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unusual facts about parliamentary elections



2006 Ukrainian political crisis

The 2006 Parliamentary crisis in Ukraine started in March 2006 as a result of inconclusive parliamentary elections, and ended on 3 August 2006 with Viktor Yanukovych (as part of the Alliance of National Unity) being chosen as a Prime Minister to replace Yuriy Yekhanurov, who resigned right after the parliamentary elections.

Ainsdale

For parliamentary elections, the ward is part of the Southport constituency, currently represented by the Liberal Democrat MP, John Pugh, who was re-elected at the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

Andris Šķēle

In 1995, after the parliamentary elections of 6th Saeima political parties were incapable of creating a coalition government for a while, thus Šķēle was presented as an independent candidate for the position of the Prime Minister.

In 1998, before the parliamentary elections of 7th Saeima, Tautas partija with Šķēle as its chairman was founded.

Chan Santokhi

At the 2010 parliamentary elections Santokhi had, despite being placed low on the voters list of the Progressive Reform Party, second most votes nationwide (Desi Bouterse had the most).

Choa Chu Kang

When the new town of Choa Chu Kang was built by expanding Teck Whye Estate near the other end of Choa Chu Kang Road at its junction with Upper Bukit Timah Road and Woodlands Road to the north, the place name began to be applied to a much larger area, especially when political divisions like the Choa Chu Kang ward applied to the entire northwest sector of the country during some editions of the Parliamentary elections.

Election address

In UK parliamentary elections, all candidates are entitled to have one election address delivered free, by Royal Mail to every voter in their constituency.

Giorgos Lillikas

In 1996 he was elected Member of the House of Representatives as a candidate of the left-wing party AKEL in the Nicosia electoral district and was re-elected in the parliamentary elections of 2001.

History of Togo

Parliamentary elections took place on October 14, 2007.

Jan Kasl

In 2002 he resigned and left the Civic Democratic Party a few weeks before the parliamentary elections, because he thought that party was not able to deal with corruption.

Kiribati parliamentary election, 2003

Parliamentary elections in 2002 and presidential elections in February 2003 had led to a government being formed by President Teburoro Tito.

Litherland

For parliamentary elections Litherland is within the Bootle constituency represented by the Labour Party MP Joe Benton.

Netherton, Merseyside

For parliamentary elections Netherton is within the Bootle constituency represented by the Labour Party MP Joe Benton.

Orrell, Merseyside

For parliamentary elections Orrell is within the Bootle constituency represented by the Labour Party MP Joe Benton.

Páll á Reynatúgvu

At the 2008 parliamentary elections á Reynatúgvu was not re-elected, but he got a seat in the parliament at from time to time after all, when Anita á Fríðriksmørk took a maternity leave, and when his party was a part of the Landsstýri, then he was next on the list to get a seat in the parliament.

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc

To the parliamentary elections on 26 March 2006 the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko went only with Fatherland and Ukrainian Social Democratic Party after both republican parties left the alliance.


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Agora SA

Agora and Gazeta Wyborcza (English: Electoral Gazette) were created on the eve of the parliamentary elections in 1989.

Gazeta Wyborcza was founded in 1989 as the platform for the first democratic parliamentary elections.

Anti-Romanian discrimination

The 2001 parliamentary elections, won by the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova, initially brought a series of attempts to raise Russian to the status of a state language.

Aslan Maskhadov

Maskhadov nominated himself for President of Ichkeria on 3 December 1996, for the January 1997 free democratic presidential and parliamentary elections held in Chechnya under the aegis of the OSCE, running primarily against Shamil Basayev and Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev.

Democratic Republic of Georgia

On February 14, 1919, Georgia held parliamentary elections won by the Georgian Social Democratic Party with 81.5% of the vote.

Economy of Moldova

The Communist Party retained political control after winning the March 2005 parliamentary elections and re-elected its leader, Vladimir Voronin, as president in collaboration with the opposition.

Electoral district

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.

Giorgi Chanturia

The opposition to Gamsakhurdia, now joined in an uneasy coalition behind former Prime Minister Tengiz Sigua and the National Guard leader Tengiz Kitovani demanded that Gamsakhurdia resign and call new parliamentary elections.

