| Among the small pool of swing voters in this fall's election, there are two groups with diametrically opposed political views. |
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| The problem with responding to every group that clamours loudly is that in election year everyone starts to clamour. |
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| By Sunday night our eight page election newspaper had been delivered to tens of thousands of households. |
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| Labour is going to learn whether or not it is possible to resist the public clamour for tax cuts and still win a general election. |
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| This year's federal election campaign still suggests a penchant for refusing to confront reality. |
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| At election times the party is dependent on resources and activists from unions. |
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| The overriding concern of the main parties was the seeming lack of any interest in an election by the public. |
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| Sykes last night pledged his support for the Party and will spend a chunk of his fortune promoting their election campaign. |
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| Today cognitive scientists pre-test messages and images with focus groups comprising types of voters who might swing an election. |
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| Young people have the potential to swing the election one way or the other. |
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| Although on different teams, they are examples of a nationwide movement that some experts predict could swing the election. |
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| And he thinks parochial issues such as veterans' benefits won't swing the election. |
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| Well, it's rare that a vice president swung an election one way or the other. |
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| Can politics at the margin hold the balance in a decision on foreign policy, as it can sometimes swing an election? |
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| Then there is the issue of whether a small mobilization advantage can be enough to swing the presidential election. |
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| Whether this sliver of defectors will once again be big enough to swing a presidential election is less clear. |
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| But she also raises health and education as major election issues that could yet swing her vote. |
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| Only thirty students from the state school are registered to vote, so it isn't likely to swing the election. |
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| However, we feel that the swing in popular opinion highlighted in this election has far deeper roots. |
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| A political party cannot afford to score own goals like these so close to an election. |
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| There is a call for peaceful direct action that could leave the hardliners with a certain but hollow victory when the election results come in. |
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| On the home front, there is a national election to be planned, fought, and won. |
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| The main event of the weekend was the celebration and election of the clan chief. |
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| The big event on Saturday is the election of the new chieftain and clan banquet in the Abbeyleix Manor Hotel. |
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| As the nation enters the home stretch of the 2004 Presidential election, the campaign appears to be headed for a photo finish. |
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| The results also show that childcare will again be an issue in the next general election. |
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| All but four members of the commission said that the last election was fair and honest. |
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| The bill further honours the Government's election pledge to make student loans interest-free for most borrowers. |
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| This was surely partly because the election result is indeed all but certain. |
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| The issue first surfaced when there was that 18-18 tie after the 2001 general election. |
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| Within a short time of his election, a formal inauguration ceremony takes place, at which the woollen pallium is bestowed upon him. |
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| The Exclusive Brethren telephone canvassed extensively, they pushed polls, they pamphleted, and they ran election day systems. |
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| These days you need more than a few chook raffles to fund the election campaign of a candidate for a major political party. |
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| They're much too busy, you see, covering the horse race of the election to actually question anything one of the Rich Men says. |
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| Do we accept that laws made purely to defend a government's corrupt election strategy are good and sustainable laws? |
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| Promises made in the heat of an election campaign all too often create hostages to fortune. |
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| This statement has the virtue of being true, even if it is a truth that will be hard to swallow for Labour's election campaign managers. |
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| Woodward ended the questioning session with facetious conjectures for the outcome of the upcoming election. |
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| The hut-like structure with six spacious rooms has been specially set up at the village as a make-shift election office. |
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| It is coextensive with general election, but is broader than special election. |
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| If that goes ahead, and the impasse continues, another election could occur, Murphy said. |
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| Plans for the development have been parked until after the general election, following a highly critical consultants' report. |
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| Since the new drug benefit doesn't kick in until after the election, the codgers won't realize they've been duped until it's too late. |
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| With the federal election looming, the political leaders have been out on the hustings and the ads are coming thick and fast. |
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| At the end of the day, the election workers put the cards into a sorter that counts the number of perforations for each candidate. |
