These delegates can support any candidate, either because they are chosen in non-binding caucuses or conventions, or because they've been directly elected in primaries.
No seats in Congress were directly elected in the polling, but the Democrats took control of the Ohio General Assembly, allowing them to defeat for re-election one of Johnson's strongest opponents, Senator Benjamin Wade.
Again, Ennahdha was forced to concede: Tunisia's president will in future be directly elected.
The first time the chief executive will be directly elected through universal suffrage in 2017, which means she can help to set the rules without having a vested interest as a participant herself.
Their delegates would be directly elected by party members (or in the case of higher-level congresses, by their lower-level counterparts).
The protesters were incensed by China's announcement that candidates for Hong Kong's chief executive, to be directly elected for the first time in 2017, would be selected by a committee, rather than through an open nomination process.An Ebola epidemic that spread rapidly in west Africa was the world's worst outbreak of the disease.
And to become a true "parliament" for football, able to properly debate pressing issues within the game, the FA has proposed that all members should represent a particular organisation in football and be directly elected by them.
Glover is the first Democrat in history to be directly elected Scotch Plains mayor.
This electoral college was abolished in 1838 and members began to be directly elected from each county and Baltimore City.
