Lleida Province - Province of Lleida, Vall de Bo, Garrigues, Pla D'Urgell, Lleida - La Pobla de Segur Line, Ponent (Paperback)

Chapters: Province of Lleida, Vall de Bo, Garrigues, Pla D'urgell, Lleida - La Pobla de Segur Line, Ponent. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lleida is one of the 52 electoral districts (Spanish: ) used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It is one of four electoral districts which correspond to the provinces of Catalonia. Lleida is the largest municipality accounting for 97,000 voters out of the total of 313,000. The district has traditionally been one of the weakest for the national parties of the right and it was one of only two districts in the 2004 election (along with Girona) where the Popular Party failed to win a seat, though they regained the seat at the 2008 election. Under Article 68 of the Spanish constitution the boundaries must be the same as the province of Lleida and under Article 140 this can only be altered with the approval of congress. Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The electoral system used is closed list proportional representation with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method. Only lists which poll 3% of the total vote (which includes votes "en blanco" i.e. for none of the above) can be considered. Under article 12 of the constitution, the minimum voting age is 18. The laws regulating the conduct and administration of elections are laid out in detail in the 1985 electoral law. (Ley Org nica del R gimen Electoral General.) Under this law, the elections in Lleida, as in other districts, are supervised by the Electoral Commission (Junta Electoral), a permanent body composed of eight Supreme Court judges and five political scientists or sociologists appointed by the Congress of Deputies. The Electoral commission is support...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=14957838