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56-495: The Australian Republic Movement ( ARM ) is a non-partisan organisation campaigning for Australia to become a republic. The ARM and its supporters have promoted various models, including a parliamentary republic , and the organisation has branches active in all states and territories. The ARM was founded on 7 July 1991 and was originally known as the Australian Republican Movement. Its first chairman

112-553: A political party . While an Oxford English Dictionary definition of partisan includes adherents of a party, cause, person, etc., in most cases, nonpartisan refers specifically to political party connections rather than being the strict antonym of "partisan". In Canada, the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories and the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut are the only bodies at

168-561: A vote of confidence (which the government won). The 2009 elections adopted re-drawn electoral constituencies based on the 2001 census , following the 2002 Delimitation Commission of India , whose recommendations were approved in February 2008. In the 2009 general elections, 499 out of the total 543 Parliamentary constituencies were newly delimited constituencies. This affected the National Capital Region of Delhi ,

224-524: A criminal case against the BJP's candidate Varun Gandhi for his allegedly inflammatory speech against minority communities made on 7 March 2009. This decision was taken after the EC had earlier issued a notice to Varun Gandhi and the BJP. After reviewing the incident, the EC found Varun Gandhi guilty of violating the model code of conduct by creating feeling of enmity and hatred between different communities and issued

280-529: A few places in Chhattisgarh , Orissa, Bihar , Jharkhand and Maharashtra and between 17 and 19 people were killed in Naxal attacks. The dead included five poll officials and 10 security personnel, whose families received a compensation of Rs 1 million. Naxals set fire to voting machines, attacked voters, security personnel and polling workers, and destroyed vehicles. According to one news source, "It

336-506: A full five-year term. The UPA was able to put together a comfortable majority with support from 322 of the 543 elected members. External support was provided by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S)), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and other minor parties. The newly formed Third Front led by Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) mainly constitute of regional parties gives

392-411: A head of state who is elected by the public could cause conflict with a prime minister and Parliament . Then-ARM Chair Peter FitzSimons dismissed these criticisms, claiming that a head of state's powers would be limited and would be unable to dismiss a prime minister. Nonpartisanism Nonpartisanship , also known as nonpartisanism , is a lack of affiliation with, and a lack of bias towards,

448-534: A major challenge to United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) making the election a triangular fight. Singh was sworn in as Prime Minister on 22 May 2009 at the Ashoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan . The election, while following the normal five-year cycle, came after a break in the old UPA alliance after the left parties withdrew support of the Indo-US nuclear deal forcing

504-509: A new front, hoping to be kingmakers after the election. Despite announcing this front, the constituent parties continued to declare their support for the UPA. The Congress party bought the rights for the Oscar -winning soundtrack " Jai Ho " from the movie Slumdog Millionaire , which was used as the official campaign tune by the party. The song title "Jai Ho" translates to 'Let there be victory', and

560-448: A recommendation the BJP to drop him from their list of candidates. The BJP however came out in support of Varun and refused to drop him as a candidate. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) formed a Third Front . The Third Front tried to contest the election, hoping to create a non-BJP, non-Congress government, by attracting many local and regional parties, that were once with the other two alliances. The Third Front came into

616-498: A vote where the public would elect their preferred candidate and would serve for a five-year term. A majority of ARM members voted to support the policy, however the policy announcement raised concerns and criticisms from the Australian Monarchist League , as well as other republicans, including former prime minister Paul Keating and former New South Wales Premier Bob Carr . Critics such as Carr claim that

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672-519: A year before the election) that their candidate for prime minister would be BJP party leader Advani who was the Leader of the Opposition at the time. On 23 January 2008, leaders from BJP and other NDA parties convened in the capital to officially elect him as their candidate for the election. Seats: The newly formed alliance carried with them 109 seats before the 2009 election. The CPI(M) led

728-548: Is a good example of a nonpartisan organization. The New York Times has at times listed the organization as being liberal , liberal-centrist, centrist , and conservative . In 2008, The New York Times published an article where it referred to the "conservative Brookings Institution". In the Progressive Era , the Nonpartisan League was an influential socialist political movement, especially in

