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| competitive presidential election | ... s approved a new constitution by referendum, and in 1996, Déby easily won a | . He won a second term five years later. Oil exploitation began in Chad in ... |
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| a general election | ... he would be open to a revaluation of the Australian dollar. McMahon called | for the House of Representatives for 2 December 1972. Whitlam noted that t ... |
| 2002 election | ... ing slightly, mainly due to the new electoral system. They recovered in the | when they won four seats. All four seats were retained in the 2006 electio ... |
| 1917 referendums | ... He subsequently refused to publicly comment on the issue. Hughes' 1916 and | on conscription both had a No majority of around one per cent. Fisher visi ... |
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| 2009 Gubernatorial Election | ... ong the township's 34,749 registered voters, for a turnout of 73.3%. In the | , Republican Chris Christie received 66.8% of the vote (11,564 cast), ahea ... |
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| parliamentary election in 1997 | ... political arm founded in 1996 as Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS) won the | , but lost the following 2001 election. Currently, as a political party So ... |
| 1993 parliamentary election | ... ticipated, and no single party received more than 13% of the total vote. In | the "post-communist" Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) received the largest s ... |
| Contract with America | ... Republican Revolution took control and legislation intending to fulfill the | was coming from Newt Gingrich's House of Representatives. Many Democrats i ... |
| 2010 U.S. Senate election in Arizona | ... lk show host and former U.S. Congressman J. D. Hayworth materialized in the | and drew support from some but not all elements of the Tea Party movement. ... |
| Council of Florence | ... antinople before the other three Eastern Patriarchates. Subsequently at the | this, along with papal primacy, was confirmed by the Greek Patriarch of Co ... |
| 2005 | Scales appeared on a Labour party political broadcast during the | and 2010 UK general election campaign. She also supports the SOS Children' ... |
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| 2008 general elections | ... by Barisan Nasional, nine by Parti Keadilan Rakyat and one by PAS since the | . It was a sharp reversal from the 38 seats held by BN in the 2004 electio ... |
| 2006 election | ... 2002 election when they won four seats. All four seats were retained in the | . After gaining 5 seats in the 2010 election, in April 2010 Nick McKim bec ... |
| 2010 Sudanese presidential election | ... pite his international arrest warrant, Omar al-Bashir was re-elected in the | , the first democratic election with multiple political parties participat ... |
| 2004 election | ... the Liberal Party and became prime minister on December 12, 2003. After the | , his Liberal Party retained power, though it was reduced to a minority go ... |
| local elections | It is a part of the Daventry district. In the | of 2007 the Conservatives retained the seat but with a lesser majority tha ... |
| elected | ... , of the Hutu-dominated Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU) Party, was | in 1993 |
| election | The Labour Party retained power in the 27 July 2002 | , forming a coalition with Jim Anderton's new party, the Progressive Coali ... |
| 1998 federal election | ... e use of violence to the extent that we saw". Margetts lost her seat in the | , leaving Brown as the sole Australian Greens Senator |
| January 2005 presidential election | ... camps in Lebanon declared forty days of mourning for Arafat. Abbas won the | by a comfortable margin, solidifying himself as the successor to Arafat as ... |
| referendum | ... d reintroduced multiparty politics. Chadians approved a new constitution by | , and in 1996, Déby easily won a competitive presidential election. He won ... |
| referendum on electoral reform | A | on May 17, 2005 was held in conjunction with the provincial election that ... |
| second post-war free presidential election | In November 1995, Poland held its | . SLD leader Aleksander Kwaśniewski defeated Wałęsa by a narrow margin—51. ... |
| 2009 gubernatorial election | In the | , Republican Chris Christie carried the county with 60%. Incumbent Democra ... |
| Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007 | ... ed with 63% voting for the status quo in favour of First-Past-the-Post. See | for more information. This was the first referendum in that province since ... |
| 2009 Gubernatorial Election | ... the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received around 40%. In the | , Republican Chris Christie received 58.5% of the vote, defeating Democrat ... |
| The 1970 half-Senate election | ... ernment in 1949. The Coalition was returned to office with a slim majority. | brought little change to Coalition control, but the Liberal vote fell for ... |
| 1943 federal election | ... ble to get the better of Curtin. By the time the writs were dropped for the | , the Coalition had sunk into near paralysis. At the election, the Coaliti ... |
| 2006 Victorian State Election | ... eral Party was elected member for the electoral district of Benambra in the | in November 2006. He was re-elected in the November 2010 Victorian State E ... |
| Council of Florence | ... r John VIII Palaeologus attended the Council of Ferrara, later known as the | , to discuss a union of the Orthodox and Catholic churches. Despite being ... |
| 1984 federal election | ... Midnight Oil on 2 December 2002, to refocus on his political career. In the | , Garrett had stood for the Australian Senate under the Nuclear Disarmamen ... |
| subsequent elections | ... oris Voorhoeve. In 1989 the CDA-VVD cabinet fell over a minor point. In the | the VVD lost five seats, leaving only twenty-two. The VVD was kept out of ... |
| 2006 general election | ... h it was reduced to a minority government. Forced by a confidence vote, the | produced a minority government for the opposition Conservative Party, maki ... |
| the 2010 election | ... was not to run along with the Communists (since 1995 the Left Party) until | . In opposition to the Conservative - let be equally pragmatic and staunch ... |
| Norwegian European Union membership referendum, 1994 | ... etback, by moving the focus away from the party's stronger issues (see also | ) |
| Federal Electoral Tribunal | ... didates and such difference was just about the 0.58% of the total vote. The | declared an elected President after a controversial post-electoral process |
| 1997 parliamentary election | In | two parties with roots in the Solidarity movement — Solidarity Electoral A ... |
| City-County Council | ... fice since 1967. Discontent among these issues also returned control of the | to the GOP with a 16–13 majority. Ballard was re-elected mayor in 2011. Co ... |
| 2004 elections | ... eral elections. It was a sharp reversal from the 38 seats held by BN in the | and only the second time since Independence that the state fell into non-B ... |
| provincial election | ... rendum on electoral reform on May 17, 2005 was held in conjunction with the | that year. British Columbian voters were asked to approve a new electoral ... |
| elections in September | ... n Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp to form a three-month "Holiday Cabinet" until the | , which saw a rise in support of the Social Democrats. Following further n ... |
| last election in 2010 | ... years with half of the councillors elected at each election. Following the | there were 25 Liberal Democrat members, 12 Conservatives and 3 representin ... |
| 2001 federal election | In the | (the "Tampa election"), Brown was re-elected as a Senator for Tasmania, an ... |
| 1993 parliamentary election | The | halved the party's support to 6.3% and ten members of parliament. This dro ... |
| Wide Bay by-election | ... animously elected Billy Hughes leader of the Federal Parliamentary Party. A | was held to elect a new MP to that seat |
| general elections | ... 's administration under strong foreign pressure. On November 29, democratic | were held, with former Congressional president and 2005 nominee, Pepe Lobo ... |
| 1997 general election | ... part of the parliamentary constituency of Warwick and Leamington. From the | until the 2010 general election the constituency was represented in parlia ... |
| Australian electoral system | ... ive preferencing strategies prompted by the nature of Senate balloting (see | ) saw the Australian Labor Party and the Democrats rank Family First highe ... |
| Dutch general election of 1994 | Bolkestein's VVD was one of the winners of the | : they won nine seats. It formed an unprecedented government with the Labo ... |
| election campaign | In the ensuing | , the Australian Labor Party's focus was predominantly on the asserted ill ... |
| Missouri's gubernatorial election of 2008 | In | , Democratic Governor Governor Jay Nixon solidly defeated Republican U.S. ... |
| 2010 election | ... four seats were retained in the 2006 election. After gaining 5 seats in the | , in April 2010 Nick McKim became the first Green Minister in Australia |
| November 1999 election | After nine years in office, the National Party lost the | . Labour under Helen Clark out-polled National by 39% to 30% and formed a ... |
| August 2010 federal election | At the | the Greens received a four percent swing to finish with 13 percent of the ... |
| an election | Gorton called | for October 1969. Whitlam and the ALP, with little internal dissension, st ... |
| 1916 | ... forbids." He subsequently refused to publicly comment on the issue. Hughes' | and 1917 referendums on conscription both had a No majority of around one ... |
