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Contemporary elections in British Columbia use a relatively unique system of handling absentee ballots. [10] While all jurisdictions in Canada allow for absentee voting through advance communication with the appropriate federal or provincial election agency, British Columbia is unique in allowing same-day absentee voting at any polling station in the province; ballots so cast are not counted ...
His invasion of Roman Asia in 89 BC triggered the First Mithridatic War. By 88 BC, the war was largely over, except for some isolated holdouts. [101] Elections for the consulship of 88 were delayed by Pompey Strabo's late return to the city, but eventually returned Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Quintus Pompeius Rufus.
Sulla's election to the consulship, successful likely due to his military success in 89 BC, was not uncontested. Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo , merely an ex-aedile and one of Sulla's long-time enemies, had contested the top magistracy.
Year 89 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Strabo and Cato (or, less frequently, year 665 Ab urbe condita ) and the Fourth Year of Zhenghe .
Vesta and the voter are allusions to the election of Longinus Ravilla as prosecutor in the Vestals' scandal of 113. The gens Cassia was a Roman family of great antiquity. The earliest members of this gens appearing in history may have been patrician , but all those appearing in later times were plebeians .
This was followed by his election as Praetor in 89 BC, and his appointment as governor of Sicily. He kept the peace in his province, defending it against the Italian socii during the Social War. [7] He managed to capture Rhegium from the Samnites in 88 BC. [8] [9] During the civil war between Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla he sided ...
The 2024 British Columbia general election was held on October 19, 2024, to elect 93 members (MLAs) of the Legislative Assembly to serve in the 43rd parliament of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The election was the first to be held since a significant redistribution of electoral boundaries was finalised in 2023. The Legislative ...
Victoria-Beacon Hill was created in 1989, in time for the 1991 British Columbia general election, after the abolition of the two-member district of Victoria along with all other such dual ridings. In the 2008 boundary redistribution, Victoria-Beacon Hill kept 89 per cent of its area and added nine per cent of Victoria-Hillside.