Not all democratic political systems use separate districts to conduct elections; Israel, for instance, conducts parliamentary elections as a single, nationwide entity, while the 26 electoral districts of Italy and the 20 ones of Netherlands have a role in the actual election, but no role whatsoever in the division of the seats.
The gender subcategory includes five indicators measuring gender equality, the ratio of girls to boys in primary and secondary education, the primary school completion rate for girls, the proportion of women who are economically active, and the proportion of parliamentary seats held by women.
Often, omnibus spending bills are criticized for being full of pork (unnecessary/wasteful spending that pleases constituents or special interest groups.).
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Maves worked as a legislative assistant to federal MP Ken Atkinson, who represented St. Catharines from 1988 to 1993.
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Maves was elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1995, defeating Liberal Marg Germano and incumbent New Democrat Margaret Harrington in the riding of Niagara Falls.
In 1981, he unsuccessfully ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1981 provincial election in Hamilton West, losing to provincial Liberal leader Stuart Smith.
Ward was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1990 provincial election, defeating Liberal incumbent Dave Neumann in the Brantford division.
The byelection was due to resignations February 9, 1874 of A. Bunster and Amor De Cosmos upon winning seats in the federal election January 22, 1874 (in Vancouver and Victoria federal ridings, respectively).
Cape Breton North and Victoria (also known as North Cape Breton and Victoria and Cape Breton North—Victoria) was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1968.
The founding fathers of the city of Maisonneuve - now incorporated with the city of Montreal - the famous Dufresne brothers were wealthy twentieth century French Canadian entrepreneurs who played a major role in the history of Montreal.
In the 1987 Ontario election, Hošek sought and won a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament for the Toronto constituency of Oakwood, defeating Ontario New Democratic Party incumbent Tony Grande by 1,331 votes.
Boushy was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1995 provincial election, defeating Liberal Joan Link by 634 votes in the riding of Sarnia (incumbent New Democrat Bob Huget was third).
Denholm is part of the Pontiac federal electoral district and represented by Mathieu Ravignat, NDP MP.
Darling Harbour was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1904, partly replacing Sydney-Gipps in the vicinity of Darling Harbour.
After serving his only federal term, and after a change in electoral districts, the 20th Canadian Parliament, he was defeated in the 1949 federal election at Maple Creek riding by Irvin Studer of the Liberal party.
Sheehan was elected to the legislature in the 1995 provincial election, defeating Liberal Harry Pelissero by about 8,000 votes in the southern Ontario riding of Lincoln (NDP incumbent Ron Hansen was third).
During the Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2003, he ran in the provincial riding of Labrador West as the Progressive Conservative candidate, but was defeated by Randy Collins of the NDP.
He represented Vancouver City from 1909 to 1916 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Conservative.
He was elected to parliament in the 1935 federal election as a Liberal MP from the Toronto riding of Trinity defeating Minister of Justice and former Toronto mayor George Reginald Geary.
He ran unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate in High Park in the 1935 federal election losing to Alexander James Anderson.
In the election, Turmel ran as an independent against Green Party leader Trevor Hancock in Toronto—Beaches, Marc Gauvin ran in Ottawa Centre, supporter Serge Girard in Ottawa—Vanier, and John and Ray’s mother, Therese Turmel ran in Ottawa West, and Ray Turmel ran as an "independent Green" in Nepean—Carleton.
At the federal and provincial level the area is within the riding of Eglinton—Lawrence (formerly in the federal riding of Eglinton and provincially within Oakwood).
Mavai has represented the Jaffna multi-member electoral district in the Sri Lankan Parliament since October 2000, firstly for the TULF, then the Tamil National Alliance.
He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1977 provincial election, defeating New Democratic Party candidate Iain Angus by 2,256 votes in Fort William.
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Stanstead in an 1837 by-election and served until March 27, 1838, when the province was put under the rule of a special council after the Lower Canada Rebellion.
At the federal level, Northwestern Ontario is represented by Conservative Greg Rickford in the Kenora District, New Democrat John Rafferty and Independent Bruce Hyer in Thunder Bay—Rainy River and Thunder Bay—Superior North respectively.
In April 2005, Mercredi announced he would challenge Bev Desjarlais for the New Democratic Party nomination in the riding of Churchill for the next federal election, but he later withdrew his candidacy.
It is the remake of a 1920 film of the same name, based on the play by Charles William Bell, a Canadian criminal lawyer and later Member of Parliament for Hamilton West and Mark Swan, which opened on Broadway in New York City on Christmas Eve, 1917 and ran for 232 performances.
In the 2003 provincial in the riding of Oshawa, he came in fifth out of six candidates with 518 votes or 1.3% of all votes cast.
The 1st District of an electoral district of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and is currently represented by Democrat Pat Harkins.
