The election was for life, unless the abbot was canonically deprived by the chiefs of his order, or when he was directly subject to them, by the pope or the bishop.

Following his election as pope, John spent a year in Bologna and then joined forces with Louis II of Anjou to march against Ladislaus.

; Cardinal: In Roman Catholicism, a cardinal is a member of the clergy appointed by the pope to serve in the College of Cardinals, the body empowered to elect the pope ; however, on turning 80 a cardinal loses this right of election.

The election of the pope was not always reserved to the cardinals ; the pope was originally elected by the clergy and the people of the diocese of Rome.

But as the pope gained greater political independence, the right of election was with the bull In nomine Domini reserved to cardinals in 1059, leaving the emperor only with a vague right of approbation.

A well-known instance of the " John Cardinal Doe " style is that in the proclamation, in Latin, of the election of a new pope by the cardinal protodeacon: " Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum ; habemus Papam: Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum ( first name ) Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem ( last name ), ..." ( Meaning: " I announce to you a great joy ; we have a Pope: The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord, Lord ( first name ) Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church ( last name ), ...")

In early times the privilege of papal election was not reserved to the cardinals, and for centuries the pope was customarily a Roman priest and never a bishop from elsewhere ; to preserve apostolic succession the rite of consecrating the pope as a bishop had to be performed by someone who was already a bishop.

The Dean of the College of Cardinals, the primus inter pares of the College of Cardinals, is elected by the cardinal bishops holding suburbicarian sees from among their own number, an election, however, that must be approved by the pope.

His Holiness Abune Paulos died in August 2012 and transitionally a new pope is elected until an election is made next year.

Pope Gregory XI's return to Rome in 1377, followed by his death and the controversial election of his successor, Pope Urban VI, resulted in the defection of a number of cardinals and the election of a rival pope based at Avignon in 1378.

Otto marched on Rome and drove John XII from the papal throne and for years controlled the election of the pope, setting a firm precedent for imperial control of the papacy for years to come.

At the last papal election, we said We are the pope!

Pope Urban VI, elected 1378, was the last pope who was not already a cardinal at his election.

The Second Council of Lyons was convened on 7 May 1274, to regulate the election of the pope.

) When a vote is successful, the ballots are burned alone, sending white smoke ( fumata bianca ) through the chimney and announcing to the world the election of a new pope.

The Latin term sede vacante (" while the see is vacant ") refers to a papal interregnum, the period between the death of a pope and the election of his successor.

He was the first pope to confirm the election of the Holy Roman Emperor.

With Callixtus II ’ s death on 13 December 1124, both families agreed that the election of the next pope should be in three days time, in accordance with the church canons.

He was the only pope during the Byzantine Papacy whose election was not approved by a iussio from Constantinople.

Split badly during the recent presidential election into almost equally divided camps of party loyalists and independents, the Democratic party in Mississippi is currently a wreck.

In 1835, Johnson made a bid for election to the " floater " seat for his district in the Tennessee House of Representatives ; he " demolished " the opposition in debate and won the election with almost a two to one margin.

Vinicio Cerezo, a civilian politician and the presidential candidate of the Christian Democracy Party, won the first election held under the new constitution with almost 70 % of the vote, and took office on January 14, 1986.

With almost 20 parties competing in the first round, the presidential election came down to a January 7, 1996 runoff in which PAN candidate Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen defeated Alfonso Portillo Cabrera of the FRG by just over 2 % of the vote.

" The election was followed several months later by the Haitian presidential election, 1988, which was boycotted by almost all the previous candidates, and saw turnout of just 4 %.

In the 10th and 11th centuries, princes often acted merely to confirm hereditary succession in the Saxon ( Ottonian ) and Franconian ( Salian ) dynasties, whereas beginning from the actual forming of the prince-elector class, elections became less secure ( with the election of 1125 ), though the Staufen dynasty managed to get its sons formally elected in their fathers ' lifetimes almost as a formality.

The newspapers which traditionally supported the Conservatives and had championed Major at the election were now being critical of him on an almost daily basis.

As the Federalist party by this time had almost completely disintegrated, Madison was selected in the election of 1808, easily defeating Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.

He was defeated in the election of 2009 by DPJ candidate Mitsunori Okamoto, which witnessed the end of almost uninterrupted LDP dominance since 1955.

The Fadden-led Coalition made almost no headway against Curtin, and was severely defeated in the 1943 election.

Shortly after Labour's hefty election defeat in June 1983, the almost 70-year-old Michael Foot resigned as leader and from the outset it was expected that Kinnock would succeed him.

Menzies was reelected almost as easily at the 1958 election, again with the help of preferences from what had become the Democratic Labor Party.

