He had been appointed the Fianna Fáil campaign manager, to run President de Valera's re-election campaign.

Following Fianna Fáil's re-election in the 1969 general election, Collins secured promotion as a Parliamentary Secretary to George Colley, the Minister for Industry and Commerce and the Gaeltacht.

He held the post until Fianna Fáil lost the 1951 election, and at the start of the 14th Dáil he did not offer himself for re-election as Ceann Comhairle.

After her re-election in 1973, she was nominated by Fianna Fáil senator Brian Lenihan for the post of Leas-Chathaoirleach of the 13th Seanad.

The accident rate was a factor in the postponement of the entire Naas road scheme by the Fine Gael led coalition government in August 1956, leaving the Johnstown and Rathcoole sections of the road in a semi-finished state until the re-election of a Fianna Fáil government.

* 1984 – " We begin bombing in five minutes "-United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.

* 1924 – The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.

* May 21 – Suharto resigns, after 32 years as President of Indonesia and his 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament ( MPR ).

* March 31 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not seek re-election.

* November 3 – French President Charles De Gaulle announces that he will stand for re-election.

The Ohio legislature had just chosen Garfield in 1879 for the U. S. Senate seat when a faint movement began for Garfield as the next Republican nominee for President to succeed Hayes – he had chosen not to stand for re-election.

As part of the continuing investigation in 1974 – 75, Watergate scandal prosecutors offered companies that had given illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign lenient sentences if they came forward.

In an interview with the Irish media, Peck revealed that former President Lyndon Johnson had told him that, had he sought re-election in 1968, he intended to offer Peck the post of U. S. ambassador to Ireland – a post Peck, due to his Irish ancestry, said he might well have taken, saying " would have been a great adventure ".

A 23rd-placed finish in 1950 – 51 meant that the club had to apply for re-election to the league once more, but again teams in the First and Second Divisions unanimously voted for Watford to stay in the league.

The constituency lines were redrawn under the Electoral ( Amendment ) Act 1974 in an attempt to secure re-election for the sitting Fine Gael-Labour Party government in the 1977 election and Haughey represented Dublin Artane in 1977, this constituency was abolished in 1981 and most of Haughey's electoral area was moved into the reformed Dublin North – Central constituency which he served from 1981 until his retirement in 1992.

After re-election, he advanced to sufficient seniority to chair the committee, 1945 – 47.

They failed to make much of an impact in the league until they finished 11th in 1935 – 36, but in 1936 – 37 they finished bottom of the league and had to apply for re-election in order to avoid slipping back into the Southern League.

Although they finished 16th in 1985 – 86 and re-election was a threat right up to the final few games of the season, they emerged as strong promotion contenders in the 1986 – 87 season, finishing sixth on 70 points and occupying the final playoff place in the division.

The " Imps " missed out on promotion by five points in 1968 – 69 and finished eighth in 1969 – 70, before dropping down to the re-election zone under Bert Loxley in 1970 – 71.

The Layer Road side finished in the Football League's re-election zone in 1972 – 73, with Harford making 21 appearances, scoring one goal.

Rockefeller won re-election in November 1968, having defeated Marion H. Crank ( 1915 – 1994 ), a state legislator who had won the Democratic nomination in a heated fight with Virginia Morris Johnson, wife of Jim Johnson and the first woman ever to seek the office of governor of Arkansas.

After Mitterrand's re-election, he was chosen as Prime Minister ( May 1988 – May 1991 ).

– On the re-election of George W. Bush as President of the United States

In late May 1938, Chandler's campaign manager publicly claimed that federal relief agencies – especially the Works Progress Administration – were openly working for Barkley's re-election.

In January 1980 after clashing with Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, Lopez was forced to resign the chairmanship of the New Democratic Party in exchange of the Governor becoming the President of Carter's campaign in Puerto Rico and throwing the New Progressive Party behind the president's re-election efforts.

Progressive President Theodore Roosevelt had declined to run for re-election in 1908 in fulfillment of a pledge to the American people not to seek a second full term.

It was in 1966 that Dalton Camp, who was by then President of the Progressive Conservative Party, ran for re-election in what was widely believed to be a referendum on Diefenbaker's leadership.

In 1998, the KMT fielded Ma to challenge the then-incumbent Taipei mayor Chen Shui-bian of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ), who was seeking re-election.

Fine Gael failed to win re-election in the 1987 general election, and lost 20 of their 70 seats, most to the new Progressive Democrats party.

McGuinty himself faced a surprisingly difficult re-election in Ottawa South, but defeated his Progressive Conservative opponent by about 3, 000 votes.

Members of Parliament ( MPs ) André Bachand, John Herron, Joe Clark and Scott Brison declined to join the new party – Brison immediately crossed the floor to the Liberals, Bachand and Clark sat out the remainder of the 37th Canadian Parliament as Progressive Conservatives and then retired from office in the 2004 election, and Herron sat as a Progressive Conservative for the remainder of the term but then ran for re-election in 2004 as a Liberal.

Nielson was a supporter of the Communist Party and ran for re-election in 1945 federal election as a Labour Progressive Party candidate ( the name adopted by the Communist Party after it was banned ) and was defeated.

Cassidy faced a difficult re-election in Ottawa Centre, and defeated Progressive Conservative candidate David Small by only 599 votes.

Despite his success in his first term in office, pundits suggested that Savoy faced a tough battle for re-election especially with the creation of the new Conservative Party of Canada out of the old Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties whose combined vote in 2000 was 63 %.

Froese was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Arnold Brown in the 1973 election, and finished a poor fourth in a bid for re-election four years later.

The 1995 provincial election was won by the Progressive Conservatives, and Phillips only narrowly won re-election in Agincourt, defeating Keith MacNab by about 2, 000 votes.

) The Progressive Conservatives won re-election across the province, and Phillips remained a leading figure on the opposition benches.

The Progressive Conservative government of Mike Harris reduced the number of provincial ridings from 130 to 103 in 1996, forcing several incumbent Members of Provincial Parliament ( MPPs ) to compete against one another for re-election.

He did not seek re-election later in the year, but instead served as campaign manager for the Progressive Conservatives in their loss to Gary Doer's New Democrats.

Following redistribution, Carr sought re-election in the 1990 provincial election in the riding of Crescentwood, where he defeated Progressive Conservative Tom DeNardi by 1310 votes.

In the 2007 election, Flynn ran for re-election and increased his margin of victory to 7096 votes over the Progressive Conservative challenger, Rick Byers.

In the 2011 election, which saw the Liberals reduced to a minority government, Flynn ran for re-election and increased his percentage of victory, although his margin of victory was reduced to 4580 votes over the Progressive Conservative challenger, Larry Scott.

However, he was defeated in his 2008 campaign for re-election by Progressive Conservative Tony Vandermeer.

Cleary faced the most difficult re-election battle of his career in the provincial election of 1999, in which redistribution forced him to face longstanding Progressive Conservative MP Noble Villeneuve in the riding of Stormont — Dundas — Charlottenburgh.

He was critical of the direction taken by the Progressive Conservative Party in this period, and did not seek re-election in 2003.

In 1961, the Progressive party, under the Grand Alliance, joined forces with the Liberal Party in order to prevent the re-election of President Garcia.