Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are not in place, or improving the fairness or effectiveness of existing systems.

In May 2005 the Canadian province of British Columbia had a referendum on abolishing single-member district plurality in favour of multi-member districts with the Single Transferable Vote system after the Citizens ' Assembly on Electoral Reform made a recommendation for the reform.

Electoral reform for parliamentary elections have been proposed many times.

There are a number of groups in the UK campaigning for electoral reform, including the Electoral Reform Society, Make Votes Count Coalition and Fairshare.

Electoral reform, which had been frequently discussed during the preceding parliamentary session, became a major campaign issue.

A new Central Electoral Board was named to work on electoral reform.

* New Zealand adopted the system for its unicameral House of Representatives in 1994 following a long electoral reform process, beginning with the Royal Commission on the Electoral System in 1985 and ending with the 1993 referendum on the voting system.

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Electoral reform in New Zealand has, in recent years, become a political issue as major changes have been made to both Parliamentary and local government electoral systems.

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* Electoral reform, abolishing the Canadian Senate, enacting MMP, lowering voting age to 16, implementing the right of recall for MPs.

Peters ' erstwhile prominence was due to the other consequence of Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson's New Right economic policies, which fuelled a movement for electoral reform in New Zealand after Sir Geoffrey Palmer convened a Royal Commission on the Electoral System in 1985-86.

* Electoral reform: implementing an election reform in which the Premier of Quebec would be elected by popular vote ( i. e., a presidential government ) and 50 of Quebec's 125 legislature seats would be determined by proportional representation ;

The most prominent was the electoral reform of 1945, which created a modern Electoral Code of Laws and a Supreme Tribunal of Elections.

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The election was monitored by 270 international observers and El Salvador's own Tribunal Supremo Electoral, an institution created in 1992 to reform and validate the country's electoral system.

The Electoral Reform Society is a political pressure group based in the United Kingdom which promotes electoral reform.

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At the same time, the Palmer administration adopted the policies of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Electoral System in 1986 and committed the country to two referendums on electoral reform in New Zealand.

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There, she wrote an article, book reviews, and a guest editorial for its journal, Presidential Studies Quarterly ( PSQ ), and an op-ed in USA Today advocating reform of the Electoral College method of electing the U. S. President.

In 2006, he joined the National Popular Vote Inc. coalition, which aims to effect Electoral College reform through an interstate compact, and wrote a foreword to the book Every Vote Equal.

Help was also received from the UN Office of Electoral Assistance.

The voting process, though technically difficult due to the lack of infrastructure, was facilitated and organized by the Congolese Independent Electoral Commission with support from the UN mission to the Congo ( MONUC ).

New for the 2005 election was the alliance between the newly formed Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ) and the PDS, planning to fuse into a common party ( see Left Party. PDS ).

The validity of the Electoral Council's post-ballot calculations of whether a majority had been attained was disputed.

The Electoral success of New Labour in 1997, which would be led by two Prime Ministers with Scottish connections, Tony Blair ( who was brought up in Scotland ) from 1997 to 2007 and Gordon Brown from 2007 – 10, opened the way for constitutional change.

In 2009, A 17. 5 million dollar contract to support elections was offered to Liberia with International Foundation for Electoral Systems as the conduit.

During the period of the Solidarity Electoral Action ’ s government, Leszek Miller was in charge of the parliamentary opposition, leading the political fight with the governing party.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador contested the results and demanded a vote-per-vote recount, which was denied by the Federal Electoral Tribunal, based on the argument that inconsistencies could not be proved for all electoral circumscriptions, but order a partial recount of votes of those that did show inconsistencies which represented 9. 2 % of the total, after which the results were not significantly altered.

Magdalena of Saxony ( 7 March 1507 – 25 January 1534 ) was Margravine of Brandenburg, its " Electoral Princess ", the Electoral equivalent of a crown princess.

In 1990, the voting system was changed by the Electoral Amendment Act which introduced universal suffrage.

However the coalition was defeated by the right-wing Solidarity Electoral Action in the 1997 election.

The creation of the office of Vice President was a direct consequence of the Electoral College.

The Electoral Prince Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria was Leopold I's grandson in the female line, and therefore belonged to the Wittelsbach dynasty rather than the Habsburgs.

In March 2009, the Independent Electoral Commission ruled that Winnie Mandela, who was selected as an ANC candidate, could run in the April 2009 general election, despite having a fraud conviction.

The feeling of unity during the Monroe administration was dispelled in the presidential election of 1824, which due to an Electoral College stalemate, was decided in the United States House of Representatives.

The County Palatine of the Rhine (), later the Electoral Palatinate (), was a historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire, a palatinate administered by a count palatine.

The Electoral Palatinate was a much larger territory than what later became known as the Rhenish Palatinate ( Rheinpfalz ), on the left bank of the Rhine, and is now the modern region of the Palatinate in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate and parts of the French region of Alsace ( bailiwick of Seltz from 1418 to 1766 ).

During the reign of Johann Wilhelm ( 1690-1716 ) the Electoral residence was moved to Düsseldorf, before being moved back to Heidelberg in 1718 and then to Mannheim in 1720.

Solidarity Electoral Action (, AWS ) was a political party coalition in Poland.

Ruch Społeczny AWS ( RS AWS ), or Social Movement for Solidarity Electoral Action, was the political arm of the Solidarity trade union and was formerly the leading party within AWS.

AWS formed a minority government under Jerzy Buzek, and the coalition was renamed AWSP ( Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność Prawicy-" Solidarity of the Right " Electoral Action ), while RS AWS became simply RS.