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  IFES Arab Law Compendium: Election Laws - www.arabelectionlaw.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This law shall be called ALaw of Election to the House of Deputies for the Year 1986,@ and shall become effective as of the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
After the King has issued his Decree to hold the elections for the House of Deputies in accordance with Paragraph (1) of Article (34) of the Constitution, the Council of Ministers shall decide to designate a date for the election, which shall be announced by the Prime Minister and published in the Official Gazette.
Results of the General Election, as minuted in the records of the Central Committees of the Constituencies, shall be announced by the Minister of Interior not later than two days of the arrival of said records to the Ministry of Interior.
www.arabelectionlaw.net /eleclaw_eng.php?country=4   (6591 words)

  
 Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
Chronicle of parliamentary elections and developments 26 1982: For the May 16, 1982 elections for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate gives the characteristics of parliament, the electoral system, the general considerations and conduct of the election, and the number of registered electors and percent who voted (pages 57-58).
Chronicle of parliamentary elections and developments 20 1986: For the May 16, 1986 elections for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate gives the characteristics of parliament, the electoral system, general considerations and conduct of the elections, and statistics (pages 63-64).
Espinal 1994: "Though the PRD was apparently united prior to the May elections, the disregard for the democratic vote of the party's rank and file, and the accord reached behind doors by the party leaders, had devastating electoral consequences for the PRD in 1986 and facilitated the return of Balaguer" (page 153).
sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/dominicanrepublic/1970.html   (8820 words)

  
 Philippine presidential election, 1986 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Presidential and vice-presidential "snap" elections were held on February 7, 1986 in the Philippines.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos and former Foreign Affairs Minister and Senate President Arturo M. Tolentino were proclaimed winners by the Batasang Pambansa as well as the official election canvasser, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) thus granting President Marcos another six-year term as President of the Philippines.
The electoral exercise was marred by alleged electoral fraud from both sides of the political fence as well as violence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philippine_presidential_election,_1986   (350 words)

  
 Election of 1990
The election of 1986 was the culmination of a very trying and difficult period in the Basque Country.
The clear winner of the 1986 election was the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) with 19 seats, the highest of any party, followed by the distribution of 53 of the 56 remaining votes among the highly splintered Basque parties.
Similar to the election campaign of 1986, some issues won unanimous support from all the principal parties: the fight against drugs and petty crime, the fight for consumer protection, programs for the youth, protection of the environment, improved quality of life, improved housing, more jobs, better work conditions, improved technology and programs for senior citizens.
basque.unr.edu /09/9.3/9.3.43t/9.3.43.05.election.htm   (2075 words)

  
 Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
Osterling 1989: "(D)uring the 1986 elections which took place the second Sunday of March, a total of sixty-one councilmen were elected: forty-one intendency councilmen, and twenty commissariat councilmen, in addition to a similar number of alternates" (pages 133-134).
Angell 2001: "(T)he first election of mayors, held in 1988, produced few challenges to the political status quo: 859 of the 1,009 municipalities were won by the official candidates of the two main parties, and most of the rest in other guises, with only 16 won by the Communist-based ‘Unión Patriótica’" (pages 25-26).
The mitaca elections are usually an important guide to the present government’s standing, but the 1988 elections will have a particular significance: for the first time mayors are to be elected rather than just the councillors.
sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/colombia/1985.html   (4414 words)

  
 Thailand - POLITICAL PARTIES
As a result, in the 1983 and 1986 elections, the number of participating parties was reduced to fourteen and sixteen, respectively.
In February he asserted that political parties, the Constitution, and elections alone would not make for a genuine democracy in Thailand, where, he argued, the party system and elections were controlled by a wealthy few who used the trappings of democracy for their own benefit.
In the July 1986 election and afterward, the United Democracy Party was outspokenly critical of the Prem administration.
countrystudies.us /thailand/82.htm   (1452 words)

