Indirect elections are elections in which the candidates for office are elected not by the voting public, but by electors who represent the public. Examples include U.S. Presidential elections and French Senate elections. This type should be added to topics that also have one of the types General...
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| x United States presidential election, 2004 |
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Electoral College |
The United States presidential election of 2004 was the United States' 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party...
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| x French senatorial elections, 2004 |
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Grands électeurs français |
Following the end of the 9-year terms of 127 "series C" senators, indirect senatorial elections were held in France on September 26, 2004.
This was the last renewal of serie C senators- following the electoral reform, senators are not elected by...
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| x Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 1996 | Election Committee |
The first ever Hong Kong Chief Executive election was held on 11 December 1996 to select the first Chief Executive for the post-colonial Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Since Hong Kong was then a British...
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| x Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 2002 | Election Committee |
The Hong Kong Chief Executive election in 2002 was the second time the Chief Executive of Hong Kong was selected by an election. It is also the first selection under which the territory was part of the Special Administrative Region of the People's...
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| x Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 2005 |
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Election Committee |
The Hong Kong Chief Executive election of 2005 was held to fill the vacancy of the territory's top office. Then Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa submitted his resignation to the central government in Beijing, and was officially approved on 12 March. On...
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| x Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 2007 |
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Election Committee |
An election was held on 25 March 2007 to select the Chief Executive of Hong Kong at AsiaWorld-Expo. The third Chief Executive term began on 1 July 2007. The CE was selected by an 800-member Election Committee (EC) (which represented about 0.01% of...
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| x German presidential election, 2009 |
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Federal Convention |
An indirect presidential election was held in Germany on 23 May 2009. The President of Germany was elected by the Federal Assembly, which is made up of the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of members nominated by the state Landtags.
The...
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| x German presidential election, 2004 |
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Federal Convention |
The President of Germany (Bundespräsident) is the titular head of state of the Federal Republic of Germany. The president's tasks are mostly ceremonial, but for the signing of all new federal laws before they go into effect. In practice however, all...
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| x Italian presidential election, 2006 |
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The 2006 election of the President of the Italian Republic was held on May 2–10, 2006. As a second-level, indirect election, only Members of Parliament and regional deputies were entitled to vote. Giorgio Napolitano was elected head of state of the...
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| x Hungarian presidential election, 2010 | National Assembly of Hungary |
An indirect presidential election was held in Hungary on 29 June 2010. The Prime Minister's nominee Pál Schmitt was elected by an absolute majority.
Following the Hungarian parliamentary election, 2010, Fidesz came out with an overwhelming majority...
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| x German presidential election, 2010 | Federal Convention |
An indirect presidential election was held in Germany on 30 June 2010 following the resignation of Horst Köhler as President of Germany on 31 May 2010. Christian Wulff, the candidate nominated by the three governing parties, the Christian Democratic...
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| x Turkish presidential election, 2007 |
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Grand National Assembly of Turkey |
The 2007 Turkish presidential election refers to two attempts to elect the country's 11th president, to succeed Ahmet Necdet Sezer. The most likely candidate for president was Abdullah Gül. Turkey's presidential office is regarded as the guardian of...
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| x Turkish presidential election, 1993 | Grand National Assembly of Turkey |
The 1993 Turkish presidential election refers the election to choose the country's ninth president, to succeed Turgut Özal who had recently died. The candidate of DYP was Süleyman Demirel who was also supported by SHP. In the first and second rounds...
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| x Turkish presidential election, 2000 | Grand National Assembly of Turkey |
The 2000 Turkish presidential election consisted of a first round election on 27 April 2000 followed by a second round vote on 1 May and a third on 5 May. It occurred at the end of 9th president Süleyman Demirel's seven-year term in office. There...
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| x Lebanese presidential election, 2007 | Parliament of Lebanon |
An indirect presidential election was held in the Parliament of Lebanon on 25 May 2008, after the term of incumbent President Émile Lahoud expired on 24 November 2007 at midnight. General Michel Sleiman, the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces,...
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| x Indian presidential election, 1992 |
The Election Commission of India held indirect 10th presidential elections of India on 24 July 1992. Shankar Dayal Sharma with 675,864 votes won over his nearest rival G.G. Swell who got 346,485 votes.
This presidential election, saw many candidates...
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| x German presidential election, 2012 | Federal Convention |
An early indirect presidential election was held in Germany on 18 March 2012, the last possible day following the resignation of Christian Wulff as President of Germany on 17 February 2012. Joachim Gauck was elected on the first ballot by a Federal...
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| x German presidential election, 1949 | Federal Convention |
The election of the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany was held on 12 September 1949, following the first Bundestag election of August 14, 1949 and coalition talks/ negotiations between CDU/CSU, FDP and German Party (DP).
The FDP...
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| x German presidential election, 1999 |
The German presidential election, 1999 saw the former Social democrat Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia defeat Christian democrat Dagmar Schipanski and the nonpartisan academic Uta Ranke-Heinemann, who had been endorsed by the Party of...
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| x Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 2012 |
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Election Committee |
The Hong Kong Chief Executive election of 2012 was an election held on 25 March, 2012 to select the Chief Executive of Hong Kong by a 1200-member Election Committee ("EC") to replace the incumbent Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, who was barred from...
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| x Hungarian presidential election, 2012 |
An early indirect presidential election was held in Hungary on 2 May 2012, following the resignation of Pál Schmitt as President of Hungary on 2 April 2012. János Áder was elected president with an absolute majority.
Pál Schmitt was elected head of...
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| x Hungarian presidential election, 2005 |
An indirect presidential election was held in Hungary on 6-7 June 2005. The main opposition party Fidesz's nominee, the former President of the Constitutional Court László Sólyom was elected President of Hungary.
Sólyom was nominated by the...
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