Candidates for many lower-level trial courts are selected in primary elections.

He recommends that the party be renamed the China Socialist Party and suggests that members of party committees be selected in open elections.

The city's legislative branch is split up into nine districts, with a council member for each district selected in partisan elections.

Members are selected in nonpartisan elections.

The report said that about a third of the legislators in Albany were first selected in special elections, with the candidates chosen by party officials.

The terms are staggered so that only three council members are selected in odd-year general elections.

Separation of Power Urged The theses propose legislatures selected in competitive elections, with full-time legislators and staff, adequate budgets and real power.

In accordance with that mandate, 70 delegates - including two Indians - were selected in special elections in December.

Candidates who have since been selected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics.

The mayor and a seven-member city council are selected in nonpartisan elections.