Sentence examples for suffrage elections from inspiring English sources

In the following year the Malawi Congress Party under Hastings Kamuzu Banda and the United National Independence Party (UNIP) under Kenneth Kaunda won the first universal suffrage elections in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, respectively, and led them into independence as Malawi and Zambia.

It was the end of an era, with only four of 17 seats going to the Bird family's Antigua Labour Party (ALP), which, but for a short break in the 1970s, had been in power since the first universal suffrage elections in 1951.

The president is elected on the basis of universal adult suffrage; election to the National Assembly, which is conducted simultaneously, is also largely decided on this basis, although a small proportion of National Assembly members are nominated by the president.

The demonstrators called for universal suffrage in elections for Mr. Tung's successor in 2007 and for the elections for the Legislature in 2008.

Beijing has promised universal suffrage for elections for the chief executive in 2017 and for the legislature by 2020.

The result was the Malta meeting between the Patriotic Front and an Anglo-American team at which the Patriotic Front emphasized the need for accepting certain fundamental democratic principles, such as universal adult suffrage, free elections, restructuring of public service, and the disbanding of the Smith regime's illegal army.

Universal suffrage in elections for Hong Kong's chief executive by 2017 was a key principle underlying agreements to transfer Hong Kong from British to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.

The end of the apartheid era was marked by the universal-suffrage democratic elections of April 1994, which resulted in a strong victory for supporters of the African National Congress (ANC).

Johnson was a leader of a movement called Progressivism that reacted to America's industrialisation by demanding women's suffrage, direct election of United States senators (originally chosen by state legislatures) and other expansions of democracy.

In 1878 a constitutional amendment was introduced in Congress that would enshrine woman suffrage for all elections.

They advocated expanded education, enlarged suffrage, and periodic elections to ensure government's accountability to the governed.