" Earnhardt led most of the race and looked to have victory in hand, but fatigue finally took its toll and Earnhardt ended up 6th, behind race winner Geoff Bodine.

Although Weah was still threatening to take his claims to the Supreme Court if no evidence of fraud was found, Johnson-Sirleaf was declared winner on November 23, 2005, and took office on January 16, 2006.

In 1996, when the first such election took place, the outcome was a surprise win for Benjamin Netanyahu after election polls predicted that Peres was the winner.

The 2011 World Championship took place at Northampton on September 10 with 2 Paul Harrison the winner of the Gold Roof.

The 2011 World Championship Final took place at Kings Lynns Norfolk Arena on Saturday 17 September with 871 Mark Simpson winner of the Gold Roof.

10, 000 people took part in the poll in which Flower of Scotland came out the winner.

A hand is played and the winner of that hand took seven tricks and claimed honours.

Against Sweden in Bologna, Argentina twice took the lead, but two goals by Sven Jonasson and a winner by Knut Kroon gave Sweden a 3 – 2 victory.

The next two teams played a semifinal for a place in the Preliminary Final, whose winner took the other place in the Grand Final.

Henderson again scored the winner despite being tripped as he took the shot.

It took a rematch to decide the winner, but Rosenborg were able to claim their first trophy.

On November 6, 2007, Livonia's mayoral election took place between Jack Kirksey and Maureen Miller Brosnan, with Kirksey the winner.

' Dutch ' Hugo, C. W. A. Scott ( winner of the MacRobertson Air Race ) who served there with No. 32 Squadron RAF from 1923 to 1926, and the British ace JE " Johnnie " Johnson, later Air Vice-Marshal, who took over the Canadian wing at Kenley in 1943.

Since Donald Trump took over the pageant, the winner has been given the use of a Trump Tower apartment in New York City for use during her reign.

The first presidential election took place on 16 February 1949, and the winner was Chaim Weizmann.

The primary winner took the " First Grand Prize " ( called the agréé ) and the " Second Prizes " were awarded to the runners-up.

In 2004, former director and actress Ellen Wheeler ( Emmy Award winner as an actress for All My Children and Another World ) took over as executive producer of Guiding Light.

Of this, £ 20, 000 went to the winner, who also took a share of the £ 40, 000 divided between all the shortlisted artists.

When Matthew Kelly took over, the grand finals were broadcast live and the winner of the whole series was voted by the viewing public through the phone lines.

Funny Cide was the fifth Derby winner to race at Woodbine, and the first to win there since Secretariat took the Canadian International in 1973.

The winner of a pigeon race is the bird with the highest velocity, measured in ypm or mpm ; this calculation demands that the distance be divided into yards, then divide the yards by the number of minutes it took the bird to return.

The Olsen Brothers and on occasions Jørgen Olsen on his own took part in a number of annual competitions known as Dansk Melodi Grand Prix the winner of which would represent Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest.

El Dandy was the lottery winner, but he was injured, and Mysterio took the shot instead.

The winner of this game took home the coveted Little Brown Jug and was played until the enrollment of Fairport High grew much too large to make such a contest feasible.

This loss made an impression on Murray, and in later years every winner in his dance contests took home a prize.

The purse of USD $ 25, 000 attracted a field of 58 racers, and the winner was Isaac Okleasik.

The winner is Victor Hémery ( France ) driving a Darracq 80 hp in a time of 5: 58: 32.

He there and then donated a cash prize of £ 1 ( worth £ 58 in 2005 ) to the committee, who awarded it to the winner of a running race.

On November 15, the electoral commission announced the official results and Kabila was declared the winner, with 58. 05 % of the vote.

The winner is Georges Boillot of France driving a Peugeot L76 in 13: 58: 02. 6.

In Japan, Yonamine was a member of four Japan Series Championship teams, the Central League MVP in 1957, a consecutive seven-time Best Nine Award winner ( 1952 – 58 ), an eleven-time All-Star, a three-time batting champion, and the first foreigner to be a manager ( Dragons, 1972 – 77 ).