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| If Labour wins the election, the chancellor will be back on the hustings urging us to sign up to the European Union constitution. |
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| The parliamentary election last May was recognized as generally fair by international observers. |
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| It is quite clear that the pro-Union electorate are switching off in droves, with each election indicating a downturn in registration and voting. |
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| All the experts agree that Ohio is a key swing state, if not the key swing state in this upcoming election. |
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| When I joined the Fabians in 1992, Labour had just lost its fourth election in a row. |
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| Two things have characterized the ongoing political campaigns for this year's general election since politicians went on the hustings last year. |
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| It is also just fair to agree that Government has provided a free atmosphere that has laid a good groundwork to a free and fair election. |
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| In the largest city in a swing state, just before a close mayoral election, a bug is discovered in the office of the Democratic mayor. |
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| We should not continue to use the failed nationwide strategy, election after election. |
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| The election is subject to the result of the writ petitions before the Supreme Court on the domicile status of candidates contesting the poll. |
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| The vice president told voters in the swing state that this year's election is the most important of his lifetime. |
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| With the election approaching, we know that we can voice whatever opinions we like, however ill-informed, vicious or just plain silly. |
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| More than in any other election to date, these new hustings came into their own as spaces for unspun political debate. |
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| They risk arrest and six months imprisonment if they hand out how-to-vote cards on election day. |
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| Democracy in York will be taken back to its grass roots later this month when the city's candidates face the public in an election hustings. |
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| For far too long now, election campaigns in this country have been devoid of issues and dominated by petty issues and personality clashes. |
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| His disastrous management of the 1993 federal election showed that he was hopelessly out of his depth and totally ill equipped for the task. |
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| I'd love to know what percentage of the people who take the time to vote on that show have ever voted in an election. |
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| The ensuing election in December gave the coalitionists an overwhelming victory. |
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| His churchly and scholarly contributions were recognized by his election to the moderatorship of the Free Church Federal Council. |
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| As for the rest of the election menu, the lack of fundamental differences between the main contestants is not a British peculiarity. |
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| Italy is facing political paralysis as near-complete election results raise the possibility of no clear winner and a hung parliament. |
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| The Budget was derided by many as an election sweetener, offering up liberal cash incentives to families with young children. |
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| He admitted the election in his constituency was likely to be a close-run thing as the seat was traditionally hard fought. |
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| A partial answer to the other question is that some basic international requirements for a fair election are missing in Florida. |
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| Discussion of a broad mandate for the president to enact his higher education agenda is premature, given the closeness of the election. |
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| To answer that question, I want to cite a passage from the election statement of our party. |
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| It was also a good election for cronyism with a number of former special advisers being parachuted in. |
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| With the presidential election still more than a year away, this is the Hot-Stove League season in national politics. |
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| Ever since he lost the election for Taipei mayor, he has been humble and self-restrained, quiet and modest, to the surprise of many. |
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| This sword of Damocles was hanging over his head and could have fallen at any time during the election and broken our campaign. |
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| In the national election this year, three Papua New Guinean women won seats in the 111-member Parliament. |
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| Because of parliamentary procedures, the likeliest scenario is a no-confidence vote in early December, making for an election in mid-January. |
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| With the controversial outcome of the closely victorious election, his party gained control of the presidency. |
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| The election last week was closely won, but there are some real issues for us to look at. |
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| A key struggle in any papal election is not over personalities or warring interpretations of the faith. |
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| His losing bid for the presidency in the war election of 1864 would see much more impassioned rhetoric. |
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| Both of these were bills that were lost when parliament dissolved for the election. |
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| Rather than lose the vote, she dissolved parliament on October 10 and called an early election. |
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| A conservative election candidate who was deselected after a row over vote-rigging has been reinstated after a climbdown by party chiefs. |
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| The banks are celebrating rumours that plans to reform the banking sector have been parked until after the next general election. |
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| Gay marriage, it was one of the hot button issues in the presidential election. |
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| Some of the best moments in the film include Napoleon's climactic dance scene that wins Pedro the high school election. |
