In each vingtaine, vingteniers and Constable's officers ( in French: officiers du Connétable ) are elected as part of Jersey's Honorary Police system.

Each parish is headed by a Constable ( French: Connétable ; Jèrriais: Connêtabl ' ye ) who is elected for a four year period by the residents of the Parish.

The Connétable presides over the Roads Committee which also includes the Rector and three Principals of the Parish Principals for St Helier elected for a term of three years by the Parish Assembly.

Honorary Police officers have, for centuries, been elected by parishioners to assist the Connétable of the Parish to maintain law and order.

The Township of Laughlin, which is a judicial district for the purposes of elections, consists of a Justice Court, presided over by a Justice of the Peace ( elected for a six year term as a non-partisan official ) and a Constable ( elected for a four year term as a partisan official ).

Constables were appointed or elected at the local level for specific terms and, like their UK counterparts the Parish Constable, were not paid and did not wear a uniform.

In Nevada the office of Constable is the only partisan elected office below the county level.

Constables are elected at the municipal level, however State law governs Constables and they have statewide authority, thus the title became " State Constable ".

Constable is an elected position with full power of arrest and is a state peace officer.

David F. Green of Davy, West Virginia was the last person to hold the elected office of Constable in West Virginia.

In charge was Saunders Welch, an energetic former grocer elected High Constable of Holborn, who selected his men from former constables, discharged at the end of their year in office, who were prepared to receive legal training and carry on the work.

While in Poultney, Miller was elected to a number of civil offices, starting with the office of Constable.

In 1855 an obelisk was constructed in Broad Street to commemorate the reformer Pierre Le Sueur, five times elected Constable of St. Helier.

With the Constable, the parish therefore has 11 representatives in the States of Jersey ( out of 53 elected members ).

Some additional offices, such as Clerk or Constable, may also be elected.

In 1964, he was urged on by friends to run for Nueces County Constable and was elected in 1965, defeating the incumbent in a runoff election.

Although he trained for the law, he became a farmer by profession, and moved into politics, being elected Constable of St. Peter and eventually Jurat.

He became the first Libertarian Party office-holder in Alabama when he was elected Constable in 1988.

The Le Vesconte memorial ( erected 1910 ) takes the form of an obelisk at a crossroads commemorating Philippe Le Vesconte ( 21 December 1837-21 August 1909 ) who was 10 times elected Constable between 1868 – 1877 and 1890-1909.

However, after a long political career and with a very conservative reputation, in 1989 he placed himself at the head of verligte (" enlightened ") forces within the governing party, with the result that he was elected head of the National Party in February 1989, and finally State President in September 1989 to replace then president P. W.

The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States ( the " Union ") and formed the Confederate States of America ( the " Confederacy "), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president with no ballots from ten Southern states where slavery was legal.

Just before Trotsky's return, the Mensheviks had independently come up with the same idea that Trotsky had: an elected non-party revolutionary organization representing the capital's workers, the first Soviet (" Council ") of Workers.

At the First Congress of Soviets in June, he was elected a member of the first All-Russian Central Executive Committee (" VTsIK ") from the Mezhraiontsy faction.

In order to be admitted as an official candidate, potential candidates must receive signed nominations ( informally known as parrainages, for " godfathering ") from more than 500 elected officials, mostly mayors.

As a result, 73 MSPs represent individual geographical constituencies elected by the plurality (" first past the post ") system, with a further 56 returned from eight additional member regions, each electing seven MSPs.

Running against Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and Progressive (" Bull Moose ") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt, a former President, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.

After Pelayo's death in 737, his son Favila ( or " Fafila ") was elected king.

José María de Echeandía, the first native Mexican elected Governor of Alta California issued a " Proclamation of Emancipation " ( or " Prevenciónes de Emancipacion ") on July 25, 1826.

José María de Echeandía, the first native Mexican to be elected Governor of Alta California, issued his " Proclamation of Emancipation " ( or " Prevenciónes de Emancipacion ") on July 25, 1826.

In the Carpathian regions inhabited by Romanians, the boyar () class emerged from the chiefs ( named cneaz (" leader ") or jude (" judge ") in the areas north of the Danube and celnic south of the river ) of rural communities in the early Middle Ages, initially elected, who later made their judicial and administrative attributions hereditary and gradually expanded them upon other communities.

According to the constitution all candidates running for these positions must be vetted by the Guardian Council ( with the exception of those running for " Assembly of Experts ") before being elected.

It holds assemblies at which bishops and religious superiors, elected by bishops conferences or the Union of Superiors General or appointed by the Pope vote on proposals (" propositiones ") to present for the Pope's consideration, and which in practice the Pope uses as the basis of " post-synodal apostolic exhortations " on the themes discussed.

In addition to the powers then exercised by band councils under the Indian Act, most of the powers that had until then been exercised by the Minister of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (" DIAND ") under the Indian Act were transferred to the NNK and to the James Bay Cree bands, to be exercised by their elected councils.

The chairman and all members of the board are elected from at-large districts ( called " posts ") to staggered terms of four years.

") The changes ended autocratic rule, placing power with the prince and a National Council of eighteen elected members.

After the assassination of Gregoris Lambrakis in May 1963 he founded the Lambrakis Democratic Youth (" Lambrakidès ") and was elected its president.

That year he was elected with his " Revolución en Libertad " (" Revolution in Liberty ") slogan by a large margin ( 56 %), defeating Socialist candidate Salvador Allende who only received 39 % of the vote, but who subsequently won the 1970 Chilean presidential election.

In Finland, the Elämän Sana (" the Word of life ") group, as the most " mainline " of the different branches of Laestadianism, has been prominent within the hierarchy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland: Two members have been elected bishops of Oulu, and one has served as Chaplain General ( head chaplain of the Finnish Defence Forces and the equivalent of a Major General ).

Stanford was one of the four major businessmen known popularly as " The Big Four " ( or among themselves as " the Associates ") who were the key investors in the Central Pacific Railroad, which they incorporated on June 28, 1861, and of which Stanford was elected president.

According to " Debrett's Correct Form " the English title " Councillor " ( often shortened to " Cllr ") only applies to elected members of City, Borough or District councils.

Though Conrad never used the title rex Teutonicorum (" king of the Germans ") nor rex Romanorum (" King of the Romans "), he was the first king of East Francia who was elected by the rulers of the German stem duchies as successor of the last Carolingian ruler Louis the Child.

The latter elected two councils: the Consiglio dei Seniori (" Council of the Seniors ") and the Gran Consiglio (" Great Council ").

In June 2002, he was elected as the Chairman of the Tbilisi Assembly (" Sakrebulo ") following an agreement between the United National Movement and the Georgian Labour Party.