However, international observers have questioned the fairness of Armenia's parliamentary and presidential elections and constitutional referendum since 1995, citing polling deficiencies, lack of cooperation by the Electoral Commission, and poor maintenance of electoral lists and polling places.

He called on the Electoral Commission to investigate the issue of political parties taking out loans from non-commercial sources.

He called on the Electoral Commission to investigate the issue of political parties taking out loans from non-commercial sources.

* In November 2007, it emerged that more than £ 400, 000 had been accepted by the Labour Party from one person through a series of third parties, causing the Electoral Commission to seek an explanation.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

The voting process, though technically difficult due to the lack of infrastructure, was facilitated and organized by the Congolese Independent Electoral Commission with support from the UN mission to the Congo ( MONUC ).

The Independent High Commission for Human Rights, the Independent High Electoral Commission, and the Commission on Integrity are independent commissions subject to monitoring by the Council of Representatives.

Under the Electoral Act 1997 a Constituency Commission is established following the publication of census figures every five years.

Indeed, when the results of the elections do not represent the ethnic proportions of the population, the Best Loser System provides for additional members to be nominated by the Electoral Commission in order to ensure that the Assembly reflects the ethnic proportions of the Mauritian population.

Other parastatals are the responsibility of the Office of the Presidency, such as the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Federal Civil Service Commission.

The party, along with its Northern Ireland wing, voluntarily deregistered with the Electoral Commission at the end of 2003.

* In 1984, the Australian Electoral Commission proclaimed at a redistribution on 14 September 1984, the Division of Menzies for representation in the Australian House of Representatives in honour of the former Prime Minister.

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year ending 2010, the party had a membership of 16232, up from 15, 097 in 2008 and 9, 450 in 2003.

Changes to the Zanzibar Constitution in April 2002 allowed both the CCM and CUF parties to nominate members to the Zanzibar Electoral Commission.

In May 2003, the Zanzibar Electoral Commission conducted by-elections to fill vacant seats in the parliament, including those seats vacated by the CUF boycott.

In March 2009, the Independent Electoral Commission ruled that Winnie Mandela, who was selected as an ANC candidate, could run in the April 2009 general election, despite having a fraud conviction.

However, this will change at the Victorian Local Government Elections in October 2012 following an electoral representation review by the Victorian Electoral Commission in 2011-2012.

The Congress then passed a bill establishing the Electoral Commission, which would determine the winner once and for all.

After northern candidate Alassane Ouattara was declared the victor of the 2010 Ivorian presidential election by the country's Independent Electoral Commission ( CEI ), the President of the Constitutional Council – an ally of Gbagbo – declared the results to be invalid and that Gbagbo was the winner.

In the 1876 – 1877 electoral college crisis, he helped to arrive at the solution of creating the Electoral Commission to settle the controversy, and ultimately served as one of the members of the commission, as one of the five Senators ( one of the two Senate Democrats, and one of the seven Democrats altogether ).

During his time as a senator, he was also a member of the Electoral Commission that decided the 1876 Presidential election in favor of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.

In an audience he gave to the Cardinals, who wanted him to sign the Electoral Capitulations from the Conclave and to guarantee that he would make no more cardinals than those agreements allowed, he refused to sign, stating that he would show his intent by deeds not words.

" In the aftermath of the presidential election of 1876, he refused to sit on the Electoral Commission that decided the electoral votes of Florida because of his close friendship of GOP presidential nominee Rutherford B. Hayes and his classmateship with the Democratic presidential nominee Samuel J. Tilden with whom Waite studied at Yale College.

The name was initially intended to be used by the WNP after the Electoral Commission refused to register WNP as an official name ; but after a dispute between Cotterill on the one side and Eddy Morrison and John G. Wood ( the WNP's national organiser ) on the other the EFP group broke away to become a separate, English nationalist, party.

COPEI persuaded its candidate ( Saez ) to resign, but Democratic Action's candidate, Alfaro Ucero, refused to do so, triggering an electoral crisis as the National Electoral Council had to rule on whether the Democratic Action ballot slot belonged to the party or the candidate.

In spite of the results, three years later he relaunched his platform as the Party of the Rose ( Partido de la Rosa ), which couldn't achieve official recognition because the Federal Electoral Institute ( IFE ) refused to recognize its statutes.

On January 9, 2004, a group claiming to be loyal to the Progressive Conservative Party and opposed to the merger, which they characterized as an Alliance takeover, filed application with the Chief Electoral Officer to register a party called the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

* The Electoral Commission maintains a register of political parties, organised according to where the party operates.

According to the Electoral Commission's register of parties, its leader is Taylor, Peter Young is the nominating officer, Keith Robertson is treasurer, and Howard Martin is campaigns officer.

To obtain the right to put the party name on the ballot, under the names of the candidates it endorses, a political party must register with the Chief Electoral Officer.

