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.

Déby won the country ’ s first multi-party presidential elections with support in the second round from opposition leader Kebzabo, defeating General Kamougue ( leader of the 1975 coup against Tombalbaye ).

In 1948, the year when the NP swept to power in whites-only elections on an apartheid platform, F. W. de Klerk's father, Johannes " Jan " de Klerk, became secretary of the NP in the Transvaal province and later rose to the positions of cabinet minister and President of the Senate, becoming interim State President in 1975.

In the United States, the nonpartisan blanket primary, introduced in Louisiana for partisan state elections in 1975 and federal elections in 1978 ( with a short return to a closed primary system in 2010 ), is virtually identical to the two-round system.

In the elections of 1971, 1975 and 1979 he obtained an absolute majority.

He retained his seat in Parliament in the 1975, 1977 and 1980 elections.

In 1975, the Democratic Senate majority, having achieved a net gain of four seats in the 1974 Senate elections to a strength of 61 ( with an additional Independent caucusing with them for a total of 62 ), reduced the necessary supermajority to three-fifths ( 60 out of 100 ).

In local elections on 13 March 1975, Fretilin and UDT emerged as the largest parties, having previously formed an alliance to campaign for independence.

The crisis was resolved in November 1975 when Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Whitlam's government and appointed a caretaker government on condition that elections for both houses of parliament be held.

He was not able to win the elections that were held in 1973 and 1977 ; however, between 1971 and 1980, he served as Prime Minister for three more times, albeit with coalition partners, during 1975 – 1977, 1977 – 1978, and 1979 – 1980, respectively.

He served as a Democratic Senator representing Colorado ( 1975 – 1987 ), and ran in the U. S. presidential elections in 1984 and again in 1988, when he was considered a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination until various news organizations reported that he was having an extramarital affair.

He won the 1975 leadership election to succeed Lewis, and led the party through four elections.

Lougheed led his party to victory in the 1975, 1979 and 1982 provincial elections.

After the elections of 1975, the PCI was the strongest force in nearly all of the municipal coucnils of the great cities.

Murphy has run for office in three Newfoundland provincial elections, in 1975 as a Progressive Conservative, and in 1985 and 1987 as a Liberal.

For four decades, the party dominated the British Columbian political scene, with the only break occurring between the 1972 and 1975 elections when the New Democratic Party of British Columbia was in power.

In Ontario, the party unsuccessfully ran candidates in most provincial elections from 1945 until 1975, never obtaining electoral support beyond a negligible level.

He won comfortable victories at the 1975 and 1979 elections.

In the 1975 elections the SF lost two seats and the VS re-entered the Folketing as well.

On 12 June 1975, the Allahabad High Court gave a verdict that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi used unfair means in elections of 1971 and termed her election null and void.

During the Emergency period ( 1975 – 1977 ) in India, Joshi was in jail from 26 June 1975 until the Lok Sabha elections in 1977.

After the Revolution, elections were called for the 25 April 1975 and the Socialist Party ( PS ) won the 1975 election for the Constituent Assembly and the 1976 elections for the National Assembly, then losing to the centre-right Democratic Alliance ( AD ) in the 1979 elections.