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Presidential election

The President of Albania is elected by the Assembly of Albania who are elected by the Albanian public.


2006 Malagasy coup d'état attempt

An alleged coup d'état attempt occurred in Madagascar on November 18, 2006, during the lead-up to the December 3 presidential election, when retired army General Andrianafidisoa, also known as Fidy (and a previous Director General of OMNIS), declared military rule.

Bingu wa Mutharika

Mutharika won the presidential election on 20 May 2004, ahead of John Tembo and Gwanda Chakuamba, and took office a few days later.

Cameroon Democratic Union

Adamou Ndam Njoya and John Fru Ndi failed to agree on the designation of an all-opposition single candidate for the presidential election of October 11, 2004.

Carlos Mejía Godoy

He was the vice-presidential running mate of Edmundo Jarquín of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) in the November 2006 presidential election.

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

The DFLP ran a candidate, Taysir Khalid, in the Palestinian Authority presidential election in 2005.

Five o'clock shadow

Richard Nixon is said to have lost the 1960 presidential election in part due to his five o'clock shadow during the televised United States presidential election debates with John F. Kennedy.

Ghislaine Dupont

In 2006, she was expelled by the Kinshasa government of Kabila between the first and second round of the presidential election.

Lalith Athulathmudali

Upon Jayewardene's retirement in 1988, Athulathmudali tried to obtain the UNP's nomination for the presidential election, but was defeated by Ranasinghe Premadasa who went on to win the presidency.

Madison Township, Daviess County, Indiana

To the even greater surprise of local Democratic leaders, Perkins refused to vote the party line in the presidential election of that autumn, instead supporting John C. Frémont, the Republican candidate.

Matt Jacobson

Speculation surrounding potential candidates for Maine's 2010 gubernatorial election began to swirl in mid to late 2008, well before the year's presidential election.

Mikhail Fradkov's Second Cabinet

Mikhail Fradkov's Second Cabinet (May 2004 - September 2007) was the twelfth cabinet of the government of the Russian Federation, preceded by Mikhail Fradkov's First Cabinet, which followed the cabinet led by Mikhail Kasyanov, who had been dismissed by President Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2004 shortly before the presidential election.

Mordecai Ezekiel

After the November 1932 presidential election, he also met with President-elect Franklin Roosevelt, Rexford Tugwell, M. L. Wilson, and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., to discuss the farm policy of the new administration.

Nataliya Dmytruk

She was a barely known sign language interpreter at the Ukrainian state-run channel UT1 but became instantly famous during the live news broadcast on November 24, 2004, when she refused to translate the official script that announced Viktor Yanukovych as the winner of the presidential election.

Opposition Democratic Coalition

The party supported Patrice Trovoada in the 30 July 2006 presidential election.

Palestinian People's Party

In the January 2005 presidential election, the party's candidate Bassam as-Salhi received 2.67% of the vote.

Pan-African Union for Social Democracy

Joseph Kignoumbi Kia Mboungou was the UPADS presidential candidate in the presidential election held on 10 March 2002; he took second place but received only 2.76% of the vote, with Sassou Nguesso winning by an overwhelming margin according to official results.

Porfirio Lobo Sosa

Lobo was the National Party of Honduras' candidate for the 27 November 2005 presidential election; Mario Canahuati was his running mate.

Sathasivam Kanagaratnam

Kanagaratnam was released in January 2010 after agreeing to support Mahinda Rajapaksa in the presidential election.

Sure of You

The story takes place in 1988 around the eve of the Presidential Election, three years after the previous book Significant Others.

United Party for National Development

Its candidate in the presidential election, Anderson Mazoka, on the same day won 27.2%.

United States Senate election in Connecticut, 1992

The 1992 United States Senate election in Connecticut took place on November 3, 1992, alongside other elections to the United States Senate in 34 other states, as well as with a presidential election and elections to the United States House of Representatives in all 50 states.

United States Senate election in New York, 2004

The 2004 United States Senate election in New York took place on November 2, 2004 along with elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as the presidential election, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

Vienna summit

In November 1960, Kennedy had defeated U.S. Vice-President Richard Nixon in the presidential election of that year.

William S. Tribell

In 2008, he participated in the presidential election as Louisiana State Director for U.S. Senator Mike Gravel.

Yoshihiro Tsurumi

Shortly before the 2004 U.S. presidential election, Tsurumi appeared on various media outlets (such as CNN and Air America) and reported remembering Bush telling him that family friends had helped get him into the Texas Air National Guard.


