* Sultanate of Zanzibar two incumbents ( from the Omani dynasty ) since the de facto separation from Oman in 1806, the last assumed the title Sultan in 1861 at the formal separation under British auspices ; since 1964 union with Tanganyika part of Tanzania )

The trend continued in 2004 when Republican Bill Farnham defeated the Democratic incumbent, Eastern District County Commissioner Gary Carmack, and Republicans Don Mayhew and Loretta Rouse defeated two long-term Democratic incumbents, County Surveyor John Mackey and County Public Administrator Paula Long Weber.

In the 2009 elections with two incumbents not running for re-election, Michael Goldberg was elected to another four-year term, along with newcomers Janine Bauer and Nancy Gould, by a nearly 2-1 margin.

In 2010 elections, which included one at-large seat and two district-seats, three new council members were elected, replacing two incumbents and adding a newly created seat.

* Mauritania had two High commissioners, after having been a protectorate since 12 May 1903 ( under a single military Commandant ), from 18 October 1904 the French civil territory of Mauritania under a Commissioner ( part of French West Africa ( AOF ); under its Governor-general in Dakar, Senegal ), and since 12 January 1920 a French colony under a Lieutenant governor ( many incumbents, again under Dakar ), on 28 November 1958 obtaining autonomy ( as Islamic Republic of Mauritania ):

There are never incumbents in the race, and voters are always being introduced to new politicians, so they often choose between two little-known politicians every four years.

Adams came up short against the two incumbents in the three-way race.

Thus, many Li supporters assumed that he and Vice President Hu would have been the only two PSC incumbents to have their five-year terms renewed at the 16th congress.

Jack Harris and the New Democrats hopes to increase their seat total from two were frustrated, although their incumbents were re-elected.

None had been elected to Congress before 2008, though two were incumbents who had been successful in special elections earlier in 2008 ( Travis Childers, who easily won re-election in the 1st district of Mississippi ; and Don Cazayoux, who was narrowly defeated in the 6th district of Louisiana ).

Parent was elected in Essex North but Burt and Reaume were both defeated though vote-splitting also resulted in the defeat of two CCF incumbents.

The other two Liberal-Labour MPPs elected were James Newman of Rainy River and Joseph Meinzinger of Waterloo North, defeating CCF incumbents George Lockhart and John Henry Cook, respectively.

Two Republicans and two Democrats, including both incumbents, won the four seats ; Cole received 5, 533 votes, less than any other candidate.

Despite this gain on the council, two Green incumbents on the council, Natalie Johnson Lee ( Ward 6 ) and Dean Zimmermann ( Ward 7 ), were unseated during the 2005 election.

In the states where the legislature ( or another body where a partisan majority is possible such as IL or OH ) is in charge of redistricting, the possibility of gerrymandering ( the deliberate manipulation of political boundaries for electoral advantage, usually of incumbents or a specific political party ) often makes the process very politically contentious, especially when the two houses of the legislature, or the legislature and the governor, are from different parties.

Higgins successfully contested the 2009 European Parliament election for the Dublin constituency, beating two incumbents, Mary Lou McDonald of Sinn Féin and Eoin Ryan of Fianna Fáil, for the third and final seat.

To protect two younger Republican incumbents, the Republicans agreed to sacrifice the district of the 79-year-old Gilman, who chose to retire.

In return, the Democrats accepted a district that threw together two of their incumbents, Louise Slaughter and John LaFalce, prompting the latter's retirement.

Later in 1997, she was elected to Hamilton City Council for Ward Two, outpolling two incumbents who had represented the area for more than 20 years.

The NRCC made some of its biggest gains in New York, where two incumbents won reelection and five seats flipped from being held by Democrats to being held by Republicans.

However, Miller stayed in the race and the two incumbents faced each other in the Republican primary on June 2, 1992.

A deal was hoped for as late as May 15, the day Miller was scheduled to hold a press conference Ohio political observers thought he would use to announce his withdrawal, but Miller stayed in the race and the two incumbents faced each other in the Republican primary on June 2, 1992.

The potentially explosive situation of having two Democratic incumbents face each other in the primary was defused when Coyne announced his retirement ( even though the district contained more of Coyne's former territory than Doyle's ) leaving Doyle as the sole incumbent.

The latter two were appointed secretaries.

Both were appointed to the United States Military Academy, Davis two years behind Johnston.

Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.

The plebeians accepted the offer, and accordingly two curule aediles were appointed — at first from the patricians alone, then from patricians and plebeians in turn, lastly, from either — at the Tribal Assembly under the presidency of the consul.

Together with the courts, the three administrative centers had considerable local autonomy, but were ruled by a governor who was appointed by the Acht Orte every two years.

The governors were appointed from both Catholic and Protestant cantons and since they changed every two years, neither faith gained a majority in the County.

After the accession of the latter to the imperial purple he invited Aedesius to continue his instructions, but the declining strength of the sage being unequal to the task, two of his most learned disciples, Chrysanthius and the aforementioned Eusebius, were by his own desire appointed to supply his place.

If two justices are appointed on the same day, the older is designated the senior Justice of the two.

The two highest institutions were the Universal House of Justice, and the Guardianship, for which he appointed Shoghi Effendi as the Guardian.

Along with his two Supreme Court appointments, Clinton appointed 66 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, and 305 judges to the United States district courts.

To settle the matter, the two men appointed a commission, headed by Abraham Mills, the fourth president of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs.

The selection process for the winner of the prize commences with the formation of an advisory committee which includes an author, two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian, and a chairperson appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation.

To avoid the possibility of plebeians obtaining control of the census, the patricians removed the right to take the census from the consuls and tribunes, and appointed for this duty two magistrates, called censores ( censors ), elected exclusively from the patricians in Rome.

In 1169 Saladin was appointed as the new vizier of Egypt by the Fatimids and two years later he would seize power from the family of the last Fatimid caliph, al -' Āḍid.

In ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament, He appointed Shoghi Effendi as the Guardian of the Bahá ' í Faith, called for the eventual election of the Universal House of Justice, and defined in the same manner opposition to these two institutions as Covenant-Breaking.

The first ships to bear the formal designation " torpedo boat destroyer " ( TBD ) were the Daring class of two ships and Havock class of two ships of the Royal Navy, developed in 1892 under the newly appointed Third Sea Lord Rear Admiral " Jackie " Fisher.

In May 1902 he was passed fit for sea duty and was appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno in June, spending two months in exercises with the Channel Fleet under Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson before joining the Mediterranean fleet.

At present, only the Iraqi missions to Italy and the Holy See share premises ; however, two ambassadors are appointed, one to each country.

Also in that year, she was made one of the visiting physicians of the East London Hospital for Children, becoming the first woman in Britain to be appointed to a medical post, but she found the duties of these two positions to be incompatible with her principal work in her private practice and the dispensary, as well as her role as a new mother, so she resigned from these posts by 1873.

Hird was temporarily appointed captain for the two matches which followed Lloyd's season-ending injury, before David Hille assumed the role from round 6 onwards.

The Committee consist of two elected members of the Legislative Assembly ( appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Legislative Assembly ), the Chief Executive, the Attorney General and the Chief Medical Officer.

There is also a Public Accounts Committee consisting of a chairman and two other members appointed by the Governor ( in consultation with the elected MLAs ) and two elected members of the Legislative Assembly.