Ogilvy made the application to register the Kiwi Party with the Electoral Commission.

The party applied to the Electoral Commission to register its new name, and was formally registered on 15 February 2008.

On December 22, 2007 the Russian Central Electoral Commission announced its refusal to register Bukovsky as a candidate.

In October 2006, the PT further allied itself with the PRD and the Convergence Party to form the Broad Progressive Front ( FAP for its Spanish initials ), which was granted the register by the Federal Electoral Institute.

However, the National Congress of Brazil has to approve a law to change the electoral registration process, because then they will register their fingerprints in the Electoral Court computers.

The register is compiled by the Australian Electoral Commission ( AEC ) on a state / territory-wide basis, in alphabetical order of surname.

Patricia Petersen, who has run at two Australian state and three federal elections, as an independent, recently applied to register the " Australian Independents ", an alliance of independents, with the Australian Electoral Commission.

In September 2011 it applied to register its logo with the Electoral Commission.

In any case, all electors must register first in the Electoral Register if they want to vote.

New for the 2005 election was the alliance between the newly formed Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ) and the PDS, planning to fuse into a common party ( see Left Party. PDS ).

During the period of the Solidarity Electoral Action ’ s government, Leszek Miller was in charge of the parliamentary opposition, leading the political fight with the governing party.

However, low membership and voter support in Germany's western states continued to plague the party on the federal level until it formed an electoral alliance in July 2005 with the Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ), a leftist faction of dissident Social Democrats and trade unionists, with the merged list being called the Left Party.

New Zealand's House of Representatives also has a 5 % threshold, but if a party wins at least one electorate seat the threshold does not apply, see Electoral system of New Zealand.

Solidarity Electoral Action (, AWS ) was a political party coalition in Poland.

Ruch Społeczny AWS ( RS AWS ), or Social Movement for Solidarity Electoral Action, was the political arm of the Solidarity trade union and was formerly the leading party within AWS.

Electoral fusion is also known as fusion voting, cross-endorsement, multiple party nomination, multi-party nomination, plural nomination, and ballot-freedom.

Electoral defeats in 1976 and 1979 marked the end of Social Democratic hegemony in Swedish politics, which had seen 40 years of unbroken rule by the party.

In 2007 the PDS merged with the Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative ( Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit – Die Wahlalternative, WASG ) to create the new party The Left ( Die Linke ), which has resulted in a higher acceptance in western states, the party now also being represented in the parliaments of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Hesse and Hamburg.

In 2001, these frictions-combined with the prospect of a devastating defeat in the upcoming election-led to an exodus of conservative and liberal conservative members around Tusk who joined former members of the UW's senior coalition partner, the conservative Solidarity Electoral Action, to form the new party Civic Platform.

While it is common to think of the electoral votes impersonally, as mere numbers, the Electoral College is in fact made up of real people ( usually party regulars of the party whose candidate wins each state ) with the capacity to adapt to unusual situations.

* The passing of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, creating the Electoral Commission to regulate elections and referendums and party spending to an extent.

The reality is today, that although " South Islanders " are most proud of their geographic region, secession does not carry any real constituency, the party was not able to field any candidates in the 2008 election due to being unable to enlist 500 paying members a requirement by the New Zealand Electoral commission.

Gbagbo's party complained of fraud and ordered that votes from nine regions be annulled, but the claims were disputed by the Ivorian Electoral Commission and international election observers.

Three days later, after a protracted count which saw presidential results in Kibaki's Central Kenya come in last, allegedly inflated, in a cloud of suspicion and rising tensions, amid vehement protests by Raila's ODM, overnight re-tallying of results and chaotic scenes, all beamed live on TV, at the national tallying center at the Kenyatta International Conference Center in Nairobi, riot police eventually sealed off the tallying Center ahead of the result announcement, evicted party agents, observers and the media, and moved the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Samuel Kivuitu, to another room where Kivuitu went on to declare Kibaki the winner by 4, 584, 721 votes to Odinga's 4, 352, 993, placing Kibaki ahead of Odinga by about 232, 000 votes in the hotly contested election with Kalonzo Musyoka a distant third.

However the Electoral Commission ruled that as membership of the Co-Operative party is dependent on membership of the Labour party they could not be considered distinct legal entites.

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year ending December 31, 2009, the party had an income of about £ 90, 230 that year, an expenditure of £ 61, 165 and a membership of 1, 072.

On 5 August 2008 a new party using the name National Party South Africa was registered with the Independent Electoral Commission.

) In August 2012, the initial report on a review of the MMP system by the Electoral Commission recommended abolishing the one electorate seat threshold, meaning a party winning an electorate seat but not crossing the 5 % threshold ( which the same report recommends lowering to 4 %) is only awarded that electorate seat.