| Dutch general election of 2002 | In the heavily polarized | , dominated by the rise and murder of Pim Fortuyn, the VVD lost fourteen s ... |
| the by-election | ... of office. Gorton resigned his seat in the Senate, and in February 1968 won | for Holt's seat of Higgins in Victoria. For the remainder of the year, Gor ... |
| a third mandate | ... an uproar among the civil society and opposition parties. In 2006 Déby won | in elections that the opposition boycotted. Ethnic violence in eastern Cha ... |
| 1988 presidential campaign | ... eme of "France united", but he was not chosen for this position. During the | , he refused to choose publicly between the two right-wing candidates, his ... |
| 2002 gubernatorial election | ... state and federal level, though it voted for Republican Bob Ehrlich in the | over Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. The last time that Howard County ... |
| a constitutional amendment to fund and legalize embryonic stem cell research in the state | ... ame the first state to ban same-sex marriage. In 2006, Missourians voted on | —it failed in Franklin County with 56.13 percent voting against the measur ... |
| Italian general election, 1948 | ... der American pressure, the communist were expelled from the government. The | saw a landslide victory for Christian Democrats, that dominated the system ... |
| 1989 state election | ... reen Independents, and from the early 1990s as an established party. At the | , the Liberal Party won 17 seats to Labor's 13 and the Greens' 5. The Gree ... |
| Palestinian legislative elections | ... e station was launched on January 7, 2006, less than three weeks before the | . It has shown television programs, including some children's television, ... |
| 1949 election | ... s to Labor at the 1946 election, Menzies led the Liberals to victory at the | against the incumbent Labor government led by Curtin's successor, Ben Chif ... |
| election of 2006 | ... lfredo Palacio took his place and remained in office until the presidential | , in which Rafael Correa gained the presidency |
| 2005 general election | ... nting of children in schools without parental permission. Shortly after the | , 412 of the 646 MPs signed EDM 178 calling for a Climate Change Bill; onl ... |
| 1975 election | In the | Social Credit, under W.A.C's son Bill Bennett, won a snap election called ... |
| 2009 Gubernatorial Election | ... the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received around 37%. In the | , Republican Chris Christie received 68% of the vote, defeating Democrat J ... |
| 1994 general election | ... ublic of South Africa was adopted on 27 April 1994, at the beginning of the | , to replace the flag that had been used since 1928. The new national flag ... |
| 1940 federal election | ... te Adam Bandt, who is a crossbencher in the first hung parliament since the | . Almost two weeks after the election, Bandt and the Greens agreed to supp ... |
| November half-Senate election | ... in Corio in Victoria, and later that year in Capricornia (Queensland). The | saw a moderate swing to Labor and against the Coalition, compared with the ... |
| 1998 | ... in 1992, becoming Washington's first female senator. She was re-elected in | , 2004 and 2010 |
| Michigan's 2006 gubernatorial election | In May 2005, Dick DeVos ran against incumbent Governor Jennifer Granholm in | . DeVos was defeated by Granholm, who won 56% of the popular vote to Devos ... |
| 2005 parliamentary election | Stoltenberg's second cabinet has governed Norway since 17 October 2005. The | saw a vast improvement for Labour, and the party gained a majority in parl ... |
| 1946 election | ... e-right party in Australian politics. After an initial loss to Labor at the | , Menzies led the Liberals to victory at the 1949 election against the inc ... |
| 2007 municipal election | In the | , fueled by voter angst against increases in property and income taxes as ... |
| 2011 presidential election | ... quently supported moderate conservative candidates until the run-off to the | in which he supported the left-wing Ollanta Humala rather than his right-w ... |
| 2010 general election | ... ituency of Warwick and Leamington. From the 1997 general election until the | the constituency was represented in parliament by James Plaskitt (Labour). ... |
| 2004 | ... 92, becoming Washington's first female senator. She was re-elected in 1998, | and 2010 |
| 2005 general election | ... r a NKP–DPJ coalition did not arise, as the LDP won a large majority in the | . The NKP lost about a third of its seats in the 2009 upper house parliame ... |
| 1914 election | ... the 1951 election. The First World War had broken out in the middle of the | campaign, with both sides committing Australia to the British Empire. Fish ... |
| 1989 parliamentary election | ... aign. In 1989, the party made its breakthrough in national politics. In the | , the party obtained 13%, up from 3.7% in 1985, and became the third large ... |
| German federal election of March 1933 | ... e communal elections of 1930). The NSDAP received 45.9% of the votes in the | (the national average was 43.9%). Non-Aryan university staff were discrimi ... |
| 1984 federal election | ... (NDP) candidate for a NSW seat in the Australian Senate during the December | , Garrett obtained 9.6% of votes but was unable to obtain the required quo ... |
| 2010 general election | ... e United Kingdom by the first past the post system. The seat was won at the | by Thomas Docherty of the Labour Party. Previously, the seat had been held ... |
| 2000 federal election campaign | ... 0-01 - Often cited as the show's best joke, the sketch was aired during the | , and consisted of a staged rant by Rick Mercer |
| 1987 local elections | The first real breakthrough for the party in Norwegian politics came in the | , when the party nearly doubled its support from 6.3% to 12.3% (county res ... |
| Stoltenberg's re-election in 2009 | ... ty of standard education have been greatly debated by the public. Following | , the government has put further restrictions on immigration matters due t ... |
| 1979 election | The NDP peaked in popular support in the | with 46% of the vote. And after a minor decline in the party's vote share ... |
| 1972 election | ... of Australia. Whitlam led the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to power at the | and retained government at the 1974 election, before being dismissed by Go ... |
| New Hampshire primary | ... ally, and John Anderson. Dole received only 597 votes (less than 1%) in the | and immediately withdrew |
| A special election | ... eller list and by mid-December 2009 had total sales of some 400,000 copies. | was scheduled for January 19, 2010, for the U.S. Senate seat from Massachu ... |
| 1993 federal election | In the | , the Bloc won 54 seats (out of 75) in Quebec, sweeping nearly all of the ... |
| 1951 election | ... s Australia's first double dissolution election, and the only one until the | . The First World War had broken out in the middle of the 1914 election ca ... |
| 1974 election | ... or Party (ALP) to power at the 1972 election and retained government at the | , before being dismissed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr at the climax o ... |
| Women's suffrage | ... elos, E. The "Acquis" of the Constitutional Revision. pp. 131–132, 165–172. | was guaranteed with a 1952 Constitutional amendment |
| 1979 elections | In the United Kingdom with the | resulted in the victory of its Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher ... |
| regional elections of March 2004 | Following his defeat in the | , he decided to leave partisan politics and to take his seat in the Consti ... |
| 2011 | General elections are held every three years, with the last one in | and the next one not later than early 2015. National won the 2008 election ... |
| Parliamentary elections | ... nt. The choice of President must take into account the result of the latest | (i.e. the candidate supported by the victorious European political party i ... |
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| parliamentary elections were held | In September 2008, | . Lukashenko had allowed some opposition candidates to stand, though in th ... |
| 1987 general election | ... cies of the Labour Party in particular, during the period leading up to the | , in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher |
| New Hampshire primary | ... nt voters, however, Truman had only 18% while Kefauver led with 36%. In the | , Kefauver upset Truman, winning 19,800 votes to Truman's 15,927 and captu ... |
| first direct presidential election | ... ements in democratic reforms including his own re-election which marked the | for the Republic of China. The first native Taiwanese to become ROC presid ... |
| 2010 general election | ... Governor, both are Democrats. Malloy, the former mayor of Stamford, won the | for Governor, and was sworn in on January 5, 2011. From 1639 until the ado ... |
| 1998 elections | ... ernment". This style was very successful and the VVD won seven seats in the | becoming the second largest party in parliament with thirty-eight seats. T ... |
| won re-election to the Senate | ... f the campaign. In the fall, Dukakis fell to George H. W. Bush, but Kennedy | over Republican Joseph D. Malone in the easiest race of his career. Kenned ... |
| 1998 election | ... of the Assembly from 35 to 25, thus raising the quota for election. At the | the Greens won only one seat, despite their vote only falling slightly, ma ... |
| universal franchise | ... rty members, youth, trade unionists, farmers, and veterans. They called for | without property qualifications, a separate house of chiefs, and self-gove ... |
| 1995 presidential election | ... s supported the candidacy of the RPR Prime minister Édouard Balladur at the | , but Giscard supported his old rival Jacques Chirac, who won the election ... |
