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As a cost-saving measure, voters have elected to have the two towns administered jointly.
He survived a political scandal and was elected to the state legislature.
The mayor rewarded his cronies with high-paying jobs after he was elected.
One of the leading antieviction activists, Ada Colau, was recently elected mayor of Barcelona.
The members of the senate are appointable while those of the house must be elected.
I recognize that the council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it.
The members elected for the consolidated school system were often boardsmen from the parent school systems.
The changes took effect in 1996 with shadow councillors elected in 1995 to oversee the smooth transition of control.
In March 1726, Wesley was unanimously elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.
After the Test and Corporation Acts were repealed in 1828, all the Nonconformists elected to Parliament were Liberals.
As a result, and because of his performance at Whitby, Wilfrid was elected to a bishopric in Northumbria about a year after the council.
In 1504 More was elected to Parliament to represent Great Yarmouth, and in 1510 began representing London.
These elected members were paid employees who simply oversaw the activities taking place in Sikh historic sites.
The public representatives of the Regent House are the two Proctors, elected to serve for one year, on the nomination of the Colleges.
The Chancellor is elected by the members of Convocation, a body comprising all graduates of the university, and holds office until death.
The various academic faculties, departments, and institutes are organised into four divisions, each with its own head and elected board.
The founder of Methodism, John Wesley, studied at Christ Church and was elected a fellow of Lincoln College.
It is democratically controlled through General Meetings and referendums, and is run by elected student officers.
House prefects were once elected from the oldest year, but this no longer happens.
Newly elected popes, for instance, processed through the streets of Rome under temporary triumphal arches built specially for the occasion.
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Before the Reform Act 1832, Bath elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons, as an ancient parliamentary borough.
A modified version of the story was given by printer Richard Grafton, later elected MP for Coventry.
Windsor is part of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead which is administered by an elected unitary authority.
On 8 December 2011, Christopher Le Brun was elected president of the Royal Academy on the retirement of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw.
Royal Academicians, practising artists, were elected as Visitors, and served in rotation for nine months of the year.
Four members of the Artists Rifles were elected president of the Royal Academy.
When Rome was a republic, effective speaking often determined who would be elected or what bills would pass.
In 1602 John Donne was elected as Member of Parliament for the constituency of Brackley, but this was not a paid position.
He became a bencher in 1586 and was elected a Reader in 1587, delivering his first set of lectures in Lent the following year.
In 1792, despite not being able to speak French, he was elected to the French National Convention.
Representatives of the societies that part own the Group are elected to the Group's national board.
Mill is one of the few political philosophers ever to serve in government as an elected official.
His wife was elected to parliament that year as the Labour member for Hitchin in Hertfordshire.
In 1993 he was elected to a fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts, and in 1999 he was knighted.
In 1962, a year before his death, he was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.
Tolkien's relatives were shocked when he elected not to immediately volunteer for the British Army.
In 1932 Vaughan Williams was elected president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
England, managed by Alf Ramsey and captained by Bobby Moore, won the toss and elected to kick off.
In the Third Test, held at a newly refurbished Old Trafford, Australia won the toss and elected to bat first.
Vaughan elected to have his side bat first, and the English first innings got underway.
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In the final at Lord's, the home of cricket in London, Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
When Juan Antonio Samaranch was elected IOC president in 1980 his desire was to make the IOC financially independent.
The campaign was led by Save Huddersfield NHS which elected a councillor, Dr Jackie Grunsell in the Crosland Moor ward.
Of just seventeen players to be elected to the Hall of Fame, no fewer than three were teammates in that famous Huddersfield side.
When elected Mayor in 1905, he surprised his fellow councillors by a tough and uncomplimentary assessment of Council's lack of achievement.
In 1982, Wade became the first woman to be elected to the Wimbledon Committee.
Williams' champion streak was ended by Benetton, who elected to switch engine suppliers from Ford to Renault, the same as Williams.
Originally elected for life, after 1528 the Doges were elected for terms of two years.
The Regional Council has 102 members who are elected under a system of proportional representation.
A state that has internal sovereignty is one with a government that has been elected by the people and has the popular legitimacy.
This means that the power is elected and supported by its members, the authority has a central goal of the good of the people in mind.
In 1383 and 1384, while studying theology at Paris, Jean Gerson was elected twice as a procurator for the French natio.
