electoral

Having almost completed two terms, the president is out of the electoral picture until 2014 at least.

It is unlikely to come to that, although Lisbon's fate could still turn into a race against the British electoral clock.

the Electoral Commission determines that the registration be cancelled as the party no longer has at least 500 eligible members.

A reporter on TV, unable to give up the suspense, tries to think up fanciful ways in which John McCain could reach 270 electoral votes.

The only electoral defeat in his political career came in 2000, when he lost a Democratic primary race for the U.

The politicians have had the space to think beyond the next electoral test.

Congress appointed a special Electoral Commission to make a decision on the matter.

In Italy, scandal hit Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is the only leader of a large EU member state to stand as head of an electoral list.

But AV was all that Labour or the Tories would accept by way of electoral reform and at least offered the promise of extra Lib Dem seats.

Since the recession set in, the left has not been able to play what should have been its electoral trump card: "We told you so. "

But one factor that gets less attention than it should is quite mundane, and yet extremely influential: the Israeli electoral system.

1789 - George Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U. S. Electoral College.

Clothing: hand-woven "warm card" sweater, scarf, just gave him, or to give him an electoral tie it.

This did not seem to help Puea Thai Party (PTP), the latest incarnation of Mr Thaksin's once-invincible electoral machine.

They'll have 12 months before they have to call the general election, but they'll face pressure to seek a new electoral mandate much sooner.

The registration process takes at least a month from the time the Electoral Commission receives all of the appropriate documents.

It is a fine theory that would seem worth putting to the electoral test. But Mr Abhisit and his backers do not seem convinced.

He helped negotiate the communist regime's surrender in 1989 and was one of the victors in the electoral triumph that followed.

Obama seems to be trapped between his personal convictions and the electoral necessities of US politics.

Still, such a pledge would free him to put the national interest above electoral considerations.

Mr Obama's promise of continued low taxation may have helped him to electoral victory, but it also planted the seeds of his policy failures.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but this seems at least superficial evidence of rigging the game in the hope of favorable electoral results.

Once a supreme electoral asset, he is now something of a liability, especially with those under 40 who don't remember the glory days.

He reportedly blurted out in a private meeting that the nuclear decision was an electoral ploy (he denies this).

where the country's electoral system tends to exaggerate the majority of the winning party and therefore create a clear winner.

Legal challenges after previous elections have failed to produce a single conviction for electoral fraud.

In practice, politicians and their staff act as if every public relations battle has dramatic electoral consequences.

The opposition party says that census should be conducted by an independent electoral body, not the Conde government.

Some analysts acknowledged Mr. Ishihara's potential to become a kingmaker, but said the electoral politics remain very fluid.

Under the revised electoral law, the lower house of the Parliament of Kazakhstan must be at least two political parties members.

Meanwhile, a prominent U. S. -government funded institute says the electoral process appears to have been credible "so far. "

From the most unpromising of starts, he ended up with a far more impressive record, at least in electoral terms, than George H W Bush.

After doing so, he was re-elected to a five-year term as president in a controversial vote by an electoral college.

Moreover, by the time the lame-duck session begins, Republicans are likely to be emboldened by their expected electoral gains.

But McCain remains undaunted by the long electoral odds in the final week of the campaign. He spoke to a rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

The electoral process started here in Beijing in the middle of last month, and I'm glad to have the chance to be a voter.

The man they came to see was Jayaprakash Narayan, head of a movement called Lok Satta which opposes corruption and wants electoral reform.

He tried to win electoral support for his own candidate for president, Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina.

If electoral competitiveness were the only yardstick to judge a democracy, India today would qualify as a great success.

Only blatant manipulation of electoral rules ensured that the president's camp retained a strong majority in the National Assembly.

The preliminary returns must be verified by electoral officials in Juba before official results are announced, probably in a few weeks.

Nothing. But that was the electoral campaign hell. Now comes the reform package hell.

Let us deliberate the draft amendments to the Electoral Law with a high sense of political responsibility and mission.

Some say that such an electoral transfer of power would be a useful testament to Chile's democratic maturity.

For a start Mr Sarkozy, unlike Jacques Chirac in 1995, has entered office with a strong electoral mandate for change.

They would be entitled to set up their own schools, have more electoral control over the police and access reams of government data.

Opposition parties have alleged voting irregularities, but the Iraqi Electoral Commission said the poll has been transparent.

If they are not willing to be a member of Parliament, the Chief Electoral Officer repeats the process for the next person on the list.

