Some 13.8 million voters were eligible to participate in the provinces taking part in Saturday's vote.
As a result his party controlled the local government in most of the provinces.
The key now is to link this progress in the provinces to progress in Baghdad.
The provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Anhui are bracing for severe power shortages this summer.
Besides, to rise within the party, neophytes are expected to get administrative experience in the provinces.
But reform of this system requires not only approval by Congress but ratification by the provinces.
One day, however, Rwanda may end up administering the provinces of North and South Kivu.
Most of the provinces' money comes from centrally collected taxes, distributed according to population.
Constitutionally, the provinces control natural resources and will have to implement most of the regulations.
The centre is not afraid to push any problems back out to the provinces.
Its advice has carried weight with the provinces, which make the rules of the road.
Another is that the federal government, the provinces and the industry have stayed united.
Mr Cavallo has cut transfers to the provinces, which run schools, hospitals and police forces.
The government has already agreed with provincial governors to freeze central-government transfers to the provinces.
It all but ignores the provinces, whose discontents were among the most divisive forces in pre-coup Pakistan.
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On Sunday, he announced a 30-day nighttime curfew for the provinces of Port Said, Suez and Ismailia.
To be sure, the provinces are paying heavily for the new responsibilities given to them by Ottawa.
Except around the capital, the provinces affected are poor, over-populated, and prone to recurrent droughts and cyclones.
Farmers in the provinces will receive rebates of 13% on selected washing machines, televisions, refrigerators and mobile phones.
Several of its former officials worked for Mr Fujimori's regime, organising support in shantytowns and in the provinces.
The provinces of Chumphon, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surat Thani, Trang, Krabi and Phatthalung have been the hardest hit.
With the provinces chipping in more too, the freeze in health spending of the 1990s has been reversed.
Big issues, such as how much power the federal government will devolve to the provinces, are still unsettled.
In the provinces, they no longer feel compelled to lend to state companies.
And Mr Ahmadinejad has tirelessly toured the provinces, dispensing cash, infrastructure projects and folksy homilies to woo the poor.
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And therefore he's been traveling nonstop to the provinces to appeal to people outside of Tehran for the votes.
If house-brand shoes don't hurt Saks' cachet, its expansion into the provinces might.
It will be shown in all the provinces and will be brought back to Havana in December this year.
And some of the provinces are demanding that the central, Madrid, government have even less power in the future.
He has peppered the provinces with promises of local infrastructure and new jobs.
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