Dual mandate
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A dual mandate occurs when an official serves in or holds multiple public positions simultaneously. This practice is sometimes known as double jobbing in Britain, double-dipping in the United States,
The MP-mayor of Belfort and the Cédric Perrin senator-mayor of Beaucourt at a ceremony in 2014
By-election
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A by-election is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections.
Dual mandate
…second office shortly before their other term of office was due to expire anyway and whereby the short time frame would not merit the cost of a special by-election. In 1996, for example, Jenny Kwan continued to be a Vancouver city councillor after being elected to the provincial legislature. The British Columbia…
A 1768 political cartoon about a by-election during the Middlesex election affair.
Democrat Morris Edelstein (left), Republican Louis Lefkowitz (center) and Communist Earl Browder, candidates in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Democrat William I. Sirovich, sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a "Democracy in Action" joint campaign meeting, January 30, 1940