For that, the author put forward relevant recommendations to consummate the legal relief mechanism of the villagers'electoral right.

Mr Sarkozy has said his party will fire any candidate who tries to make a local electoral pact with the Front.

If this problem cannot be resolved, we will not achieve the result of the reforming and perfecting of the electoral system.

Many Egyptians cite a simple reason for what looks like the unusually barefaced manipulation of the electoral process.

Once he posed as standing above the electoral fray , but he has now firmly come down on the side of repression and electoral fraud .

The electoral system within the Party is an important sign to measure the level and a fundamental system of democracy within the Party.

Outside the Westminster village, few voters would have chosen arcane electoral reform as the subject for such a poll.

Koichi Nakano, a political scientist, says the electoral arithmetic suggests this situation could last for another five years at least.

So the judiciary has been able to step in to at least sustain some level of electoral justice, " said Ibrahim. "

The Supreme Court reinstated the general, and the electoral tribunal ordered the ballots to be confiscated.

It has just nine seats in the 480-seat lower house, and is hampered by an electoral system that penalises minor parties.

A candidate must receive at least 270 electoral votes out of 538 votes to be declared the winner.

Overturn contracts, rip up the rule of law, if it appears that doing so will give them an electoral advantage.

The forming of an electoral coalition between the two parties was a new blow to the beleaguered Christian Democrats.

It took the commission five weeks to announce the results and rights lawyers say the delay was an abuse of the electoral law.

More than thirty political parties, many with links to the military, have already applied to Burma's electoral commission to be registered.

He would be playing with fire if he chose to use Alitalia for electoral purposes.

But the president's personal touch gives him a base of about a third of the population for every electoral campaign.

IT MAY not have been the electoral tsunami some pollsters had been predicting, but it was still pretty impressive.

From then on, Hank Aaron loved to kid me that he had personally delivered Georgia's electoral votes with his Saturday-morning plug.

Since all states are guaranteed at least three electoral votes, candidates cannot afford to neglect even these places.

The combination of the electoral democracy and deliberative democracy is one of major characteristics and advantages of China's democracy.

When a State is won, it contributes a number of "Electoral College Votes" towards the election of the candidate.

Mr Cameron's opposition to electoral reform, shared by the bulk of his party, may look like a deal-breaker.

Rather than assume an electoral motive on the part of the president, Clifton saw an encouraging example of the American system at work.

In a last-ditch attempt to save his party from electoral defeat, he resigned from the leadership.

of any offence prescribed by the Electoral Affairs Commission Regulations.

Mr Bainimarama insists that sweeping electoral reforms have to be enacted before the next polls.

Many people would like the electoral system to be reformed but I don't believe this will ever come to pass.

Sarkozy's advocates note that it wasn't a direct election; a sort of Electoral College chooses the French Senate.

Mr Noda's manner in the face of what appears to be certain electoral defeat also demands a certain respect.

parliamentary democracy in countries the number of political parties may also be due to different electoral system, there is a discrepancy.

With many reformists locked out of the electoral process, the contests were primarily between different factions in the conservative camp.

Members of Parliament represent everyone who lives in their electoral district , even the people who did not vote for the MPs .

This may seem bizarre, given the rational expectation that Labour is about to be given a serious electoral kicking.

Under the Electoral College system, the nationwide popular vote for president has no final significance.

Many polling centers did not open on time after electoral material arrived late was wrong.

Which in turn votes and elects the Prime Minister of Pakistan through the concept of electoral- college vote.

Voting appeared to go cleanly, helped by a new electoral register.

Set up in the early days of the republic, the Electoral College currently has 538 members.

Electoral candidates to be voted for, you can vote against it, you can elect the other voters can abstain from voting.

Under this electoral system, it is possible to win the presidency without winning the popular vote.

Fair supervision, a clear question for voters and a consistent electoral roll are not issues that ought to divide honest leaders.

Electoral law of China stipulates that a small ethnic minority should have one deputy at least to the NPC.

Now Mr Tsang will have to come up with an electoral plan for the coming years that will placate public impatience but not alarm China.

The revelation was the latest hit for a Republican party struggling to find new leaders in the wake of last fall's electoral losses.

It said there was no evidence of systematic electoral fraud.

Conversely, the electoral chances of Dilma Rousseff, Lula's chosen candidate, might be boosted by speedy approval.

Nevertheless, Adams polled only a few less electoral votes than Jefferson, who became President.

OCCASIONALLY, a politician comes along who seems too principled to be thrown into an electoral dogfight in a giant democracy.

