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While campaigning in 2016 the Yukon Liberal Party, and leader Sandy Silver, promised fixed election dates amongst other electoral reform. [46] [47] [48] Amendments to the territory's Elections Act providing for fixed election dates were passed in December 2020, and came into effect following the 2021 Yukon general election. [49]
Congressional pension is a pension made available to members of the United States Congress. As of 2019, members who participated in the congressional pension system are vested after five years of service. A pension is available to members 62 years of age with 5 years of service; 50 years or older with 20 years of service; or 25 years of service ...
This change also impacts pensions for some members of Parliament, as MPs need at least six years of service to qualify for a parliamentary retirement pension. The one-week delay in the election date means that the 80 current MPs that first elected in the 2019 Canadian federal election (held on October 21, 2019) will reach this six-year mark and ...
In peacetime, the Charter could theoretically allow almost six years between elections: under subsection 4(1) the House of Commons (or legislative assembly) would expire five years from the return of the writs of the previous election, and then section 5 would require an election to be called approximately nine months after that (at the latest ...
The 2025 Canadian federal election will elect members of the House of Commons to the 45th Canadian Parliament.The election will be called after the governor general dissolves parliament (via request from the prime minister) but, under the fixed-date provisions of the Canada Elections Act, must be held no later than October 20, 2025
The Parliament of Canada has two chambers: the House of Commons has 338 members, elected for a maximum four-year term in single-seat electoral districts through first-past-the-post voting, and the Senate has 105 members appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister.
Numbers in years unless stated otherwise. Some countries where fixed-term elections are uncommon, the legislature is almost always dissolved earlier than its expiry date. "Until removed from office" refers to offices that do not have fixed terms; in these cases, the officeholder(s) may serve indefinitely until death, abdication, resignation, retirement, or forcible removal from office (such as ...
For federal by-elections (for one or a few seats as a result of retirement, etc.) see List of federal by-elections in Canada. For the eight general elections of the Province of Canada held in 1843 to 1864 before confederation in 1867, see List of elections in the Province of Canada.