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In elections held eight months later, on September 24, the PNM won 13 of the 24 elected seats in the Legislative Council, defeating 6 of the 16 incumbents running for re-election.
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Any free elections that were to be held in Poland would have to produce a government in which Moscow had complete confidence, and all pressure from the West for free voting by anti-Soviet elements in Poland would be met by restrictions on voting by these elements.
They figured prominently in the Balafrej government of May, 1958, which the King was reportedly determined to keep in office until elections could be held.
Since a national interpretation cannot be avoided it is unfortunate that the elections were not held in a way to maximize party responsibility and the educational effect of mass political participation.
Determined to find a course that would reunite the nation and not alienate the South, Lincoln urged that speedy elections under generous terms be held throughout the war.
That same year, first parliamentary and presidential elections were held.
The most recent elections to the House of Representatives were held on 12 March 2009.
* 1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority.
The Prime Minister and Cabinet is formed by the political party which gains a simple majority in the general elections held in Barbados.
These elections constitutionally must be held no longer than every five years apart, however elections can be called whenever the Government so chooses to seek a new mandate or loses a vote of no confidence in Parliament.
Each of the elections since independence in September 1966 has been freely and fairly contested and has been held on schedule.
General elections are held at least every 5 years.
The next elections are going to be held in 2013.
In 1995, Burkina held its first multiparty municipal elections since independence.
Members serve four-year terms ; elections are held every four years, or earlier in the relatively rare case that the Bundestag is dissolved prematurely by the president.
Hopes were raised among the Balkan ethnicities of reforms and autonomy, and elections were held to form a representative, multi-ethnic, Ottoman parliament.
The Brezhnev Doctrine stayed in effect until it was finally ended with the Soviet non-invasion of Poland during the 1980-1981 crisis and later refusal of Mikhail Gorbachev to use military force when Poland held free elections in 1989 and Solidarity defeated the Communist Party.
Fraudulent Polish elections held in January 1947 resulted in Poland's official transformation to the People's Republic of Poland.
Cameroon's first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held in 1992 followed by municipal elections in 1996 and another round of legislative and presidential elections in 1997.
In 1991, following growing pressure for a more pluralistic society, multi-party elections were held for the first time.
However, in November 1992 elections were held for an enlarged Legislative Assembly and the Government was soundly defeated, casting doubt on constitutional reform.
After the elections, Mr. Jefferson was appointed Minister and leader of government business ; he also held the portfolios of Tourism, Aviation and Commerce in the Executive Council.
Internal and international pressure led to multi-party presidential elections being held in 1992.
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General elections must take place at least once every four years, in which the islanders elect eight members to the Legislative Assembly ( five from Stanley and three from Camp ) through universal suffrage using block voting.
Then Jibril announced that consultations were under way to form an interim government within one month, followed by elections for a constitutional assembly within eight months and parliamentary and presidential elections to be held within a year after that.
His return to power in the elections of 3 July 2005 ended eight years of Socialist Party rule.
In the 5 – 6 June 1993 elections, with a turnout of over 90 %, eight of Latvia's 23 registered political parties passed the four percent threshold to enter parliament.
They find that those who are assigned to the Washington Post treatment group are eight percentage points more likely to vote for the Democrat in the elections.
He remained in opposition in the eight consecutive elections ( except for a national unity government around the Six-Day War ), but became more acceptable to the political center.
In the March 2000 elections, Denzil Douglas and the Labour Party were returned to power, winning eight of the 11 seats in the House.
Also, the People's Party lost eight of their seats in the National Council and two in the Council of states in the elections of 2011.
In those elections, the Republicans, led by Newt Gingrich, captured the majority of seats in the United States House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years and the majority of seats in the U. S. Senate for the first time in eight years.
* September 10 – 11 – Norway's ruling Labour Party loses eight seats in the parliamentary elections, its worst showing since 1945.
By the following year, the party had lost support, winning only eight seats in the 2003 elections.
This led to eight Reichstag elections taking place in the 14 years of the Republic's existence ; only one parliamentary term, that of 1920-1924, was completed without elections being held early.
The most recent elections were in May 2008, following which the council is made up of eight Conservatives, three Liberal Democrats, two members of the Labour Party and three independent councillors.
In the 1905 elections the ARP lost only 3 % of vote, but eight seats, although it was able to strengthen its position in the Senate.
Already with the 2006 municipal elections, the VLD showed signs of fatigue with the Flemish voter, who seem to have had enough of eight years of Verhofstadt, and the purple coalition governments.
On 16 October 1964 he was elected by 1, 254 votes ; he was to hold that seat for the next eight general elections.
The members of the Regionsparlament are elected once every five years and the Regionspräsident is elected once every eight years in local elections.
In 2005, once again, House of Freedoms was severely routed in regional elections, losing six of eight Italian regions.
The Republican Revolution, Revolution of ' 94 or Gingrich Revolution is what the media dubbed the Republican Party ( GOP ) success in the 1994 U. S. midterm elections, which resulted in a net gain of 54 seats in the House of Representatives, and a pickup of eight seats in the Senate.
He had won elections in eight different départements, but the ultimate victor was the Orléanist Adolphe Thiers, winner of twenty-three elections.
After eight years in opposition, she led the Centre Party of Finland to a narrow victory over the formerly largest party, the Social Democratic Party of Finland, in the parliamentary elections of 2003.
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