  
 Statistical Tests of Qualitative Hypotheses about the Dynamics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Differences between kinds of political action committees (PACs) allow us indirectly to observe variations between presidential and midterm election periods in one of the two variables that are chosen in the first stage of the game model and that determine the type of dynamics that occur in system (1).
For labor PACs, from the 1984 to the 1986 campaign periods there ought to be movement up the challenger quality axis of the bifurcation diagram of Figure 3.
The dynamics involving labor PACs during the 1986 election period are more unstable than the dynamics during the 1984 election period, but it is unlikely that the dynamics are as unstable as those in Figure 3's region II.
macht.arts.cornell.edu /wrm1/ghopf/node7.html   (1685 words)

  
 Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Brazil
Senate elections are held every four years, alternating between one-third (27) and two-thirds (54) of the seats.
The military government had planned a controlled transition to democracy through the indirect election of a civilian president in a PDS-dominated electoral college, and the ruling party went on to choose Paulo Maluf as its presidential candidate.
In the 1998 presidential election, Cardoso - who had successfully persuaded Congress to amend the constitution and allow presidential re-election for a single term - was re-elected on the first round by an absolute majority, with Lula in second place once again.
electionresources.org /br/index_en.html   (1601 words)

  
 Redding Rancheria Ordinances, Election
The following Election Ordinance was voted on by a duly called meeting of the Redding Rancheria Tribal Council, held on October 16, 1986.
The Election Ordinance was passed by a vote of 6 for and 0 against.
Absentee Ballots must be postmarked 5 days prior to the Election date, and received by 12:00 midnite of the Election date.
www.narf.org /nill/Codes/reddcode/reddelection.htm   (253 words)

  
 Usual Suspects - San Francisco's Political Homepage
Bill Maher elected in 1982, 1986, and 1990, was first to feel the effect of the two term limit provision adopted in 1990, and was disallowed from defending his seat in 1994.
Nancy Walker was elected in 1979, 1980, 1982, and 1986.
Doris Ward was elected in 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986, and 1990.
www.sfusualsuspects.com /history.shtml   (4345 words)

  
 Contributions From Pro-Israel PACs Give Campaign Budgets More than a Boost
The 1986 and 1988 figures were compiled by the Washington Report through filings made by 91 pro-Israel PACs, 51 of which had made 1988 contributions as of June 30.
It contributed $49,225 in the 1985-86 election cycle, and $17,350 in the 1983-84 election cycle.
This includes $ as of June 30, 1988, in the current election cycle, $4.3 million in the 1986 election cycle, and at least $4.25 million in the 1984 election cycle.
www.wrmea.com /backissues/1088/8810023.htm   (605 words)

  
 Elections BC - Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986 Part One 34th General Election 1986
Elections BC - Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986 Part One 34th General Election 1986
Amended to 5 December 1986 for Dewdney, to 18 November 1986 for Nelson-Creston, and to 28 November 1986 for Vancouver-Point Grey.
Note that in this election the number of rejected votes rather than ballots has been counted.
www.elections.bc.ca /elections/electoral_history/34ge1986-1.html   (52 words)

  
 Heil Haider! The Revitalization of the Austrian Freedom Party 1986-1991Translated by WordPort from Nota Bene ver. 4 ...
The 1986 election was not politically realigning in the sense that the relative order of the parties according to size was affected.
In Viennese city and state elections five weeks later, the FPÖ proclaimed a 'sensational' further step in the 'victory march of the Haider-FPÖ', however, the low voter turnout was at least significant in revealing the inability of the Lager to mobilize their electorates.
The election also became a test of 'Haider-Effekt', when not quite two months before, Haider was widely reviled in the press for putatively Nazistic, right-wing extremist thinking in response to his comment that 'the Austrian nation was an ideological miscarriage, because membership in an ethnic group is one thing and in a state quite another'.
cla.calpoly.edu:16080 /~mriedlsp/Publications/gsa91.html   (11930 words)