784-482: Is the only state legislature that is entirely officially nonpartisan; additionally, the bicameral Fono of American Samoa is the only territorial legislature that is officially nonpartisan. Although elections may be officially nonpartisan, in some elections (usually involving larger cities or counties, as well as the Nebraska unicameral) the party affiliations of candidates are generally known, most commonly by

840-530: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences , New Delhi. Following the surgery, speculation of alternate PM candidates arose both within the Congress and amongst coalition partners. In an attempt to quell such speculations, Sonia Gandhi on 6 February 2009, confirmed that Manmohan Singh would be the UPA's PM candidate by writing so in the Congress party magazine Sandesh . This was the first time in

896-537: The Election Commission of India (ECI) and are normally held in multiple phases to better handle the large electorate and security concerns. The 2009 elections were held in five phases. In February 2009, Rs. 11.20 billion ( $ 200.5 million) was budgeted for election expenses by parliament. A total of 8,070 candidates contested 543 seats elected in single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting . Voter turnout over all five phases

952-487: The Union Territory of Puducherry and all the states except Arunachal Pradesh , Assam, Jammu & Kashmir , Jharkhand, Manipur and Nagaland . While comparing election results, it must be borne in mind that in many instances a constituency with the same name may reflect a significantly different population demographic as well as a slightly altered geographical region. As in the 2004 election, this election

1008-466: The provincial/territorial level that are currently nonpartisan; they operate on a consensus government system. The autonomous Nunatsiavut Assembly operates similarly on a sub-provincial level. In India , the Jaago Re! One Billion Votes campaign was a non-partisan campaign initiated by Tata Tea , and Janaagraha to encourage citizens to vote in the 2009 Indian general election . The campaign

1064-517: The war in Gaza . Arts and cultural leader Esther Anatolitis and management consultant Nathan Hansford were subsequently elected co-chairs. The Australian republic referendum, held on 6 November 1999, was a two-question referendum to amend the Constitution of Australia . For some years opinion polls had suggested that a majority of the electorate favoured a republic. Nonetheless, the 1999 referendum

1120-490: The Congress hoped that the popular song would galvanise the masses during the almost one-month-long election season. On 24 March 2009, Congress President Sonia Gandhi released the party's manifesto for the 2009 election. The manifesto highlighted all the achievements of the UPA Government over the last five years in power and identified improving various policies to favour more rural & under-privileged sections of

1176-744: The Indian society. The Congress campaign ran into trouble when the Election Commission took exception to a full page advertisement on the 2010 Commonwealth Games taken out in major Delhi newspapers. The EC served notice to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports , the Cabinet Secretary and the Chief Secretary of Delhi, stating that the advertisement was a clear violation of the model code of conduct since it enumerated

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1232-721: The NDA formed the Government led by BJP's Atal Bihari Vajpayee . The government collapsed a few months later, but the NDA returned to power after the 1999 general election and this time the Vajpayee-led Government completed its full term from 1999 to 2004. Due to the volatile nature of coalitions, NDA won 181 seats after the 2004 election, but due to parties changing alliances, before the 2009 election they had 142 seats. The main opposition party, BJP, and its NDA coalition partners announced on 11 December 2007 (more than

1288-501: The UPA an edge over the NDA, but none were predicted to get absolute majority. The UPA including the Fourth front was, however, predicted by a few to get seats close to majority. The opinion polls reckoned that other regional parties would play an important role by winning a substantial number of seats. In results where the "Fourth Front" is indicated, the SP, RJD and LJP are not being counted in

1344-583: The UPA figure. In February 2009, the ECI banned the publishing of all exit polls starting 48 hours before Phase 1 of the election until the end of Phase 5. This was intended to prevent exit polls from earlier phases affecting voter decisions in later phases. The ban ended with the close of Phase 5 voting at 5:00 pm IST on 13 May. The first phase of the 2009 election took place on Thursday, 16 April with elections in 124 constituencies across 15 states and 2 union territories. There were incidents of violence in

