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Federal electoral districts in Canada are re-adjusted every ten years based on the Canadian census and proscribed by various constitutional seat guarantees, including the use of a Grandfather clause, for Quebec, the Central Prairies and the Maritime provinces, with the essential proportions between the remaining provinces being " locked " no matter any further changes in relative population as have already occurred.
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All political parties must be registered before the Federal Electoral Institute ( IFE ), the institution in charge of organizing and overseeing the federal electoral processes, but must obtain at least 2 % of votes in the federal elections to keep their registry.
Federal elections are organized and supervised by the autonomous public Federal Electoral Institute, whereas state and municipal elections are organized and supervised by electoral institutes constituted by each state of the federation.
Elections within the Federal District are also organized by a local electoral institute.
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.
Disagreements between the political parties in Nevis and between the Nevis Island Administration and the Federal Government have prevented the recommendations by the electoral committee from being implemented.
In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U. S. ___ ( 2010 ), the Court ruled that the BCRA's federal restrictions on electoral advocacy by corporations or unions were unconstitutional for violating the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.
* 2000 overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia-after Slobodan Milošević was accused by opposition figures of winning the 2000 election through electoral fraud, mass protests led by the opposition movement Otpor pressure Slobodan Milošević to resign.
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The Ministry of Interior ( Secretaría de Gobernación ), through its Federal Electoral Commission, was the institution in charge of the electoral process, and installed a modern computing system to count the votes.
* Egmont ( electoral district ), a Federal Canadian electoral district
* Ontario ( electoral district ), Federal electoral district, 1925-1996
The government replaced the first-past-the-post electoral system applying to both houses of the Federal Parliament under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1903 with a preferential system for the House of Representatives in 1918.
That same commission determined the electoral districts, district boards and the departmental boards of the Federal Republic.
According to 2001 Federal Census data, the electoral district of Thornhill ( which is not entirely congruent with the community ) consists of Chinese, the largest visible minority, accounting for almost 11 % of total residents ( 12, 610 ), followed by South Asian ( 6, 595 ), Black ( 2, 665 ), Korean ( 2, 660 ), Filipino ( 2, 535 ), and West Asian ( 2, 355 ).
In 1993 the German Federal Court found Modrow guilty of electoral fraud committed in the Dresden municipal elections in May 1989, but the judge declined to impose a prison sentence or a fine.
The UNP again came to power in 1965 in coalition with the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, the Tamil ethnic Federal Partyunder Dudley Senanayake, but it lost in a 1970 landslide to the SLFP, which had formed an electoral alliance with Marxist parties known as the United Front.
Gladstone is located within the federal electoral division of Flynn, a marginal seat currently held by the Liberal National Party of Queensland's Ken O ' Dowd in Federal elections, and the state electoral district of Gladstone, held by independent Liz Cunningham, a mayor of the former Calliope Shire Council ( which has subsequently been incorporated into Gladstone Regional Council ).
** Division of Rankin, an electoral district in the Australian Federal House of Representatives, in Queensland
Judges of the Federal Court of Justice are selected by an electoral committee, which consists of the Secretaries of Justice of the 16 German Bundesländer and of 16 representatives appointed by the German Federal Parliament ( Bundestag ).
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Federal assistance is limited to half of the total expenditure, and the state or local districts must pay at least half.
Throughout the history of the program, state government expenditures in the aggregate have usually matched or exceeded the Federal expenditures, while local districts all together have spent more than either Federal or state governments.
Each component of the German Empire sent representatives to the Federal Council ( Bundesrat ) and, via single member districts, the Imperial Diet ( Reichstag ).
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Federal subjects are grouped into eight federal districts, each administered by an envoy appointed by the President of Russia.
Federal districts ' envoys serve as liaisons between the federal subjects and the federal government and are primarily responsible for overseeing the compliance of the federal subjects with the federal laws.
This Act created a Federal Farm Credit Board with 13 members ( one from each of the 12 agricultural districts and one appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture ) to develop policy for the Farm Credit Administration.
The residents of Athens County are served by the five school districts: the Alexander Local School District, Athens City School District, the Federal Hocking Local School District, Nelsonville-York City School District, and the Trimble Local School District.
The U. S. Federal Census of 1860 designated Port Ludlow as one of the three enumeration districts in Jefferson County, Washington Territory.
Federal judicial districts have also been established in the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Some would apply that classification to the District of Columbia in America or Distrito Federal in Mexico, but these are federal government districts and not ordinary municipalities.
Federal districts of Russia
Federal districts ' envoys serve as liaisons between the federal subjects and the federal government and are primarily responsible for overseeing the compliance of the federal subjects with the federal laws.
In 2000, Russia's federal subjects were grouped into larger federal districts, and the Far Eastern Federal District was created, comprising Amur Oblast, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Kamchatka Oblast with Koryak Autonomous Okrug, Khabarovsk Krai, Magadan Oblast, Primorsky Krai, the Sakha ( Yakutia ) Republic, and Sakhalin Oblast.
Federal districts are a type of administrative division of a federation, under the direct control of a federal government.
There are eight Federal districts of Russia, which function as an additional administrative layer between other subdivisions and the Russian Federation as a whole state.
The 12 federal reserve banks together divide the nation into 12 Federal Reserve Districts, the 12 banking districts created by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
California, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee are the only states which have two Federal Reserve Bank branches seated within their states, with Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee having branches of two different districts within the same state.
The Transitional Federal government also recognizes Puntland as an official state so as its regions and districts.
Cologne is one of the five governmental districts of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The new organization divided the country into 12 districts, with a Federal Reserve Bank in each, all supervised by a Federal Reserve Board.
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