Its judges were elected by the Council and the Assembly, and its budget was provided by the latter.
These additional 10 seats are created through directly elected members of District Offices.
In May 1997, the Labour government of Tony Blair was elected with a promise of creating devolved institutions in Scotland.
These bodies were not directly elected but members were appointed by local government and local interest groups.
Following a referendum in 1998, a directly elected administrative body was created for Greater London, the Greater London Authority.
In January 2015 Labour's Shadow Chancellor promised the delivery of a Cornish assembly in the next parliament if Labour are elected.
For most senior ministers this is usually the elected House of Commons rather than the House of Lords.
As such the Law Officers may attend and speak in the plenary meetings of the Parliament but, as they are not elected MSPs, cannot vote.
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Each political party draws up a list of candidates standing in each electoral region, from which the List MSPs are elected.
In 1993 the Irish Cricket Union, the predecessor to Cricket Ireland, was elected to the ICC as an Associate member.
The same year, the elected Fijian government was deposed in a military coup.
The city's elected officials are the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Deputy Lord Mayor and High Sheriff who are elected from among 60 councillors.
In the 2015 UK general election, Belfast elected one MP from each constituency to the House of Commons at Westminster, London.
Over the years the religious aspect of the administration of each Parish has been reduced in favour of democratically elected Douzeniers.
Each jurisdiction has inhabited and uninhabited islands and its own elected government.
Centeniers are elected at a public election within each parish for a term of three years to undertake policing within the parish.
The lords spiritual were chosen by rotation, and the lords temporal were elected from among the peers of Ireland.
A total of 15 UN member states serve on the UNSC, the remainder of which are elected.
Most of the leading candidates for permanent membership are regularly elected onto the Security Council by their respective groups.
The Scots nobility gathered at Perth where they elected Domhnall II, Earl of Mar as the new Guardian.
Authorities in Boston offered these men their freedom, but all 70 elected to be treated as prisoners of war.
He was a Whig from the gentry class, who was first elected to Parliament in 1701, and held many senior positions.
In 1885 three Independent Crofter candidates were elected to Parliament, which listened to their pleas.
George Washington, who had led the revolutionary army to victory, was the first president elected under the new constitution.
In almost all cases, executive and legislative officials are elected by a plurality vote of citizens by district.
Some state judges and cabinet officers are appointed by the governors of the respective states, while others are elected by popular vote.
The City of London and the joint borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis each elected four members.
Wurmser elected to march for Mantua with a large portion of his surviving troops.
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He was elected to the exclusively Tory Carlton Club in 1836, and was also taken up by the party's leading hostess, Lady Londonderry.
The empire had a parliament called the Reichstag, which was elected by universal male suffrage.
Previously only the Henrican articles signed by each of Poland's elected kings could perform the function of a set of basic laws.
In 1979 newly elected Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rejected and reversed it.
Thatcher was the youngest woman in history to receive such a post, and among the first MPs elected in 1959 to be promoted.
The album was released in September 1979, four months after Thatcher was elected Prime Minister.
The local council is Orkney Islands Council, one of only three Councils in Scotland with a majority of elected members who are independents.
Thus it is one of only three Councils in Scotland with a majority of elected members not representing a political party.
The UK parliament's first Labour Party MP, Keir Hardie was elected from the area and the Valleys remain a stronghold of Labour Party power.
In 2011, the Welsh Government appointed a panel of commissioners to administer the council, thus the elected members were not in control.
The commissioners remained in control until an election was held in May 2013, restoring an elected Council.
For the next 14 years there was no single elected body for the whole of London.
The remaining representatives are elected separately using party list proportional representation on the national level.
The members of the Senate and all local legislatures are elected via this method.
She was elected as MP for the seat after a hard campaign in the 1959 election.
At any rate, after a long meeting on July 15, Frank McAndrew was elected bodymaster.
When comparing voting systems, it is important to know how many representatives are elected from each electoral district.
One region, Greater London, has had a directly elected assembly and mayor since 2000 following popular support for the proposal in a referendum.
Local government in Northern Ireland has since 1973 been organised into 26 district councils, each elected by single transferable vote.
Forty of the AMs represent geographical constituencies, elected under the First Past the Post system.
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The House of Commons is a democratically elected chamber with elections held at least every five years.