| Council of Pisa | ... Gregory XII (1406–15) was questioned about magical practices in 1409 at the | |
| general election | ... Annan Parbat, in August 1945, after the victory of the Labour Party in the | was confirmed. The colonel did not approve, he recalled a decade later, bu ... |
| elections to the | ... ent is elected for a renewable five year term starting six months after the | European Parliament. These were brought into alignment via the Maastricht ... |
| New Hampshire primary | McCain focused on the | , where his message appealed to independents. He traveled on a campaign bu ... |
| second term | ... and in 1996, Déby easily won a competitive presidential election. He won a | five years later. Oil exploitation began in Chad in 2003, bringing with it ... |
| Palestinian parliamentary elections | ... t won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament in the January 2006 | and then defeated the Fatah political organization in a series of violent ... |
| 1996 presidential election | In the | , he was elected with 41.4% of the votes |
| 2004 federal election | During the | the Australian Greens were branded as "environmental extremists" and "fasc ... |
| Council of Constance | ... f Prague. The Roman Catholic Church officially concluded this debate at the | (1414–1417). The conclave condemned Jan Hus, who was executed by burning i ... |
| 2005 general election | ... ely within the Glasgow City council area, with boundaries first used in the | , and each elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the plurality (first pa ... |
| the general election that took place that year | ... appointed on 6 February 2006 by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, following | . As with all other Canadian prime ministers, Harper is styled as The Righ ... |
| Swedish general election, 2010 | Results of the | in Haparanda |
| Local Elections of 2007 | ... the somewhat apathetic and incompetent running of the local council. In the | this contributed to the overwhelming victory of a small bypass pressure gr ... |
| 1913 referendum | ... ound 61 per cent voting 'No'. An additional six questions were asked at the | , on Trade and Commerce, Corporations, Industrial Matters, Trusts, Monopol ... |
| 1953 election | In the | , Bennett won a majority government, and both the Liberal and the Conserva ... |
| elected | Cardinal Karol Wojtyła was | John Paul I's successor as Supreme Pontiff on Monday, 16 October 1978. The ... |
| 1985 parliamentary election | ... , the party had not had a clearly defined ideology. In the campaign for the | the party attacked many aspects of the Norwegian welfare state, and campai ... |
| November 1946 elections | ... ote. Grenier's proposition was adopted 51 to 16. In May 1947, following the | , the sociologist Robert Verdier minimized the "gender gap," stating in Le ... |
| Haitian general election | ... 1990, the former priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected President in the | , winning more than two thirds of the vote. His 5-year mandate began on 7 ... |
| 1913 election | ... Disputes. All six were defeated with around 51 per cent voting 'No'. At the | , the Commonwealth Liberal Party, led by Joseph Cook, defeated the Labor P ... |
| Higgins by-election | ... 009, the Greens received over 30 percent of the primary vote in the federal | in Victoria, in the absence of a Labor candidate. It is the highest primar ... |
| election | ... following a very close race. The party took both U.S. Senate seats with the | of former Governor Mark Warner to replace retiring Republican John Warner. ... |
| 2010 parliamentary elections | In the | , the ruling New Azerbaijan Party strengthened its grasp on the legislativ ... |
| Fremantle by-election | ... n their second ever single-member electorate, with Adele Carles winning the | for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The seat had been held by ... |
| 1993 election | ... the Red Book. The Liberal Party won a landslide majority government in the | |
| recent county elections in 2009 | ... l divisions, with all county councillors elected every four years. The most | saw the election of 6 Green Party, 3 Liberal Democrat, 2 Labour Party and ... |
| in 2009 | ... It also for the first time got represented in the Sami Parliament of Norway | , with three representatives. This made it the fourth largest party in the ... |
| party's platform | ... gn policy driven by a nationalist agenda, and strong national defense.. The | is generally considered in the Indian political spectrum |
| Dutch general election of 1952 | ... n for the welfare state and decolonization of the Dutch East Indies. In the | the VVD gained one seat, but did not join the government. In the Dutch gen ... |
| 1945 general election | ... of the period and helped the Labour Party gain its landslide victory in the | . Priestley himself, however, was distrustful of the state and dogma |
| 2008 Western Australian election | ... meral parliament, averaging 16 percent of the vote but won no seats. At the | , the Greens won 11–12 percent of the statewide vote in both the lower and ... |
| 2007 state elections | Political party strength in Virginia has likewise been in flux. In the | , Democrats regained control of the State Senate, and narrowed the Republi ... |
| candidates that sought the Republican Presidential nomination in 2008 | The Bush administration, along with several of the | , supported increased Federal investment into the development of clean alt ... |
| Kennedy easily won re-election to another term | ... generated a large number of articles and books over the next several years. | in the Senate in 1970 with 62 percent of the vote against underfunded Repu ... |
| 1993 federal election | ... lection in an Edmonton-area riding. The party achieved major success in the | , when it succeeded in replacing the Progressive Conservative Party as the ... |
| 2005 general election | ... , including as its MP, Anthony Eden a former British prime minister. At the | , James Plaskitt had a majority of just 266 votes, making it a marginal se ... |
| 1998 election | He won the | and resigned in 2001 |
| 1969 general election | ... ainst the NDP and its leaders during this time, Robert Strachan and, in the | , against Thomas Berger |
| 2010 Haiti Elections | The first round of the | , was held in December and qualified Mirlande Manigat and Jude Celestin fo ... |
| 2011 local elections | ... ive Party together. The Progress Party however saw a strong setback for the | . The 2011 Norway attacks was pointed out by political scientists as the m ... |
| general election | ... ernment. Peel's failure to win a House of Commons majority in the resulting | (January 1835) made it impossible for him to govern, and the Whigs returne ... |
| European elections | ... ority for a nominee for the post of President, taking account of the latest | . This proposal is then put before Parliament which must approve or veto t ... |
| 6 May 2010 | The Barking and Dagenham Council election on | ; all 51 councillors elected were from the Labour Party |
| 1940 federal election | ... candidate Adam Bandt. A crossbencher in the first hung parliament since the | , he is one of several crossbenchers providing confidence and supply to th ... |
| May legislative elections | ... ion, now organised into the Convergence Démocratique, over a dispute in the | . In subsequent years, there was increasing violence and human rights abus ... |
| June 2004 election | ... was a lack of coordination among the members of the group. For example, the | campaign of the Liberal Party of Canada was compared with "the Keystone Ko ... |
| February 1974 general election | ... nce 1945, there have only been two hung parliaments. The first followed the | when Harold Wilson was appointed Prime Minister after Edward Heath resigne ... |
| election in 1972 | The NDP first won | under Dave Barrett, who served as Premier for three years. The NDP passed ... |
| 1992 Democratic presidential primaries | ... ng initially backed former fellow Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas in the | . Kennedy floor managed successful passage of Clinton's National and Commu ... |
| Dutch general election of 1956 | ... on of 1952 the VVD gained one seat, but did not join the government. In the | they increased their total, receiving thirteen seats, but were still kept ... |
| Canadian Federal election of 2004 | During the | , the NDP stated that it would require the federal government to hold a na ... |
| 1998 presidential election | ... own for his anti-crime crusades. When Lim ran for the presidency during the | , his vice mayor Lito Atienza was elected as city mayor. Atienza was known ... |
| November 2000 election | The | gave the presidency back to Aristide with an overwhelming 92% of the vote. ... |
| 1910 federal election | Fisher's second Prime Ministership resulting from the | represented a number of firsts: it was Australia's first federal majority ... |
| 1911 referendum | ... alth power in certain areas, such as the nationalisation of monopolies. The | asked two questions, on Legislative Powers and Monopolies. Both were defea ... |
| 1983 general election | ... was famously used by the Conservative government on billboards during their | campaign, as the Conservatives controlled Clapham council at the time whil ... |
| 2008 Australian Capital Territory election | In the | , conducted under the Hare-Clark system of proportional representation, th ... |
| 2008 Armenian presidential election | ... n demonstrators led by ex-President Levon Ter-Petrossian occurred after the | . The events resulted in ten deaths and a subsequent 20-day state of emerg ... |