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| The pair's partnership finally collapsed when Gore's team lost the contested election by a ruling of the US Supreme Court. |
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| States that were not competitive in the previous election might subsequently produce cliffhangers. |
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| I think it may be the most important election in the history of the Second Amendment. |
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| They will take human form and start rowdy polling booth stoushes on election day. |
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| The attorney general really has no direct relation to the operation and function of the election operations in each of these counties. |
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| That is a deliberate attempt to straitjacket the winner of Brazil's presidential election, due in October. |
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| The nomination, unfortunately, was followed by a truly catastrophic general election campaign in which he won only six states. |
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| The election was only on Sunday but already these oppo guys are at each other's throats. |
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| If she shoves her head above the parapets to stand in the next general election, just wait for it and watch her get it in the neck. |
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| In the 1997 election, Labour was returned to office after 18 years in opposition. |
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| The smart move is to assume that this election is going to be very close and strategize accordingly. |
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| Earlier, party officials made it clear that this was a categorical rejection of a coalition with Labour after the next election. |
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| The day after the launch, Mara is sitting in the party's opulent election campaign headquarters in the National Treasury Building. |
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| And illegal immigrants in America, it's a hot button election issue, but what it's like for the people caught between the two countries? |
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| The problem became a hot election issue, with cleaner hospitals a key manifesto pledge by the Conservative Party. |
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| Following the election of officers, Marie McKay went straight into the next order of business, local elections. |
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| Are Hansons' ghosts likely to give Howard another helping hand come the 2004 election? |
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| Notice how although we're heading for an election, the Liberals haven't engaged in wild spending orgies to try to keep power? |
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| But after the election, the legislative assembly should invest much more in MLA orientation and training than it did the first time. |
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| There is every chance he could still command a majority of above 80 at the next election, ordinarily the sign of a strong, healthy government. |
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| Were they acting like the stringers who just happen to be around for events such as the murder of election officials on Haifa Street? |
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| Isn't there a strong case for saying that the Tories are just as likely to lose the election by keeping him? |
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| The first round of the French presidential election showed the extent of the collapse of the centre parties. |
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| There was no reason to hesitate or delay the implementation of the election pledges. |
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| Although Democrats easily won the election by stuffing ballot boxes, they wanted revenge. |
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| We don't get to vote in your election, but its outcome can mean life or death to millions. |
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| People were upset with the party's leadership so they beat the stuffings out of the party during the election. |
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| Arnie was already a dead cert to win the recall election in California, but getting Buffett on board is a stroke of genius. |
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| Since they last met the polls are tighter, the stump speeches sharper and election day, eight days closer. |
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| The day after the election, as the recount began, his campaign was already outgunned, outmanned, and outmatched. |
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| The election process was swift with the past vice president taking the chair as president for the next two years. |
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| She took on the chairmanship of the meeting, and invited the fellow members to proceed with the election. |
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| The Liberals overwhelmingly won the over-55 vote at the election, while Labor outpolled them in just about every other age group. |
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| They got twice its vote at the last election, and have consistently outpolled it by a wide margin ever since. |
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| The 1993 election saw Prime Minister Keating fight a challenge from the new Liberal Leader Dr John Hewson. |
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| Blair passed over his best chance to subdue his friend and rival by moving him to the Foreign Office in the wake of the last election landslide. |
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| The disaster occurred in the middle of the federal election campaign and quickly became a hot political issue. |
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| My brother and I are both joint passport holders and the three of us registered to vote for the first time especially for this election. |
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| At that stage, unfortunately, there was an election and a change of Government. |
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| The election in June is highly significant and is key to the future of this district. |
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| It would seem that he's the most high-profile casualty of the local election debacle. |
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| Apart from a few high-sounding and hollow phrases in the election manifesto, they have moved even further to the right. |
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| He then pulled off an upset when the overconfident incumbent barely set foot in the state during the election. |
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| The election had already been postponed from Hilary term because of doubts about Russell's graduate status. |
