Usage of "direct election"

русский

прямые выборы

португальский

sufrágio direto

испанский

elección directa

каталонский

sufragi directe

Election in which people vote directly for the person that they want elected to a political position.

indirect election

Похожие термины

electoral system

прямые выборы

Антонимы

Examples for "indirect election"

indirect election

Examples for "indirect election"

A great deal of virtue was to flow from such an indirect election. 
 The Boss and the Machine: A Chronicle of the Politicians and Par... 

If he were to fall after the end of this year, an indirect election is held in Congress. 
 The Guardian 

In the former the majority system with direct election is used; in the latter, a proportional system with indirect election. 
 Proportional Representation: A Study in Methods of Election 

In that case the two modes of election coincide in their result, and every advantage of indirect election is obtained under direct. 
 Considerations on Representative Government 

Other countries manage to strike a workable balance between the powers of democratically elected upper and lower chambers by using methods of indirect election. 
 The Guardian 

Использование термина direct election на английском

Otherwise direct election was the method chosen for all the new Councils. 
 The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 

The legislature added another item: the direct election of a Pres. 
 The new yorker 

Yudhoyono is Indonesia's first leader to be chosen by direct election. 
 Reuters 

Renzi is proposing to abolish the direct election of provincial governments, but not scrap them altogether. 
 Reuters 

The first direct election took place in 1979. 
 The Irish Times 

Other proposals included direct election of local health boards and greater integration between health and social services. 
 The Guardian 

More than 11,000 Cubans called for the direct election of the president. 
 Reuters 

But what is undemocratic about the direct election of public representatives to serve a designated sector in society? 
 The Irish Times 

Schroder, who remains the more popular politician, would no doubt win a direct election, but lose a parliamentary one. 
 The new yorker 

In the former the majority system with direct election is used; in the latter, a proportional system with indirect election. 
 Proportional Representation: A Study in Methods of Election 

Now that the government has come out in favour of direct election, alarm bells have begun ringing on the backbenches. 
 The Guardian 

Democracy activists in Hong Kong want reforms that could culminate in a direct election for the city's leader in 2017. 
 Reuters 

The first serves for the direct election of candidates standing in constituency seats, the winner being determined by a relative majority. 
 The Irish Times 

The cards were tattered and dog-eared and dated from the first round of registration for Afghanistan's first direct election in 2004. 
 Reuters 

Madam, - The direct election of Dublin's Lord Mayor would be a major stride towards enabling citizens to have an effective voice. 
 The Irish Times 

Former taoiseach John Bruton has called for the direct election in all EU member states for the president of the European Commission. 
 The Irish Times 