Seventy two per cent of the estimated electorate in Kasai Oriental had registered to vote.

It has also referred to a desire to avoid feared bandwagon or underdog effects on the electorate.

So, we've reached a truly remarkable situation, a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligentsia and the American electorate.

Urge the Government and Parliament to ensure that the electoral law is clear, comprehensive and easy for the electorate to understand.

A key element of the last election, in 2001, was the participation of more than 70 per cent of the electorate.

After all, in a democratic system, the electorate in this case, the Member States must have the authority to choose its representatives.

A fundamental right is violated if, due to poverty, vote buying by political parties denies the electorate from voting for the best candidates.

Pheu Thai s victory thus suggests that a previously marginalized electorate has been permanently awakened. A similar majority of the Thai electorate voted for Thaksin s parties and their pro poor populist platforms in January 2001, February 2005, April 2006, and December 2007, defying a military coup, a coup induced constitution, judicial interventions, and army coercion and repression.

Indeed, in economic and social affairs, the electorate grew steadily less Thatcherite during her years in office. Her missionary zeal fell on deaf ears.

The referendum process has to count with the support of 20 percent of the country's electorate, close to 4 million people, in order to be activated.

As at 17 September, more than 11 million voters had registered, including 2.9 million in Kinshasa, out of an estimated electorate of 20 to 25 million.

It has become a truism of the Trump era that the political divisions that have polarised the US electorate have, on a micro scale, torn families apart.

Several factors distinguish members of this group from the rest of the Iranian electorate. They are more educated, more urbanized, and more internationally oriented than previous generations.

Voter registration, however, made good progress in the district, with more than 1.2 million voters from an estimated electorate of 1.6 million having registered by 14 September.

It equally naturally affects the genuine character of the choice of the people as well as the free expression of the will of the people or the electorate .

There have been other times in France s history when entire segments of the electorate have ejected themselves from the game, without the rest of the players rushing over to beg them to get back on the field. Georges Clémenceau, Jean Jaurès, and Raymond Poincaré, at the outset of the twentieth century, did not pander to the nearly half of the electorate that, during the Dreyfus Affair, had exiled themselves from the republic.

That said, surveys of the electorate demonstrate that a large proportion is still undecided, particularly among Bayrou s supporters. So it is too early to say whether Bayrou can reach the second round.

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.

This creates a vicious circle. The concerns of the electorate are reflected in rapidly growing support for political parties that advocate increased protectionism, reductions in immigration, and greater national control over the marketplace.

Thousands of Puerto Ricans lived and participated in presidential, congressional and municipal elections in the United States, where the Spanish speaking electorate as a whole played an ever greater role in domestic politics.

(b) The broad participation of the electorate in the presidential elections held in June 2001, which expressed the true commitment of the Iranian people to the democratic process in the Islamic Republic of Iran

The electoral numbers perhaps best explain the immigration equation s importance in today s presidential campaigns. In 2008, it is likely that Latinos will make up 9 to 10 of the electorate, the highest share ever.

New elections are not due until 2009. To be sure, a political crisis can bring the coalition down, but this can happen only if Poland s wandering electorate decides that the PiS has let it down.

Yes, Netanyahu was humbled by the electorate, but his loss of support was not a victory for the peace camp. The victors were an amorphous political center, focused on domestic issues, and the annexationist religious right.

This explains why populist governments clientelism and corruption do not erode their leaders core support among the electorate. Such practices are perceived as serving a moral us at the expense of the immoral or foreign them.

The Executive Council would be collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly (and through it, to the electorate) for advice it gives to the Governor and for all actions taken by or under the authority of any Minister.

If this call to national duty is not enough, we would remind you of your own self interest. According to the latest NBC News Wall Street Journal poll, your support among us, the electorate, stands at just 12 .

In this sense, the elections ought to be a celebration of freedom of choice within the framework of a restored democratic order and a demonstration of the political maturity of the politicians and the electorate of Guinea Bissau.

Indeed, after all that has happened, a majority of the US electorate continues to have confidence in Bush on national security matters. If this continues and Bush is reelected, Americans must ask the question What is wrong with us?

Koizumi s approach was to defy the LDP s leaders by appealing over their heads directly to the electorate. He successfully portrayed himself as a rebel resisting the LDP s old guard, actually purging some of them, in defense of ordinary Japanese.

First, many policies including support for local infrastructure, land zoning, facilitation of industrial production and training, traffic ordinances, and environmental regulations can largely be determined at the local or metropolitan level and reflect the wishes of a local electorate.

If he doesn t, and if no younger candidate emerges, the youth bloc in Iran s electorate may have nowhere to turn. Without a voice for their concerns, Iran s young people face the prospect of increased frustration, whatever the outcome of the election.

Kuwait has just held its eleventh parliamentary election since independence in 1961. Though Kuwait is a monarchy, its parliamentary history has not been placid, and the election campaign reflected ongoing tensions between the royal family and segments of the electorate.

The EU s Economic and Monetary Union was a means to an end, not an end in itself. The European electorate seems to have recognized that, under current arrangements, the euro is undermining the very purposes for which it was supposedly created.

Regarding the Territory's political status, the first and only referendum on a range of political options was conducted in 1993. However, only 27 per cent of the electorate voted and, of those, 80.3 per cent voted to retain the current status.

In 2001 the Yes side lost because it failed to convince enough voters to turn out almost two thirds of the electorate failed to vote. In 2002 a second referendum was held which reversed the result and saw the Yes side triumph.

Because governments knew how to stop depressions, voters would insist that they use this knowledge. If printing bits of green can save banks and business from ruin, he argued in 1966, today s electorate will ensure that either party in power will so act.

Eastern Ukraine may have voted differently from the rest of the country, but the overwhelming majority of voters came out in favor of Europe. The electorate also said no to the more virulent forms of nationalism, leaving the right wing extremist parties marginalized.

The real question is whether an uncertain electorate is prepared to defend democratic constitutions if an extremist who wins by a hair tries to overturn it and usher in a new era of tyranny. There is currently no such risk in Europe.

By accepting the ceiling on total expenditures, the European Parliament would gain credibility with governments and the electorate. In exchange, it will have a right to affirm its role in deciding what European public goods should be financed from the EU budget.

That is no criticism of those who work often very hard in the European Parliament. We have created a political body that has power to hold European institutions to account but has no obvious European electorate to which it can itself be held accountable.

Indeed, he has become the first elected Thai leader to finish a four year term, be re elected, and preside over a one party government. Thaksin s dominance of Thai politics is unprecedented, and his resilient popularity in the face of a fickle electorate is unparalleled.

In France, as elsewhere in Europe, there have always existed unbridled nationalists, the sovereignists who say no to Europe in the name of defending the nation. But whether they belong to the extreme right or the communist left, they represent barely 20 of the electorate.

Most observers underestimated the Indian electorate, which understood the many benefits of the Singh Gandhi partnership. First, their Congress government revived the moderate secular traditions of Jawaharlal Nehru and brought India back firmly to the political center, wresting control from communal and ideological extremists.

This combination of legal guarantees and changed economic circumstances is helping to mobilize a majority in favor of the Treaty. Opinion polls conducted in recent weeks indicate that the Yes side commands a strong majority of 62 to 23 , with 15 of the electorate undecided.