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| Yet ever since the election was called, the first and second lords of the Treasury have been joined at the hip. |
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| His campaign summaries and election analysis have been succinct and informative. |
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| In a matter of hours the presidential election, heretofore free of interference from legal insects, was overrun by hymenopterous lawyers. |
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| He won the first free and fair election in the country's history with 67 percent of the vote. |
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| This simple message cuts through the trivial election chatter of the main parties that is boring everyone senseless. |
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| The accusations sound pretty wild, even considering California's usual election histrionics, but they're more than just overheated rhetoric. |
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| He needs to hold the election quickly before the slump which will inevitably hit the country later this year as a result of that crisis. |
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| In the final analysis, he argued, there is no right of suffrage in the election of a president. |
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| But it has dragged its feet on expanding suffrage for the election of officials at higher levels. |
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| In the chauvinistic mood of the 1918 election MacDonald suffered a heavy defeat at Leicester. |
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| For some reason, software that had worked earlier without a hitch had waited until election night to omit eight precincts in the tally. |
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| Prior to the election the National Party told the public of New Zealand that the Employment Contracts Act, or its legislation, would not cut penalty rates or overtime. |
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| Where I come from, you save your Sunday punches for the general campaign and I just don't think Rudy will withstand the heat in the general election. |
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| The bell has tolled, the crow has cawed in ominous overtones, there's been a dark and stormy night, and now finally we know the results of the election. |
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| In any democracy suffering the collapse of its government with no single party commanding the necessary majority to mount a new one, a general election would follow. |
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| Before the election a figure for the number of illegals was politically embarrassing because it showed that the government had lost control of our borders. |
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| Berlusconi then reverted to his normal strategy by pleading for several more years to put into effect the sweeping reforms he had promised on his election. |
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| The 55-year-old politician, who beat the Conservative candidate by a mere 1,910 votes in what was a close-run election, confidently looked forward to the task ahead. |
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| Was this a free and fair election to the best of your information? |
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| Before the election, the closed precinct is swept for bugging devices. |
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| A fervent protester since her early college days, this is a woman who believes in action and follow-through rather than hollow promises made on election campaigns. |
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| I do hope that this election serves to illustrate to everyone that it is not about them and how they can benefit with a modest tax cut here and there. |
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| I now think that it is essential that the Conservative Party in Parliament clears the air and determines once and for all who we want to lead the party into that election. |
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| So here we are at another election and none of it is very inspiring. |
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| The America of the oil companies that funded his election campaign, the multinationals making huge profits out of sweated labour, and the chief executives? |
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| But the principle is central to Brown's personal election campaign. |
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| The Democratic challenger conceded the closely battled election Wednesday. |
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| Yet on polling night, he devoted only about a seventh of his programme to the US election, George Redmond's credulity-stretching performance taking centre stage. |
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| The area has become a hot spot for Liberal campaigning in the past 12 months, as was clear during the federal election, and it appears the party are not about to let up. |
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| They basically say the president campaigned on that notion and he won the election fair and square, it's time for him to move the high court to the right. |
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| His centrism makes it hard for him to ignite the party's base, but that same positioning could be a big general election plus, something victory-starved Democrats covet. |
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| Mr Baggs expected his decision to stand in the election would provoke controversy, but said he is prepared to put his head above the parapet for what he believes in. |
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| No doubt on each occasion stating that he would be a good person to elect, but once the election is over and he has not gained enough votes he is off looking for pastures new. |
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| The election hustings provided a welcome opportunity for important issues to be aired, even if climate change was not high on everyone's list of concerns. |
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| The very fact that the 2000 election revealed that public sentiment is moving against their policies will, if anything, impel them to act with greater haste and determination. |
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| Local, national, and international media remains severely restricted in their ability to report impartially, or critically, on either the conflict or the election. |
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| This recklessness led to much soul-searching and is no doubt the reason why this election night's TV coverage was stultifyingly dull and cautious. |
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| You only need a few percentage points difference to swing an election. |
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| Maybe it's the effect of America being polarised during an election year, but in his home country of Canada it has outgrossed all other documentaries. |
