1947
The first general elections were held in an undivided India in 1935.
In Canada, people do not directly choose the leader of their nation. The leader of the political party with the most elected representatives in the House of Commons is uaully asked by the governor general to become prime minister. Each political partyt elects its own leader and has candidaes who run for office during federal elections. The leader of the federal government has several impotant roles to play- as the head of government, the leader of the nation, and the leader of the national party.
The current Prime Minister is John Key, whose National Party formed a government following the 2008 general election. The previous Prime Minister was Helen Clark, whose Labour Party lost the 2008 election and was first elected in 1999.
Nabakrushna Choudhury
(1951-1952)1952 - first general election in India 1977 - first mid-term elections in India
In 1883, In a general election, W.H.T. Joell was elected Bermuda's first black Member of Parliament.
The first three black MP's were elected in the 1987 general election;- Paul Boatang, Dianne Abbott and Bernie Grant.
Members of Parliament, elected in single member constituencies using the first-past-the-post electoral system at a General Election
First, people are elected to parliament. The winners of the election can form a government. Ministers are then chosen by the prime minister and they are then ratified by a vote in parliament. So they are elected to parliament and then could be chosen to be ministers.
Diane Abbott , born 27 September 1953, has been the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987, when she became the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons.
first: win the party nomination second: win the primary election if there is one last: win the general election
In the general election held on the 7th of June 2001.
He was first made MP for Hunua in 1978 following a High Court judgment that overturned the election night result.
Singapore's first parliamentary election as a sovereign and independent nation was held on April 19 1968, resulting in the People's Action Party winning all 58 seats up for election in the newly formed Parliament. Prior to independence, in 1948, British subjects only had been allowed to vote for a 22-member Legislative Council for the first time, though only 6 seats were directly elected. It was not until 1955 that Singapore held its first full general election, with 25 (of 32) elected members of the Legislative Assembly. However, most consider the 1959 election to be Singapore's true first general election. It was the first time in history that all Singaporeans could vote in all constituencies, not to mention the first election in which Singapore was a largely self-governing region.
Apirana Ngata was elected to Parliament in the 1905 election. He stood as the Liberal candidate for the Eastern Maori seat, challenging the incumbent Wi Pere.
The Constitutional Convention that wrote the Constitution was in 1897/1898 and passed by the UK parliament in 1900. This came into effect on January 1st 1901 and because the constitution creates the democratically elected parliament, we had to hold elections pretty quickly, hence the first election was in early 1901.
Ivy Weber is famous because she was the first woman to be elected in a Victorian parliament. This happened in the general elections of 1937.