41.   Jean Charest, the provincial head of the Liberal Party in Quebec, hopes the issue can help him topple the Parti Quebecois in the next provincial election.

42.   Meanwhile, Menem-backed candidates in provincial elections stumbled.

43.   On Monday, Syria holds parliamentary elections, Quebec holds provincial elections.

44.   On Friday, a lone arsonist set ablaze a provincial election bureau and destroyed voting materials.

45.   Partially turning around a sweep by the right in Sicilian provincial elections, the center-left grabbed seats in Syracuse and Caltanisetta from center-right incumbents.

46.   Russian voters cast ballots Sunday in provincial elections in the Kirov, Vologda and Kaliningrad regions to elect new governors who will also serve in parliament.

47.   Provincial elections scheduled for next month in northwest Sri Lanka will be a popularity test for Kumaratunga in a region governed by the main opposition.

48.   Provincial elections are to follow.

49.   Security tight before provincial elections.

50.   Russians vote in provincial elections.