1992 Zambia Local Government Elections Commission

The Local Government Ordinance, 2001, governs elections to the local bodies.

Nigerian bloggers, journalists detained during local elections

In some states, local council elections are also compulsory.

Critics scoff that local Communist Party officials manipulate these elections.

Haitians will vote in local elections on 6 November 2005.

The proportion of female candidates in elections of local government councils is higher than in the parliamentary elections.

At the local elections held in June, the PRM did poorly.

The last elections to the local bodies were completed in 2001.

The last local elections for the governorates were held in the 2009 Iraqi governorate elections on 31 January 2009.

This included the drafting of a local elections law, the conduct of low tech but sustainable voter registration, and holding of local elections in staggered phases from late 2004 to September 2005.

This problem will doubtless persist until more local officials are chosen through elections.

It performed disastrously in recent elections for local councils and the European parliament.

China's modest experiments with local elections have been supplemented by exercises in deliberative democracy.

The first free local elections following the fall of communism took place in 1990.

Universal suffrage with respect to local elections applies to Guamanians 18 years and older.

The budget is based on the premise that five polls will take place  a referendum, local elections, legislative elections and two rounds of presidential elections with an electorate of 28 million voters.

MANAGUA Like thousands of Nicaraguans, I voted for Managua s mayor in local elections last November.

The Council of Europe had monitored the recent local elections and had deemed them satisfactory.

Only 10 months from now, local, parliamentary and presidential elections will take place in Haiti.

It verifies whether referendums and presidential, legislative and local elections are legal, transparent and fair.

However women in certain areas of the country were prevented from doing so in the local bodies elections and the last general elections (October 2002).

Historically, many states and local jurisdictions have allowed non citizens to vote however, today this is limited to local elections in very few places.

Multiparty democracy was introduced and has been maintained, with local, regional and national elections held regularly.

The National Electoral Commission, with significant international support, successfully organized the local government elections in 2004.

Some Romanian refugees were already candidates for the local elections, praised for their hard work and honesty.

India s national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.

Although there is still almost a year until the next local government elections, women's associations of political parties already prepare their members to stand as candidates in elections.

Women's groups have called for quotas for women candidates in the elections, 30 per cent for local council elections (September 2004) and 20 per cent for the legislative council.

Iranians went to the polls on the 19th of May to cast votes in presidential and local elections.

Preparations are under way to help organize presidential, legislative and local elections in the third quarter of 2005.

In Croatia, we have found that direct elections for local youth councils have been important in strengthening legitimacy.

A positive trend is the growing number of female candidates in both parliamentary and local government council elections.

The forum Women deciding 2004 was organised with the aim to start preparations for next local government elections.

The reporting period saw the first municipal elections to be administered wholly by local institutions, in October 2004.

She was pleased to note, however, that local and municipal elections had been held on 6 May 2005.

It successfully moved toward fair local elections in November 1990, ensuring fundamental change at the county and town level.

The Council looks forward to the holding of parliamentary and local elections in Afghanistan in the spring of 2005.

In the last six months, there have been national elections in Lebanon and local elections in Saudi Arabia. Egypt has amended its constitution to allow it presidential election to be contested.

The 2005 parliamentary elections in Nagorno Karabakh were the first held under a new electoral code, which introduced numerous improvements to the procedures in force during previous presidential, parliamentary and local elections.

This part of Ukraine overwhelmingly supported Viktor Yanukovych in elections, and local police participated in his bid to hold power.

Critics say the reforms could be used to intimidate political rivals and opposition parties in upcoming local and regional elections.

On 5 May, Palestinians held a second round of local elections in 84 municipalities in Gaza and the West Bank.

207 women were elected to the local authorities' councils in the last elections a total of 10.3 of the electives.

The first internet voting took place in the 2005 local elections and the first in a parliamentary election was made available for the 2007 elections, in which 30,275 individuals voted over the internet.