As a filmmaker he is known for his Venice ' 58 Grand Prix winner The Last Day of Summer ( Ostatni dzień lata, 1958 ), All Souls ' Day ( Zaduszki, 1961 ), as well as for his masterpieces Salto ( 1962 ) and How Far Away, How Near ( Jak daleko stąd, jak blisko ( 1973 )), as well as film adaptations: of Nobel Prize Winner Czeslaw Milosz book Dolina Issy ( 1982 ), and of Adam Mickiewicz's epic poem Dziady-Lawa ( 1990 ).

Makybe Diva, who broke her own weight-carrying record for a mare of 55. 5 kg, which she set in 2004, was the highest-weighted winner of the Cup since Think Big won his second Melbourne Cup with 58. 5 kg in 1975.

He was the eventual winner of the series, beating Helen Adams in the final and polling 4, 231, 660 votes ( 58 %) out of a total 7, 255, 094.

* The 2011 race saw a new winner take the podium, Rachid Morabity, Mohamed Ahansal's pupil and fellow countryman, in a time of 20 hours, 58 minutes and 19 seconds.

The inaugural winner was St. Kilda Saints defeating North Adelaide 77 – 58.

* Died: Paddy Chayefsky, 58, American screenwriter and 3-time Oscar winner

* Died: Gloria Grahame, 58, American film actress and winner of 1952 best supporting actress Oscar ; and Jud Strunk, 45 American singer and songwriter (" A Daisy a Day "), in an airplane crash in Farmington, Maine.

After opening with a course-record-tying 63, he followed with three 67s to give him a 24-under 264 total, six strokes better than any previous winner.

The winner is the candidate receiving the most votes.

After a month-long recount and several appeals from different parties, Arias was declared the official winner with 40. 9 % of the votes against 39. 8 % for Solís.

* 1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In this voting system the single winner is the person with the most votes ( plurality ); there is no requirement that the winner gain an absolute majority of votes.

In order to ensure the winner gains a majority of votes, two rounds of voting occur.

The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").

In single winner plurality voting, each voter is allowed to vote for only one candidate, and the winner of the election is whichever candidate represents a plurality of voters, that is, whoever received the largest number of votes.

* According to a fragment of Philochorus, the " winner " of the ostracism must have obtained at least 6, 000 votes.

In 2004 Aníbal Acevedo Vilá ( PDP ) was declared the winner by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico as governor, by about 3, 000 votes, but his party lost control of the Senate, which elected NPP Senator Kenneth McClintock as its president, and the House of Representatives, which chose the NPP's José Aponte as Speaker, and Puerto Rico's seat in Congress, due to the election of Luis Fortuño.

The winner – takes – all principle applies in presidential elections, since if a presidential candidate gets the most votes in any particular state, all of the electoral votes from that state are awarded.

To counter this presumed difficulty, the delegates gave each presidential elector two votes, required at least one of those votes be for a candidate from outside the elector's state, and mandated that the winner of the election obtain an absolute majority with respect to the total number of electors.

If the winner of the seat is determined purely by the candidate with the most votes, as occurs in the plurality vote and the alternative vote, the plurality system has several characteristics that can serve to discourage the development of third parties and reward the two major parties.

Estonian Reform Party, Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica, Social Democratic Party and an independent candidate Indrek Tarand ( who gathered the support of 102, 460 voters, only 1, 046 votes less than the winner of the election ) all won one seat each.

There are many ways that the votes can be tallied to find a winner, and not all ways will elect the Condorcet winner whenever one exists.

The program later revealed that William of Orange had received the most votes, but many could not be counted until after the official closing time of the television show ( and the proclamation of the winner ), due to technical problems.

Robinson was declared winner of the Tobago seat in 1961 with more votes than there were registered voters, and in the fact that the PNM was able to win every subsequent election until the 1980 Tobago House of Assembly Elections.

According to the Chilean Constitution of the time, if no presidential candidate obtained a majority of the popular vote, Congress would choose one of the two candidates with the highest number of votes as the winner.

However, the third vote had already begun, and thus the conclave had to continue with the voting, which resulted in no clear winner, though it did indicate that many of the conclave wished to turn their support to Sarto, who had 21 votes upon counting.