Regularly-scheduled elections will be held in 86 of the 99 state legislative chambers in the United States; nationwide, regularly-scheduled elections will be held for 5,876 of the 7,383 legislative seats. Political scientist Eliza Lee criticised the government decision for not providing any convincing scientific evidence about risks to public health due to the pandemic or consulting the stakeholders including opposition parties. "[46], U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned the Hong Kong government's decision to postpone the election, saying there was "no valid reason for such a lengthy delay." Electoral system. Both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party nominated their respective presidential tickets at party conventions held in late August. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians reelected Tribal Chairman Aaron A. Barring vacancies and party switching, Republicans will be defending seven seats, while Democrats will be defending six seats. It said it was following closely the political situation in Hong Kong and reiterated that it was essential that the Legislative Council elections could take place in an environment which is conducive to the exercise of democratic rights and freedoms as enshrined in the Hong Kong's Basic Law and urged the Hong Kong authorities to reconsider the decisions. Since the beginning of 2020, various major cities have seen incumbent mayors re-elected, including Bakersfield, California (Karen Goh);[30] Chesapeake (David West),[31] Fairfax City (David Meyer),[31] Fredericksburg (Mary Katherine Greenlaw),[31] and Hampton, Virginia (Donnie Tuck);[31] Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Tom Barrett);[32] and Sacramento, California (Darrell Steinberg). 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Other presidential candidates include Don Blankenship of the Constitution Party, Rocky De La Fuente of the Alliance Party, Gloria La Riva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Brian T. Carroll of the American Solidarity Party, independent candidate Brock Pierce, and rapper Kanye West, who is affiliated with the Birthday Party.[5]. Each state delegation of the House of Representatives receives one vote. "[65], As of February 2020, only 59% of Americans had confidence in the "honesty of U.S. All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives, 35 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate, and the office of President of the United States will be contested. [5], The protests were maintained and escalated as Lam refused to fully withdraw the bill, resulting in strong anti-government sentiment that fed into the November District Council election, where the pro-Beijing parties suffered historic defeat, losing about two-thirds of their seats. The Democratic Senate caucus currently consists of 45 Democrats and two independents. [47] The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community elected Keith Anderson tribal chairman, replacing the retiring Charlie Vig. [42], The Hong Kong Bar Association expressed "grave concern" over the postponement of the Legislative Council elections for a year, saying there were "serious doubts" about the legal and evidential basis for the decision. For example, the state delegation of Alabama (consisting of seven representatives) and the state delegation of Alaska (consisting of one representative) each collectively receive one vote. "[50], The European Union High Representative issued a statement stating that the "proposed postponement by one year of the elections to the Legislative Council through recourse to emergency powers, would delay the renewal of its democratic mandate and call into question the exercise of the democratic rights and freedoms guaranteed under Hong Kong’s Basic Law." 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If no individual wins a majority of the electoral vote, then the United States House of Representatives will hold a contingent election to determine the winner. Nearly 300 were arrested for alleged illegal assembly, other were arrested on suspicion of assaulting the police, obstructing police officers and disorderly conduct in public place, one woman was arrested under the national security law for chanting "pro-independence slogans". That makes 17 May 2023 the latest possible election date. "[41] The Civic Party called the postponement as "blatant manipulation", while Lam Cheuk-ting of the Democratic Party compared the situation to the Beijing-installed Provisional Legislative Council in 1996 after derailing arrangements under which members of the final term of the colonial Legislative Council before the 1997 handover were to become the first legislators of the Special Administrative Region. Opinion polling for the next Israeli legislative election, "With Bader-Ofer method, not every ballot counts", The Distribution of Knesset Seats Among the Lists—the Bader-Offer Method, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Next_Israeli_legislative_election&oldid=973414705, Short description with empty Wikidata description, Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 17 August 2020, at 02:43. [61], Beyond the disruption to traditional campaign events, the pandemic has the potential to disrupt the party conventions. In the table, offices/legislatures that are not up for election in 2020 are already filled in for the "after 2020 elections" section, although vacancies or party switching could potentially lead to a flip in partisan control. The five territories and Washington, D.C., do not elect members of the U.S. Senate, and the territories do not take part in presidential elections; instead they each elect one non-voting member of the House. Conseillers des Français de l'étranger. It added: "This is contrary to the principles of legality and legal certainty and degrades the rule of law in Hong Kong." Regularly-scheduled elections will be held in 86 of the 99 state legislative chambers, and eleven states will hold gubernatorial elections. The association was also concerned that the government had not consulted society at large or the relevant experts regarding the decision and had provided little evidence that the government had considered alternative measures, thus failing to satisfactorily explain why the election had to be postponed for a year, instead of just weeks or months. Various other state courts will also hold elections in 2020. Cheung said "there's no check and balance" against the NPCSC and its "brilliant tactic" to cause in-fighting within the pro-democracy camp on whether to boycott the legislature or not. [24], On 5 May, two former Chief Executives Tung Chee-hwa and Leung Chun-ying launched a pro-Beijing alliance Hong Kong Coalition. In states without redistricting commissions, the legislators and governors elected between 2017 and 2020 will draw the new congressional and state legislative districts that will take effect starting with the 2022 elections. Hours after the news, leading members of