May 1853 Danish Folketing election poor relief received), were not classed as "dependents" (those who were privately employed but did not have a household) and who had lived in their constituency for a certain length of time. May 1853 Danish Folketing election Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 27 May 1853. Although elections had been held in February, the legislature was dissolved after the government failed to win a vote on who would succeed King Frederick VII on 18 April, resulting in early elections. Anders Sandøe Ørsted remained Prime Minister after the elections. The elections were held using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies. Only
Basque Parliament Basque Parliament The Basque Parliament (Basque: "Eusko Legebiltzarra", Spanish: "Parlamento Vasco") is the legislative body of the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain and the elected assembly to which the Basque Government is responsible. The Parliament meets in the Basque capital, Vitoria-Gasteiz, although the first session of the modern assembly, as constituted by the Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country, was held in Guernica – the symbolic centre of Basque freedoms – on 31 March 1980. Later in 1980 it started meeting at the premises of the Alavese government. In 1982, it got its own site in a former high