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Abubakar Rimi

In December 2008, he called on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu, to resign from office, citing irregularities in the previous presidential election.

Abubakar Saleh Michika

However, in July 1993, after the Ibrahim Babangida administration had annulled Abiola's presidential election, he said "Much as I personally admired Moshood Abiola as an individual, the idea of a southern president was unrealistic".

Alejandro Goic

In November 2009, Goic expressed concern at the emergence of same-sex couples in party political broadcasts for the presidential election of that year, particularly in advertisements for the candidates Eduardo Frei and Sebastián Piñera; the latter was criticized for this issue even within his own coalition, the conservative Independent Democrat Union.

Anafotida

In the 2008 presidential election the village voted overwhelmingly for the right-wing DISY candidate Ioannis Kasoulidis (68%), against the Communist Party AKEL candidate Dimitris Christofias (32%).

Bashir Tofa

A Hausa Muslim who hails from Kano State, Tofa was the National Republican Convention (NRC) candidate in the annulled Nigeria's June 12, 1993 presidential election, which was organised by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida.

Billy Carter

A 1985 Wall Street Journal investigation suggested that a series of Billygate articles written by Michael Ledeen and published in The New Republic in October 1980 were part of a disinformation campaign intended to influence the outcome of that year's presidential election.

Chan Chandler

Chandler Chandler is the former pastor of East Waynesville Baptist Church who resigned after receiving national attention when nine members of his church who supported Democratic candidate John F. Kerry in the 2004 United States presidential election, took offense at his sermons pointing out Kerry's support of abortion and homosexuality, and left the church.

Dennis Peron

Later in 1996 The Grassroots Party of Minnesota fielded Dennis Peron, as their first Presidential nominee, in the U.S. presidential election.

Ecole Normale Supérieure of Bamako

Yeah Samake, candidate in the 2012 Malian presidential election

Existence

For example, in the 2008 United States presidential election, a politician and actor named Fred Thompson ran for the Republican Party nomination.

Falloux Laws

The Falloux Laws were voted during the French Second Republic and promulgated on 15 March 1850 and in 1851, following the presidential election of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in December 1848 and the May 1849 legislative elections that gave a majority to the conservative Parti de l'Ordre.

Felix Kulov

In February, Kulov joined an opposition group, the United Front for a Worthy Future for Kyrgyzstan, which called for an early presidential election.

Frank Abdulai Ayariga

His third child, Hassan Ayariga was the Presidential candidate for the People's National Convention in the Ghanaian presidential election in December 2012.

Gaafar Nimeiry

The next year, he ran in the presidential election against incumbent president Omar al-Bashir, but did poorly, obtaining only 9.6% of the votes in elections that were boycotted by the Sudanese opposition and alleged to be rigged.

Gentrification

This has been first documented in the book Plaidoyer pour une gauche populaire by think-tank Terra-Nova which had a major influence on all contestants in the presidential election (and at least, Sarkozy, François Hollande, and Marine Le Pen).

George Gallup

In 1936, his new organization achieved national recognition by correctly predicting, from the replies of only 50,000 respondents, that Franklin Roosevelt would defeat Alf Landon in the U.S. Presidential election.

Googoosh

On 22 July 2009, Googoosh delivered an emotional speech in which she said the outcome of the 12 June presidential election, which the protesters accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of stealing, inspired her to make her first foray into politics.

Green Movement

Iranian Green Movement, a series of actions after the 2009 Iranian presidential election

History of the Republic of Egypt

A constitutional amendment in May 2005 changed the presidential election to a multicandidate popular vote rather than a popular validation of a candidate nominated by the People’s Assembly and on 7 September Mubarak was elected for another six-year term with 87 percent of the popular vote, followed by a distant but strong showing by Ayman Nour, leader of the opposition Ghad Party and a well-known rights activist.

Ivy Meeropol

It features the intense work of four young staff members at the office of Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) as they respond to the crushing electoral defeat in the 2004 presidential election.

Jeff Schweitzer

His book, Vote To Save The Planet, was a collection of short articles intended to inform voters about the benefits of electing Barack Obama/Joe Biden and the disadvantages of electing John McCain/Sarah Palin in the 2008 Presidential Election.

Jonathan Raban

Frequently, Raban’s autobiographical accounts of journeys taken mirror transformations in his own life or the world at large: Old Glory takes place during the buildup to Ronald Reagan’s victory in the 1980 presidential election, Coasting as the Falklands War begins, and Passage to Juneau as the failure of the author’s marriage becomes apparent.

