Some independent Social Democrats contested the October 1974 and 1979 General Elections, but none were elected.

Elections were held on December 10 and the fledgling legislature passed its first local legislation on December 31, 1831.

Elections to the new Congress of People's Deputies were held throughout the USSR in March and April 1989.

Elections were held on May 5, 2005, with the ruling coalition maintaining power.

The November 2000 Parliamentary Elections were generally regarded to have been more transparent and better executed than past elections due to judicial monitoring of polling stations.

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 used as early in history as ancient Greece and ancient Rome, and throughout the Medieval period to select rulers such as the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope.

Elections were also used to select rajas by the gana.

The last union-wide elections were the 2009 Parliamentary Elections.

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 in April 1964 with many opposition participants.

Elections were held in April with many opposition participants.

Elections were irregularly held by the Franks, whose successor states include France and Germany.

Elections for the national, provincial, and sub-provincial parliaments were held on 7 June 1999.

Elections for the National Assembly of Iraq were held on January 30, 2005 in Iraq.

Elections for the two legislative chambers — a 35-seat full-time assembly and a 70-seat part-time assembly — were held in February 1995 after campaigns considered remarkably free and open by most international observers, although the election-day proceedings were marred by widespread irregularities.

Elections for the two legislative chambers – a 35-seat full-time assembly and a 70-seat part-time assembly – were held in February 1995 after campaigns considered remarkably free and open by most international observers, although the election-day proceedings were marred by widespread irregularities.

Elections were subsequently held on 10 October 2010.

Elections were held in 1943 and on November 8, 1943 the new Lebanese government unilaterally abolished the mandate.

Elections are usually held on one day.

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

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

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

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

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

The then MLP Leader Alfred Sant said that the General Elections that was to be held within a month would settle the affair.

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

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

: An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in American Samoa.

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.

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 usually held on the first Sunday of July.

The Central Elections Committee had banned him from being a candidate on the grounds that Kach was a racist party, but the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the ban on grounds that the committee was not authorized to ban Kahane's candidacy.

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.

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.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 6, 2011 ' Won In National Elections held on November 6, 2011 was the amount of 1, 569, 287 for 62. 46 % of the total valid votes, what became the Commander Daniel Ortega Saavedra in the presidential candidate who won more votes in a Presidential election in the history of Nicaragua, in addition to that obtained a lead of more than 30 % of valid votes doubling the number of votes obtained by radial businessman Fabio Gadea Mantilla on behalf of the Independent Liberal Party ( PLI ) who obtained the amount of 778. 889 votes recorded for 31. 00 %.

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In response to the Occupy Wall Street protests and the worldwide occupy movement calling for U. S. campaign finance reform eliminating corporate influence in politics, among other reforms, Representative Ted Deutch introduced the " Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy " ( OCCUPIED ) constitutional amendment on November 18, 2011.

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The DLP victory in the 1958 Federal Elections and subsequent poor showing by the PNM in the 1959 County Council Elections soured Williams on the Federation.