| 1981 parliamentary election | ... dropped out of parliament altogether in 1977, it returned in the following | with four representatives. In this election, the political right in genera ... |
| 1995 election | ... eduled end of his 5-year term based on the date of his inauguration. In the | , René Préval was elected as president for a five-year term, winning 88% o ... |
| a constitutional amendment to fund and legalize embryonic stem cell research in the state | ... ame the first state to ban same-sex marriage. In 2006, Missourians voted on | —it failed in Texas County with 61.13 percent voting against the measure. ... |
| Dutch general election of 2003 | In the | the VVD gained four seats, making a total of twenty-eight. The party had e ... |
| Peruvian general election, 2011 | In April 2011, the writer took part in the | by saying he was going to vote for Alejandro Toledo (Peruvian former presi ... |
| May 2010 general election | ... d not have a majority, they were the largest party. The second followed the | , in which the Conservatives (the largest party) and Liberal Democrats agr ... |
| 2008 Quebec provincial election | ... the Bloc. Gilles Duceppe has recently helped Pauline Marois campaign in the | , she did not win and the Liberals gained a slight majority |
| the Whitlam government was returned | ... ection. After a campaign featuring the Labor slogan "Give Gough a fair go", | , with its majority in the House of Representatives cut from seven to five ... |
| 1988 election | ... iament for the riding of LaSalle—Émard in Montreal from his election in the | to his retirement in 2008. He served as Minister of Finance from 1993 to 2 ... |
| New Hampshire primary | After being persuaded to run, Eisenhower scored a major victory in the | when his supporters wrote his name onto the ballot, giving him an upset vi ... |
| general election in May 1997 | ... secretary John MacGregor MP. When the Labour government took over after the | , the new transport secretary (and deputy prime minister) John Prescott to ... |
| 2006 Mexican elections | ... without an absolute majority. The president may never get another term. The | had a fierce competition, the electoral results showed a minimal differenc ... |
| 1910 election | At the | , Labour gained sixteen additional seats to hold a total of forty-two of t ... |
| Dutch general election of 2006 | The | did not start off well for VVD: top candidate Mark Rutte was criticized by ... |
| an election held in September 1957 | ... en he was forced to resign by a general strike. After a period of disorder, | saw Dr. François Duvalier elected President |
| 1949 federal election | In the | that followed his ascension to the Liberal leadership many wondered, inclu ... |
| Dutch general-election of 2010 | ... second largest opposition party in the House of Representatives. During the | the VVD obtained the highest number of votes cast, resulting in their occu ... |
| 1918 coupon election | ... tely for Keynes, conservative powers in the coalition that emerged from the | were able to ensure that both Keynes himself and the Treasury were largely ... |
| special election | ... various initiatives. Key among his reckoning with political realities was a | he called in November 2005, in which four ballot measures he sponsored wer ... |
| electoral system | ... 1, and its main rival was founded in 1909—from that point until a change of | in 1996, New Zealand had a two-party system in place. Today, New Zealand h ... |
| 1906 election | At the | , Deakin remained Prime Minister even though Labour gained considerably mo ... |
| Finnish parliamentary election, 2011 | Results of the | in Porvoo |
| Palestinian parliamentary elections | In the January 2006 | Hamas won a decisive majority in the Palestinian Parliament, defeating the ... |
| August 1978 | Luciani was elected on the fourth ballot of the | papal conclave. Senior Cardinal Deacon Pericle Felici announced that the C ... |
| change | ... ded in 1891, and its main rival was founded in 1909—from that point until a | of electoral system in 1996, New Zealand had a two-party system in place. ... |
| a constitutional referendum | ... in 1973. Whitlam and his majority in the House of Representatives proposed | in December 1973, transferring control of wages and prices from the states ... |
| Elections | ... pulace in secret ballot to represent geographically defined constituencies. | must be called at no more than five-year intervals. The Progressive Labour ... |
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| resulting general election | ... en granted his request as Heath had already failed to form a coalition. The | gave Wilson a small majority. The monarch could in theory unilaterally dis ... |
| multi-party | The politics of Switzerland take place in the framework of a | federal parliamentary democratic republic, whereby the Federal Council of ... |
| 1996 Senate campaign | ... rs, such as Weld's noncommittal position on Helms's chairmanship during his | and Weld's wife's donation to the Gantt campaign, made the nomination pers ... |
| presidential elections | ... Obama in 2008, after being won by Republican candidates in the previous ten | . In the 2010 elections, Republicans picked up three House seats from Demo ... |
| early elections | ... early summer of 2008 over disagreements about the country's EU policy. The | held on September 28 resulted in extensive losses for the two ruling parti ... |
| 2006 elections | ... ion against Democrat Phil Angelides, the California State Treasurer, in the | , held on November 7, 2006. Despite a poor year nationally for the Republi ... |
| 2010 UK general election campaign | Scales appeared on a Labour party political broadcast during the 2005 and | . She also supports the SOS Children's Villages charity |
| Voter turnout | ... unicameral legislature by 456,267 votes in favor, versus 88,720 against. ( | was 22.6% of the electorate.) However, the new government led by Luis Fort ... |
| representative democratic | The politics of New Zealand take place in a framework of a parliamentary | monarchy. The basic system is closely patterned on that of the Westminster ... |
| 1903 election | Labour improved their position at the | , gaining enough seats to be on par with the other two, a legislative time ... |
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| 1941 provincial election | ... al Liberal and Conservative parties formed a coalition government after the | when neither party had enough seats to form a majority government on its o ... |
| 2008 special election | ... ate and became a Washington-based lobbyist. Republican Roger Wicker won the | to replace him |
| 2005 gubernatorial election | ... ow; approximately 19% of Camden's voting age population participated in the | |
| New Hampshire primary | ... he 1968 presidential election. Once Eugene McCarthy's strong showing in the | led to Robert's presidential campaign starting in March 1968, Ted recruite ... |
| 1901 federal election | ... 99 referendum. Fisher stood for the electorate of Wide Bay at the inaugural | and won the seat, which he held continuously for the rest of his political ... |
| 2010 elections | ... by Republican candidates in the previous ten presidential elections. In the | , Republicans picked up three House seats from Democrats. Of the state's 1 ... |
| election on 12 June 1952 | In the | , the Liberals and Conservatives were decimated. Social Credit was the mai ... |
| 1996 | ... and she was joined by Dee Margetts in 1993. But Chamarette was defeated in | . Margetts opposed the industrial relations reform agenda of the Howard Go ... |
| General elections in November | ... 1987, a new constitution was overwhelmingly approved by Haiti's population. | were aborted after dozens of inhabitants were shot in the capital by soldi ... |
| major party | ... In response, Thompson publicly critical of the negative campaigning of both | candidates, who became a more viable option for some voters, garnered 10% ... |
| 1983 general election | ... abour Party adopted a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament. It lost the | "in which, following the Falklands war, foreign policy was high on the age ... |
| snap election | In the fall of 2000, the Liberals called a | that caught the Alliance off-guard. Nonetheless, the party went into the e ... |
| 2010 Australian federal election | In the lead up to the | , the Australian Christian Lobby and Catholic Archbishop of Sydney critici ... |
| 1969 general election | ... lity to win a general election, however, he proved his critics wrong in the | when Fianna Fáil won its first overall majority since Éamon de Valera in 1 ... |
| Bavarian state elections of 2008 | After the CSU lost more than 17% of the popular vote in the | due to the strict smoking ban that it pushed through the state parliament, ... |
| a constitutional amendment to fund and legalize embryonic stem cell research in the state | ... ame the first state to ban same-sex marriage. In 2006, Missourians voted on | —it failed in Ripley County with 57.39 percent voting against the measure. ... |
| 1937 election | ... orothy Steeves as CCF MLAs. The Constructivists nominated candidates in the | but failed to win a seat. The CCF regained their former contingent of 7 ML ... |
| 2003 Quebec election | The Bloc continued to slide in most of the 2003 opinion polls following the | which was won by the federalist Quebec Liberal Party led by Jean Charest. ... |
| direct presidential election | ... under Chiang's successor, Lee Teng-hui, which culminated in the first ever | in 1996. In 2000, Chen Shui-bian was elected the president, becoming the f ... |
| papal conclave | ... the Dominican Order, in which he acquired great fame as a preacher. At the | of January 1276 he became the first member of that order to become Pope. T ... |
| 2004 provincial election | ... merger, and the provincial party fielded a full slate of candidates for the | , on November 22, 2004, and won one seat in the Legislature |