Joseph Kignoumbi Kia Mboungou

He stood in the 2002 presidential election for the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy Party.

Keith Hall

Keith A. Hall, former Insight Communications executive and presidential elector in the 2004 United States presidential election

Khalif Mitchell

Caused a local controversy for what were interpreted as racist remarks he made on Twitter about the 2012 US Presidential Election debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, resulting in a one game suspension and fined an 'undisclosed' amount of money.

Luis A. Eguiguren

He won the Peruvian presidential election of 1936, but his victory was ignored by the Congress and the then-President Oscar R. Benavides, who claimed that he had won with votes of the APRA.

Massachusetts liberal

Being "soft on crime"; specifically,an example of this was the infamous Willie Horton incident, which was referenced by George H. W. Bush's Presidential campaign against Governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis in the 1988 Presidential election.

Matt Frei

In October 2012, Frei headed Channel 4's coverage of the US Presidential election, including making a documentary "The American Road Trip: Obama's story" in which he visited middle-class voters in communities in the mid-west, including Minneapolis, Northwood, Ohio and Gary, Indiana.

Mercedes-Benz 770

Billy C. Tanner, an Alabama developer and campaign manager for George Wallace's campaign in the 1964 US presidential election bought it; but he could not secure financing to complete the transaction and subsequently sold his option to Don Tidwell, a mobile-home manufacturer.

Mike Connell

Michael Connell (1963–2008), Republican consultant, subpoenaed in a case regarding alleged tampering with 2004 U.S. Presidential election

Pat Trammell

Condolences came in from around the state and country, including personal letters and telegrams from Governor George Wallace, Governor Albert Brewer, Governor Jim Folsom, Congressman Robert E. Jones, Jr. and former U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon (who had just won the 1968 Presidential Election in November of that year).

Peter Turkson

There Laurent Gbagbo had refused, in spite of international condemnation and local protests and resistance, to step aside and hand over power to Alassane Ouattara, the certified winner of the presidential election.

Political scandals in Logan County, West Virginia

President John F. Kennedy once famously asked local political boss Raymond Chafin how much money he wanted so that Kennedy could carry Southern West Virginia in the 1960 Presidential Election, and Chafin replied "thirty five," meaning $3500.

Politics of Kenya

The Deputy President is the running mate of the candidate that wins the presidential election whilst other cabinet members will be appointed, with the approval from the National Assembly, from outside Parliament.

Richard Pildes

During the 2000 Presidential election controversy, he had an exclusive media contract with NBC and appeared frequently on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, MSNBC, and WNBC-TV.

Richard Wolffe

In the 2004 presidential election, he covered the Howard Dean campaign before switching to John Kerry.

Robert L. J. Long

He was a member of an American election observer team sent to the Philippines in 1986 and headed by Senator Richard Lugar to observe the Presidential election contest involving Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino.

Salome Zurabishvili

Since October 2007, her party was part of the United Opposition alliance which nominated Zurabishvili as a Prospective Prime Minister in case of their candidate Levan Gachechiladze's victory in the January 2008 presidential election.

Smart mob

In the days after the U.S. presidential election of 2000, online activist Zack Exley anonymously created a website that allowed people to suggest locations for gatherings to protest for a full recount of the votes in Florida.

Stephen Fincher

In the 2008 presidential election, Republican U.S. Senator John McCain carried the district with 56% of the vote.

United States presidential election in Alabama, 2012

The 2012 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated.

United States presidential election in Alaska, 2012

The 2012 United States presidential election in Alaska took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated.

United States presidential election in Montana, 1960

The 1960 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 8, 1960 throughout all 50 states, but not The District of Columbia, which was not part of the 1960 United States presidential election.

United States presidential election in Montana, 2012

The 2012 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated.

United States presidential election in Nevada, 2012

The 2012 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated.

United States presidential election in New Jersey, 2012

The 2012 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated.

United States presidential election in Oklahoma, 2012

The 2012 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated.

United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, 1960

The 1960 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 8, 1960 throughout all 50 states, but not The District of Columbia, which was not part of the 1960 United States presidential election.

United States presidential election in Utah, 2012

The 2012 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated.

William A. Graham

William Alexander Graham (1804–1875), American politician; Whig from North Carolina; U.S. Senator, Governor, Secretary of the Navy, Winfield Scott's running mate in 1852 presidential election