The first Council was temporarily installed until official elections on 24 November 1906.

It includes organizing, executing and controlling all official political elections, and the proclamation of its result.

Women campaigned for the right to participate in the official elections and planned to create parallel municipal councils.

The caucus is two months before the official state-sanctioned election, and most years it has turned that event into a formality.

At the end of the race, Venable waited two weeks on official election results to concede his loss.

Protests continue, with an official election result due to be announced at around 1400 UTC.

But the Government requires indigenous people to hold an official election because the law states that only candidates affiliated with a party can be elected.

When the official elections were held in October, the ruling party candidates won with 2,894 votes.

According to official election results 12,7% voted for Muhammad Salih.

The National Congress itself remained in place until the official elections of a first Parliament on September 8, 1831.