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| With the election so finely balanced, deceased early voters could yet swing the election, without the arduous duty of having to stick around for the legal disputes. |
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| And so he has done the honourable thing and admitted US election defeat. |
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| Though barely known to the electorate so far, these are the two men who will face each other at the Scottish hustings at next year's Westminster election. |
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| Since most expatriates are Shiites, Kurds and Chaldeans, moreover, allowing expatriates to vote in this election might well be viewed as harming Sunni interests. |
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| I know that disability was an issue that surfaced quite a bit during the election campaign, and it hurt the Government parties as much as any other issue did. |
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| Do you believe enough is being done in Ohio to assure the integrity of that vote, a critical battleground state, a critical swing state in this election? |
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| An election is here again and the political parties are on the hustings. |
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| The SNP election broadcast about waiting lists was controversial and provoked many heart-searching discussions about negative campaigning and taste. |
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| The only real question at this point is if they have been successful in rigging enough voting machines to swing this election if it's close enough. |
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| The prime minister elect used his first full media interview since last night to affirm that he intended to follow through on what had become a key election promise. |
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| Other possible allies include the Netherlands, and possibly Germany, if the centre-right Angela Merkel wins the chancellorship in a general election this autumn. |
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| Councillor John Godward said Mr Garland was hiding behind the election. |
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| The conference voted to put a list of questions over the war to every candidate in the election, to publicise the results and to hold hustings over the war. |
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| We're interested in your opinion on the political issues that affect your life, but you need to be unclear how you're going to vote at the next general election. |
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| That said, organizers don't need 20 million to swing the election he adds. |
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| Some people in the party, and many of the candidates who are opposing him for the party's nomination, say he is too left wing to win a U.S. presidential election. |
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| This time around, the election campaign has been more outwardly peaceful. |
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| Could this really be what swings the election one way or the other? |
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| Freedom Party officials say he doesn't want the increased international opprobrium that would have fallen on him and Austria if he had won a second election outright. |
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| She does seem to feel as if she's just swung the election, mind. |
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| With a federal election on the horizon, optics are everything. |
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| In any event, I was given the option of staying on until the election but also told that I shouldn't use the column as a platform for the Socialist Alliance. |
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| In an ordinary presidential election, the winner enjoys the right to call the shots on policy as the political surrogate for the electoral majority. |
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| As the Federal Government moves into full election mode, a straw poll of cattle producers in regional Victoria has found Liberal party leadership is not an issue. |
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| What does it tell us about our political culture that it has taken an act of physical violence to ignite public interest in this election campaign? |
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| It is not ready for the federal election and is a perpetual worry. |
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| Ben McDuff said Latham had deliciously wedged Howard on a security issue and ensured Howard can't pull a swiftie just before the election and welcome home our troops. |
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| Once public participation has ended, the election process quickly turns into horse-trading, which seems to have become the trademark of Indonesian politics. |
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| Claims that hundreds of voters were coerced into handing over incomplete postal votes to party activists were made in the days running up to election day. |
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| His Holiness the Pope has made his first decision since the election. |
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| The party rapidly declined in popularity and was ruined by the 1918 general election. |
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| The election of municipality councils originally occurred every three years, but now takes place every four years. |
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| The imperial policies of the Conservatives eventually proved unpopular and in the general election of 1906 the Liberals won a huge landslide. |
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| The general election in January that year returned a hung parliament with the balance of power held by Labour and Irish Nationalist members. |
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| When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election on a platform of halting the expansion of slavery, seven states broke away to form the Confederacy. |
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| The election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860 was the final trigger for secession. |
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| A parliamentary general election must be called no later than three years after the previous election. |
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| The election of Lincoln caused the legislature of South Carolina to call a state convention to consider secession. |
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| Having returned to Bridgwater, probably because of the death of his mother in 1638, he decided to stand for election to Parliament. |
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| Following the election, the county councillors then elected county aldermen, there being one alderman for every three councillors. |
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| Following the 1886 general election, a Conservative administration headed by Lord Salisbury was formed. |