However, neither the Prime Minister nor members of the Government are elected by the House of Commons.
Although MEPs are elected on a national basis, they sit according to political groups rather than their nationality.
As with the other regions of England, apart from Greater London, the south east has no elected government.
In the first Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the members of the House of Commons were not elected afresh.
But can they have accepted Edmund Wilson's verdict that all detective fiction is only Holmesish imitation, and elected to go back to Square One?
Roman government was headed by two consuls, elected annually by the citizens and advised by a senate composed of appointed magistrates.
Before the revolution, a king would be elected by the senators for a life term.
It also required the censor to appoint any newly elected magistrate to the senate.
If both Pompey and Crassus were elected consul in 70 BC, they would dismantle the more obnoxious components of Sulla's constitution.
The two were soon elected, and quickly dismantled most of Sulla's constitution.
Caesar would be elected consul in 59 BC, and would then serve as governor of Gaul for five years.
Aediles were officers elected to conduct domestic affairs in Rome, such as managing public games and shows.
The Norwegian parliament Storting elected king Charles XIII of Sweden as king of Norway on 4 November.
Margaret was working toward a union of Sweden with Denmark and Norway by having Olaf elected to the Swedish throne.
The counties are administrated through directly elected county assemblies who elect the County Governor.
Later English sources stated that Harold had been elected as king by the clergy and magnates of England.
He promptly awarded their elected leader, William Iron Arm, with the title of count in his capital of Melfi.
Edward finally got his revenge on Winchelsey in 1305, when Clement V was elected pope.
In 1573, the king's brother, Henry, Duke of Anjou, was elected King of Poland.
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In 1619, colonists took greater control with an elected legislature called the House of Burgesses.
In 1989, Douglas Wilder became the first African American elected as governor in the United States.
The Governor and Lieutenant Governor are elected every four years in separate elections.
Morton was elected to Mar's office and proved in many ways the most effective of James's regents, but he made enemies by his rapacity.
When assembled along with the House of Lords, these elected representatives formed a Parliament.
This cleared the way for a new Parliament to be elected, which was known as the Convention Parliament.
Henry Vane was elected to Parliament at Kingston upon Hull, but the certificate was given to another.
Finally Vane proceeded to Whitechurch in Hampshire and was elected a third time and was this time seated in Parliament.
In 1628 he was elected to Parliament from the Huntingdonshire county town of Huntingdon.
The fellows believed Farmer ineligible under the college's statutes and so elected John Hough instead.
This assembly called for a chosen English Convention Parliament, elected on 5 January 1689 NS, which convened on 22 January.
Most of the men elected to the Commons had private incomes, while a few relied on financial support from a wealthy patron.
Once elected, Members of Parliament normally continue to serve until the next dissolution of Parliament.
On 22 March 1945, the first female Fellows were elected to the Royal Society.
The members of council, the president and the other officers are elected from and by its fellowship.
Up to 52 fellows are elected each year and in 2014 there were about 1,450 living members in total.
Six honorary fellows have been elected to date, including Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve.
Eight are elected each year by the society and also hold their membership for life.
Members are elected annually via a postal ballot, and current standing orders mean that at least ten seats must change hands each year.
Over a decade later he was elected unopposed for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis at the November 1701 general election.
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Two further Parliaments were elected in 1680 and 1681, but were dissolved for the same reason.
In 1981, their twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna were born. In 1994, George W. Bush was elected governor of Texas.
In November 2014 it was announced that Greater Manchester would receive a new directly elected Mayor.
The bulk of the nobles argued for an aristocratic upper house elected by the nobles.
The King had to share power with the elected Legislative Assembly, but he retained his royal veto and the ability to select ministers.
In May 1798, Bonaparte was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
He was also elected as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons.
The Liberal Democrats are a liberal political party, and third largest in England in terms of membership and MPs elected.
There were concerted campaigns in the election of 1841 and election of 1847, when O'Connor was elected for Nottingham.
Constance, Countess Markievicz, was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons.
It also elected the world's first female members of parliament the following year.
The world's first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the following year.
In 1931, the Second Spanish Republic allowed women the right of passive suffrage with three women being elected.
After the election the seven Constitutionalist candidates, including Churchill, who were elected did not act or vote as a group.
