Those sessions have to be held on the Tuesday before the election.

He didn't want local elections held before the general election.

The national party conventions are held in the late summer about two and a half months before the election.

That is still a tiny fraction of the 500 members, but almost double the 12 women who held seats before the election.

The police then refused either party permission to hold motorcades on the day before the election.

He held the seat until his death shortly before the 1964 general election.

The Democrats, despite winning 5.7% of the total vote, did not win any electorates, including the two that they had held before the election.

The first national meeting was held in Toronto a few weeks before the 1993 election.

The election was held on 1 June 1887, 52 days before the next general election.

Evans held the seat until his sudden death, probably of heart failure, shortly before the 1945 general election.