The city is divided into 65 wards and the council members ( also known as corporators ) are elected by the citizens of Mysore every five years.

Growth in the information technology industry in Mysore has led to a change in the city's demographic profile ; likely strains on the infrastructure and haphazard growth of the city resulting from the demographic change have been a cause of concern for some of its citizens.

Shortly after his accession at the conclusion of the papal election of December 1187, Clement succeeded in allaying the conflict which had existed for half a century between the Popes and the citizens of Rome, with an agreement by which the citizens were allowed to elect their magistrates, while the nomination of the governor of the city remained in the hands of the Pope.

For comparison, note that traditional first-past-the-post would elect Memphis, even though most citizens consider it the worst choice, because 42 % is larger than any other single city.

Virgin Islands residents are U. S. citizens but cannot vote in United States presidential election and cannot elect voting members of Congress.

* June 7 – The first direct elections to the European Parliament begin, allowing citizens from across all then-9 European Community member states to elect 410 MEPs.

When danger loomed, all the burghers ( citizens ) in a district would form a military unit called a commando and would elect officers.

The citizens, in order to protect their liberties, were obliged to elect a podestà.

Pakistan to this day requires its citizens to swear an oath of allegiance to Islam, and declare Mirza Gulam Ahmad to be an apostate, should they elect to register as a Muslim for governmental services.

Carrington said citizens had to elect the right people to avoid a repeat disaster.

There are six judges, which the county's citizens elect to ten year terms, under the laws of the Commonwealth.

In contrast with a political party, a political movement is not organized to elect members of the movement to government office ; instead, a political movement aims to convince citizens and / or government officers to take action on the issues and concerns which are the focus of the movement.

Burgh status conferred on its citizens the right to elect their own town councils, run their own affairs and raise their own local taxes or rates.

In the 1980s, the citizens of the Federal District, being the most populated federal entity in Mexico, began to demand for home rule ; a devolution of autonomy in order to directly elect their head of government and to set up a Legislative Assembly.

The citizens elect a Mayor and Town Council as the town's governing body.

The citizens elect the mayor to a two year term and the six aldermen to four year terms.

Among the political rights granted by the constitution, all Chinese citizens have rights to elect and be elected.

* The Star Puppies, a group of Carter-Zimmerman citizens, elect to stay conscious, in real time, for the duration of their spaceflight in the Diaspora ( most others enter a state of suspension ).

Almost all polis citizens, except for those who specifically elect otherwise, experience the world through two sensory modalities: Linear and Gestalt, which Egan describes as distant descendants of hearing and seeing, respectively.

They took their fight to the supreme court, arguing that the two roles break human rights laws that protect the rights of citizens to elect lawmakers.

At the national level, Fijian citizens of Rotuman descent elect one representative to the Fijian House of Representatives, and the Council of Rotuma nominates one representative to the Fijian Senate.

Unlike those of the US states, the citizens of the Autonomous Communities of Spain don't elect a person for presidency of their community: they elect the regional legislature, and that legislature elects the regional President.

Longchamp granted the citizens of London the right to elect their own sheriffs, and to collect and remit their monetary levy of £ 300 directly to the Exchequer, the treasury of England.

As of 2000, the citizens within a borough elect by plurality a head of government, known simply as " borough head " ( Spanish: jefe delegacional ).

In the 1860 United States Census the slave population in the United States had grown to four million, and in Reconstruction after the Civil War ( late 1860s ) the newly freed slaves became citizens with ( in the case of men ) a nominal right to vote.

The 2006 science fiction film Déjà Vu revolves around a US federal law enforcement officer using an instrument called Snowhite to view the past four and a half days of anywhere in the world ( limited radius as permissible by the program ) in order to solve a murder and a terrorist bomb attack on a ferry that was being boarded by about 500 citizens and military members.

Although Brazil has 100 million fewer citizens than the United States, and more restrictive gun laws, there are 25 percent more gun deaths ; other sources indicate that homicide rates due to guns are approximately four times higher than the rate in the United States.