the Demosistō party, Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, Agnes Chow and Jeffrey Ngo announced their resignation from the party. All seats of Senate Class II will be up for election; the winners of those elections will serve six-year terms. Nebraska, which has an officially non-partisan legislature, is not included in this tally. [3] Just prior to the announcement, 12 opposition candidates were disqualified from running in the election and four ex-members of pro-independence student group Studentlocalism aged 16 to 21 were arrested under the new security law for making pro-independence posts on social media. This constitutes 24 percent of all state supreme court seats in the country. [19] Over 590,000 electronic ballots and more than 20,000 paper ballots were recorded throughout the two-day vote, more than 13 per cent of the total number of registered voters and far exceeding the organisers' expected turnout of 170,000 despite the security law and legal threats. By creating the legal problem because of the Legislative Council's four-year term limit under the Basic Law, the Bar Association said the Hong Kong government was "effectively inviting the central government to override the relevant provisions of the Basic Law and Hong Kong legislation to circumvent possible legal challenges". [12], In June, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang suggested that anyone who opposed the coming national security law would be disqualified from September's Legislative Council elections. If the alliance receives leftover seats, the Bader–Ofer calculation is applied privately, to determine how the seats are divided among the two allied lists.[2]. He proposed a primary within the pro-democracy camp, which was later held. Most elections will be for four-year terms, but the governors of New Hampshire and Vermont each serve two-year terms. [36], On 11 August the National People Congress Standing Committee unanimously passed a decision to extend the incumbent 6th Legislative Council to extend its term for no less than one year. [63] On June 24, 2020, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced that it planned to conduct all of its official business at the Democratic National Convention remotely. [3] Along with Biden and Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Michael Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Tulsi Gabbard all won at least one delegate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. The five territories also took part in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and the 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries. [30], On 30 July, one day before the end of the nomination period and the government announcement of delaying the election, the nominations of 12 opposition candidates were invalidated by the returning officers, including those of four incumbent Legislative Council members - Alvin Yeung, Kwok Ka-ki, Dennis Kwok and Kenneth Leung - as well as activists Joshua Wong and Ventus Lau. The actions sparked a political storm and a round of international condemnation. Legislative elections were held in Algeria on 10 May 2012. [44][45], White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on 31 July denounced Hong Kong's government decision to delay legislative elections by a year due to coronavirus concerns. [...] [Trump] seems pretty sure he won't win the election, [but] he doesn't want to leave office." Let me count the ways", "Democratic Convention Moves to Smaller Venue, as Delegates Are Urged to Stay Away", "This is not a drill. Various other state executive and judicial elections will also occur. The 120 seats in the Knesset are elected by closed list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency. Delegates were concerned about the spread of COVID-19 if thousands of delegates attended in person in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [60] Iowa, Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas all delayed municipal elections, and in New York City the special election for Queens borough president was cancelled. "It is purely on the basis of protecting the health and safety of the Hong Kong people." As of March 24, 2020[update], at least 10 states and territories — Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Ohio, Puerto Rico, and Rhode Island — had delayed presidential primaries. Incumbent District Councillors Cheng Tat-hung, Fergus Leung, Tiffany Yuen and Lester Shum were also barred from running, as well as former reporter Gwyneth Ho and Civic Passion's Cheng Kam-mun. "[40] Pro-democracy legislator Eddie Chu said that Chinese Communist Party was ordering "a strategic retreat." It was widely speculated that many of these nominees were backup options for the disqualified or potentially disqualified candidates. McEnany said Lam's invocation of her emergency powers to force the rescheduling represented "only the most recent in a growing list of broken promises by Beijing, which promised autonomy and freedoms to the Hong Kong people until 2047 in the Sino-British Joint Declaration. He warned of the continuation of Hong Kong marching "toward becoming just another Communist-run city in China. The U.S. territories of American Samoa and Puerto Rico are holding gubernatorial and legislative elections in 2020, while Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands are holding legislative elections. Élection. The incumbent coalition, consisting of the FLN of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the RND of Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, held on to power after winning a majority of seats. In a contingent election, the House of Representatives can choose from the three candidates who received the most electoral votes. [31] The 2020 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was originally scheduled on 6 September 2020 until it was postponed by the government for a whole year to 5 September 2021. Comment voter ? For that, Lam said she had submitted an urgent report to the central government seeking its support and guidance. Despite Lam's denial of any political calculation, the delay was seen by pro-democrats as a blow to them, who aimed to achieve a "35+" majority by riding the 2019 District Council landslide on a wave of massive protests against the government and concerns about the sweeping new national security law imposed by Beijing on Hong Kong. She said that with 4.4 million registered voters in Hong Kong, the elections would involve "a large-scale gathering and an immense infection risk", particularly to elders while social distancing measures would prevent candidates from canvassing, adding that many registered voters in mainland China and overseas would be unable to take part in the elections while border quarantine measures were in place. Some or all of the legislative chambers not holding regularly-scheduled elections in 2020 may nonetheless hold special elections in 2020.
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