  
 Lyndon LaRouche 1986
The purpose of this paper is to examine the rather bizarre Illinois Democratic primary election of 1986 in light of the rational or public choice model as a vehicle for understanding what occurred.
In previous Illinois elections, LaRouche people have won precinct committee battles, and precinct committee people are the people who go door to door and act nice and offer to get the lame, the halt, and the blind to the polls.
The ease of the slate's primary victory and the narrowness of the general election may have lulled the party and the press into electoral complacency.
www.prin.edu /users/els/departments/poli_sci/state/state/larouche.htm   (5138 words)

  
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The complaint alleges that on 5 June 1986, fol- lowing a Board election in Case 6-RC-9667, the Union was certified as the exclusive collective-bar- gaining representative of the Company's employees in the unit found appropriate.
It contends that the petitioned-for unit was not an appropriate unit due to the lack of a substantial and representa- tive complement of employees.
It is well settled that in the absence of newly dis- covered and previously unavailable evidence or special circumstances, a respondent in a proceeding alleging a violation of Section 8(a)(5) is not entitled to relitigate issues that were or could have been litigated in a prior representation proceeding.
www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/282/282-448.txt   (1276 words)

  
 Shades of 1986? - Editorials/Op-Ed - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
One month before the 1986 congressional elections, President Reagan's job-approval rating stood at 67 percent, a level unmatched in post-World War II history for a president in the second year of his second term.
On Oct. 22, 1986, the president signed historic tax-reform legislation, which was overwhelmingly passed by bipartisan majorities in both the House and Senate.
In contrast to the strong growth of middle-class incomes preceding the 1986 election, inflation-adjusted median household income has fallen five years in a row, according to the latest Census data.
www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20060729-103434-5892r.htm   (875 words)

  
 Law of Election to the House of Deputies
The 1986 Election Law regulates the operational aspects of parliamentary elections, as well as the requirements for candidates and proportional allotment of representatives throughout the country.
After the decision to disengage administratively and legally from the West Bank in 1988, the Election Law was amended in 1989 to redraw the Kingdom’s electoral districts.
In August 1993, Parliament passed an amendment to the election law which adjusted Jordan’s electoral system to the principle of “one person, one vote.” The new law ended the previous voting system, whereby voters were entitled to as many votes as the number of parliamentary seats allocated for their district.
www.kinghussein.gov.jo /electlaw.html   (237 words)

  
 CNN/AllPolitics Election 98
Historically, the party controlling the White House loses seats in midterm elections, but the losses in the Senate have not been as great as in the House.
In three of the last nine midterm elections (1962, 1970 and 1982), the party controlling the White House gained seats in the Senate.
Republicans controlled the Senate from 1980 to 1986 and then lost control to the Democrats in the 1986 election.
www.cnn.com /ELECTION/1998/stake/senate   (338 words)

  
 Austria - The National Election of 1986 and the Grand Coalition of 1987-90   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The National Election of 1986 and the Grand Coalition of 1987-90
Pressures for an early election also came from the financial failures in the state industrial sector that had embarrassed the SPÖ-FPÖ government.
The outcome of the election was a shock to both major parties, as the FPÖ attained its highest vote total since 1953, receiving 9.7 percent.
www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-900.html   (848 words)

  
 Lijphart Elections Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Lijphart Elections Archive is a static research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries that was maintained through 2003.
This was the origin of the Elections Archive in the University Library of the University of California, San Diego.
The objective of the Archive is to systematically collect election statistics in as much detail as possible, including, as a minimum, the results at the level of the individual election districts in which votes are converted into seats.
dodgson.ucsd.edu /lij/index.html   (208 words)