It killed four people ; knocked out power to nearly 150, 000 citizens ; and destroyed hundreds of millions of dollars of crops in the state.

Elections are held every four years in universal suffrage ( for all citizens above 18 ), with each of the twenty-four constituencies ( see below ) electing one or more representatives ( senators ) to the lower house of RMI ’ s bicameral legislature, the Nitijela.

In theory, at least, to be classified as a rogue, a state had to commit four transgressions: pursue weapons of mass destruction, support terrorism, severely abuse its own citizens, and stridently criticize the United States.

While four of the listed rouge states met all these transgressions, Cuba, though still known for severely abusing its citizens and its strident criticism of the United States, no longer met all the transgressions required for a rogue state and was put on the list solely because of the political influence of the American Cuban community and specifically that of the Cuban American National Foundation.

Napoleon issued orders that exempted San Marino's citizens from any type of taxation and gifted them with 1, 000 quintals ( over 2, 200 lb or 1, 000 kg ) of wheat and four cannons, which, for reasons unknown, never arrived.

Memorial at Liberty Plaza in Union City, New Jersey, which lost four citizens in the attacks

On August 4, 2005, Eden Natan-Zada, an AWOL Israel Defense Forces soldier, killed four Israeli Arab citizens and wounded several others when he opened fire on a bus in the northern Israeli town of Shfaram.

In fact, for four years after Israel gained independence, there were no Israeli citizens.

( Encyclopaedia of Saarc Nations, Syed ) Under pressure from China, the Bhutanese government demanded that the four thousand Tibetan refugees living in Bhutan either become Bhutanese citizens or go into exile.

In 2001, four Rwandan citizens were convicted and given sentences from 12 to 20 years ' imprisonment for their involvement in 1994 Rwandan genocide.

) Members of the smaller chamber represent more citizens and usually serve for longer terms than members of the larger chamber, generally four years.

486 Greek Cypriots were executed on 9 July 1821, accused of conspiring with the rebelling Greeks, including four Bishops and numerous prominent citizens — all beheaded in the central square of Nicosia, while Archbishop Kyprianos was hanged.

The issue was how to receive the four million former slaves as citizens.

By having four million freedmen counted as full citizens, the South would gain additional seats in Congress.

There are four Canadian citizens within the Canadian Royal Family: Two married into it: In 1988, Sylvana Jones ( née Tomaselli in Placentia, Newfoundland ) wed the Earl of St. Andrews, a great-grandson of King George V, and, on 18 May 2008, Autumn Kelly, originally from Montreal, married Queen Elizabeth II's eldest grandson, Peter Phillips.

The Solonian constitution divided citizens into four political classes defined according to assessable property a classification that might previously have served the state for military or taxation purposes only.

Nicocles reigns as tyrant of Sicyon for only four months, during which period he drives into exile eighty of the city's citizens.

The inhabitants of Cyrene at the time of Sulla ( c. 85 BC ) were divided into four classes: citizens, farmers, resident aliens, and a minority population of Jews.

Now in its 100th year, the Port of Seattle owns and operates many properties on behalf of King County's citizens, including Sea-Tac International Airport ; many seaport facilities around Elliott Bay, including its original property, publicly owned Fishermen's Terminal, home to the North Pacific fishing fleet and the largest homeport for fishermen in the U. S. West Coast ; four container ship terminals ; two cruise ship terminals ; the largest grain export terminal in the U. S. Pacific Northwest ; three public marinas ; 22 public parks ; and nearly 5, 000 acres of industrial lands in the Ballard-Interbay and Lower Duwamish industrial centers.

When the Little Rock, Mississippi River, and Texas Railroad was being built during the years of 1880-1881, it missed Red Bluff by four miles and the citizens moved to the new Town of Redfield which was named for J. E.

They are each elected by citizens for four year term.