Translation of "division électorale " (French → English) :

constituency [ electoral district | riding | electoral division | electoral area | polling district ]

organisation of elections [ organization of elections ]

electoral alliance

Electoral Assistance Division [ EAD | Electoral Assistance Unit ]

An Act to amend the Act respecting electoral representation and the Territorial Division Act

Solidarity Electoral Action | Solidarity Electoral Alliance | Solidarity Political Action | AWS [Abbr.]

electoral alliance | electoral coalition | linking of lists

campaign manager | electorate officer | election agent | parliamentary agent

Quebec shall be divided into Sixty-five Electoral Districts, composed of the Sixty-five Electoral Divisions into which Lower Canada is at the passing of this Act divided under Chapter Two of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, Chapter Seventy-five of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada, and the Act of the Province of Canada of the Twenty-third Year of the Queen, Chapter One, or any other Act amending the same in force at the Union, so that each such Electoral Division shall be for the Purposes of this Act an Electoral District ...[+++] entitled to return One Member.

Another place the reference to a provincial statute exists is in the Senate itself in the electoral division for Quebec senators where it refers back to the legislative council in Quebec in 1866.

R. whereas the existing European electoral rules allow for a non-obligatory threshold of up to 5 % of votes cast to be set for European elections, and whereas 15 Member States have availed themselves of this opportunity and have introduced a threshold of between 3 % and 5 %; whereas in smaller Member States, and in Member States that have subdivided their electoral area into constituencies, the de facto threshold nevertheless lies above 3 %, even though no legal thresholds exist; whereas introducing obligatory thresholds is recognised by constitutional tradition as a legitimate means of guaranteeing that parliaments are able to functi ...[+++]on;

26. Notes the finding of the Court of Auditors in relation to carry-overs of unused appropriations by political groups and the division of European election years into two halves for the purposes of calculating permitted carry-over; takes the view that, in order to avoid any future recurrence of the difficulties which arose at the beginning of 2010, the whole of any future election year should be used to calculate carry-over for political groups which do not cease to function following an election;