Elections to the city council take place in three out of every four years, with one third of the councillors elected in each election.

The Republicans, however, reclaimed the council majority in the 2007 General Elections due to a split Democratic Party in the mayor's race.

Elections to the council take place every four years.

Elections to the town councils are held at the same time as those to the county 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.

Elections are held in accordance with United States election regulations every two years, and council members serve staggered four year terms.

Elections each May determine occupants of alternating seats on the council and the mayor is elected bi-annually.

Elections to the town council are held every four years.

Elections to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council have seen the Labour Party retain control of the council at every election.

During this period the party stood for elections in Northern Ireland, after a split in the Northern Ireland Labour Party when Paddy Devlin helped re-establish the party in Belfast, the party did win seats in the Westminster Parliament ( Jack Beattie MP for West Belfast 1951 ) and Stormont Parliament in the Belfast area as well as in district council elections ( Falls, Belfast City Council by election 1956, Gerry Fitt 1958 Council Elections ).

Elections to the town council are held every four years and the most recent elections were held in May 2007.

Elections for the council were held in 1955, and the Alliance, which had now expanded to include the Malayan Indian Congress ( MIC ), issued a manifesto stating its goals of achieving independence by 1959, requiring a minimum of primary school education for all children, protecting the rights of the Malay rulers as constitutional monarchs, ending the Communist emergency, and reforming the civil service through the hiring of more Malayans as opposed to foreigners.

Elections for the council take place every year.

Elections were held to the council in 1973, 1977 and 1981.

Elections to Bedfordshire County Council took place in years that there were none to the district council.

Elections of the whole council were next held in 1976, and every four years thereafter.

Elections to the district council were held every 4 years from 1973 to the last election in 2007.

Note that the current council moved into " caretaker mode " on Tuesday 25 September 2012 and following the 2012 Victorian Local Government Elections on Saturday 27 October 2012, the Geelong Council will comprise thirteen ( 13 ) councillors ; consisting of one directly elected Mayor and twelve councillors, each elected to represent one of the twelve existing wards.

Elections to the council take place every 5 years.

Following the September 2012 New South Wales Local Government Elections, a 10 member Council was elected, replacing the council elected in 2008.

Elections were first held for chiefs and council at Kanesatake in 1991.

Elections to the council held in June 2005, lead to significant changes in composition as the Conservatives took over from the Liberal Democrats as the largest group, winning seats primarily from the liberals and the independents who had previously formed a united power block.

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.