The candidate who wins the presidency is the one who receives an absolute majority (at least 270) of the electoral votes.

Until his challenge, Mr Ozawa had a reputation as an electoral mastermind whom his supporters thought indispensable.

The presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in a state "wins" that state's electoral votes, usually in a winner-take-all manner.

Instead, a feebly staffed, government-appointed electoral commission was to run the poll.

Researchers have to be careful when they observe simple correlations between subjective beauty and electoral success.

Though his liberal stance won the electoral college, Patriarch Daniel will still have much to do to shore up his church against its critics.

After the shock of their electoral defeat, the party really began to pull together.

Her opening gambit in a key electoral contest to determine India's leadership in 2014 coincides with a parliament in shambles.

The above deadlines refer to the dates on which an application reaches the Registration and Electoral Office.

The decision to extend was taken to make sure everyone would be able to vote according to electoral commission.

The author clearly admires his subject for his political longevity, his commitment to peace and his parliamentary and electoral management.

The electoral commission, which took over a month to announce the results of the vote on March 29th, has yet to set a date for the run-off.

Article 29 In a direct election, the election shall be valid if more than half of all the voters in an electoral district cast their votes.

I hereby declare Governor George W. Bush the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes for the President of the United States.

A swing state is a state in which no single candidate has overwhelming support in securing that state's Electoral College votes.

Balance of power and electoral democracy became the defining political characteristics of these nation-states.

Wyoming, one of the smallest states, has only three electoral votes, taking into account its two U. S. senators and one House member.

In any case, Mr Zenawi has signed up for a code of electoral conduct and invited foreign election observers in.

Mr Sarkozy's mandate secures him electoral legitimacy and, at least in the short run, puts public opinion broadly on his side.

The form of single proportional electoral rule is the core of the parliamentary electoral system in Israel .

The recount is a practical necessity but has no basis in electoral law.

He neglected to add that this strategy has been quite successful in electoral terms.

If not for electoral gain, some ask, how to explain Mr Sarkozy's zeal for military intervention in the name of a "universal conscience" ?

Once again Egypt will be left to choose between military autocracy and a stealthy electoral coup by the Islamist Muslim Brothers.

S. presidencies presidents are selected on a state-by-state count of electoral votes, not by the national vote count.

At present, around the "parliamentary elections and the electoral Act, " the atmosphere of the House of Lords has become extremely fierce.

As they enter the rooms for voting, electoral officials check their personal identification documents and had ballots out to them.

The Dalai Lama, or should I say Lhamo Dndrub, is a feudal lord who has no electoral mandate whatsoever.

With electoral calculations once again paramount, the next year or so will try the patience of both Haitians and donors.

In the face of hardened opposition the president may concentrate on minimising his electoral losses in November.

Indignation has gelled into a consensus, shared by the government and most political parties, that Brazil's electoral system needs reform.

The head of the electoral body resigned earlier this week. But this wasn't enough for Mr Tubman and his running mate George Weah.

Lebanon's Western-backed government is locked in a close electoral contest with the pro-Syrian Hezbollah and its allies.

But most will attempt to do the latter, despite the protests and the electoral power of the elderly.

On current form, the BJP's electoral prospects look no better than Congress's, which probably explains why its rival seems oddly chipper.

A bomb at electoral commission offices in the central town of Suleja left at least five dead.

The government worked with the opposition to produce a new electoral code, although it made few concessions.

That said, the automakers hold a trump card: Michigan and Ohio have 37 electoral votes.

The DPJ shift to policies that boosted consumption was the right move, and an electoral asset.

Many worry that another big electoral win may swell his head further.

THE Electoral Affairs Committee shall be the SOLE authority for the interpretation of such Regulations.

The electoral checks and balances failed to anticipate the self-destructive capacity of the unionist parties.

Implementing the Electoral Law, and guarantee citizens' right to vote and to be elected.

In the U. S. , stagflation has led to electoral losses for the governing party.

Widespread international criticism of the unfair electoral process has not resulted in any concessions by Burma's military government.

Singapore's electoral system favors well-organized, well-funded parties like the PAP.

Electoral College vote in an election year in December after the second Wednesday of the first to be held Monday.

We cannot afford to let their votes and their voices sink and not be heard just because of a formal technicality in the electoral process.

Who elects the President of the United States? A: The Electoral College.

Thanks to a bipartisan yen for gerrymandering, virtually all electoral districts are safely Democratic or safely Republican.