| 1953 federal election | St-Laurent led the Liberals to another powerful majority in the | . While the Liberals lost several seats, they still had 111 more seats tha ... |
| party's platform | ... emocratic Party is older. Eighteen US presidents have been Republicans. The | generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S. political spectrum. A ... |
| 2010 general election | ... ning Minister, Bob Neill, stated that should the Conservative Party win the | , they would reverse the decision |
| 1967 elections | ... cabinet under Cals, which itself also fell the next year. In the following | the VVD remained relatively stable and entered yet again the cabinet under ... |
| held a referendum | On May 14, 2001, New Brunswick | on whether to continue to permit Video Lottery Terminals to operate in the ... |
| Irish general election | ... iament, considered by nationalists to be the Third Dáil, was elected in the | on 16 June 1922. Collins and de Valera agreed a pact between the pro- and ... |
| 2006 South Australian election | ... e leaving the Greens in 2006, and being re-elected as an independent in the | . In 2008, Queensland Labor MP Ronan Lee defected to the Greens, becoming ... |
| 1972 Tasmanian state election | ... of the first Green parties in the world, which first ran candidates in the | . Co-ordination between environmentalist groups occurred in the 1980s with ... |
| papal conclave | ... elected to succeed Pope Pius II by the accessus in the first ballot of the | of 1464 with a majority of fourteen of the nineteen cardinals present. Bef ... |
| Election Day | ... ector are nominated by their state political parties in the months prior to | . In some states, the electors are nominated in primaries, the same way th ... |
| Women's suffrage | ... campaigning for women's sexual, reproductive, and economic rights as well. | was achieved in Britain's Australasian colonies at the close of the 19th c ... |
| Project Vote Smart | From the late 1990s until 2008, McCain was a board member of | (PVS) which was set up by Richard Kimball, his 1986 Senate opponent. PVS p ... |
| 1923 general elections | ... m. He ran as a Labour Party candidate for London University in the 1922 and | after the death of his friend W. H. R. Rivers, but at that point his faith ... |
| Canadian Alliance leadership election | ... nvention, and, in April 2002, Stephen Harper defeated Day at the subsequent | |
| 2006 leadership election | ... came more populist, although some conservative liberal elements remain. The | was interpreted by many as a conflict between a liberal group and a conser ... |
| council of Basle | ... e the doctrine of Immaculate Conception, in sense of the declaration of the | . They forbade the preaching of the contrary doctrine, as well as 64 disci ... |
| the election | ... ntage, and his coalition of the Liberal and Country parties was returned in | with a seven-seat majority. After the election, Evatt attempted to purge t ... |
| 1992 general election | ... and Strasbourg for ten years. He was elected to the House of Commons at the | for Ashfield, making his maiden speech on 20 May 1992, following the retir ... |
| 1993 federal election | The Parti Québécois campaigned for the Bloc in the | in order to prepare Quebec for sovereignty, according to the Three Periods ... |
| legislative election | ... r their resignations (especially Dayan's) intensified. In the December 1973 | , Meir's Alignment party lost five Knesset seats |
| 1906 | ... ly for Mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909, for Governor of New York in | , and for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1910. Nonetheless, through hi ... |
| 2010 federal election | ... s elected to the Australian House of Representatives seat of Denison at the | . Wilkie was one of four crossbenchers who supported the Gillard Labor gov ... |
| Voter turnout | ... 057 registered Republicans, 130,214 registered Democrats, and 73,549 other. | in 2010 was 55.8%, the second lowest in 28 years |
| first democratic elections | In 1970, Pakistan held its | since independence. They were meant to mark a transition from military rul ... |
| democratic election | ... s speech heralded the beginning of a new era for the country, and the first | was held four years later, on 27 April 1994. Nobel Square in the Victoria ... |
| 2010 | In the 112th Congress, elected in | , the Republican Party holds a majority of seats in the House of Represent ... |
| Canada Elections Act | ... arliament and issue the writs of election prior to the date mandated by the | ; the King-Byng Affair was the only time since Confederation that the vice ... |
| second referendum | ... on Campbell announced due to the large support shown for electoral reform a | would be held in correspondence with the British Columbia general election ... |
| 1993 election | ... ting system was held in 1992, which lead to a binding referendum during the | . As a result, New Zealand has used the mixed member proportional (MMP) vo ... |
| 2002 | Republicans secured gains in the | and 2004 elections, with the War on Terror being one of the top issues fav ... |
| local elections of 2003 | The | were a success for the party. In 36 municipalities, the party gained more ... |
| 1983 UK general election | ... iety brought on by Thatcherism, released to coincide with the run-up to the | . Punch the Clock also generated an international hit in the single "Every ... |
| New Hampshire Vice-Presidential primary | ... ged far behind the front-runners. He was the only candidate to file for the | . Going into 1980, he was suggested as a potential running mate for Reagan ... |
| Dutch general election of 1971 | In the | the VVD lost one seat and the cabinet lost its majority. A cabinet was for ... |
| 2004 election | For the | the Bloc adopted the slogan Un parti propre au Québec, a play on words tha ... |
| elections | ... im authority. René Préval was elected President in February 2006, following | marked by uncertainties and popular demonstrations. The United Nations Sta ... |
| Republican nomination | In 1979, Helms was touted as a potential contender for the | for the 1980 presidential election, but had poor voter recognition, and he ... |
| party | ... 21 representatives that are elected to every four years. For 2007–2011, the | breakdown is as follows |
| 1957 parliamentary election | ... uty in the Parliament of Norway. He became a member of parliament after the | , and was with 29 years the then youngest MP |
| Senate re-election bid in 2008 | Stevens lost his | . He won the Republican primary in August and was defeated by Anchorage Ma ... |
| 1867 Quebec provincial election | ... mbership in both the federal and provincial governments, Cartier ran in the | . Cartier was elected as a Conservative supporter of the Pierre-Joseph-Oli ... |
| 1943 federal election | ... tivities, distributing literature for the Australian Labor Party during the | and urging the passage of the "Fourteen Powers" referendum of 1944, which ... |
| 2005 parliamentary elections | In the | , the party again became the second largest party in the Norwegian parliam ... |
| 2001 parliamentary election | After poor results in the | , and the subsequent fall of his government on 19 October of that same yea ... |
| Dutch general election of 2010 | After the | the VVD became the largest party with 31 seats and is currently the senior ... |
| 2010 general election | Following the | , Eric Pickles was appointed Secretary of State for Communities and Local ... |
| 2005 general election | During the | , Conservative leader Michael Howard visited the town. However, Sanders re ... |
| 1973 parliamentary election | ... be an unacceptable high level of taxes, subsidies, and foreign aid. In the | , the party won 5 percent of the vote and gained four seats in the Norwegi ... |
| 2010 general election | Following the | , Eric Pickles was appointed Secretary of State for Communities and Local ... |
| general elections | Members are elected to both chambers in | held every four years, along with the elections for the Governor and the 7 ... |
| referendum in 1922 | ... place a rationing system, the Bratt System, in force until 1955. However a | rejected an attempt to enforce total prohibition |
| two referendums in 1948 | The island of Newfoundland, then a British colony, held | to determine its future. An initial referendum was held on June 3, 1948 to ... |
| 2009 | ... the first time, a position it also held following the elections in 2005 and | . The other parties in parliament have historically refused any formal gov ... |
| by-election on 29 November 1952 | ... term and Whitlam was elected to the House of Representatives in the ensuing | . Whitlam trebled Lazzarini's majority in a 12 per cent swing to Labor |
| 2009 provincial election | ... al opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the | in British Columbia |
| 2010 general election | ... on. It is now part of the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency, formed at the | . Lynne Featherstone is the Liberal Democrat MP for the Hornsey and Wood G ... |
| 1997 election | Even before the Liberals' second electoral victory in the | , there was much speculation in the media and in Ottawa that Martin was af ... |
| Parti Québécois leadership race of 2005 | ... aphically, economically and culturally. It made a certain impression on the | , getting mixed reactions. It was well received in other quarters, garneri ... |
| 2010 federal election | At the | the Greens received a four percent swing to finish with 13 percent of the ... |
| 2011 NSW State Election | The Greens NSW State Conference prior to the | adopted of a resolution in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction ... |
