Elections in Anguilla
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Elections in Anguilla gives information on election
and election results in Anguilla
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Anguilla elects on territorial level a legislature
. The House of Assembly
has 11 members, 7 members elected for a five year term in single-seat constituencies, 2 ex officio members and 2 nominated members.
Anguilla has a multi-party system
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Election
An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the...
and election results in Anguilla
Politics of Anguilla
Politics of Anguilla takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic dependency, whereby the Chief Minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Anguilla, the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, is an internally self-governing...
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Anguilla elects on territorial level a legislature
Legislature
A legislature is a kind of deliberative assembly with the power to pass, amend, and repeal laws. The law created by a legislature is called legislation or statutory law. In addition to enacting laws, legislatures usually have exclusive authority to raise or lower taxes and adopt the budget and...
. The House of Assembly
Anguilla House of Assembly
The House of Assembly of Anguilla has 11 members, 7 members elected for a five year term in single-seat constituencies, 2 ex officio members and 2 nominated members. Anguilla has a multi-party system.-See also:...
has 11 members, 7 members elected for a five year term in single-seat constituencies, 2 ex officio members and 2 nominated members.
Anguilla has a multi-party system
Multi-party system
A multi-party system is a system in which multiple political parties have the capacity to gain control of government separately or in coalition, e.g.The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in the United Kingdom formed in 2010. The effective number of parties in a multi-party system is normally...
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