: For the use of the term " democracy " as referring to a system involving multiparty elections, representative government, and freedom of speech, see Liberal democracy.

For that reason most democratic constitutions provide that elections are held at fixed regular intervals.

For example, in the Dauphiné the provincial assembly agreed to double the number of members of the third estate, hold membership elections, and allow one vote per member, rather than one vote per estate.

For almost two years after the federal elections in 2005, the Greens were not part of any government at the state or federal level.

For the 1996 national elections, the center-left parties created the Olive Tree coalition while the center-right united again under the House of Freedoms.

For the 1947 elections, anti-Yoshida forces left the Liberal Party and joined forces with the Progressive Party to establish the new Democratic Party ( Minshuto ).

( For instance, in some elected monarchies only those of certain pedigrees are considered eligible, whereas many hereditary monarchies have legal requirements regarding the religion, age, gender, mental capacity, and other factors that act both as de facto elections and to create situations of rival claimants whose legitimacy is subject to effective election.

For elections to the European Parliament, most member states use open lists ; most of the United Kingdom uses closed lists, but Northern Ireland uses the Single transferable vote, as does Ireland.

For Gorbachev, demokratizatsiya originally meant the introduction of multi-candidate ( but not multiparty ) elections for local Communist Party ( CPSU ) positions and Soviets.

For example, it is used in French presidential, legislative, and cantonal elections, and also to elect the presidents of Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uruguay, Zimbabwe — see: Table of voting systems by nation.

For the 2011 elections, this system allowed for 266 senators, 208 of which were elected and 58 of which were designated by the autonomous communities.

For example, some analysts suggest that the Electoral College system in the United States, by favoring a system of winner – takes – all in presidential elections, is a structural choice favoring only two major parties.

For instance, elite-based parties execute an often sporadic political labor, focused on elections.

For local elections, it is part of the Ballymun – Finglas local electoral area of Dublin City Council.

For example, elections are held every three years for half the membership of the Australian Senate, the term of a senator being six years.

For N candidates, this requires pairwise hypothetical elections.

For General elections, the county is divided into two constituencies, Donegal South – West and Donegal North – East, with both having three representatives in Dáil Éireann.

For elections to the European Parliament, the county is part of the North – West constituency ( formerly Connacht – Ulster ).

) For local ( non-statewide ) office, the number of signatures required to place a candidate on the ballot is much lower for qualified parties, and they are the only parties eligible to hold primary elections.

For elections to Dáil Éireann, the county is divided into five constituencies — Cork East, Cork North – Central, Cork North – West, Cork South – Central and Cork South – West.

For example, in Ireland, only citizens may vote in a constitutional referendum, whereas citizens of the United Kingdom are also entitled to vote in general elections.

For local elections to Louth County Council, the town forms part of two local electoral areas-Drogheda East ( 6 ) and Drogheda West ( 4 ).

For the purposes of elections to Dáil Éireann, the town is part of the five seat Louth constituency which returns five TDs.

" For the PNDC, therefore, the district elections constituted an obvious first step in a political process that was to culminate at the national level.

For elections to Dáil Éireann, the county is part of two constituencies: Waterford and Tipperary South.

For elections to Dáil Éireann, there are two constituencies in the area of the county ; Kildare North, which returns four TDs and Kildare South which returns three TDs.

For elections to Dáil Éireann, the county is part of three constituencies: Limerick City, Limerick and Kerry North – West Limerick.

For elections to Dáil Éireann, the county is part of two constituencies: Tipperary North and Tipperary South.

For example, bills imposing a tax, or involving public expenditure, are introduced into the House of Commons in the United Kingdom by convention, and in Canada's House of Commons and Ireland's Dáil as a matter of law.

For this reason Dáil Éireann is often translated as " House of Representatives ".

For the first time in history a nominee for Taoiseach failed to achieve a majority when a vote was taken in the Dáil.

For the first time the party now faced vigorous parliamentary ( if not entirely constitutional ) opposition in the Dáil, as Fianna Fáil also made significant gains.

For the exercise of executive power it created a cabinet, answerable to the Dáil, called the Aireacht ( or Ministry ), headed by a prime minister called the " Príomh Aire " ( in practice also known as the President of Dáil Éireann ).

For a brief period from 1936 to 1937, following the abolition of the office of Governor-General, certain of the Governor-General's functions were transferred to the Ceann Comhairle, who was assigned the role of signing bills into law and convening and dissolving the Dáil.

For elections to Dáil Éireann, Carlow is part of the Carlow – Kilkenny constituency which returns 5 TDs.

For this election the membership of the Dáil was increased to 147 seats, an increase of 9 since the previous election.

For this election the number of seats in the Dáil was reduced by 15 from 153 to 138 seats.

For the purposes of elections to Dáil Éireann, the bulk of the county is part of the constituency of Tipperary South.

For the purposes of elections to Dáil Éireann, the county is split between the constituencies of Dún Laoghaire ( 4 representatives ) and Dublin South ( 5 representatives ), with the division generally running along the N11.

For elections to Dáil Éireann, the county is divided into Dublin North and Dublin West, with Malahide and Howth situated in the constituency of Dublin North – East and small parts of Mulhuddart being located in Dublin North – West.

For example the Dáil was able to persuade many Irish people to boycott the British judicial system and instead seek justice in a network of Dáil Courts.

* 1975: Allegations made by two Members in the Dáil against the Minister For Local Government

For the purposes of elections to Dáil Éireann, the town is part of the Tipperary South constituency.