Hazim al-Shaalan

Ali Allawi, the Finance Minister in the Iraqi Transitional Government, accused al-Shaalan of embezzlement in 2005, and Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog, the Commission for Public Integrity, sought to bar him from running in the following parliamentary elections.

Ibtisam Mara'ana

In 2009, Ibtisam was nominated as a political candidate for the Meretz Party for the Israeli parliamentary elections, obtaining the 12th position on the candidate list.

Independent Democratic Union

Proof of this are the results of UDI in the 2000 municipal elections, the parliamentary elections of 2001, and the Lagos-Longueira agreement of January 17, 2003 to modernize the State administration and give a consensual political solution to Inverlink case and MOP-Gate case, which affected the institutional stability of the Lagos administration.

Jennifer M. Smith

Smith led her party to victory in parliamentary elections in November 1998, in which the United Bermuda Party, which had dominated elections since autonomy was gained in 1968, suffered an unprecedented defeat.

Jeremiah Jordan

From 1865, Jordan supported the Liberal party in Enniskillen municipal and parliamentary elections against the dominant Cole Earl of Enniskillen and Crichton Earl of Erne interests.

Justin Merriman

Merriman has photographed and covered many national and international stories, including the events of September 11 and the crash of United Flight 93, the Sago mine disaster in Sago, West Virginia, polio in India, life in Cuba, the 2008 Parliamentary Elections in Pakistan, the war in Afghanistan and stories across the country.

Mahmood Al-Yousif

Most recently, Ms. Ahdeya Ahmed, the Government Spokesperson for the Bahraini Parliamentary Elections in 2006.

Margaret Ball

Two generations later this pattern was repeated when Francis Taylor, who was Mayor of Dublin 1595–1596, was condemned to the dungeons after exposing fraud in the parliamentary elections to the Irish House of Commons.

New Wafd Party

Early in December 2005 the party appeared to be in crisis following the parliamentary elections, when party chairman Numan Gumaa dismissed prominent party leader and vice chairman Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour following the poor performance the party showed during the elections.

Parliament Act 1782

The Act, which was passed by Rockingham's government at the instance of John Crewe, disqualified all officers of Customs and Excise and the Post Office from voting in parliamentary elections.

Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine

In the March 2006 parliamentary elections, the party again failed to gain any seats in Parliament, participating as People's Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko winning 2,93%.

Rachid Solh

Following the resignation of the government of Omar Karami in May 1992, President Elias Hrawi was forced to form a new government and to hold the first parliamentary elections since the end of the civil war.

Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar

Karandikar has conducted opinion polls for Indian Parliamentary elections and state assembly polls for Doordarshan, TV Today, Network 18, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, etc.

Shire Hall, Monmouth

It was here that the Chartist leader Henry Vincent, who had sought the right of all men to vote in parliamentary elections, was imprisoned before being tried at the assizes.

Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet

Kerrison was a Lieutenant-Colenel in the Seventh Light Dragoons when he, with Charles Wetherell petitioned parliament over electoral malpractice in the parliamentary elections for Shafstubry Dorset.

Stefano Tacconi

In 1999 he was on Alleanza Nazionale's lists for the European parliamentary elections, but failed to earn a seat.

Theatre Royal, Lincoln

On 18 March 2011, Lord Chancellor Kenneth Clarke visited the theatre as part of the campaign in the May 2011 referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV) system in UK parliamentary elections.

Tomislav Nikolić

On 5 February 2011, in front of the National Assembly, Nikolić and his political supporters – Milanka Karić (Strength of Serbia Movement, Velimir Ilić (New Serbia), Aleksandar Vulin (Movement of Socialists) and Aleksandar Vučić organized a protest demanding early parliamentary elections.

Women in Arab societies

Dr Rola Dashti, a female candidate in Kuwait's 2006 parliamentary elections, claimed that "the negative cultural and media attitude towards women in politics" was one of the main reasons why no women were elected.

Zodiak Broadcasting Station

It became the official broadcaster of Presidential and Parliamentary elections in the 2009 elections due to its neutral coverage.