A similar event occurred during the 2004 Upper House Elections.

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

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.

In 2005 Parliament approved a proposal by the independent Elections and Boundaries Commission to increase the number of seats in the House of Representatives from 36 to 41.

Using his new rules vigorously, he won passage of the Lodge Fair Elections Bill in the House in 1890.

Section Five deals with procedure, providing that " Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business ," although a small number may adjourn and compel the attendance of absent members.

Each constituency elects a Member of Parliament ( MP ) to the House of Commons at General Elections and, if required, at by-elections.

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Robinson was declared winner of the Tobago seat in 1961 with more votes than there were registered voters, and in the fact that the PNM was able to win every subsequent election until the 1980 Tobago House of Assembly Elections.

* Amy McGrath, ( 2003 ), Frauding of Elections, Tower House Publications and H. S.

As Article I Section V of the Constitution of the United States provides that " Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members " the investigation was without binding authority.

* 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 )

After the Unionists had failed to win an electoral mandate at either of the General Elections of 1910 ( despite softening the Tariff Reform policy with Balfour's promise of a referendum on food taxes ), the Unionist peers split to allow the Parliament Act to pass the House of Lords, in order to prevent a mass-creation of new Liberal peers by the new King, George V. The exhausted Balfour resigned as party leader after the crisis, and was succeeded in late 1911 by Andrew Bonar Law.

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 ).

Article I, Section 5, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution provides that " Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business ..." Therefore in both the House of Representatives and the Senate a quorum is a simple majority of their respective members.

In 1990, Duceppe was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as an independent because the Bloc had not been registered by Elections Canada as a political party.

Committee Chairpersons, Sergeants at Arms, and Speakers of the House are all elected by the students during Elections Convention.

Elections to the Shugi-In ( House of Representatives ) of the Japanese Diet were held on 25 June 2000.

After amendments to the Elections Act by the Conservative Party government in 1919, Macphail was elected to the House of Commons as a member of the Progressive Party of Canada for the Grey Southeast electoral district ( riding ) in the 1921 federal election.

Elections to the Board, composed of between 15 and 19 members, are held annually by another larger volunteer body, Easter Seals National House of Delegates.

* Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U. S. Elections, U. S. House

* 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.

In the Upper House Elections of 2004, SDP won only two seats, thus having five seats in the Japanese Upper House and six seats in the Lower House.

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

4. authority to prescribe the " Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives ,..."

Elections are held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November and about one-half of the Senate is elected every two years for a four year term, and the entire House of Representatives is elected every two years for a two year term.

Elections to the House of Representatives are to be free, fair, by secret ballot, and ultimately on the basis of equal suffrage.

The Progressives received 9, 470 votes ( 2. 96 % of the vote ) in the 2010 Vermont House of Representatives Elections, and five seats, compared to the Democrats ' 55. 11 % and 96 seats, the Republicans ' 38. 04 % of the vote, and 46 seats.

Elections are also called after a dissolution of the House of Representatives.

In Congress, he served as chairman, Committee on Elections ( Fiftieth Congress ), Committee on Rules ( Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congress ); and Speaker of the House of Representatives ( Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses ).

Elections for the Zanzibar Presidency and House of Representatives took place on 30 October 2005.

Elections to the Senate are held every four years, along with the elections for mayors, the House of Representatives, Governor and Resident Commissioner.

Elections to the House of Representatives are held every four years, along with the elections for mayors, the House of Representatives, Governor and Resident Commissioner.

The Elections for the United States House of Representatives on 5 November 2002 was in the middle of President George W. Bush's first term.

Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 80th United States Congress took place in 1946.

Elections to the House of Representatives and the Senate of Australia are usually held simultaneously although this was a matter of convention rather than constitutional law.

Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in 1868 to elect Representatives to the 41st United States Congress.

Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in 1866 to elect Representatives to the 40th United States Congress.

Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in 1864 to elect Representatives to the 39th United States Congress.

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 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.