This article starts from a reading of the work of social science relating to political timelines and proposes a research approach based on the assumption that the report is specific to the time of elected representatives. While the election is seen as the reference time framework for political action, this relationship to time is mainly characterised by the regulatory precariousness of the mandate and the individual and collective work to adjust the electoral risk. This point of view makes it possible to identify general and prescriptive considerations relating to the specific nature of democratic time (uncertainty, short-termism, presentism) and to propose an initial approach to the adjustment of electoral patterns, above all on the issues of temporal codification of terms of office. However, it also allows a downward return to the various ways in which relations between the electoral frequency and the rhythms of action have been approached. The aim is not to determine the meaning and nature of this relationship between the concepts of cycles, critical configuration and the path of dependence, than to propose an observation of the intertwining of electoral and decision-making times in the daily management of individual and collective agendas, in order to better understand the spatial and temporal production of leaderships. ’