These reforms included creating elected legislative councils in some of the Provinces of British India.
There are now 16 directly elected mayors, in districts where a referendum was in favour of them.
Where borough councils have not adopted a directly elected mayor, the chairman of the council is the mayor.
Recently, the 'by halves' system, whereby half of the council is elected every two years, has been allowed.
The policy of the UK Government in England was to establish elected regional assemblies with no legislative powers.
Also in the wake of the referendum, Scottish Labour leader, Johann Lamont, stood down and Jim Murphy was elected to replace her.
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The Assembly is a unicameral body consisting of 108 members elected under the Single Transferable Vote form of proportional representation.
The Democratic Unionist Party had 8 MPs elected at the 2015 general election.
Plaid Cymru has enjoyed parliamentary representation continuously since 1974 and had 3 MPs elected at the 2015 general election.
In 1987, an Assembly of Representatives was created, by constitutional decree, whose members were elected by popular vote.
The devolution of the executive power was not granted until 1997 when the first head government was elected by popular vote.
With this law, elected representatives lose their seats in parliament if they vote contrary to the directions of their party.
This began the tradition whereby the Speaker of the House of Commons is dragged to the Speaker's Chair by other members once elected.
Many of the men elected to parliament did not relish the prospect of having to act in the interests of others.
It is somewhat ironic that this event was not instigated by the elected representatives of the realm.
The United Kingdom general election of 7 May 2015 elected 650 members to the British House of Commons.
Liberal Democrat plans were to reduce the number of MPs to 500, and for them to be elected using a proportional system.
The office is currently held by John Bercow, who was initially elected on 22 June 2009, following the resignation of Michael Martin.
Once elected, a Speaker continues in office until the dissolution of Parliament, unless he or she resigns prior to this.
Lloyd was elected, but there was a feeling among all parties that the system of election needed to be overhauled.
The eight regional chambers as defined by the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 were not directly elected.
She was the only speaker elected in the 20th century not to be a member of the governing party at the time of her first election.
In many cases, individuals have served in ministerial or other political positions before being elected Speaker.
The Speaker is assisted by three deputies, all of whom are elected by the House.
It had no single leader, and in the absence of one, the Independent Labour Party nominee Ramsay MacDonald was elected as Secretary.
Arthur Henderson, elected in 1931 to succeed MacDonald, lost his seat in the 1931 general election.
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In his first year, he was elected JCR President, leading a student campaign against a rise in rent charges.
All but three of the fifty nine constituencies in the country elected an SNP candidate.
Consequently, Clegg resigned as leader and was replaced by Tim Farron, who was elected in the leadership election.
Ashdown retired as leader in 1999 and the party elected Charles Kennedy as his replacement.
In total, 73 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation.
The United Kingdom elected 73 Members of the European Parliament using proportional representation.
Led by Farage, the NEC removed Holmes from power, and Titford was elected leader.
In November, Farage's former deputy, Paul Nuttall, was elected leader and pledged to win votes away from Labour.
As a result of the 1999 European parliament election, three UKIP MEPs were elected to the European Parliament.
In September 2008, the party then elected its first leader, Caroline Lucas, with Adrian Ramsay elected deputy leader.
In September, Natalie Bennett was elected party leader and Will Duckworth deputy leader in the leadership election took place.
The powers of the assemblies were limited, and members were appointed, largely by local authorities, rather than being directly elected.
The London Assembly is part of a wider Greater London Authority and has 25 directly elected members.
A referendum was held in North East England on 4 November 2004, but the proposal for an elected assembly was rejected.
Most parishes have an elected government known as the Police Jury, dating from the colonial days.
It is the legislative and executive government of the parish, and is elected by the voters.
The elected sheriff in each parish is the chief law enforcement officer in the parish.
Orleans Parish divided Sheriff's duties between criminal and civil, with a different elected sheriff overseeing each aspect.
An argument often used against the system is that it is undemocratic as it allows judges, which may or may not be elected, to make law.
The board is not an elected body, but is made up of members appointed from local councils across the region and is known as a quango.
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Although referendums had been planned on whether elected assemblies should be set up in some of the regions, none was planned in the South West.
Greater London has a directly elected London Assembly, which was established by separate legislation and is part of the Greater London Authority.
The London Assembly was established as a directly elected body by separate legislation and is part of the Greater London Authority.
