Directly Elected in a sentence

It failed to win any directly elected seats either; it has only won directly elected seats at only one election since 1953, and hasn't won any directly elected seats since 1990.

Presidents in this system are either directly elected by popular vote or indirectly elected by an electoral college or some other democratically elected body.

However, in Germany and New Zealand, if a party wins a minimum number of directly elected seats—three in Germany and one in New Zealand—the threshold does not apply (though the directly elected seats are kept regardless).

Other counterarguments were that renowned senators could not have been elected directly, and that since a large number of senators had experience in the House, which was already directly elected, a constitutional amendment would be pointless.

Rahul Gandhi said in his that in a bid to improve the quality of life in the cities his party would push for directly elected mayors with 5-year tenures and elected councils, a Business Today report said.

Government members at the lower two levels are directly elected, and those at the higher levels are elected by the lower levels.

However, as sovereigns and governors-general are not elected, and some presidents may not be directly elected by the people, they are often shielded from any public disapproval stemming from unilateral or controversial use of their powers.

In 1980, Icelanders elected Vigdís Finnbogadóttir as president, the world's first directly elected female head of state.

Municipalities are run by mayors, who are elected to four-year terms, and by directly elected municipal councils.

Of these, 11 seats are directly elected, 3 for Gran Canaria, 3 for Tenerife, 1 for each other island; 2 seats are indirectly elected by the regional Autonomous Government.

Typically in presidential and semi-presidential systems the president is directly elected by the people, or is indirectly elected as done in the United States.

He was responding to his fellow Limerick City TD Brian Leddin who asked for an update on the legislation and said that he shares the frustration of the people of Limerick who have been waiting for a directly elected mayor since 2019.

He was the first directly elected president in 2014, and won the 2018 election that ushered in the executive presidency.

Mr Livingstone became the first directly elected mayor of London in 2000, a role he held for eight years.

Around 373 million citizens across the 27 member states of the European Union are eligible to vote on June 6-9 in elections to the European Parliament, which is the only directly elected body of the EU.

In the landmark poll in Limerick for Ireland’s first directly elected mayor, independent candidate John Moran secured victory late on Monday afternoon.

Dorothy was the first directly elected Mayor of Watford, a post she held for 16 years until 2018.

In 2001, the Tibetan electorate for the first time directly elected the chairperson of the cabinet called Kalon Tripa, equivalent to the prime minister.

But since these elections began 40 years ago, when the bloc was only 15 countries, turnout to vote for the Parliament — the bloc’s only directly elected branch — has decreased every five years.

In 2002, Hartlepool's first directly elected mayor was a man dressed in the monkey suit costume of the local football club.