The Croatian constitution and legislation provides for regular presidential and parliamentary elections, and the election of county prefects and assemblies, and city and municipal mayors and councils.

On February 23, 2011, former Illinois Congressman and White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, won the municipal election to become mayor of Chicago, heavily beating five rivals with 55 percent of the vote.

Madero responded by founding the Benito Juárez Democratic Club and ran for municipal office in 1904, though he lost the election narrowly.

Guatemala held presidential, legislative, and municipal elections on November 7, 1999, and a runoff presidential election on December 26.

The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted in a victory for the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Chen Chu, the first elected female mayor of special municipality in Taiwan, defeating her Kuomintang rival and former deputy mayor, Huang Chun-ying.

The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:

Reversing a trend of election boycotts, 15 opposition parties nominated candidates for more than 3, 000 municipal posts and for the 81-member National Assembly.

The first electoral contest held under universal suffreage were the municipal elections of November 1956, the first national contest the 1957 election of the Territorial Assembly.

of the popular vote in the 2011 municipal election.

If at least two-thirds of the National Assembly cannot agree to vote for one presidential candidate, a People's Assembly is formed from all National Assembly delegates and regional and municipal representatives who were elected by popular vote in the most recent national election.

* A treatise on election of representatives, parliamentary and municipal ( 1859 )

* The election of representatives parliamentary and municipal: a treatise ( 1865 )

In the 2008 Vancouver municipal election, Stuart Mackinnon, a member of the Vancouver Green Party, was elected to the Vancouver Parks Board.

Since 1974, the environmentalist movement has been a permanent feature of the French political scene, contesting every election: municipal, national & European.

Municipal government is exercised through a municipal board, chosen by direct election, and an executive department.

The organization runs the municipal elections every four years, with the last election taking place in 2008.

From its first victory in the 1950 municipal election, the PPP gathered momentum.

At the electoral reforms regarding the right to vote of 1862, she supported the idea to give women the right to vote, which was talked about as the " horrific sight " of seeing " crinolines at the election boxes ", but Bremer gave the idea her support, and the same year, women of legal majority were granted suffrage in municipal elections in Sweden.

The new laws further centralized Long's control over the state by creating several new Long-appointed state agencies: a state bond and tax board holding sole authority to approve all loans to parish and municipal governments, a new state printing board which could withhold " official printer " status from uncooperative newspapers, a new board of election supervisors which would appoint all poll watchers, and a State Board of Censors.

April 6, 1959 was the first municipal election.

A document dated 1726 gives the names of twenty-four Jews who had taken part in an election of municipal officers.

Like the other towns, it maintains its own municipal government but its residents vote in the Jacksonville mayoral election and have representation on the Jacksonville city council.

Like the other towns, it maintains its own municipal government but its residents vote in the Jacksonville mayoral election and vote for the Jacksonville city council ; unlike the others Baldwin no longer supports its own police force.

Like the other towns, it maintains its own municipal government but its residents vote in the Jacksonville mayoral election and have representation on the Jacksonville city council.

In an election on November 8, 2005, 306 residents voted to dissolve the village municipal corporation, while 155 voted no.

In Quebec City, municipal officials built a 3 metre ( 10 ft ) high wall around the portion of the city where the Summit of the Americas was being held, which only residents, delegates to the summit, and certain accredited journalists were allowed to pass through.

In 1995, Burkina held its first multiparty municipal elections since independence.

The direct result of the battle of Schwetz / Świecino was that the city of Danzig and Pomerania were freed from Teutonic Order danger so that the royal and municipal armed forces could be used elsewhere in the war, mainly to protect the Vistula waterway and to capture the Teutonic held strongholds.

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.

Freely contested municipal elections, the country's first, were held in September.

In addition to the presidential and parliamentary elections, there are European Parliament elections every five years, and local municipal elections ( held simultaneously in every municipality ) every four years.

National elections for president, Congress, and municipal offices were held in November 1995.

In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Geneva there were 80 spots open on the municipal council.

Traditional franchise jurisdictions of various powers were held by municipal corporations, religious houses, guilds, early universities, Welsh Marches, and Counties Palatine.

Parliamentary and more recently municipal elections have been held with fewer irregularities and more popular participation than in the immediate aftermath of the conflict, and Lebanese civil society generally enjoys significantly more freedoms than elsewhere in the Arab world.

In October 2001, Mauritania held its third legislative and fifth municipal elections since the establishment of multi-party politics under the 1991 constitution.

Parliamentary and municipal elections were held on the 19 November 2006.

Elections are held in Marxist-Leninist states for all positions within the legislative structure, municipal councils, national legislatures and presidencies.

In November 2000, Nicaragua held municipal elections.

Balboa maneuvered and was appointed Mayor on the first official cabildo abierto ( municipal council ) held on the mainland.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, mainly because of restrictive state liquor licensing laws, only a small proportion of live pop-rock music in Australia was performed on licensed premises ( mostly private clubs or discotheques ); the majority of concerts were held in non-licensed venues like community, church or municipal halls.

In 2005, the first municipal elections were held.

With the changing political atmosphere, seemingly, pressed the junta to comply, local and municipal elections were held as usual.

Members of municipal senates ( curiales or decuriones ) are charged with the responsibility of collecting taxes and paying arrears ; smaller landowners are held responsible for providing recruits for the Roman army and with keeping wastelands under cultivation.

Kosovo held its first free, Kosovo-wide elections in late 2001 ( municipal elections had been held the previous year ).