1400-499: The UPA never enjoyed a clear majority on its own in the 14th Lok Sabha , it managed to complete its five-year term from 2004 to 2009 by securing outside support from the left parties (CPI(M), CPI, AIFB, RSP), Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party at different times during this tenure. Following the August 2008 confidence vote victory for the current government, a statement by Congress President Sonia Gandhi caused speculation that

1456-542: The UPA would project Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the Prime Ministerial candidate in the next elections. While Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader M. Karunanidhi supported Manmohan Singh as the PM candidate, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar tried to project himself as a possible Prime Ministerial candidate as well. On 24 January 2009, Manmohan Singh underwent a cardiac bypass surgery at

1512-865: The Upper Midwest , particularly during the 1910s and 1920s. It also contributed much to the ideology of the former Progressive Party of Canada . It went into decline and merged with the Democratic Party of North Dakota to form the North Dakota Democratic–;NPL Party in 1956. In the history of Milwaukee , the "Nonpartisans" were an unofficial but widely recognized coalition of Republicans and Democrats who cooperated in an effort to keep Milwaukee's Sewer Socialists out of as many offices as possible, including in elections which were officially non-partisan, but in which Socialists and "Nonpartisans" were clearly identified in

1568-481: The ability for donors to take a tax deduction, they are required to remain nonpartisan. This has caused some to question the ability of organizations that have the appearance of partisanship. The Brookings Institution is a Washington, D.C. think tank and 501(c)(3) non-profit, nonpartisan organization. Since its founding in 1916, it has had both identifiable Republicans and Democrats among its leadership. Owing to leadership changes such as this, some argue that it

1624-502: The achievements of the UPA Government. The EC has also asked the violators to pay from their own pockets. To counter the Congress' selection of "Jai Ho" as their official anthem, the BJP coined the phrase Kushal Neta , On 3 April 2009, BJP released its election manifesto in New Delhi. The party was taking on the incumbent UPA Government on the three fronts of Good Governance, Development and Security . The manifesto highlighted all

1680-475: The administration had deployed extra security in the area and the ECI has arranged for special transport to shuttle the refugees from the refugee camps to the polling booths. Both of these actions helped achieve the high turnout. The second phase of the 2009 election was spread across Wednesday, 22 April (Phase 2A) and Thursday, 23 April (Phase 2B). Phase 2A saw election in a single constituency in Manipur as it

1736-465: The alliance with 109 MPs, and various polling conducted before the election projected the alliance of getting over 100 seats. The CPI(M) created a campaign website hosting its campaign information to attract sympathisers among the netizen public to vote for the party. During this election, political parties used technology in innovative ways to reach out to the voters. Although SMS had been used during prior elections, political parties had realised that

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1792-403: The announcement of Prime Ministerial candidates prior to elections is not required. Prime Minister candidate : Manmohan Singh ( Indian National Congress (INC)) The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was formed after the 2004 general election to bring together parties that either allied with the Congress in various states, or were willing to support a Congress-led national government. Though

1848-481: The different NDA policies that the UPA reversed over the last five years. The manifesto laid a lot of importance on requiring strong, POTA -like anti-terrorism laws and vowed to make India a safer place if the BJP is elected. The full text of the manifesto is available at the BJP website. The BJP campaign faced its biggest controversy when the EC directed the District Magistrate of Pilibhit to lodge

1904-485: The elections were likely to be held between April and May 2009. He attributed this schedule to the examination period from February to March, making polling places unavailable. On 31 January 2009, fractures within the Election Commission came to the fore when Gopalaswami recommended to President Pratibha Patil that Election Commissioner Navin Chawla be sacked for behaving in a partisan manner. This recommendation in itself

