Elections in Grenada
Encyclopedia
Elections in Grenada gives information on election
results in Grenada
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Grenada elects on national level a legislature
. Parliament
has two chambers
. The House of Representatives
has 15 members, elected for a five year term in single-seat constituencies. The Senate
has 13 appointed members.
Grenada has a two-party system
, which means that there are two dominant political parties
, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.
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...
results in Grenada
Politics of Grenada
Politics of Grenada takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Grenada is an independent country and Commonwealth Realm. It is a parliamentary democracy whose political and...
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Grenada elects on national 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...
. Parliament
Parliament of Grenada
The Parliament of Grenada is composed of the Monarch and two chambers:*The House of Representatives has 15 members, elected for a five year term in single-seat constituencies.*The Senate has 13 appointed members....
has two chambers
Bicameralism
In the government, bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. Thus, a bicameral parliament or bicameral legislature is a legislature which consists of two chambers or houses....
. The House of Representatives
House of Representatives of Grenada
The House of Representatives is the lower house of the Parliament of Grenada. It has 15 members, elected for a five year term in single-seat constituencies. The members are, for each seat and party, listed below:-Summary 2008 election:...
has 15 members, elected for a five year term in single-seat constituencies. The Senate
Senate of Grenada
The Senate is the upper house of the Parliament of Grenada. It has 13 appointed members; 10 are appointed by the government of Grenada, and three by the leader of the opposition. The current president is Joan Purcell, elected in 2008.-See also:...
has 13 appointed members.
Grenada has a two-party system
Two-party system
A two-party system is a system where two major political parties dominate voting in nearly all elections at every level of government and, as a result, all or nearly all elected offices are members of one of the two major parties...
, which means that there are two dominant political parties
Political Parties
Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy is a book by sociologist Robert Michels, published in 1911 , and first introducing the concept of iron law of oligarchy...
, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.