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unusual facts about electoral politics



Frank Derickson

Derickson's first involvement in electoral politics came in the early 1960s, when he assisted in the campaign of a friend running for Randolph County sheriff.


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Alex Seith

A complete newcomer to electoral politics, he nearly pulled off one of the greatest upsets in Senate history when he narrowly lost to nationally renowned incumbent Republican Charles Percy by eight percentage points.

Democratic Republic of Madagascar

The year of 1989 marked a special turning point in that the fall of the Berlin Wall heralded the intellectual death of single-party rule in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and similarly transformed electoral politics in Africa.

Dharti Pakad

A satirical television show looking at the electoral politics was named Dharti Pakad after a man named Kaka Joginder Singh, whose nickname was Dharti Pakad.

Fred Bass

Bass, concerned about global warming, entered electoral politics in 1996 as a candidate for Vancouver's civic Green Party under the leadership of Paul Watson but was defeated by a wide margin.

Greg Rickford

Prior to entering electoral politics, Rickford worked as a nurse and lawyer in the remote First Nations communities of the Kenora District.

Ian MacLachlan Arrol

Arrol's first foray into electoral politics was with a different party: he ran as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) candidate in the 1948 Alberta general election in the electoral district of Medicine Hat.

Joseph A. Day

Day's wife, Georgie Day, was elected to the legislature, on her first attempt in electoral politics, in 1991, and was re-elected in 1995.

Official National Front

The ONF emerged in the early 1980s when young radicals such as Nick Griffin, Derek Holland, Patrick Harrington and David Kerr became attracted to Third Position ideas and, eschewing the route of electoral politics favoured by the National Front up to that point, hoped to develop a cadre of devoted nationalist revolutionaries.

Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, 1958

Stassen had moved to the state to take the presidency of the University of Pennsylvania and was determined to return to electoral politics.