This overwhelmingly negative vote was seen as an insurmountable obstacle to elected regional assemblies elsewhere in England outside London.
The assembly comprises 25 members elected using the Additional Member System of proportional representation.
Andrew Dismore, Graham Tope, and Richard Tracey are all former MPs who were later elected to the assembly.
Members of the first council included a mix of nominated and elected individuals.
It comprises an elected assembly, the London Assembly, and an executive head, the Mayor of London.
Since 2000, Greater London has had an elected Assembly and Mayor responsible for strategic local government.
The post of county alderman was abolished, and the entire council was thereafter directly elected every four years.
Like the county councils introduced in England at the same time, the whole council was elected every four years.
A district committee of the county councillors elected for the area were an independent local council for some administrative purposes.
Wards originally elected Aldermen for life, but the term is now only six years.
The Chief Commoner is elected in October of each year and holds office for one year from the following April.
Parish councils comprise volunteer councillors who are elected to serve for four years.
The legislation provides that the number of elected members of a parish council shall not be less than five.
Where there are an equal number or fewer candidates than there are vacancies, all candidates are elected unopposed, and no poll is taken.
If there is not a quorum elected the district council must dissolve it and order fresh elections.
In 1994, the American Society of Civil Engineers elected the tunnel as one of the seven modern Wonders of the World.
For example, in the canton of Uri, the villagers elected a Landammann each year, yet only a limited number of families supplied candidates.
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Each ward returns two or three members, for a total of 18 Councillors elected to four year terms.
Wells City Council is a parish council, with a membership of sixteen councillors, elected from three parish wards.
The Conservative Party was elected to office in 1979, on a programme of fiscal austerity.
The fact that the Communist Party is not elected also relieves the pressure to please people, increasing its independence.
Redditch has a Borough Council with councillors elected from the Wards of Redditch.
In April 1667, he returned to Cambridge and in October was elected as a fellow of Trinity.
In 1832, Faraday was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 1935, at the age of 22, he was elected a fellow of King's on the strength of a dissertation in which he proved the central limit theorem.
Before the bill could be debated in the House of Commons, the Government elected to proceed under the royal prerogative of mercy.
In April 2009, he was elected a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
In the late 1970s, Hawking was elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
In 1998, he was elected Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
In 1889 he was elected as Foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
He is also a supporter of Republic's campaign to replace the British monarchy with a democratically elected president.
In 1785 both Boulton and Watt were elected as Fellows of the Royal Society.
In 1794 he was elected High Sheriff of Staffordshire, his county of residence.
In 1789 he was elected to the elite group, the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers.
Councillors are elected every four years through the single transferable vote.
Initially, Rome was ruled by kings, who were elected from each of Rome's major tribes in turn.
To prevent any citizen from gaining too much power, new magistrates were elected annually and had to share power with a colleague.
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During the early and middle Roman Republic, military forces were under the command of one of the two elected consuls for the year.
Gaelic society traditionally centered around the clan, each with its own territory and chieftain, elected through tanistry.
The Polish Government in London was not dissolved until 1991, when a freely elected president took office in Warsaw.
After Pakistan's first ever general elections the 1973 Constitution was created by an elected Parliament.
There are no elected officials at the divisional or district levels, and the administration is composed only of government officials.
Several women were elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly in the British Raj.
For example, they may not be elected to a range of high political positions including the presidency.
They say all the lowlifes used to hang out at the docks and plot their despicable crimes, before being elected to public office.
Public schools are often funded by local taxpayers, and most school boards are elected.
Curricula, funding, teaching, and other policies are set through locally elected school boards by jurisdiction over school districts.
Thus, the SGPC became the modern version of the Guru Panth given that the committee consisted of elected Sikh men and women.
In several states, the administrations of public universities are elected via the general electoral ballot.
Indeed, in 1519, he was elected because he was considered a German prince while his main opponent was French.
Every member of parliament elected after 1807, with one exception, announced his support for Emancipation.
Instead, the president would be elected for one year, to sit in Wesley's chair.
John was elected to parliament from the Bedford constituency.
They are elected corporate bodies, have variable tax raising powers, and are responsible for areas known as civil parishes, serving in total 16 million people.
Men like him couldn't get elected dogcatcher. He was a natural lieutenant, not a leader, and it was a fact he accepted with neither bitterness nor regret.