Although the coalition remained in power for almost another seven years ( until the 1972 Federal election ), it did so under four different Prime Ministers.

His election to the presidency of the IMU was almost unanimous.

The high point in a British General Elections thus far was when the SNP polled almost a third of all votes in Scotland at the October 1974 general election and returned 11 MPs to Westminster, to date the most MPs it has had, although its representation was reduced significantly in the 1979 general election.

Political observers were almost unanimous that Bracks had no chance of defeating Liberal premier Jeff Kennett at the November 1999 election: polls gave Kennett a 60 % popularity rating.

In 1993, Mulroney resigned, rather than fight an election based on his record after almost nine years in power.

In 2009, José Mujica, a former left-wing militant who spent almost 15 years in prison during the country's military rule, emerged as the new President as the Broad Front won the election for a second time.

King returned to Canada to run in the 1917 election, which focused almost entirely on the conscription issue.

* Lucius is arrested almost immediately following his election and also exiled.

* 1268 – Pope Clement IV dies ; the following papal election fails to choose a new pope for almost three years, precipitating the later creation of stringent rules governing the electoral procedures.

A recall election is usually initiated by voters and can be based on " political charges ", for example mismanagement, whereas impeachment is initiated by a constitutional body ( usually a legislative body ) and is usually, but not always, based on an indictable offense.

If the voters determine their preferences before the election and always vote directly consistent to them, they will emulate the Contingent vote and get the same results as if they were to use that system.

It is alleged that the results of the election are known in days as opposed to months depending on the size of the electorate, but this is not always the case depending on the ability to count the rounds of the more complex instant runoff voting.

The election of 1824 is often claimed to be the first in which the successful presidential candidate did not win the popular vote, however it is not always pointed out that the popular vote was not measured nationwide at the time.

His simple origins became clear right after his election, when he wore a pectoral cross made of gilded metal on the day of his coronation and when his entourage was horrified, the new pope complained that he always wore it and that he had brought no other with him.

Printers of Christmas cards and stationery were requested to always include district numbers in addresses, and election agents for candidates in the upcoming general election were asked to ensure they correctly addressed the 100 million items of mail they were expected to post.

On 24 January 1674, Bishop Fuller issued a decree dealing with the recommendations of the commissioners — a majority of all the Fellows should always be insisted on, so the Provost could not push an election in a thin meeting, and Fellows should be admitted immediately after their election.

While the Speaker is elected by the full House membership, in modern practice the election is a formality, since the Speaker always comes from the majority party.

The election of Árbenz alarmed U. S. State Department officials, who stated that Arana " has always represented < nowiki ></ nowiki > only positive conservative element in < nowiki ></ nowiki > Arévalo administration ", that his death would " strengthen Leftist < nowiki ></ nowiki > materially ", and that " developments forecast sharp leftist trend within < nowiki ></ nowiki > government.

An outgoing president who is not running in that election remains in office as a caretaker until their successor is sworn in, such as José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ; this differs from other parliamentary governments whose prime ministers always lead their parties during the election campaign.

When Ephialtes was assassinated by personal enemies, Pericles stepped in and was elected strategos in 445 BCE, a post he held continuously until his death in 429 BCE, always by election of the Athenian Assembly.

The Landeshauptmann is always elected by the Landtag, meaning that it may be necessary to form a coalition in order to secure the election of a particular candidate.

However, the members of the town halls and insular councils always have been chosen in direct election, in elections separated from the autonomic or joint with the autonomic elections in the Balearic islands, until the Statute of Autonomy reform in 2007.

His frontbench career always promised more than he got the chance to deliver and he was returned to the backbenches in the reshuffle following the 2001 general election.

Greaves said, with regards to the 2010 general election: " I'll vote Conservative, as I always have, but with no great enthusiasm as I'm not convinced by David Cameron.

In the aftermath of the general election of 1892, Balfour and Chamberlain wished to pursue a programme of social reform, which Salisbury believed would alienate " a good many people who have always been with us " and that " these social questions are destined to break up our party ".

Though the federal council was always only elected by the Federal Assembly, there was an unwritten rule at the time, relinquished since the 1870s, that federal councillors should be confirmed in their home canton ’ s election for the National Council as well.

In election after election, the votes cast for the Socialist Unity Party were always over 99 %, and in 1963, two years after the Berlin Wall was constructed, the support for the S. E. D.

Churchill, always a regular customer, did his electioneering for his first postwar election sitting on the top of the back seat of a discreetly fast and luxurious low-slung Dolphin two-door drophead coupé first registered in 1944.