Voters go to the poll to elect local officials for the first time ...
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About 1,000 candidates are running for 300 municipal seats in West Bank villages and towns. It will be the first electoral test before the January 9 presidential elections.
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HAVANA, Oct. 22 -- Cuban officials said Monday there was a large voter turnout in municipal elections that started a process leading to next year's decision on whether to keep Fidel Castro atop the communist-run island's supreme governing body.
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BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip  - Palestinians voted on  Thursday in the first municipal elections in the Gaza Strip, a  test of strength between new President Mahmoud Abbas and the  militant Hamas group.
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Brazilians vote in local elections - which are regarded as the first political test of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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2 October 2004 -- Bosnians began voting today in the country&#39;s first locally organized local elections since the 1992-95 war. Around 2.3 million voters are eligible to elect local councils and mayors in 142 municipalities.
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Voters in Northern Ireland go to the polls today in what has been described as a moment-of-truth election for the future of self-rule in the troubled province.Comment
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Local people in England will have a direct say in how council budgets are spent under new government plans.
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Polling stations opened Sunday in Spain&#39;s regional and municipal elections, a major test for the Socialist government ahead of general elections expected next year.
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A supporter puts up a poster for Bucharest mayor Traian Basescu. BUCHAREST, Romania  -- Romanians, angered by poverty and corruption, began voting Sunday in a closely contested election to decide who ...
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When voters in San Fransisco go to the polls in November to select their top choice for a seat on the city's Board of Supervisors, they also get to pick their second choice -- and even their third.
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New voters are flooding local election offices with paperwork, registering in significantly higher numbers than four years ago as attention to the presidential election runs high and an array of activist groups recruit would-be voters who could prove critical come Nov. 2...
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Zambian voters are going to the polls to elect a president, members of parliament and local councillors.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians voted on  Thursday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in  nearly three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential  ballot next month to choose Yasser Arafat's successor.
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By Lisa Huriash and Ivette Yee, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Mar. 13--A light turnout was apparent Tuesday morning as voters began going to polling places in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
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Serbs went to the polls in local  elections on Sunday in the first test of voter opinion since  they chose pro-Western President Boris Tadic in June.
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Hand-picked voters chose members of a government advisory panel Saturday in this tiny oil-rich country's first election, the Arab world's latest tentative step toward democracy.
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Some female voters came in buses and others stepped out of chauffeur-driven cars at polling stations Thursday, as women in Kuwait voted in parliamentary elections for the first time.