandi seat from the hold of Muslim League.

In the very crucial 1946 General Elections just on the eve of India ’ s independence, he wrested the Muslim majority Hailakandi seat from the hold of Muslim League.

In the very crucial 1946 General Elections just on the eve of India ’ s independence, he wrested the Muslim majority Hailakandi seat from the hold of Muslim League.

Higher Broughton has a considerable Jewish population and has some very decent residential housing, but even here Labour are usually in the lead at local level ; the Conservatives, like all the other neighbouring Manchester seats, are now in third place in General Elections.

At the subsequent by-election, the Liberal Democrats gained the seat on a very large swing, and have since held Eastleigh in the four following General Elections, though with somewhat narrow majorities.

Madan Dulloo is amongst those very few who stood the most times for General Elections ( including by-elections ) in Mauritius.

The National Elections Commission declared Bozizé the winner with 64. 6 percent of the vote to 35. 4 percent for Ziguélé.

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

In the General Elections the Nationalists were returned to office with 51. 79 % of the vote to Labour's 47. 51 %.

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

The lifespan of parliament is limited by the constitution to five years and, though the governor general may still, on the advice of the prime minister, dissolve parliament and issue the writs of election prior to the date mandated by the Canada Elections Act ; the King-Byng Affair was the only time since Confederation that the viceroy deemed it necessary to refuse his prime minister's request for a general vote.

Elections held in Réunion include the French presidential vote.

* Elections: A prime ministerial candidate is first nominated by the Speaker of the Riksdag and is confirmed as Prime Minister following a vote in the Riksdag.

Elections may be called earlier by the president at the request of the prime minister or after a vote of no confidence in the House of Representatives.

Elections for the Assembly are held as in the Parliamentary system — there is an upper time limit ( five years ) between elections, but they can be called more frequently if the Prime Minister so decides, or if he is forced to it by the loss of a vote of confidence.

Elections are held every four years, with a unicameral parliament of 18 members ( 17 members elected by popular vote and a member, the " Speaker ", appointed by Parliament ).

US Territories, such as Puerto Rico's, are neither taxed, nor fully represented, nor permitted to vote in Presidential elections, yet Washington, DC, is taxed, and votes in Presidential Elections, but not fully represented in Congress.

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.

According to the Dauphin County Board of Elections, in 2008 Barack Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Dauphin County since 1964, receiving 9. 0 % more of the vote than John McCain.

Since the number of lost ballots exceeded the lead held ( by Steve Troxler over Britt Cobb ) in the statewide race for agriculture commissioner, the State Board of Elections decided to hold a special election on January 11, 2005, open only to the 18, 500 voters in the county who either failed to vote or whose votes were lost.

United States presidential election, 2000 | Election 2000 ; Close-up view of satellite truck s parked by the Florida Capitol during the 2000 Presidential election vote dispute On November 8, 2000, the Florida Division of Elections reported that Bush won with 48. 8 % of the vote in Florida, a margin of victory of 1, 784 votes.

Reiderland also drew some attention in the 2002 General Elections, when the Pim Fortuyn List received 22. 9 % of the vote in the municipality, the party's best result in the province of Groningen.

Elections are held every two years for four spots on the Council ; the three candidates who receive the largest number of votes are given four-year terms, while the candidate with the fourth highest vote total is given a two-year term on the Council.

Elections are held every two years on a staggered basis, with the Mayor and the two Council at Large seats up for vote and two years later the four ward council seats.

Elections alternate in a four-year cycle, with the mayor and two township council members up for election and then the three other township council seats coming up to vote two years later.