| 2008 Northern Territory election | At the | , the Greens ran in six of the 25 seats in the unicameral parliament, aver ... |
| 1997 general election | ... ned the frontbench team as a spokesman on Trade and Industry. Following the | he became a member of the government of Tony Blair as the Parliamentary Un ... |
| 1933 provincial election | ... ed to become the Associated CCF Clubs. The new party won seven seats in the | , enough to form the official opposition. A further merger with the SPC (B ... |
| On the Issues | Stevens considered himself pro-choice. According to | and NARAL, Ted Stevens had a mildly pro-life voting record, despite some n ... |
| two referenda | ... he authority to amend portions of the constitution. Also in 1949, following | within the province, St-Laurent and Premier Joey Smallwood negotiated the ... |
| 2007 parliamentary election | In the | , the Civic Platform was most successful (41.5%), ahead of Law and Justice ... |
| Election Day | ... electors on a winner-take-all basis, based on the statewide popular vote on | . Although ballots list the names of the presidential candidates, voters w ... |
| 1978 | ... of the FPP system began in the 1950s and intensified after Labour lost the | and 1981 elections despite having more overall votes than National. An ind ... |
| 2010 general election | ... ning Minister, Bob Neill, stated that should the Conservative Party win the | , they would reverse the decision |
| local elections of 2007 | ... es, and head or participate in a future government of Norway. Following the | , Progress Party candidates became mayor in 17 municipalities, seven of th ... |
| party | ... 25 representatives that are elected to every four years. For 2007–2011, the | breakdown is as follows |
| 1922 general election | ... the summer of 1922, shortly after being named as a Labour candidate for the | . He had agreed to run for parliament, as he said |
| 1981 elections | ... PP system began in the 1950s and intensified after Labour lost the 1978 and | despite having more overall votes than National. An indicative (non-bindin ... |
| a by-election | ... Barnard a diplomatic post; in early 1975 Barnard agreed to this, triggering | in his Tasmanian electorate of Bass. The election on 28 June proved a disa ... |
| elections | ... protest at the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus. The first multiparty | since 1964 were held on the first anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising. ... |
| snap elections in 2008 | Berlusconi won the last | , with the People of the Freedom party (fusion of his previous Forza Itali ... |
| 1968 legislative election | ... hat reason the Gaullists refused to re-elect him in this function after the | . In 1969, unlike most of FNRI’s elected officials, he advocated a "no" vo ... |
| first elections | ... arts, each of which would have a separate home rule parliament. In 1921 the | were held to these new bodies. The general election created the House of C ... |
| Dutch general election of 1959 | ... , receiving thirteen seats, but were still kept out of government until the | , which were held early because of cabinet crisis. This time they gained n ... |
| 2005 general election | ... Conservative, Stewart Jackson MP , who defeated Labour's Helen Clark in the | . In 1997 the North West Cambridgeshire constituency was formed, incorpora ... |
| 2006 election | ... House of Commons, tying its previous record from the 1993 campaign. For the | , the Bloc used the slogan Heureusement, ici, c'est le Bloc! ("Fortunately ... |
| Hong Kong legislative election, 2008 | ... f gold medals won at the Olympics helped the pro-Beijing party (DAB) win at | , in which the DAB remained the largest party. In the days before the elec ... |
| Swedish general election, 2010 | Results of the | in Grästorp |
| first partially free elections | ... h variant of the High Noon poster into a Solidarity election poster for the | in communist Poland. The poster, which was displayed all over Poland, show ... |
| Greek legislative elections of 1974 | ... lture Section, while being involved in the women's movement as well. In the | , she was a PASOK candidate in the Piraeus B constituency, but the 7,500 v ... |
| 2001 federal election | ... first and only Australian Greens Senator to lose their seat. Elected at the | on a primary vote of 4.36 percent in New South Wales with One Nation and m ... |
| referendum on prohibition was held | ... formation. This was the first referendum in that province since 1924 when a | |
| 2009 parliamentary elections | In the months before the | , the party had, as in the 2001 election, rated very highly in opinion pol ... |
| Local Election Areas | ... ouncil is a unicameral assembly of 52 members elected every five years from | . It is presided over by the Lord Mayor, who is elected for a yearly term ... |
| Super Tuesday | ... imary on February 29, and on March 7 lost nine of the thirteen primaries on | to Bush. With little hope of overcoming Bush's delegate lead, McCain withd ... |
| 1908 election | ... nt. The only deviation from the FPP system during this time occurred in the | when a second ballot system was tried. Under this system the elections sin ... |
| 2010 city elections | ... e district of Santa Mesa, the most flooded area within the city. During the | , Alfredo Lim won against secretary Lito Atienza. After a few months of ta ... |
| 2008 federal elections | The Bloc made slight gains following the | as they won 49 seats, one more than the amount they had before the previou ... |
| election | ... hat, "We would have to respond. We would be forced to respond." However the | of the Conservative Party in early 2006 halted the liberalization of marij ... |
| Polish presidential election | In the second final round of the | on July 4, 2010, Bronisław Komorowski, Acting President, Marshal of the Se ... |
| 2002 general election | ... ion, which was triggered by the resignation of Michael Noonan following the | . The position of deputy leader has been held since July 2010 by James Rei ... |
| election | ... rship Scandal. Martin advised Governor General Adrienne Clarkson to call an | for June 28, 2004 |
| a constitutional amendment to fund and legalize embryonic stem cell research in the state | ... ame the first state to ban same-sex marriage. In 2006, Missourians voted on | —it failed in Madison County with 57.60 percent voting against the measure ... |
| 1872 election | ... erienced the first symptom of Bright's Disease, a kidney disease. After the | , Cartier traveled to London hoping to find a cure. His health did not imp ... |
| Council of Basel | Basel became the focal point of western Christendom during the 15th century | (1431–1449), including the 1439 election of antipope Felix V |
| 1980 elections | ... r the first time in 1977. Indira Gandhi led the Congress back to victory in | and Gandhi resumed the office of the Prime Minister. In June 1984, under G ... |
| 2005 | ... rway for the first time, a position it also held following the elections in | and 2009. The other parties in parliament have historically refused any fo ... |
| 2010 General Election | ... ox hunting and the culling of badgers meant he did not vote for them at the | . His group, Save Me (named after the May-written Queen song), campaigns f ... |
| local government elections of 18 May 2011 | In the | , the Democratic Alliance (DA) won an outright majority, taking 135 of the ... |
| elections of 1977 | ... enic Parliament (she needed 33 more votes), something that came true in the | , when she obtained the highest number of votes in the whole of Greece |
| 2007 federal election | ... Greens increased their national vote by 1.38 points to 9.04 percent at the | , with a net increase of one Senator to a total of five. Senators Bob Brow ... |
| Council of Constance | ... of these monasteries founded between AD 520 and 700 is amazing. Before the | , AD 1415, no fewer than 15,070 abbeys had been established of this order ... |
| 1994 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts | In the | , Kennedy faced his first serious challenger, the young, telegenic, and ve ... |
| elections in 2006 | The | returned Prodi in government, leading an all-encompassing centre-left coal ... |
| 1957 election | ... overnment's defeat at the hands of the PCs, led by John Diefenbaker, in the | . Because the Liberals were still mostly classically liberal, Diefenbaker ... |
| Newfoundland referendum | ... did not protest the British decision not to allow an American option on the | |
| 1951 election | ... arty. He intended to seek Labor endorsement for a parliamentary seat at the | , but withdrew in favour of another candidate. After the Labor split of 19 ... |
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| parliamentary general elections | Almost all | between 1853 and 1996 were held under the first-past-the-post (FPP) system ... |
| 2009 Gubernatorial Election | ... the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received around 37%. In the | , Republican Chris Christie received 70% of the vote, defeating Democrat J ... |
| federal election | In the 2007 | the most popular party was the FDP which received 36.3% of the vote. The n ... |
| 2009 parliamentary election | ... arty is Siv Jensen, who was the party's candidate for Prime Minister in the | |
| Super Tuesday primaries | ... to a candidate who was still not well known in much of the country, as the | across the nation approached |
| 1995 local elections | In the | the Progress Party regained the level of support seen at the 1987 election ... |
| 1957 election | In the | , the Liberals won 200,000 more votes nationwide than the Progressive Cons ... |
| an election for 10 December | ... s final Treasurer, Bill Hayden, and won by a two-vote margin. Fraser called | , and though Labor gained slightly, the Coalition still enjoyed a majority ... |
