31.   Socialist Mayor Lucien Cilla won a by-election for a seat in the General Council, one of two local legislatures in this French overseas department.

32.   The Canadian-educated Macau native is the vice chairman of the local legislature and the son of the well-respected community leader, the late Ho Yin.

33.   The demonstrators lined up about ten paces apart and traded shouts and epithets on the grounds of the local legislature buildings in the provincial capital of Ujungpandang.

34.   The local legislature was dissolved on Friday.

35.   The nomination of Michael Watson sailed through the local legislature on Monday.

36.   The plan failed last month after the local legislature, loyal to Nazdratenko, refused to hold them.

37.   The three states with governorship races will also vote for local legislatures and mayorships.

38.   The violence broke out Friday after the local legislature authorized the seizure of small launches suspected of smuggling contraband across the Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco.

39.   Three groups, which control the government in two southern Indian states and one northeastern state, have the Congress Party as its main opposition in local legislatures.

40.   Voters will choose a new president and legislature for Tanzania, as well as a new president and local legislature for Zanzibar.