municipal elections

Only Saudi men were allowed to stand and vote in Thursday's municipal elections.

With only three weeks to go before countrywide municipal elections on March 29th, Mr Erdogan has hit the campaign trail in a confident mood.

This cosy arrangement has now been threatened by the Liberals' recent decision to re-unite ahead of municipal elections due in November.

It seems exhausted after state and municipal elections last November in which it made important gains.

But that might not be enough for judges to allow the party to stand in provincial and municipal elections on May 22nd.

The recent decision of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to allow women to vote in municipal elections is a case in point.

The Islamic militant group Hamas has won important victories in West Bank municipal elections.

Nicaragua's president, Daniel Ortega, has abused his power to rig both municipal elections and the supreme court.

The "beauty premium" for garnering votes is more apparent in municipal elections than in a national vote.

Next summer it faces municipal elections in Tokyo, its power-base.

The opposition reckoned the tax would allow the government to splurge before municipal elections next year.

Municipal elections to fill half the seats on local councils began earlier in 1926.

In May, his Socialist Party narrowly lost municipal elections to the People's Party (PP).

Saudi Arabia held its first-ever municipal elections in 2005.

The remainder are not wholly without rights; they may vote in municipal elections, for example.

Street demonstrations in 2009 fizzled out. Opposition politicians fared poorly in last year's municipal elections.

The voters savaged the Socialists in municipal elections on May 22nd, giving the PP a record ten-point lead.