1960-478: The electoral rolls continued until the last date of filing nominations. 714 million people were eligible to vote in 2009, up 6.4% (43 million) from 2004. This election also saw the entire country except the states of Assam , Nagaland and Jammu & Kashmir use photo electoral rolls. This meant that the photo of each elector was printed on the electoral rolls and this was intended to facilitate easy identification and prevent impersonations. In addition to

2016-678: The fate of 1,715 candidates. The ECI ordered repoll in 46 polling booths across 7 of the states where polling took place in the first phase. These include 29 polling booths in Andhra Pradesh , 5 each in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh , 3 in Nagaland , 2 in Kerala and 1 each in Jammu & Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh . The repoll in all these polling booths were held on 18 April 2009. One of

2072-539: The formation of the Third Front for the 2009 election. This front was basically a collection of regional political parties who were neither in UPA nor in the NDA. Seats: The newly formed alliance carried with them 64 seats before the 2009 election. The Samajwadi Party , Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Lok Janshakti Party failed to reach seat sharing agreements with the Congress and decided to form

2128-585: The groups endorsing a particular candidate (e.g., a candidate endorsed by a labor union would be generally affiliated with the Democratic Party, while a candidate endorsed by a business coalition would be generally affiliated with the Republican Party). Churches and charities in the United States are mainly formed under US Internal Revenue Service tax code 501(c)(3) non-profit organization regulations. To maintain that tax-exempt status, and

2184-406: The history of Indian elections that the Congress party had declared its Prime Ministerial candidate prior to the elections. Prime Minister candidate : Lal Krishna Advani ( Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)) The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was the first large national coalition formed by a national party supported by various regional parties. It was formed after the 1998 general election and

2240-594: The members of the fifteenth Lok Sabha . With an electorate of 716 million, it was the largest democratic election in the world until being surpassed by the 2014 general election . By constitutional requirement, elections to the Lok Sabha must be held every five years or when Parliament is dissolved by the president . The previous elections were held in May 2004 and the term of the 14th Lok Sabha would have naturally expired on 1 June 2009. Elections are organised by

2296-457: The only reliable electoral vehicles for advancing the ideas and interests of ordinary voters". However, nonpartisan elections are quite common at the local level, primarily in an effort to keep national issues from being mixed up with local issues. Today, nonpartisan elections are generally held for municipal and county offices, especially school board , and are also common in the election of judges. The unicameral Legislature of Nebraska

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2352-495: The other hand, wanted the election to only start after Gopalaswami retired. Eventually, on 1 March 2009, President Patil rejected Gopalaswami's recommendation to remove Chawla after the Government advised her to do so. Soon after the above announcement by President Patil, the Election Commissioners got together to announce the details of the general election. The polling schedule for the 2009 General Elections

2408-607: The photo electoral rolls, the electors also needed to provide separate photo identification. Those electors who had already been issued Electoral Photo Identification Cards (EPIC) were only permitted to use the EPIC for identification at the polling station. According to the EC, 82% of the country's electors (except those in Assam) have been issued EPIC before the 2009 election was announced. The Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC), N. Gopalaswami , had stated on 28 December 2008, that

2464-581: The polling station in Banej village in the Una segment of Junagadh , Gujarat had the unique claim to being the only polling station in the country that catered to a single elector – Guru Shree Bharatdasji Bapu, a priest of a Shiva temple in the middle of the Gir Forest . The electoral rolls had to be completely updated because of the delimitation that took effect from February 2008. The process of updating

2520-405: The positive stories emerging from this phase of election was from Kandhamal district , where refugees of the 2008 Kandhamal riots came out in huge numbers to exercise their franchise. It is estimated that there was a turnout of 90% amongst Kandhamal refugees and 50% across the entire district. The administration had earlier identified large parts of the area as Naxal affected and vulnerable. Hence,

2576-677: The press. (Such candidates were sometimes called "fusion" candidates. ) This lasted from the 1910s well into the 1940s. (The similar effort in 1888 to prevent Herman Kroeger 's election as a Union Labor candidate had been conducted under the banner of a temporary "Citizen's Party" label. ) During the period of Socialist- Progressive cooperation (1935–1941), the two sides were called "Progressives" and "Nonpartisans". 2009 Indian general election Manmohan Singh INC Manmohan Singh INC General elections were held in India in five phases between 16 April 2009 and 13 May 2009 to elect