The term of office of a parish councillor is four years, and council seats are elected en bloc through multiple non transferable vote, by secret ballot.
The current pope, Francis, was elected on 13 March 2013 by papal conclave.
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In 2005, following the death of John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under John Paul, was elected.
In the 2015 general election, the Scottish National Party won 56 of the 59 seats and saw elected the youngest current member of the House of Commons, Mhairi Black.
Having come to doubt whether humanity can be combined with progress, most people, easily pleased, would have elected to abandon progress and remain with humanity.
An elected Greater London Council was to govern the new area.
Despite an initial boost shortly after David Cameron's election as leader in December 2005, membership resumed its decline in 2006 to a lower level than when he was elected.
In 1828 he stood for election in County Clare in Ireland and was elected even though he could not take his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Betty Boothroyd, elected in 1992, was the first woman Speaker.
Historically, the most significant difference between a national and a citizen is that the citizen has the right to vote for elected officials, and to be elected.
A significant minority elected Unionists, who championed the Union.
The vote again went down party lines, and Morrison was elected.
He rose to be prior and was then soon unanimously elected abbot.
Discussions include pressing decision makers in the government on local issues as well as building relationships with the other Directly elected mayors in England and Wales.
Now, two consuls were elected by the citizens for an annual term.
In this assembly, magistrates were elected and laws were passed.
Within England, London has a devolved assembly but proposals for elected Regional Assemblies in England were rejected in the first referendum covering North East England.
One of Marius' old quaestors, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, had been elected consul for the year, and was ordered by the senate to assume command of the war against Mithridates.
The black nationalist movement fought them until success was achieved by the African National Congress in 1994 and Nelson Mandela was elected President.
Educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford, Wesley was elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford in 1726 and ordained a priest two years later.
They were married on 1 June 1996 at the Church of St Augustine of Canterbury, East Hendred, Oxfordshire, five years before Cameron was elected to parliament.
They elected their own officers, plebeian tribunes and plebeian aediles.
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In September 2015, Jeremy Corbyn was elected Leader of the Labour Party.
The Scotland Act 1998 established the new Scottish Parliament, first elected on 6 May 1999, with power to legislate on unreserved matters within Scotland.
At the end of April 1965 the recently elected Labour government published a White Paper proposing the nationalisation of 90 per cent, by output, of Britain's steel industry.
After Labour was defeated in the 2010 general election, Brown resigned as leader and in September 2010, Miliband was elected Leader of the Labour Party.
Unlike the Calvinists of his day, Wesley did not believe in predestination, that is, that some persons had been elected by God for salvation and others for damnation.
At the Labour conference in September 2013, Miliband highlighted his party's stance on the NHS and announced if elected Labour would abolish the bedroom tax.
In the 2014 European Parliament election the Wales constituency elected one MEP from each of the Labour, UKIP, Conservative, and Plaid Cymru parties.
First, it says the candidate has the inner strength or the wisdom or whatever it takes to address the unpredictable challenges he or she will face if elected.
In 1954, he was awarded the newly founded chair of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, and was elected a fellow of Magdalene College.
He was elected to Parliament, speaking on religious and naval matters.
He elected to study beta radiation under Hans Geiger in Berlin.
Since 1979, however, MEPs have been elected by direct universal suffrage.
The figure for the Parliament elected in 2009 is 35 percent.
In May 1535, the newly elected Pope Paul III created Fisher Cardinal Priest of San Vitale, apparently in the hope of inducing Henry to ease Fisher's treatment.
In reaction, Livingstone stood as an independent candidate, resulting in his expulsion from the Labour Party and in March 2000, was elected as Mayor of London.
The municipalities are ruled by elected councils and by an executive, the mayor, who is chosen either by the council or directly by the people, depending on the state.
In 2002, the former Conservative MP Roger Knapman was elected UKIP leader, bringing with him the experience of mainstream politics that the party had lacked.
Diane James was elected as his successor, but resigned after 18 days.
Gaston Tong Sang was elected president of French Polynesia as a result of this constructive vote of no confidence, but his majority in the territorial assembly is very narrow.
In November 1999, a referendum in Australia on the future of the Australian monarchy favoured its retention in preference to an indirectly elected head of state.

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