The 108th District is an electoral district for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and is currently represented by Republican Lynda Schlegel-Culver.
The 3rd District an electoral district for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives that is represented by Democrat John Hornaman.
The 6th District is an electoral district for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and is currently represented by Republican Brad Roae.
The 9th District is an electoral district for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and is currently represented by Democrat Chris Sainato.
He ran for the Canadian House of Commons in the federal election of 1949 in the riding of Norquay, but lost to Liberal Robert James Wood by almost 4000 votes.
From 1998 to 2003, he was parish priest of Notre-Dame-de-Foy, Saint-Denys, Sainte-Geneviève, and Saint-Mathieu.
Piyasena has represented the Ampara (Digamadulla) multi-member electoral district in the Sri Lankan Parliament since April 2010.
He had previously been the federal NDP candidate in Labrador in the 1997 federal election, where he finished a relatively close second.
Bockstael initially attempted to enter national politics in a 16 October 1978 by-election at Manitoba's Saint Boniface electoral district but was defeated by Jack Hare of the Progressive Conservative party.
It seems that the name of Saint Cléophas was suggested by Édouard-Charles Fabre (1827-1896), archbishop of Montreal, to honour Cléophas Beausoleil (1845-1904), who was House of Commons member for Berthier from 1887 to 1899.
The community is in the Hudson Bay Electoral District and the previous member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut is Peter Kattuk who was replaced by Allan Rumbolt in the 2008 general election.
Smith was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the Ontario Liberal Party in the 1975 provincial election, defeating Progressive Conservative candidate and future mayor Bob Morrow by 542 votes in Hamilton West.
She ran for Bill Davis' Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the 1981 Ontario election and was elected as Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for the St. George constituency in downtown Toronto.
After working as a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio announcer for a short period, Suluk gained election to the Canadian House of Commons at the 1984 federal election, representing the electoral district of Nunatsiaq (now Nunavut).
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He represented the electoral district of Nunatsiaq in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 1988 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives.
Vijayakala has represented the Jaffna multi-member electoral district for the United National Front in the Sri Lankan Parliament since April 2010.
Waverley Heights is a part of Winnipeg's St. Norbert electoral ward and is represented on city council by Justin Swandel.
It and its sister ridings Westminster-Delta, Westminster-Dewdney and Westminster-Chilliwhack were successors to the old four-member Westminster riding, which appeared in 1890 only and was a subdivision of the older New Westminster (provincial electoral district) riding.
In the 1988 federal election, he ran in the Nepean riding but was defeated by Beryl Gaffney of the Liberal party.
Delwood Frederick "Yogi" Huyghebaert, O.M.M., C.D. (Lt Colonel-Ret) (born 27 May 1944) is the current Member of the Legislative Assembly for the riding of Wood River, Saskatchewan.
The party's lone incumbent MLA, Gary Masyk, was defeated running for re-election in the new electoral district of Edmonton Decore, placing a distant fourth.
Macyk ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Liberal candidate in the electoral district of Redwater in the 1955 Alberta general election.
Division of Petrie, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland
Bill Goodacre is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Bulkley Valley-Stikine in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1996 to 2001.
His electoral district was abolished in 1991 after the Pine Point mine shutdown operations and the town was dismantled.
In the 2005 Ethiopian elections, the electoral district of Bugna elected Bereket Simon (Amhara National Democratic Movement, one of the partners in the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front) as their representative in the House of People's Representatives.
Division of Capricornia, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives based around the region
He was a delegate to PAIGC's Fifth Congress in December 1991, and in the first multiparty elections, held in 1994, he was elected to the National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau from the 26th Electoral District.
After being defeated from federal politics he would run for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as the governing Alberta Social Credit candidate in the new provincial electoral district of Calgary Bowness.
He was elected in the 23 March 1942 by-election to the National Assembly of Quebec, as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party, representing the Montréal–Saint-Jacques electoral district.
Claudette Buttigieg contested the 2013 general election, and was elected to the Maltese Parliament from the 8th electoral district.
Warnock was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Pincher Creek electoral district in the 1909 Alberta general election.
The change in name came from a write in campaign from Alberta New Democratic Party members who wanted to tack on Notley after their former leader Grant Notley onto the electoral district name because he was an MLA for Spirit River-Fairview an old electoral district that existed in the area.
She formerly taught at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, where she was also the Ontario Liberal Party candidate in the electoral district of Sudbury East in the 1985 provincial election.
Currently, the electoral district is represented by John Sidoti of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Hindmarsh was also the name of an electoral district of the unicameral South Australian Legislative Council from 1851 until its abolition in 1857, Robert Davenport, then John Rankine being the members.
There is also a provincial electoral district bearing his name, Calgary-McCall, which was established in 1971.
