Prior to the 2008 elections, a decision to change the electoral date and extend the parliamentary mandate resulted in major controversy when the Assembly deputies snubbed the president and chose to extend their mandate.

None of the party-affiliated candidates was successful in the October senatorial elections ; three JDA members standing as independents were elected as deputies in November 2005 along with two members of the Centre Party who had similarly stood as independents.

In the subsequent deputies ' elections, four JDA candidates were successful, but three of them subsequently left the party and continued to sit as independents.

In most Marxist-Leninist states this has taken the form of directly electing representatives to fill positions, though in some states ; such as China, Cuba, and the former Yugoslavia ; this system also included indirect elections such as deputies being elected by deputies as the next lower level of government.

In the first all-German elections in 1990, the PDS won only 2. 4 % of the nationwide vote, but under a one-time exception to Germany's electoral law entered the Bundestag with 17 deputies led by Gysi, one of Germany's most charismatic and articulate politicians.

In the autumn of 1919, elections for the Romanian Constituent Assembly were held in Bessarabia ; 90 deputies and 35 senators were chosen.

In Mexico, however, the Partido Verde Ecologista has 17 deputies and four senators in Congress as a result of the 2006 elections.

A total of 34 FN deputies entered the Assembly after the 1986 elections ( the only legislative elections held under proportional representation ), which were won by the right wing, bringing Jacques Chirac to Matignon in the first cohabitation government ( that is, the combination of a right-wing Prime minister, Chirac, with a socialist President, Mitterrand ).

In 2012 Bulgarian Turks are represented at every level of government-local, with MRF having mayors in 35 municipalities, at parliamentary level with MRF having 38 deputies ( 14 % of the votes in Parliamentary elections for 2009-13 ) and at executive level, where there is currently one Turkish minister-Vezhdi Rashidov.

However, the legislative elections were a major disappointment: with just 4. 51 % of votes cast nationally, the Greens ’ representation fell from six to just three deputies ( out of a total of 577 ) in the National Assembly.

Stanislau Shushkevich, the first head of state of independent BelarusThe March 4, 1990, elections to the republic's Supreme Soviet gave the country a legislature that was little different from previous legislatures: only 10 percent of the deputies were members of the opposition.

In previous elections of 1993, 1995, 1999 and 2003 one half of the deputies were elected by a system of proportional representation and one half were elected by plurality in single member districts.

However, the 2007 Duma elections were carried out in a new format: all 450 deputies were elected by a system of proportional representation.

The councils were purged, the elections in forty-nine departments were cancelled, and many deputies and other men of note were arrested.

Before the new deputies could take their seats, the directors forced through the councils the law of 22 Floréal, annulling or perverting the elections in thirty departments and excluding forty-eight deputies by name.

In the elections of May 1936, the Popular Front won a majority of parliamentary seats ( 378 deputies against 220 ), and Léon Blum formed a government.

* May 11: Law of 22 Floréal Year VI-Council elections annulled, left wing deputies excluded from Council.

During the Reichstag elections, the fifteen deputies of 1874, 1881, 1884 ( but one ) and 1887 were called protester deputies ( fr: députés protestataires ) because they expressed to the Parliament their opposition to the annexation by means of the 1874 motion in French language: « May it please the Reichstag to decide that the populations of Alsace-Lorraine that were annexed, without having been consulted, to the Germanic Empire by the treaty of Frankfurt have to come out particularly about this annexation.

At the Estates-General of 1484 the elections were made in common for the three orders, and the deputies also arrived at their resolutions in common.

The Estates had become an entirely elective assembly, and at the elections ( at each step of the election if there were several ) the electors drew up a cahier de doléances ( statement of grievances ), which they requested the deputies to present.

The British, faced with a deadline for leaving, held elections on March 16, 1952, for a representative Assembly of 68 members, evenly divided between Christians and Muslims.

The US Department of State said on September 16, " these elections stand out as a milestone in creating a new, more competitive multi-party political system in one of Africa's largest and most important countries.

Still, the US Department of State said on September 16, " these elections stand out as a milestone in creating a new, more competitive multi-party political system in one of Africa's largest and most important countries.

It received 16. 5 % of the vote at the 2009 European Parliament elections, putting it in second place ahead of the then governing Labour Party.

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

After 16 years of the Christian-Liberal coalition, led by Helmut Kohl, the Social Democrats together with the Greens won the elections of 1998.

By the age of 16, Booth was interested in the theatre and in politics, becoming a delegate from Bel Air to a rally by the Know Nothing Party for Henry Winter Davis, the anti-immigrant party's candidate for Congress in the 1854 elections.

Having called for elections for a new Parliament to meet on 25 April, the Long Parliament was effectively dissolved on 16 March 1660.

* Having called for elections for a Parliament to meet on 25 April, the Long Parliament dissolved itself on 16 March 1660

In a stunning landslide defeat, where ABC news had been predicting a 16 point Sandinista victory, the FSLN lost to the National Opposition Union by 14 points in elections on February 25, 1990.

Nevertheless, Olmert was appointed interim prime minister on 16 April 2006, after the elections, just days before he had formed a government on 4 May 2006, to become the official prime minister.

In the 2006 Nicaraguan general election, former FSLN President Daniel Ortega was re-elected President of Nicaragua with 38. 7 % of the vote compared to 29 % for his leading rival, bringing in the country's second Sandinista government after 16 years of the opposition winning elections.

Nevertheless, in the 1910 midterm elections, the Democrats assumed control of the House for the first time in 16 years.

* March 15 – March 16 – Elections to the new Parliament of Finland are the first in the world with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied.

* January 16 – The first Dutch ( and general ) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic ( the next Dutch general elections are held in 1888 ).

After the rigged elections of October 20, 1946, a Landtag replaced the Beratende Versammlung and worked out the constitution of January 16, 1947, for the Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

At the 2001 parliamentary elections, the UP entered into an electoral alliance with the larger social-democratic party Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ), and managed to get 16 of its members elected to parliament.

The town made headlines worldwide when the Vice President of the Regional Assembly of Calabria, Francesco Fortugno, was gunned down with five bullets in front of dozens of bystanders as he cast his vote at the primary elections on October 16, 2005.

In the presidential elections of 2002, Le Pen obtained 16. 86 % of the votes in the first round of voting.

In elections held eight months later, on September 24, the PNM won 13 of the 24 elected seats in the Legislative Council, defeating 6 of the 16 incumbents running for re-election.

In the 2009 European elections, the Greens won their best result outside of Corsica, where their result was due to the support of the Party of the Corsican Nation ( PNC ), in the city of Paris ( 27. 41 %), Haute-Savoie ( 20. 26 %), Drôme ( 21. 75 %), Isère ( 21. 64 %), Hauts-de-Seine ( 20. 74 %), Ille-et-Vilaine ( 20. 59 %), and Loire-Atlantique ( 20. 16 %).

This was best signified by, in the 2006 legislative elections, the Kadima party receiving about 28. 9 % of the votes in Haifa, and Labor lagging behind with 16. 9 %.

The first direct elections for regional representatives took place on 16 March 1986.