After the expiration of the normal term of a legislature, elections will have to be organised. Three types of regulations can be distinguished as to the choosing of the date of these ordinary elections:
A. in a number of states the date of these elections is precisely determined in the Constitution or in the electoral law;
B. in a number of states the date of the elections will have to be chosen by an authority, in a fairly strict temporal framework determined in the Constitution or the electoral law;
C. in other states an authority disposes of a (fairly) large margin of appreciation in choosing the date on which the ordinary elections will have to take place.