At the 2009 Local elections held on 5 June 2009, Fine Gael won 556 seats, surpassing Fianna Fáil which won 407 seats, and making Fine Gael the largest party of local government nationally.

At 2009 European Parliament election held on the same day as the Local elections, which saw a reduction in the number seats from 13 to 12 for Ireland, the party won four seats, retaining the largest number of seats of an Irish party in the European Parliament.

Local and legislative elections were delayed until 1996-1997.

Local elections in 2001 represented a victory for the left-of-center parties in several municipalities, including Rīga.

Local government elections were held in 1995, and parliamentary elections in 1996.

Local elections, the first since 1992, took place on 27 August 2006 and were dominated by members of the ruling coalition.

Local elections take place every five years.

Local council elections for Gower were held on 3 May 2012, along with wards in 21 / 22 local authorities in Wales.

Local elections were held in December 1997.

The town forms part of the seven member Portlaoghaise Local Electoral Area for elections to Laois County Council.

Local officials are almost entirely Democratic in affiliation, and Republicans rarely contest such elections.

Local officials are almost entirely Democratic in affiliation, and Republicans rarely contest such elections.

Local political parties are formed on an ad-hoc basis, generally focused on key issues of local concern ; national political parties do not officially participate in township elections.

Local governments can opt for these sales through " local option " elections.

According to an amendment passed in December 2004, governors and presidents of Russia's constituent regions, who were previously elected by popular vote, are now proposed by the President of Russia for the approval of the local parliament Local parliaments theoretically have the authority to reject the candidate, but if this occurs three times, the parliament may be dissolved by the President and new parliamentary elections held.

Local elections on 13 March 1933 resulted in the NSDAP winning 39. 6 % of all votes, however the catholic Zentrum Party came in second with 28. 3 %, followed by the social-democratic SPD with 13. 2 % and the communist KPD with 11. 1 %.

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

This was the Local Government Act ( Northern Ireland ) which abolished proportional representation in local government elections ; the issue was referred to London and Royal Assent was eventually given.

Fine Gael out-performed expectations at the 2004 Local and European elections, which saw Fine Gael increase it representation from 4 MEPs of 15 from Ireland, to 5 from 13.

The so-called ' Mullingar Accord ' was agreed in September 2004 following the European and Local elections that year.

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

Local elections have been widely fraught with massive cheating, vote buying and fraud as well.

Local elections, as in May 2011, often feature only Conservative, Liberal Democrat and independent candidates.

Local ecumenical liturgies were encouraged, and excitement initially built around " pilot programs " in Denver, Los Angeles, and Memphis.

In 1930, the boundaries were extended by the Local Government ( Dublin ) Act.

Later in 1953, the boundaries were again extended by the Local Government Provisional Order Confirmation Act

They were replaced by democratically-elected County Councils by the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898.

Local deities of different village regions in India were often identified with " mainstream " Hindu deities, a process that has been called " Sanskritization ".

Local shrimpers charged that corporate methods were damaging the environment and destroying natural stock through destruction of the mangrove breeding swamps.

The abolition of regional development agencies and the creation of Local enterprise partnerships were announced as part of the June 2010 United Kingdom budget.

Local officials brutalized blacks and prevented them from leaving relief camps, aid meant for African-American sharecroppers was often given to the landowners instead, and many times black males were conscripted by locals into forced labor, sometimes at gun point.

These ridings were established as separate administrative counties under the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act, 1898.

By the terms of the Local Government Act 2001, the counties of North Tipperary and South Tipperary were created.

The Regions are administered by Regional Authorities which were established by the Local Government Act 1991 and came into existence in 1994.

Local deposits of metal-bearing ores were difficult to process because they were low grade.

Local variations of the custom were developed in different parts of England and Wales.

Local businessmen worked out a deal and were awarded an AFL franchise on June 7, 1965, contingent upon acquiring exclusive stadium rights from city officials.

Representatives were chosen in the following manner: Local caucuses in each of the 59 districts sent forward the names of three nominees, whose credentials were reviewed by a cabinet committee.

( Local laws and traditions determine whether the lowest performing students were socially promoted or made to repeat the year.

Local watchmen were hired by cities to provide some extra security.

Local churches were forced to appeal to Rome to obtain restitution from the imperial bishops who had taken advantage of the Investiture Controversy to obtain property for their own benefit, as the Emperor turned a blind eye.

Local events were also often commemorated in pub signs.

From 1846 onwards the establishments in the United Kingdom were gradually reduced, while the last vestige of the British quarantine law was removed by the Public Health Act 1896, which repealed the Quarantine Act 1825 ( with dependent clauses of other acts ), and transferred from the privy council to the Local Government Board the powers to deal with ships arriving infected with yellow fever or plague, the powers to deal with cholera ships having been already transferred by the Public Health Act 1875.