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| Nick Xenophon has been the only elected independent Senator since his election to the Senate at the 2007 federal election. |
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| In the 2006 federal election, his riding was won by NDP candidate Penny Priddy. |
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| Emmanuel Macron was an independent politician as Minister, but formed his own party to stand in the 2017 presidential election. |
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| Roughly a quarter of the police and crime commissioners elected in England and Wales in the 2012 election were independents. |
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| After the 2008 primary election, New Mexico State Senator Joseph Carraro left the Republican Party and registered as an Independent. |
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| In the ensuing election, Gladstone's party lost to Salisbury's and the government switched hands again. |
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| Then, following a general election in October, the incoming Labour government put the project on hold to reduce expenditure. |
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| The most recent federal election was held on 2 July 2016 and resulted in the Coalition's forming a majority government. |
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| At the 2017 general election, the Conservative Party was dominant, taking all eight seats. |
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| Following the 2015 election the majority Conservative government considered the boundary review as a priority. |
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| The government had hoped that the reports would then be approved by Parliament and in place for the May 2015 general election. |
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| Since the 2017 election, the Conservatives have held a majority of 25 and appointed Cllr Dave Stewart as leader of the council. |
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| At the 1997 election, Turner was the Conservative candidate on the Isle of Wight, coming second to Liberal Democrat MP Peter Brand. |
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| Following the incident, Turner announced that he would not contest his seat at the 2017 general election. |
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| The local council elections were held on 5 May 2005, the same date as the general election of that year. |
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| The local council elections were held on 7 June 2001, the same date as the general election. |
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| Issues with the paper used in ballots meant that results were delayed until later in the day after the election. |
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| The results of the 2014 European Parliament election on the Isle of Wight were as follows. |
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| The results of the 2009 European election on the Isle of Wight were as follows. |
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| The results of the 2004 European election on the Isle of Wight were as follows. |
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| Occasionally this might create a situation of rival claimants whose legitimacy is subject to effective election. |
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| Gregory's election to the throne of St Peter made his family the most distinguished clerical dynasty of the period. |
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| In the 2008 election, the ruling CDU held on to its position as the leading party in the state, despite losing votes and seats. |
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| The election also saw the entry into the state parliament for the first time of the leftist The Left party. |
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| The president of the Regional Council is Philippe Richert, a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, elected in the 2010 regional election. |
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| From an early date the East Frankish kingdom had a more formalised notion of royal election than West Francia. |
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| Next, he ran for the quaestorship after losing an election for local office in Arpinum. |
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| A similar law was passed in 108 BC and Marius was voted the command by the People in this special election. |
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| You can't just look at the election, you've got to look at the big picture. |
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| When Lucius Cornelius Sulla regulated the cursus by law, the minimum age of election to consul became, in effect, 41 years of age. |
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| Ambrose went to the church where the election was to take place, to prevent an uproar, which was probable in this crisis. |
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| As of 2005, 12,538 people were registered to vote in the election for the Sami Parliament in Norway. |
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| The Golden Bull also set forth the system for election of the Holy Roman Emperor. |
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| A candidate for election would be expected to offer concessions of land or money to the electors in order to secure their vote. |
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| The manner of election, the nature of candidate qualifications, and the electors vary from case to case. |
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| In 1905 Prince Carl was elected King of Norway, after the male population in an election decided Norway should still be a monarchy. |
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| It used smaller nominating groups that were reduced in number by the drawing lots and required a supermajority for election. |
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| The election soon became a mere formality and vanished after the reign of Philip II of France. |
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| A hereditary monarchy may occasionally use election to fill a vacant throne. |
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| It was also the first time in the modern political history of the Arab world that the opposition assumed power following an election. |
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| Former prime minister Mamadou Dia, who was Senghor's rival, ran for election in 1983 against Diouf, but lost. |
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| In the end, Macky Sall of the Alliance for the Republic won, and Wade conceded the election to Sall. |
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| In May 1962, Sierra Leone held its first general election as an Independent nation. |
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| A runoff election was held in September 2007, and Ernest Bai Koroma, the candidate of the main opposition APC, was elected president. |
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| The current members of Parliament of Sierra Leone were elected in the 2012 Sierra Leone parliamentary election. |
