In many parts of the world, local elections take place to select office-holders in local government, such as mayors and councillors. Elections to positions within a city or town are often known as "municipal elections". Their form and conduct vary widely across jurisdictions.
Adopted by the Congress of the Council of Europe, The European Charter of Local Self-Government aims to establish basic European rules in order to measure and safeguard the rights of local authorities. The Charter commits the parties to applying basic rules guaranteeing the political, administrative and financial independence of local authorities. The Congress conducts two main activities so as to evaluate the Charter's implementation: local and regional election monitoring and observation. The Congress regularly observes local and/or regional elections in member and applicant countries, which allows the Council to monitor the state of local and regional democracy in the countries concerned. With regards to its monitoring mission, the Congress prepares monitoring reports.
Middle Eastedit
In Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, local elections have proven to be easier to achieve than larger scale ones that affect the national or federal government. By giving voice to people on the smaller scales of government, over such issues as water supply, power, and sewer systems, confidence is thought to be built to eventually reform higher levels of government.
In more mature developed nations there is always an effort to get more information about candidates and options to people, and to keep the influence of larger national bodies like a political party to a minimum, as its ideological agenda is not typically that of any locality:
In the United Kingdom the term local elections refers to county, unitary authority, borough, district, city, town and parish elections. These take place on the first Thursday of May every year. Councillors generally sit for four years. The number of independent (non-party) Councillors has declined over the past forty years - nowadays the overwhelming majority of local Councillors belong to one of the major parties.
^Shin, Annys (3 November 2013). "Takoma Park 16-year-old savors his history-making moment at the polls". The Washington Post. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
External linksedit
Electing Local Authorities - article from the ACE Project
- article from the ACE Project
"Democracy at the local Level" an overview from *International IDEA
Congress of the Council of Europe
Explanatory report of the European Charter of Local Self-Government
December 15, 2023
local, election, examples, perspective, this, article, represent, worldwide, view, subject, improve, this, article, discuss, issue, talk, page, create, article, appropriate, december, 2010, learn, when, remove, this, template, message, many, parts, world, loca. The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject You may improve this article discuss the issue on the talk page or create a new article as appropriate December 2010 Learn how and when to remove this template message In many parts of the world local elections take place to select office holders in local government such as mayors and councillors Elections to positions within a city or town are often known as municipal elections Their form and conduct vary widely across jurisdictions Contents 1 By area 1 1 Europe 1 2 Middle East 1 3 New Zealand 1 4 United Kingdom 1 5 United States 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksBy area editEurope edit See also Local elections in France Local elections in Greece and Local elections in Poland Adopted by the Congress of the Council of Europe The European Charter of Local Self Government aims to establish basic European rules in order to measure and safeguard the rights of local authorities The Charter commits the parties to applying basic rules guaranteeing the political administrative and financial independence of local authorities The Congress conducts two main activities so as to evaluate the Charter s implementation local and regional election monitoring and observation The Congress regularly observes local and or regional elections in member and applicant countries which allows the Council to monitor the state of local and regional democracy in the countries concerned With regards to its monitoring mission the Congress prepares monitoring reports Middle East edit In Saudi Arabia and Kuwait local elections have proven to be easier to achieve than larger scale ones that affect the national or federal government By giving voice to people on the smaller scales of government over such issues as water supply power and sewer systems confidence is thought to be built to eventually reform higher levels of government In more mature developed nations there is always an effort to get more information about candidates and options to people and to keep the influence of larger national bodies like a political party to a minimum as its ideological agenda is not typically that of any locality New Zealand edit Main article Local elections in New Zealand Local elections are held every three years to elect local government politicians for the two tiers of local government in New Zealand United Kingdom edit Main article Local elections in the United Kingdom In the United Kingdom the term local elections refers to county unitary authority borough district city town and parish elections These take place on the first Thursday of May every year Councillors generally sit for four years The number of independent non party Councillors has declined over the past forty years nowadays the overwhelming majority of local Councillors belong to one of the major parties United States edit In the United States there is an increasing demand for electoral reform including a call for instant runoff voting to be used to select all major executives This is thought to make it possible for small parties to compete as in the case of Matt Gonzalez in San Francisco California Such a ballot reform is often a complement to moving towards a strong mayor system such as in Baltimore Maryland or as recently advocated in Oakland California Residents of Takoma Park Maryland can vote in municipal elections when they turn sixteen the first in the United States 1 See also editBy election General election Gubernatorial electionReferences edit Shin Annys 3 November 2013 Takoma Park 16 year old savors his history making moment at the polls The Washington Post Retrieved 30 March 2021 External links editElecting Local Authorities article from the ACE Project Direct Local Democracy in Switzerland article from the ACE Project Democracy at the local Level an overview from International IDEA A New Nation Votes American Election Returns 1787 1825 Congress of the Council of Europe Explanatory report of the European Charter of Local Self Government Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Local election amp oldid 1150415134, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
