Each county or city is divided into Local electoral areas for the election of councillors.

The boundaries of the areas and the number of councillors assigned are fixed from time to time by order of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, following a report by the Local Government Commission, and based on population changes recorded in the census.

At least 20 former Progressive Democrats councillors won seats on county, city and town councils at the 2009 Local elections.

In England and Wales, the content of the Syllabus is agreed by Local Authorities, with the ratification of a Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education ( SACRE ) comprising members of different religious groups, teachers and local councillors.

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Local government in Scotland is organised through 32 unitary authorities designated as Councils which consist of councillors elected every four years by registered voters in each of the council areas.

The Otopeni Local Council has 17 councillors, even though before the 2008 local elections, it only had 15.

The 2007 Local Elections in the UK saw the age limit for councillors fall to 18, leading to younger people standing.

Parish, town or community councillors may, since the Local Government Act 2000, be paid for their services, but most are not.

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Further electoral setbacks and a minor split left the party after the 2004 Local Elections with only two councillors, both in Waterford.

Local government politicians, including mayors, councillors and District Health Boards are voted in during the local elections, held every three years.

The Copşa Mică City Council ( Consiliul Local Copșa Mică ), elected in the 2008 local government elections, is made up of 15 councillors, with the following party composition:

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Employes of Montgomery Ward & Co. at The Dalles, in a National Labor Relations Board election Thursday voted to decertify Local 1565, Retail Clerks International Association, AFL-CIO, as their collective bargaining agent.

Local citizens voted in a nationally covered election to choose it from a group of three designs by Massa.

In 2009, the Centerburg Local School Board voted to cancel that year's graduation ceremony in response to a cheating scandal, even though only one person out of the entire 97-student graduating class was ever proven guilty of cheating.

In 2009, several parties in New Zealand staged a filibuster of the Local Government ( Auckland Reorganisation ) Bill in opposition to the government setting up a new Auckland Council under urgency and without debate or review by select committee, by proposing thousands of wrecking amendments and voting in Māori as each amendment had to be voted on and votes in Māori translated into English.

There are more than 1, 800 analysts in the GAO analysts bargaining unit ; the local voted to name itself IFPTE Local 1921, in honor of the date of GAO's establishment.

Only Local 598 in Sudbury, Ontario, which had a contentious and sometimes violent history with the city's Steelworkers locals, voted against the merger — it remained autonomous until 1993, when it merged with the Canadian Auto Workers.

In 2008 the 6, 500 postdoctoral scholars (" postdocs ") at the ten campuses of the University of California, who combined account for 10 % of the postdocs in the nation, voted to affiliate with the UAW, creating the largest union for postdoctoral scholars in the country: UAW Local 5810.

In June 2012, it was voted ' Best Local Pub In Ireland '.

On May 29th, 2010, hundreds of California medical-marijuana industry workers voted to become UFCW Local 5 members.

Local civil rights workers and volunteers along with students from Stanford and Yale, organized and implemented the mock election, in which tens of thousands voted.

In 2000 Wilshire voted to prohibit teachers from introducing steps to prevent bullying on the grounds of homosexuality in a later Local Government Bill.

Stupak voted for the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, which expanded the definition of hate crimes to include crimes motivated by sexual orientation or gender identity.

He voted against the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007, a bill that amends the Federal definition of a hate crime to include gender identity and sexual orientation.

On the backbenches Biffen voted against the Local Government Finance Act 1988 which introduced the Community Charge ( the poll tax ).

SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana was founded in 2008, when members of three SEIU locals ( Local 4, Local 20, Local 880 ) voted to join and create a single entity across the two states.

Readers participating in the Capital Times / Wisconsin State Journal Reader's Choice Award survey have voted the classic the # 1 Favorite Local Running Event every year since 1995.

The rank and file workers voted overwhelmingly in November, 1917 and more moderate leaders, such as Fitzpatrick and the leader of Local 87, used this strike threat to great advantage in negotiating with the federal government and the employers.

In 2003, workers at the Foster Farms poultry plants around Livingston voted to leave the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 1288.

Local specialties include densuke watermelons ( でんすけスイカ ) known throughout Japan, and imazuri mai rice, voted " Most Delicious Rice In Hokkaidō 7 Years In A Row ".

On June 21, 1918, at their regular meeting at Geneva Hall in New York City, the Scenic Artists voted to accept a charter as United Scenic Artists of America ( hence the USAA still seen today in the union ’ s “ bug ”) being Local 829, an autonomous local of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers of America ( later to become IBPAT, the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades ).

In March of 1990, a merger with IBPAT Local 350 in Chicago was effected and thereby jurisdiction was gained throughout the United States. Finally, on April 27 of 1999, after decades of suffering from a debilitating lack of common interest with the IBPAT, the membership of United Scenic Artists Local 829 voted by an overwhelming majority to re-affiliate with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees ( IATSE ) and to disaffiliate from the IBPAT.