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| A February 1996 presidential election returned President Monteiro to office. |
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| These areas do not overlap with constituency boundaries to get reliable data for election purposes as well. |
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| Newfoundland rejected confederation with Canada in the 1869 general election. |
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| A handful of splinter parties have been unable to win election to parliament. |
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| Facing certain electoral defeat, he led a military coup that preempted the election. |
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| Mirlande Manigat and Jude Celestin qualified for the second round of the presidential election, but its results were contested. |
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| On 4 April 2011, the Provisional Electoral Council announced preliminary results indicating that Martelly had won the presidential election. |
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| In October 2003, the Liberals lost the provincial election to the Progressive Conservative Party, led by Danny Williams. |
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| The National Party's Luis Alberto Lacalle won the 1989 presidential election and amnesty for human rights abusers was endorsed by referendum. |
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| Laino and several other opposition figures were arrested before dawn on the day of the election, 14 February, and held for twelve hours. |
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| The Mayor of Sucre is the head of the city government, elected for a term of five years by general election. |
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| This party, led by Guy Rozemont, bettered its position in 1953, and, on the strength of the election results, demanded universal suffrage. |
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| The general election was again won by the Labour Party, led this time by Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam. |
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| A general election took place on 7 August 1967, and the Labour Party and its two allies obtained the majority of seats. |
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| Dr Navin Chandra Ramgoolam was elected as Prime Minister in the 1995 election. |
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| The 2005 presidential election brought conservative populist candidate, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to power. |
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| The procedures for presidential election and all other elections in Iran are outlined by the Supreme Leader. |
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| Colombia will not recognize result of Venezuela assembly vote, amid opposition concerns that the election will lead to dictatorship. |
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| All regional elections are held one year and five months after the presidential election. |
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| It also puts up what it calls precinct money, the small bankroll a worker carries and spends on election day and the few days before. |
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| But it ceased to remain as a registered party when it failed to obtain the required number of votes in the 2008 general election. |
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| Supporters of Garrido tried to stop the election, resulting in shooting and twelve dead. |
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| The Noriega regime promptly annulled the election and embarked on a new round of repression. |
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| Until the 1868 presidential election, South Carolina's legislature, not the voters, chose the state's electors for the presidential election. |
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| Only having just won the election, he already had a prime-minster attitude. |
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| In the 2006 general election, voters restricted the use of eminent domain and extended the state's discount prescription drug coverage. |
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| Anova obtained 9 seats in the 2012 Galician election as part of the Galician Left Alternative coalition. |
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| Bacon was succeeded by Paul Lennon, who, after leading the state for two years, went on to win the 2006 state election in his own right. |
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| Goodluck Jonathan served as Nigeria's president until 16 April 2011, when a new presidential election in Nigeria was conducted. |
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| In the March 2015 election, Muhammadu Buhari defeated Goodluck Jonathan by roughly 2 million votes. |
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| When he stood for election as President of France in January 1920, he was defeated. |
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| The Prime Minister is elected from the results of a general election which takes place every five years. |
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| The UDP regained power in the 1993 national election, and Esquivel became prime minister for a second time. |
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| If someone who is not a bishop is elected, he must be given episcopal ordination before the election is announced to the people. |
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| The Second Council of Lyon was convened on 7 May 1274, to regulate the election of the pope. |
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| One of the most prominent aspects of the papal election process is the means by which the results of a ballot are announced to the world. |
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| One of the elderly canons who had supported Zwingli's election, Konrad Hofmann, complained about his sermons in a letter. |
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| His opponent was the aforementioned canon, Konrad Hofmann, who had initially supported Zwingli's election. |
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| One telemarketing application that has received considerable criticism in the past several election cycles is push-polling. |
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| Schori's election was controversial in the wider Anglican Communion because not all of the communion recognizes the ordination of women. |
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| News of Robinson's election caused a crisis in both the American church and the wider Anglican Communion. |
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| The election of a bishop requires the consent of a majority of standing committees and diocesan bishops. |
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| In 2003, the Episcopal Church's General Convention consented to the Diocese of New Hampshire's election of Gene Robinson as its bishop. |
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