| Quebec election of 1994 | ... ted by PQ leader Jacques Parizeau. Parizeau became Premier of Quebec in the | (the second of the Three Periods) |
| 2010 election | ... 010–2013 term is Alfredo Lim, who defeated former mayor Lito Atienza in the | . The city mayor is restricted to three consecutive terms, totaling nine y ... |
| presidential election | No Republican has won the | in Manhattan since 1924, when Calvin Coolidge won a plurality of the New Y ... |
| Super Tuesday | ... nia primary. Carter won 11 of 12 primaries held in May, while on the June 3 | primaries, Kennedy won California, New Jersey, and three smaller states ou ... |
| won re-election to the Senate in 2006 | Kennedy again easily | , winning 69 percent of the vote against Republican language school owner ... |
| the 1999 referendum | ... and Fraser put aside their differences, campaigning together in support of | which would have made Australia a republic. In March 2010, Fraser visited ... |
| 2006 election | ... 1997 South Australian state election on 2.9 percent, and re-elected at the | on 20.5 percent, before being elected to the Australian Senate at the 2007 ... |
| 1997 parliamentary election | In the | the party became the second largest political party in Norway for the firs ... |
| Dutch general election of 1981 | In the | the VVD lost two seats and its partner the CDA lost even more. The cabinet ... |
| Irish local elections, 2004 | ... in city was regarded as a stronghold for Fianna Fáil, however following the | the party was eclipsed by the centre-left Labour Party. Fianna Fáil curren ... |
| 1957 general election | ... period Lynch served as Fianna Fáil spokesperson on the Gaeltacht. After the | Fianna Fáil returned to power and de Valera headed his last government. Ly ... |
| 2004 federal election | In the | , the Greens' primary vote rose by 2.3 percentage points to 7.2%. This won ... |
| 2008 elections | ... 07, her Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) won the largest number of seats in the | , and party member Yousaf Raza Gillani was sworn in as Prime Minister. Mus ... |
| the November election | ... th of fresh air, and attracted public interest and support in the run-up to | |
| 1994 elections | The | also swept media magnate Silvio Berlusconi (leader of "Pole of Freedoms" c ... |
| Political party | ... ee-component theory of stratification, with Social class, Social status and | as conceptually distinct elements |
| 1975 election | ... eader Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister. Labor lost the subsequent | in a landslide |
| 2004 election | ... atham risked endangering an alliance with the United States. Labor lost the | and Latham resigned from the House of Representatives the following year |
| Cornwall Council elections | ... nounced that thirty-three candidates would be standing for the party at the | on 4 June 2009. This was the largest number of candidates that the party h ... |
| by-election | ... presentatives seat for the first time when Michael Organ won the Cunningham | |
| 1997 parliamentary election | ... votes, as a result of the harsh media storm targeted against Hagen. In the | , the party obtained 15.3% of the vote, and for the first time became the ... |
| 2007 | ... s eight councillors: three in Edinburgh and five in Glasgow, all elected in | . There are also two members of the party sitting as Democratic Independen ... |
| 1945 election campaign | ... the United Kingdom, and used rhetoric critical of the mixed economy in his | . Despite his popularity as a war hero Churchill suffered a landslide defe ... |
| 2010 general election | ... onstituencies date from 1997. The boundaries were slightly modified for the | |
| legislative elections of November 1989 | In the | , PASOK lost and Mercouri was elected a member of the Hellenic Parliament ... |
| 2000 election | In the | , the Bloc dropped further to 38 seats, despite polling a larger percentag ... |
| presidential election in October | ... st and becoming the largest party in the Sejm, ahead of PO with 24%. In the | the early favorite, Donald Tusk, leader of the PO, was beaten 54% to 46% i ... |
| 2005 Westminster election | At the | , the party contested 19 seats and gained 25,760 votes. Its top result was ... |
| 1969 presidential campaign | During the | , he supported the winning candidate Georges Pompidou and returned to the ... |
| 1997 federal election | In the | , the Bloc Québécois dropped to 44 seats, losing official opposition statu ... |
| referendum | ... nsk's control over its section of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline. In 2004, a | was passed that eliminated presidential term limits, allowing Lukashenko t ... |
| 2005 general election | ... rved as the Lord Privy Seal and the Leader of the House of Commons from the | until 5 May 2006, when he was appointed on that day as Minister for Europe |
| 1986 elections | ... elfare state, which is still in place today. The VVD lost nine seats in the | but the cabinet nonetheless retained its majority. The losses were blamed ... |
| The general elections on 31 July 1932 | ... rnment, von Papen had the Reichstag dissolved and called for new elections. | yielded major gains for the KPD and the NSDAP (the Nazis), who won 37.2% o ... |
| 2008 legislative election | In the | , Green Party Taiwan formed a red-green coalition with a labour-led organi ... |
| 1969 election | ... e leadership and became Leader of the Opposition. After narrowly losing the | , Whitlam led Labor to victory at the 1972 election after 23 years of Libe ... |
| Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 | ... gle transferable vote system of election. This system was introduced by the | , as a means of ensuring a reasonably outcome |
| The 6 November 1932 elections | | yielded 33.1% for the Nazis, two million voters fewer than in the previous ... |
| 1999 local elections | ... for the first time became the second largest political party in Norway. The | resulted in the party's first mayor as a direct result of an election, Ter ... |
| 2009 European election | In Ireland, in the | , Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party took one of three seats in the capita ... |
| mid-term elections of 2006 | ... the House and Senate were held until the Democrats regained control in the | . In the 21st century, the Republican Party has been defined by social con ... |
| Democratic primary campaign | ... aged his campaign in the Western states. Ted learned to fly, and during the | he barnstormed around the western states, meeting with delegates and bondi ... |
| Dutch general election of 1982 | ... e Queen's Commissioner in Friesland and was succeeded by Ed Nijpels. In the | Nijpels' VVD won ten seats, bringing its total up to 36. It entered again ... |
| 2005 Palestinian presidential election | While Hamas boycotted the | , it did participate in the 2005 municipal elections organized by Yasser A ... |
| political parties | The emergence of | and nationally coordinated election campaigns soon complicated matters in ... |
| election of 1993 | ... onally provided New Democracy with strong support. After PASOK's win in the | , she was back at the Ministry for Culture. Her major goals in this second ... |
| 1961 election | ... y leader. Calwell came within a handful of votes of winning the cliffhanger | . He had not wanted Whitlam as deputy leader, and believed Labor would hav ... |
| leader of the Bloc | Following Bouchard's departure from Ottawa, Michel Gauthier became | . In the wake of the referendum defeat, Gauthier proved unable to hold the ... |
| East Prussian plebiscite | On 11 July 1920, amidst the backdrop of the Polish-Soviet War, the | in eastern West Prussia and southern East Prussia was held under Allied su ... |
| 2010 Victorian State Election | In the | , the Liberal party preferenced the ALP ahead of the Greens. The Greens pr ... |
| parliamentary election | ... part-privatising several key state-owned services and corporations. In the | of 10 September 2001, the party suffered one of its worst results ever, wi ... |
| 2006 Palestinian legislative election | In its election manifesto for the | , Hamas omitted a call for an end to Israel, though it did still call for ... |
| May 1974 | The Whitlam Government had won a second term in | following a double dissolution, but failed to win control of the Senate, w ... |
| March 2008 | ... ndependence on April 18, 1980, until it lost the parliamentary elections in | to the Movement for Democratic Change. In some quarters corruption and rig ... |
| Quebec provincial election | ... r, who resigned on 8 May 2007, after the poor performance in the March 2007 | and internal dissent forced him to step down. However, in a surprise move, ... |
| February 1948 | ... ical party Clann na Poblachta. A general election was eventually called for | , Lynch topped the poll for the Cork Borough constituency and became a Fia ... |
| Council of Florence | He re-introduced Plato's thoughts to Western Europe during the 1438 - 1439 | , a failed attempt to reconcile the East-West schism. Here Pletho met and ... |
| The next presidential elections | ... his own Minister of State, Amoussou, in what was termed a "friendly match". | were held in March 2006; with both Kérékou and Soglo constitutionally unab ... |
| presidential election in 1996 | Lee ran as the incumbent in Taiwan's first direct | against DPP candidate and former dissident, Peng Min-ming. This election p ... |
| 2008 presidential election | ... and Democratic-leaning area within the Fairbanks North Star Borough. In the | , the Ester precinct gave Barack Obama 379 votes (50.9% of the total) comp ... |
| 2005 general election | Following the | on 17 September 2005, negotiations between parties culminated in Helen Cla ... |
| election in 2010 | ... e aforementioned parties rejecting it. This was despite promises during the | of both parties saying they would "stand up for Cornwall. But Cameron and ... |