2632-447: The rural and illiterate voters which form a majority could not read. Young and technology savvy politicians quickly realised that voice was the way to reach out to the rural community as they could speak their language. This turned out to be very interesting as two voice companies from India, TringMe and VoiceHawk played the pivotal role in reaching out to the billion people of India. Most opinion polls conducted by major agencies gave

2688-506: The volatile nature of coalition politics in India, many parties changed alliances before, during and after the elections. The two larger coalitions, UPA and NDA, had clearly indicated their prime ministerial candidates during campaigning for the election. The Third Front announced repeatedly through the campaigning period that their prime ministerial candidate would only be decided after the election results came out. In Indian parliamentary system,

2744-496: Was a non-partisan campaign initiated by Anal Saha . Historian Sean Wilentz argues that from the days of George Washington's farewell address, to Senator Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic national convention in 2004, politicians have called upon Americans to move beyond parties. Wilentz calls this the post-partisan style, and argues that "the antiparty current is by definition antidemocratic, as political parties have been

2800-429: Was also conducted completely using electronic voting machines (EVMs), with 1,368,430 voting machines deployed across the country. There were 828,804 Polling Stations around the country – a 20% increase over the number from the 2004 election. This was done mainly to avoid vulnerability to threat and intimidation, to overcome geographical barriers and to reduce the distance travelled by voters. The CEC announced that

2856-605: Was announced by the Chief Election Commissioner on 2 March 2009. Subsequently, the President's House announced on 4 March 2009 that CEC Gopalaswami would retire as scheduled on 20 April 2009 and Navin Chawla would take over as CEC starting 21 April 2009. It was the first time in the history of Indian politics that two different people oversaw different phases of the same election. The 2009 general election saw three main national pre-poll alliances. Given

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2912-499: Was apparent that the Naxals had clearly planned to disrupt the polls." Despite these incidents, the ECI expressed satisfaction about the conduct of the polls due to peaceful polling in many other parts of the country. Initial reports from the ECI place the voter turnout for this phase at approximately 60 percent. This phase of the election was held in 185,000 polling stations, serving an electorate of over 143.1 million deciding

2968-564: Was around 58%. The results of the election were announced within three days of phase five, on 16 May. The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by the Indian National Congress formed the government after winning a majority of seats, with strong results in Andhra Pradesh , Kerala , Maharashtra , Rajasthan , Tamil Nadu , Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal . Manmohan Singh became the first Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru in 1962 to be re-elected after completing

3024-522: Was controversial, as it was unclear if a CEC had the legal and constitutional right to provide such a unilateral recommendation. Chawla refused to resign as he was expected to take over the post of Chief Election Commissioner a few months later. This controversy also resulted in speculation that the Election Commission was unable to agree on the actual polling dates, with the incumbent CEC Gopalaswami preferring that at least one phase of elections be held before his retirement on 20 April 2009. Navin Chawla, on

3080-702: Was defeated due to a range of factors, including a lack of bi-partisanship and division among republicans on the method proposed for selection of the president. The ARM announced their proposed model for a republic on 13 January 2022, the Australian Choice Model. The model would entail a process where the State and Territory Parliaments each nominate one candidate to be the head of state, and the Federal Parliament nominates up to three candidates. The list of these candidates would then be put to

3136-623: Was novelist Thomas Keneally , with other founding members including lawyer Malcolm Turnbull (later Prime Minister ), former Australian cricket captain Ian Chappell , film director Fred Schepisi , and author, journalist, and radio and television presenter Peter FitzSimons . Following FitzSimons' retirement as chair, Australian retired Socceroo and human rights advocate Craig Foster and former Olympian and politician Nova Peris were elected co-chairs. In May 2024, co-chairs Peris and Foster both resigned because of their differing responses to

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