Even if some of the questioned politicians persuade state electoral courts to register their candidacies, the voters may be less forgiving.

A more nuanced argument, against the promotion of electoral democracy at the expense of other goals, has been made by other observers.

A division of a city or town, especially an electoral district, for administrative and representative purposes.

Presidents presidents are selected on a state-by-state count of electoral electoral votes, not by the national vote campecount.

She was in denial about electoral failure, he claimed, and stuck with outdated notions of the left.

The result of extreme electoral fundamentalism is electoral impotence.

Clearly, the United States is now deeply divided in electoral terms.

Some analysts say the LDP remains a formidable electoral machine, and that past election results have sometimes confounded poll predictions.

electoral system for parliamentary elections, the last batch of opinion polls make very grim reading for the Yes camp.

The split electoral vote provides the Democratic Party in this state with a limited opportunity in that congressional district.

The electoral calendar has never been so crowded.

Although Howard was perceived to have gone too far in following Bush, there is no electoral mileage in anti-Americanism.

His policy of giving direct cash handouts to the poor made economic as well as electoral sense.

The president is not decided, though, by who wins the popular vote, but instead by who wins the majority of electoral votes.

Zachary Taylor won both the popular and electoral votes. He became the twelfth president of the United States.

Less than six months later, an electoral defeat in the same city has shown how quickly Yukio Hatoyama's government has dimmed those hopes.

In August he promised to reform the system of press censorship. He also set up a parliamentary committee to review the electoral system.

Once a supreme electoral asset, younger Singaporeans do not remember his glory days.

Because ultimately, that electoral outcome had nothing to do with the rest of the world.

AMERICAN exceptionalism comes in many forms, but one of the odder ones is the way it sets its electoral boundaries.

Electoral observers from the group of Commonwealth nations recommend that the electoral commission improve communications with poll workers.

This book discusses the nature of the modern American electoral process, and how it works at the federal, state, and local levels.

Far from imploding before its five-year term is up, electoral arithmetic may even preserve the coalition beyond that horizon.

But he has proven electoral appeal, having wrested control of the traditionally conservative Bundang constituency in a by-election in April.

Since 2006 it has been hammered by an electoral crisis, a swooning economy and the swine-flu epidemic.

President of the United States electoral system complicated, long process.

India's electoral politics do not cater to this aspiring middle class.

India's business leaders expect the clear electoral outcome to trigger a strong market rally.

The United States could be pulled off course by electoral obsession and party passion in Washington.

On February 4, 1789, the 69 members of the Electoral College made George Washington the only chief executive to be unanimously elected.

He quickly concluded after May 6th that allying himself with the cause of modest electoral reform was a price worth paying for power.

But the LDP's electoral machine is now weakened, and the outcome of the race is in doubt.

But Egypt's ruling generals have established a convoluted electoral system that many fear will result in a legislature lacking credibility.

Of course, economic conditions almost always are more important for the market than are electoral expectations.

In 2004, George Bush's win in Ohio gave him the electoral votes he needed to surpass his Democratic rival, John Kerry, and win re-election.

An electoral alliance between the opposition parties would be the surest way of changing the government.

Mr. Carter thinks that the worst potential problem is not with the actual electoral process, but what happens after the votes are tallied.

Normally, election- related communications issued to electors by the Registration and Electoral Office are in both Chinese and English.

The authors attempt to explore spatial issues in electoral studies in this article.

The winning candidate must win at least 270 electoral votes out of 538.

They also included LDP-style patronage and pork as an electoral and governing strategy, particularly in rural districts.

We will soon invite the LegCo to endorse our proposals, in the form of endorsing the motions on the amendments to the two electoral methods.

And the electoral consequences of waving through the bid may have weighed with the minority Conservative administration in Ottawa.

To win the presidency, a candidate must receive at least 270 votes, an electoral majority.

Out of 47 parties that attempted to register, 37 have been approved by the military government's Union Electoral Commission.

But if it fails, more Republican lawmakers will decide that they can no longer bind their electoral fortunes so closely to Mr Bush.

We suspect there is a quite deliberate attempt to sabotage the elections and undermine the electoral commission.

For similar reasons, Uruguay's ruling left-of-centre coalition looks set to retain power in an electoral contest this autumn.

Nobody would want to stifle debate on changing the electoral system (on which Labour long ago promised a referendum).

Well-developed political and electoral institutions similarly increase the likelihood of peaceful election transitions.

In particular, we identify an electoral cycle in which the incumbent spends less on culture in an election year.

