1849 Danish Folketing election 1849 Danish Folketing election The first Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 4 December 1849. Adam Wilhelm Moltke remained Prime Minister after the elections. The elections were held using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies. Only 14% of the population was eligible to vote in the elections, with suffrage restricted to men over 30 who were not receiving poor relief (or who had not paid back any previous 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.
Opening of the Canadian parliament the date may be amended by subsequent proclamations, so long as parliament eventually meets as required by the Constitution Act, 1867). These read as follows: A later proclamation gives the precise time for parliament to open: Of the governor general's deputies, only the justices of the supreme court can summon parliament (though they, nor the other deputies, may dissolve it). Canada has two types of opening for the federal parliament, differentiated by scale: Larger openings, called "bench openings", require the seating of the Senate (where the monarch, governor general, or another delegate reads the Throne Speech), which is rearranged to