| 1970 Quebec general election | ... during his entire political career. Contrary to popular belief, during the | , he did not work for the federalist Liberal Party of Quebec; but, was dee ... |
| elected | ... legislature is the Assembly of the States of Jersey. It includes fifty-one | members: ten senators (elected on an island-wide basis), twelve Connétable ... |
| 2006 elections | In the | , they won 47,595 votes (1.52%). However, it was not enough to pass the 2% ... |
| federal election | In the 2007 | the most popular party was the SP which received 37.1% of the vote. The ne ... |
| 2001 election | ... Action (AWS) won the parliamentary election in 1997, but lost the following | . Currently, as a political party Solidarity has little influence on moder ... |
| presidential election | ... an sovereignty to a Union of African States. On 19, 23, and 27 April 1960 a | and plebiscite on the constitution were held. The constitution was ratifie ... |
| 2009 Local elections | At the | held on 5 June 2009, Fine Gael won 556 seats, surpassing Fianna Fáil which ... |
| general election in the autumn of 1806 | ... he death of Fox in September 1806 was a blow, and was followed quickly by a | . Slavery became an election issue, bringing more abolitionist MPs into th ... |
| 2005 election | ... gland for the party leadership in 2002, and led the party to victory in the | by forming a Red-Green coalition government with the Centre Party (Sp) and ... |
| Governor of New Mexico | He briefly flirted with running for | in 2010, but in the end declined to run |
| Canada's 35th general election | ... dian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during | , the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch com ... |
| 2010 House elections | Chesterfield County is entirely located in South Carolina's . As of the | , it is represented by Republican Mick Mulvaney, who comes from neighborin ... |
| November elections | ... election for the seat held for many decades by the Kennedy brothers. In the | , the GOP recaptured control of the House, increased their number of seats ... |
| General Election Law | The liberalization of election laws with the | in 1925, benefited communist candidates, even though the Japan Communist P ... |
| 2009 European Parliament election | At | held on the same day as the Local elections, which saw a reduction in the ... |
| Election Committee | ... vernment and an independent judiciary. The Chief Executive is elected by an | , an 1200-member electoral college consisting of individuals and bodies (i ... |
| United Kingdom general election, 2005 | Until the | , the first past the post seats were the same for the Scottish Parliament ... |
| leadership election | ... another favourite of Lemass's, Patrick Hillery, ruled themselves out of the | from the very beginning, however, other candidates such as Charles Haughey ... |
| leadership contest | ... Lynch's resignation came as no surprise. He narrowly defeated Colley in the | and succeeded Lynch as Taoiseach |
| Dutch general election of 1972 | The course proved to be profitable: in the heavily polarized | the VVD gained six seats. The VVD was kept out of government by the social ... |
| 1997 presidential election | ... cent Fine Gael presidential candidate, Mary Banotti, finished second in the | , with 29.3% of the vote. In 2004, Fine Gael supported the re-election of ... |
| previous elections in 2003 | ... he Knesset (Balad, with 72,066 votes, was the smallest to make it). For the | , the electoral threshold had been 1.5% |
| for re-election to his Senate seat in 2010 | ... monality on. Around the same time, McCain indicated that he intended to run | . As the inauguration neared, Obama consulted with McCain on a variety of ... |
| 1918 general election | ... eat when Sinn Féin subsequently routed the Irish Parliamentary Party at the | . In that election he was also returned for the seat of Tyrone North West |
| Council of Florence and Ferrara | ... t the short-lived near Union of the Churches of East and West signed at the | by the Ecumenical patriarch Joseph II of Constantinople. The Greek populat ... |
| next election | ... on 11 February 2010, he announced that he would stand down as an MP at the | |
| 2009 national elections | The Green Party campaigned intensively for the | , held on the 10th of February 2009. Polls by a number of national newspap ... |
| 1977 election | Whitlam resigned from the leadership after the ALP lost again at the | , and left Parliament in 1978. Over a third of a century after he left off ... |
| Council of Constance | ... of the entourage of Friedrich IV, Duke of Austria and Count of Tyrol at the | (1414–1418); a portrait of Oswald can be found in the council's chronicle ... |
| September 2001 parliamentary election | ... ormer leader of the SLD, was re-elected in the first round of voting. After | SLD (a successor of the communist party) formed a coalition with the agrar ... |
| November 1962 special election | Kennedy entered the Senate in a | to fill the seat once held by his brother John. He was elected to a full s ... |
| Iowa caucuses | ... editorials criticizing Kennedy's answers on the matter. In the January 1980 | that began the primaries season, Carter demolished Kennedy by a 59–31 perc ... |
| 1981 general election | ... mained on in Dáil Éireann as a TD until his retirement from politics at the | |
| Washington Democratic caucus | ... Clinton in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries. One month later, the | awarded two-thirds of its delegates to Barack Obama and one-third to Clint ... |
| up for Senate re-election in 1976 | ... aign, the convention, or the general election campaign. Kennedy himself was | ; he defeated a primary challenger angry at his support for school busing ... |
| Elections in 1946 | ... a was annexed by Yugoslavia, while Italy lost all its overseas possessions. | elected 556 members of a Constituent Assembly, of witch 207 Christian Demo ... |
| 2004 Australian election | ... t Gerard McManus entitled "Greens back illegal drugs" in the lead up to the | . In response to the article Brown lodged a complaint with the Australian ... |
| party | ... 27 representatives that are elected to every four years. For 2011–2015, the | breakdown is as follows |
| 1978 legislative election | Unexpectedly, the right-wing coalition won the | . Nevertheless, relations with Chirac, who had founded the Rally for the R ... |
| 2005 Westminster election | According to the party's website, current policy is guided by the party's | , 2007 Holyrood election, and 2009 European election manifestos |
| Contract with America | ... rty, led by House Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingrich campaigning on the | , was elected to majorities to both houses of Congress in the Republican R ... |
| election monitor | Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Rustin worked as a human rights and | for Freedom House. He also testified on behalf of New York State's Gay Rig ... |
| 2010 gubernatorial election | ... 0.9% of the total) compared with 320 votes (43.0%) for John McCain.. In the | , Democrat Ethan Berkowitz received 419 votes (54.8%) to Republican Sean P ... |
| 1981 presidential election | Giscard was defeated in the | by Mitterrand. At the time, Chirac ran against Giscard in the first round ... |
| 2001 parliamentary election | In the | the party lost the gains it had made according to opinion polling but main ... |
| 2010 general election | Hoon had said that he would defend his seat at the | but according to the Financial Times he had "finally bowed to pressure" an ... |
| 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial election | ... 2,198 votes for 5.71% of the total vote. Howell also was a candidate in the | . She finished fourth amongst the six candidates on the ballot with 23,044 ... |
| Reichstag general elections on 14 September | The | resulted in an enormous political shift: 18.3% of the vote went to the Naz ... |
| 1984 federal election | ... the majority of Quebec's seats in the Commons for the first time since the | . From then to the subsequent election, the Bloc continued to denounce the ... |
| 2007 election in New South Wales | ... ralia, 1.2 points in the 2006 election in Queensland, and 0.7 points in the | |
| presidential election of 2000 | In the | , Aleksander Kwaśniewski, the incumbent former leader of the SLD, was re-e ... |
| legislative election of 1957 | ... ternal life in Poland. Several years of relative stabilization followed the | |
| re-elected in 2009 | ... rnment with the Centre Party (Sp) and the Socialist Left Party (SV). He was | for another term as Prime Minister of Norway |
| 2010 Local Elections | ... oup is John Mutton, he has held the post of Leader of the Council since the | |
| plebiscite on the constitution | ... of African States. On 19, 23, and 27 April 1960 a presidential election and | were held. The constitution was ratified and Nkrumah was elected president ... |
| British Columbia general election, 2009 | ... ectoral reform a second referendum would be held in correspondence with the | . This referendum would also have required approval by 60% of those voting |
| 2011 NSW State election | In the | , the Greens claimed their first lower-house seat in the district of Balma ... |
| conclave | ... ogna until he went to Rome after the death of Pope Paul to take part in the | at which he was chosen as pope |
| 2007 federal election | ... ction on 20.5 percent, before being elected to the Australian Senate at the | on 14.8 percent. Independent candidate Andrew Wilkie, an anti-pokies campa ... |
| 2010 Senate election | ... ed 419 votes (54.8%) to Republican Sean Parnell's 321 votes (42.0%). In the | , Democrat Scott McAdams received 335 votes (43.7%) compared with 211 vote ... |