Considerable savings could be found by shutting Congress down for the remaining 411 pre-election weeks of the eight-year electoral cycle.

The chief executive is chosen by an electoral college of 800 representatives, most of them loyal to Beijing.

This week Mr Prodi said a new electoral law was an "absolute priority" .

That has not appeased nervous politicians who see tax relief as the quickest route to electoral relief.

Finally, it is time for the general election and the Electoral College to come into play.

To win the presidential election, a candidate must gain at least 270 of the 538 total electoral votes.

Cutting estate or inheritance tax seems to offer a big electoral hit at small fiscal cost.

The dollar weakened against the euro and yen, which rose after a historic electoral victory by the upstart Democratic Party of Japan.

The Registration and Electoral Office has adopted every possible means to ensure that such data will not be misused.

The names of the candidates running in an electoral district in alphabetical order.

The Iraqi capital is a key electoral prize for competing factions, as it commands about one-fifth of the 325 seats in parliament.

The candidate who receives the most votes becomes the MP for that electoral district.

Each state has as many votes in the Electoral College as it has members in Congress.

The socialist electoral system with Chinese characteristics must adhere to the guiding ideology of Marxism and socialist orientation.

A list of all those in a constituency entitled to vote. Also known as electoral roll.

He wants a political reform, partly to sweep away the electoral system of two-member constituencies bequeathed by Pinochet.

The National Electoral Commission later took responsibility for the delays and by midday most polling places were operational.

Opposition parties accuse the electoral commission of siding with the ruling party during the counting process of the first round.

It was the smallest margin of victory in Africa's electoral history.

One time-tested journalistic strategy is to report quirky, amusing stories which nonetheless retain an electoral theme.

Four, transition is the way of incremental reform. Electoral system and retirement system are constructed through transitional way.

Previous probes of electoral violations have had almost no impact, according to opposition leaders.

Foreigners can be mistreated without electoral consequence, since they cannot vote.

Pro-establishment candidates largely boycotted the by-election, leaving opposition lawmakers without the electoral showdown they had sought.

Members of the electoral college have the moral obligation to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in their state .

Finally, 2438 out of 3933 people randomly selected from the electoral roll, and matched for age and sex, were used as a comparison group.

That should be the role of the elected officials, who have to convince their electoral base.

But the memory of his leadership still haunts the DPJ and may damage its electoral prospects.

substituting the pre-electoral procedures to "incubation, negotiation and discussion" to confirm the formal candidates.

A United Nations official says Iraq's electoral commission plans to announce preliminary results from parliamentary elections on Thursday.

America's first African-American president won more than the 270 electoral votes he needed to secure four more years in the White House.

Lambert Bahi Sery told VOA the leaders also encouraged the electoral commission to publish the voter register this week ahead of the vote.

Religion may have receded as an electoral issue, largely because the economy is so wretched, but it could easily return.

In April the Sandinista-controlled electoral authority suspended local elections on the Atlantic Coast, citing hurricane damage.

But short-term considerations, including from special interest groups and electoral demands, are working against long-term solutions.

I am thankful for America and thankful that we are able to resolve our electoral differences in a peaceful way.

Eg This reduced the scope for electoral fraud and led to a smooth transfer of power.

It could, however, establish and publicize the benchmarks it would use to measure improvement in the electoral process.

Their actions, he says, are largely explained by a mistaken belief in the idea that politics and public relations affect electoral outcomes.

There's electoral competition, which determines how you acquire power, and there's checks and balances, which determine how you use power.

The party held an extraordinary general meeting on Monday night to decide if the caucus should support the electoral reform.

For many in the party, the arithmetic of combining her support with his points irresistibly to an electoral alliance.

Seats are distributed to each party (or electoral coalition) in proportion to the number of votes received by all its candidates.

These parties would certainly cause trouble if the DPJ decides to ditch unrealistic electoral promises in favour of sensible government.

Both the principals and agents shall be published by the villagers' electoral committee.

America's allies would rally to him: the global electoral college on our website shows a landslide in his favour.

Running a formidable electoral machine, he provides finance and campaign management in return for the loyalty of members of parliament.

The adoption of Orwellian techniques gave the Republican propaganda machine a competitive advantage in electoral politics.

The former rebels surprise everyone with a stunning electoral success.

Nixon's Southern strategy, his challenge to court-ordered busing and appeal to the silent majority, paid immediate electoral dividends.

After months of negotiations, six main electoral blocks have emerged to meet a looming deadline for registering alliances.