The Croatian constitution and legislation provides for regular presidential and parliamentary elections, and the election of county prefects and assemblies, and city and municipal mayors and councils.

On February 23, 2011, former Illinois Congressman and White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, won the municipal election to become mayor of Chicago, heavily beating five rivals with 55 percent of the vote.

Madero responded by founding the Benito Juárez Democratic Club and ran for municipal office in 1904, though he lost the election narrowly.

Guatemala held presidential, legislative, and municipal elections on November 7, 1999, and a runoff presidential election on December 26.

The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted in a victory for the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Chen Chu, the first elected female mayor of special municipality in Taiwan, defeating her Kuomintang rival and former deputy mayor, Huang Chun-ying.

The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:

Reversing a trend of election boycotts, 15 opposition parties nominated candidates for more than 3, 000 municipal posts and for the 81-member National Assembly.

The first electoral contest held under universal suffreage were the municipal elections of November 1956, the first national contest the 1957 election of the Territorial Assembly.

of the popular vote in the 2011 municipal election.

If at least two-thirds of the National Assembly cannot agree to vote for one presidential candidate, a People's Assembly is formed from all National Assembly delegates and regional and municipal representatives who were elected by popular vote in the most recent national election.

* A treatise on election of representatives, parliamentary and municipal ( 1859 )

* The election of representatives parliamentary and municipal: a treatise ( 1865 )

In the 2008 Vancouver municipal election, Stuart Mackinnon, a member of the Vancouver Green Party, was elected to the Vancouver Parks Board.

Since 1974, the environmentalist movement has been a permanent feature of the French political scene, contesting every election: municipal, national & European.

Municipal government is exercised through a municipal board, chosen by direct election, and an executive department.

The organization runs the municipal elections every four years, with the last election taking place in 2008.

From its first victory in the 1950 municipal election, the PPP gathered momentum.

At the electoral reforms regarding the right to vote of 1862, she supported the idea to give women the right to vote, which was talked about as the " horrific sight " of seeing " crinolines at the election boxes ", but Bremer gave the idea her support, and the same year, women of legal majority were granted suffrage in municipal elections in Sweden.

The new laws further centralized Long's control over the state by creating several new Long-appointed state agencies: a state bond and tax board holding sole authority to approve all loans to parish and municipal governments, a new state printing board which could withhold " official printer " status from uncooperative newspapers, a new board of election supervisors which would appoint all poll watchers, and a State Board of Censors.

April 6, 1959 was the first municipal election.

A document dated 1726 gives the names of twenty-four Jews who had taken part in an election of municipal officers.

Like the other towns, it maintains its own municipal government but its residents vote in the Jacksonville mayoral election and have representation on the Jacksonville city council.

Like the other towns, it maintains its own municipal government but its residents vote in the Jacksonville mayoral election and vote for the Jacksonville city council ; unlike the others Baldwin no longer supports its own police force.

Like the other towns, it maintains its own municipal government but its residents vote in the Jacksonville mayoral election and have representation on the Jacksonville city council.

In an election on November 8, 2005, 306 residents voted to dissolve the village municipal corporation, while 155 voted no.

He campaigned relentlessly for George Brown, owner of the Reformist paper The Globe in the 1851 election, helping him to win a seat in the assembly.

The first election for Ethiopia's 547-member constituent assembly was held in June 1994.

Gerry was from an early time a vocal opponent of Parliamentary efforts to tax the colonies after the French and Indian War ended in 1763, and won election to General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( its legislative assembly ) in May 1772.

Right-wing elements now argued for a new election, but Mirabeau prevailed, asserting that the status of the assembly had fundamentally changed, and that no new election should take place before completing the constitution.

General Tiburcio Carías Andino was elected in 1932, he later on called a constituent assembly that allowed him to be reelected, and his rule became more authoritarian until an election in 1948.

The election, in which more than 100 political parties have registered, will form an interim 200-member national assembly.

The history of modern France starts with the election of Hugh Capet ( 940-996 ) by an assembly summoned in Reims in 987.

First, Britain must give an assurance of full independence for India after the war and allow the election of a constituent assembly to frame a new constitution ; second, although the Indian armed forces would remain under the British Commander-in-Chief, Indians must be included immediately in the central government and given a chance to share power and responsibility.

The Speaker is elected by the assembly and is the first official to be elected in the first sitting of the Legislative Assembly following an election.

In a historical vote for the election of the constituent assembly, Nepalese voted to oust the monarchy in Nepal.

On May 2012 constitution assembly was dissolved and another election to select the constitution assembly members was decleared by Dr. Baburam Bhattarai

Instead it is used in smaller contests such as the election of the presiding officer of an assembly ; one long-standing example of its use is in the United Kingdom, where local associations ( LCAs ) of the Conservative Party use EB to elect their prospective parliamentary candidates ( PPCs ).

Workers, soldiers and peasants established soviets ( councils ), the monarchy fell, and a provisional government convoked pending the election of a constituent assembly.

If there is no suitable candidate, then the governor general can dissolve the assembly and trigger a general election.

The general election was held with the birth of the first national assembly.

The most important action Otto II took at the assembly, however, was to secure the " election " of his son Otto III, who was then only three years old, as King of Germany and heir apparent to the Imperial throne.

The 1960 constitution provided for election by universal suffrage of a president and a national assembly for 5-year terms.

Some questioned the wisdom of incorporating traditional chiefs and the degree to which these traditional leaders would be committed to the district assembly idea, while others attacked the election guidelines as undemocratic and, therefore, as contributing to a culture of silence in Ghana.

Presidential powers include appointing the prime minister and Council of Ministers, in which the president must be guided by the assembly election results ; dismissing the prime minister ; dissolving the assembly to call early elections ; vetoing legislation, which may be overridden by the assembly ; and declaring a state of war or siege.

The local magistrates, under the leadership of William Hulton, had already been advised by the acting Home Secretary, Henry Hobhouse, that " the election of a Member of Parliament without the King's writ " was a serious misdemeanour, encouraging them to declare the assembly illegal.

In 104 BC the lex Domitia prescribed that the election of all pontiffs would henceforward be voted by the comitia tributa ( an assembly of the people divided into voting districts ); by the same law, only 17 of the 35 tribes ( chosen by lot ) of the city could vote.