16 Facts About Snap election

Snap election is an election that is called earlier than the one that has been scheduled.

Any election that occurs before the schedule is a snap election.

The most notable federal snap election is that of 1958, where Prime Minister John Diefenbaker called an election just nine months after the previous one and transformed his minority government into the largest majority in the history of Canada up to that date.

Snap election was called in the province of Ontario in 1990, three years into Premier David Peterson's term.

Snap election justified the snap election as a way for Canadians to choose which government leads them through Canada's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Finally a snap election was held on 12 June 1996, where Awami-League won a simple majority by beating its bitter rival BNP and stayed in power for the next five years.

However, another snap election was held in 2021 after collapse of the coalition government.

In Japan, a snap election is called when a prime minister dissolves the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

Marcos was self declared the official winner of the Snap election but was eventually ousted when allegations of fraud marred the Snap election.

In France, under the Fifth Republic, while the National Assembly is elected for a five-year term, the President has the authority to dissolve the National Assembly and call an early Snap election, provided the Assembly hasn't been dissolved in the preceding twelve months.

May 2012 legislative Snap election produced a deadlocked parliament and attempts to form a government were unsuccessful.

The June 2012 legislative Snap election resulted in the formation of a coalition government.

Snap general election took place in Slovakia on 10 March 2012 to elect 150 members of the Narodna rada.

The Snap election followed the fall of Prime Minister Iveta Radicova's Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party-led coalition in October 2011 over a no confidence vote her government had lost because of its support for the European Financial Stability Fund.

The Snap election was surprisingly won by the center-left Positive Slovenia party, led by Zoran Jankovic.

From 2011 to 2022, the conditions for when a snap election were called were significantly restricted by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 to occasions when the government loses a confidence motion or when a two-thirds supermajority of MPs vote in favour.