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.

Despite the terror and unprecedented propaganda, the last free General Elections of 5 March 1933, while resulting in 43. 9 % failed to bring the majority for the NSDAP that Hitler had hoped for.

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

" Thomas Brackett Reed, Civil Rights, and the Fight for Fair Elections ," Maine History, March 2004, Vol.

* 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.

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

Elections in March 1920 gave the Agrarians a large majority and Aleksandar Stamboliyski formed Bulgaria's first peasant government.

On December 8, the party was officially registered with Elections Canada, and on March 20, 2004, former Alliance leader Stephen Harper was elected as leader of the party.

Municipal elections are held in March of each year by the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office.

The group resubmitted with the name Progressive Canadian Party, and a new " PC Party " was recognized by Elections Canada on March 26.

Elections are scheduled for the third Tuesday of March in odd numbered years.

Village Elections were held on March 20, 2007.

These local community committees are going to operate from the beginning of July 2010, the Maltese Elections of Committees for Communities 2010 was held on Saturday March 27, in these hamlets:

* March 16: Elections for the parliament are held in Finland.

Elections were held on March 16.

On March 22, Ma and Siew won the 2008 Presidential Elections.

Brookhart thus took office on March 4, 1925, but Steck pursued a challenge with the Senate Committee on Elections and Privileges.

* March 29-The Progressive Canadian Party registers with Elections Canada to elect members into the Canadian House of Commons in the 2004 Canadian federal election.

Elections were tentatively set on March 2009.

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.

On March 26, 2004, the Progressive Canadian Party was registered with Elections Canada.

In March 2009, his amendment to the Political Parties and Elections Bill was carried by a majority of 59.

It would not be until the adoption of the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1962, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections in 1966, that all poll taxes and literacy tests were prohibited in all elections.

He played an important role in the landslide successes of the Congress Party in the Indian General Elections of 1952, 1957 and 1962.

Elections scheduled: 1944, 1950, 1956, 1962, 1968, 1974, 1980, 1986, 1992, 1998, 2004, etc.

* Elections in the Moldavian SSR, 1962

Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U. S. Elections, U. S. Senate, 1962 ; Governors, 1982

He was elected a Member of Parliament from the Udupi Lok Sabha constituency for three terms, beginning with the first Indian Elections held in 1952, and in the subsequent two held in 1957, and 1962.

The Commission on Elections ( COMELEC ) tally board shows Marcos leading while the National Citizen's Movement for the Free Elections ( NAMFREL ) consistently shows Cory Aquino ahead by a comfortable margin.

He gained nominations to contest progressively safer seats at two subsequent General Elections and was in both cases elected, for Shrewsbury in 1841 ( despite serious opposition, and financial difficulties which opponents seized on ), and then for Buckinghamshire county in 1847.

On September 5, 2005, the National Elections Board of Ethiopia released the final election results, which confirmed that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front retained its control of the government, but showed that opposition parties had increased their share of parliamentary seats, from 12 to 176.

On September 5, 2005, the National Elections Board of Ethiopia released the final election results in which confirmed that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front retained its control of the government, but showed that opposition parties had increased their share of parliamentary seats, from 12 to 176.

Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.

As the Elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot.

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

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 were held with single pro-Soviet candidates listed for many positions, with resulting peoples assemblies immediately requesting admission into the USSR, which was granted by the Soviet Union.

Elections have been cleaner, without the rampant impersonation and vote-rigging which characterised the 1982 Presidential Election, the notorious Referendum of the same year, the Presidential Election of 1988 and the General Election of 1989.

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.

* all of the Preamble down to " Upon which Letters Elections haveing beene accordingly made "

Elections for a second National Assembly returned one in which the balance of power had shifted to the unitarists in the Fall of 1797.

According to the Supervisor of Elections website, for the 2008 general election there were 536, 584 registered voters in Duval County, of which 417, 599 cast ballots for a voter turnout of 77. 83 %.

Elections for an 88 member Constituent Assembly were held on August 30, 2001, the second anniversary of the autonomy referendum, which resulted in a plurality of seats for the FRETALIN party.

Many Conservatives continued to prefer tariffs ( indirect taxes on imported goods ) which, it was felt, would encourage British industry and trade within the Empire, although the proposal continued to be something of an electoral liability in the 1906 and 1910 General Elections as it also would have meant taxes on food imports.

Elections for parliament and other offices were held with single candidates listed, the official results of which showed pro-Soviet candidates approval by 92. 8 percent of the voters of Estonia, 97. 6 percent of the voters in Latvia and 99. 2 percent of the voters in Lithuania.

* the Parliament of the United Kingdom, in which only members elected at UK-wide General Elections to the ( lower ) House of Commons are referred to as Members of Parliament, abbreviated to MP ( s )

The first award was given in November 2008 to Eric Ehst of the Clean Elections Institute, for his role in defeating Arizona's Proposition 105, which could have imposed a super-majority.

The seat which has a history of mining and industry, has consistently returned Labour MPs at General Elections.

Elections in June 1922 were followed by the meeting of the Third Dáil, which worked as a Constituent Assembly to draft a constitution for the Irish Free State.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which was gaining new ground in Russia after 1996 Duma Elections finally purchased the Pravda and recovered it.

Elections are held every two years, except communities which by local ordinance or charter have set the term of office at four years.

* the election was eventually investigated by the Independent Review Commission ( IREC ) on the 2007 Elections chaired by Justice Johann Kriegler, it was found that there were too many electoral malpractices from several regions perpetrated by all the contesting parties to conclusively establish which candidate won the December 2007 Presidential elections.

The last occasion on which a Statutory Instrument was annulled was when, on 22 February 2000, the House of Lords passed a motion to annul the Greater London Authority Elections Rules 2000 ( SI 2000 / 208 ).