Garry Keith Edwards MP is an Australian politician representing the electoral district of Swansea in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Liberal Party of Australia since the 2011 New South Wales state election.
Gilberto Antonio Hirata Chico (born January 17, 1953) in Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California) was state deputy representing the XIV electoral district (corresponding to the urban area of Ensenada, Baja California).
Member of Parliament (MP) serving the electoral district of Toronto Centre in the Canadian House of Commons (1905 by-election and re-elected in 1908, 1911, 1917, 1921, and 1925).
Chase ran for a second term in office in the 2008 Alberta general election, he was re-elected holding the electoral district with a comfortable plurality.
Sapers beat Harris by a margin of 2600 votes to win the Edmonton-Glenora electoral district.
Fraser served in municipal politics from 1984 and was Antigonish County Warden for Heatherton until his resignation in 1998, when he ran for the Liberal nomination for the electoral district of Antigonish.
Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Illapel is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Mrs. Adriana Muñoz (PDC) and Mr. Luis Lemus (Ind.) as part of the 9th electoral district, (together with Combarbalá, Punitaqui, Monte Patria, Salamanca, Los Vilos, Canela).
In 1992-1993, he was an organizer for and supporter of David Varty, a candidate for the federal Liberal Party nomination in the electoral district of Vancouver Centre.
With the Quebec East riding boundaries redistributed in 2003, Carignan contested the Louis-Saint-Laurent electoral district in the 2004 federal election as an independent candidate but finished in sixth place while Bernard Cleary of the Bloc Québécois won the riding.
Electoral district of Kara Kara, a former electoral district in Victoria, Australia
Kelowna—Lake Country, a federal electoral district in use from 2003 to present
He also sought election to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the electoral district of Abbotsford-Clayburn as founder and president of, and candidate for the Freedom Party of British Columbia.
Last Mountain-Touchwood, a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
Davies represented the electoral district of St. Kilda in the Legislative Assembly from 1883 to 1888; was a member of the Royal Commission on Transfer of Land and Titles to Land in 1885; was sworn of the Executive Council in Feb. 1886, and held a portfolio in the Gillies-Deakin Government as a Minister without responsible office from that date till Oct 1887.
The other (and first) school of the Morningside Heights subdivision is Thomas Wells Public School, named after Thomas Leonard Wells, a former MPP of the electoral district of Scarborough North, from 1963 to 1985.
Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Mulchén is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Juan Lobos (UDI) and José Pérez (PRSD) as part of the 47th electoral district, (together with Los Ángeles, Tucapel, Antuco, Quilleco, Santa Bárbara, Quilaco, Negrete, Nacimiento, San Rosendo, Laja and Alto Bío Bío).
For the parliament of Western Australia, the state electoral district of Nedlands is held by Liberal member Bill Marmion.
After his retirement from football, Smart was an unsuccessful candidate for the Liberal Party for the electoral district of Norwood in the 2006 South Australian state election.
He finished sixth place out of seven candidates in the electoral district of Scarborough East losing to Progressive Conservative candidate Bob Hicks.
In the 2007 elections Maingain received 45,439 votes in the electoral district Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde.
Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Punitaqui is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Mrs. Adriana Muñoz (PDC) and Mr. Luis Lemus (Ind.) as part of the 9th electoral district, (together with Combarbalá, Monte Patria, Illapel, Salamanca, Los Vilos, Canela).
Vancouver-Quilchena, an electoral district in British Columbia, Canada
Electoral district of Reynell, electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia
Rossland City, provincial electoral district around Rossland, British Columbia (1903–1912)
Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Santa Bárbara is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Juan Lobos (UDI) and José Pérez (PRSD) as part of the 47th electoral district, (together with Los Ángeles, Tucapel, Antuco, Quilleco, Quilaco, Mulchén, Negrete, Nacimiento, San Rosendo, Laja and Alto Bío Bío).
He was elected at the Kootenay East—Revelstoke electoral district in the 1979 federal election, but was defeated in the 1980 election by Sid Parker of the New Democratic Party.
After losing in the municipal election, Caterina ran for a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the electoral district of Edmonton-Centre in the 2004 Alberta general election.
The name of the electoral district was changed in 2000 to "Toronto—Danforth" on the suggestion of Dennis Mills, the riding's Member of Parliament.
As a member of the Liberal Party of Ukraine (LPU), Shcherban was elected once again from the Donetsk region electoral district N41 in 1998 joining in the parliament the parliamentary group "Independents".
the Electoral district of Warrego, an electoral district for the Queensland Legislative Assembly, which encompasses several towns on the Warrego River
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2007 provincial election and represents the electoral district of Kensington-Malpeque as is a member of the Liberal Party.
He defeated Conservative incumbent Samuel Bacon Hillocks by a comfortable margin to win his first term in office and represent the North Calgary electoral district.