  
 BerkeleyCampaignArt1986NovMeasures
The City Council did not accept narrow passage of District Elections in a low turnout June 1986 election as the final word.  District Elections were just too terrible to tolerate.  The Council promptly placed Measure I on the November 4, 1986 ballot to repeal District Elections in their entirety.
This BCA poster makes the Council's case: "Reunite Berkeley, Repeal Unfair Districts and Runoffs".  It was hoped that a higher turnout November election would undo the 51% victory of District Elections in June.
However, BCA had to also nominate and run candidates in the district elections taking place in November 1986.  This made for an extremely awkward situation.  Berkeley voters were being asked to repeal a District Election system at the same time that  election method was being tried out for the first time.
berkeleycampaignart.homestead.com /1986NovMeasures.html   (324 words)

  
 The American Spectator
The 1986 election was, in Reagan's eyes, nothing more than a solitary lost election.
In his lifetime Ronald Reagan had participated in a lot of lost elections, including the 1964 Goldwater landslide loss to LBJ and, perhaps most notably, his own defeat for the Republican presidential nomination to Gerald Ford in 1976.
By 1986 the idea of an election loss was something he now understood in his bones to be only a brief detour on the long road to a conservative victory in America.
www.americanprowler.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=10495   (1671 words)

  
 Japanese Politics Central
The result was good enough for Koizumi to avoid having to resign to take responsibility for the defeat, but the LDP actually won fewer seats than the DPJ (49 for the LDP, 50 for the DPJ).
The coalition retained a majority because the LDP's partner, Komeito, won another 11 seats in this election, and because the two parties had a strong majority among the half of the Upper House that was not up for election this time.
Senkyo Johokan site provides election results for all Japanese elections (including by-elections) going back to the Upper House election in 2001 and the Lower House election of 2000.
jpcentral.virginia.edu /Elections.htm   (630 words)

  
 2.3.4 Improving Privacy: Benaloh and Yung, 1986
The immediate problem that this adds is that it is now more difficult for the voters to prove that the ballots they use are valid, since the ballots now consist of many separate pieces.
The final tally for the election is simply the sum of the released by the authorities (mod r).
It should be noted that, consistent with the principles of sum secret sharing, all of the authorities are required to collaborate in order to determine any individual's vote.
www.digitas.harvard.edu /~ken/cs262/election/node15.html   (877 words)

  
 How Liberia Held 'Free' Elections
Last spring, it passed a resolution conditioning the Administration's 1986 aid request for Liberia--$86 million--on the holding of free and fair elections.
Nonetheless, he asserted, the election's "shortcomings" should not obscure its "noteworthy, positive aspects." Among these, he maintained, were the participation of four political parties, the press's ability to report opposition activities and he large, orderly turnout.
A few days after the hearing, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution condemning the election as fraudulent and mandating the suspension of all military aid until free elections could be held.
www.thenation.com /doc/19860125/massing   (1994 words)

  
 That '86 Tulsa election free-for-all (BatesLine)
The 1986 election, the next-to-last election under the old Commission system of government, was unlike any other.
It would be a party leader's responsibility in a situation like that, much like a special election, with the possibility of multiple candidates splitting the party vote and handing victory to the other side, to try to persuade all the other candidates to drop out in favor of the strongest.
A lot of politics is about who you know, not in any corrupt sense of mutual backscratching, but party activists are more willing to contribute money and volunteer for a candidate that they've come to know through campaigns and party activities.
www.batesline.com /archives/000936.html   (1321 words)

  
 LAP Wants Sect. 15 of Election Law Amended
Section 15 of the election law mandates political parties to seek approval from the Election Commission before engaging in any political activity.
And so, there is a need for NEC to proceed by amending section 15, and bring it conformity with the constitution, and also the issue of the 10 years residential clause needs to be scraped off.
On the issue of what kind of election to be conducted in Liberia, Madam Brown said LAP believes and maintains its stance on the majoritarian system of elections for the position of president, vice president and senators, while the proportional representation system can be used for the members of the House of Representatives.
www.theperspective.org /inquirer/lapwants.html   (324 words)

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