However, this year the BBC will measure 2013 change in seats by comparison with the last election, 2009, when most of these councils were elected (thus ignoring subsequent by-election changes and councillor defections).
Turnout was 32%, dropping from 38% in the last election in 2009, and from 61% in 2005.
The elections come at a trying time for Mr Morales, whose approval ratings have fallen sharply since his landslide re-election in 2009.
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Following the decision by the parliament, women in Kuwait will make their election debut in the 2007 poll and in the next municipal election in 2009.
If its plan succeeds, the party will consolidate its power next year before Germany's federal election in 2009, after which Mr Huber may go to Berlin as finance minister.
Thabo Mbeki remains president of the country until his term of office expires at the next general election in 2009, while Jacob Zuma has taken over the running of the all-powerful African National Congress.
In that 2009 election, according to a council spokeswoman, there were no seats uncontested.
What does not get through is likely to become the stuff of the 2009 election campaign.
Albania has been paralysed by political deadlock since a disputed election in June 2009.
The Conservatives currently hold 51 seats, having lost three to their main opposition since the 2009 election.
With an election due in 2009, last August the prime minister, Denzil Douglas, took direct responsibility for national security.
Mr Ozawa loudly complains that the DPJ has broken its 2009 election promises, especially one not to touch the consumption tax.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa used the tension to forge national unity when he successfully ran for re-election in April 2009, said Vengoechea.
The 63-year-old prime minister has been in office since the 2009 election.
The 83-year-old L.K. Advani, who led the party in the 2009 election, also lingers, ghostlike, hoping for another pop at being prime minister.
Nationwide the ID is tiny: in the last general election, in 2009, it got less than 1% of the vote, returning four MPs.
President Armando Guebuza, once a Marxist intellectual and now a figure close to the business elite, won the 2009 election with 75% of the vote.
The results came from a high turnout -- the percentage of eligible voters who cast a vote was 66.6%, 1% more than the 2009 election.
It comes after a high turnout -- the percentage of eligible voters who cast a vote was 66.6%, just 1% more than the 2009 election.
With an election due in 2009, it is worried about the knock-on effect on those working in the unorganised retail sector, India's second-biggest employer after agriculture.
Congress is already unsure whether Mrs Gandhi's gauche 37-year-old son and presumed successor, Rahul, would be ready to lead the party in an election due by 2009.
He won re-election in April 2009 after voters approved a constitutional rewrite that mandated a new ballot, and he would be legally barred from running again following a victory Sunday.
Kerry persuaded Afghan President Hamid Karzai to agree to an election runoff in 2009, and he traveled to Pakistan after a series of incidents, including the raid that killed bin Laden.
He fared poorly as a campaigner in the 2009 national election.
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Though it won only 5% of the black vote, that was nevertheless a sharp improvement on the estimated 1% it took in the 2009 general election.
At a mere 42, Ms Greening is ancient next to her replacement in the Treasury: Chloe Smith, a 29-year-old who entered Parliament at a by-election way back in 2009.
By early 2008, Germany will be in a period of permanent campaigning: a string of important state elections will lead up to a federal election due by September 2009.
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