In December 1945 Christian Democrat Alcide De Gasperi was appointed Prime Minister of Italy.

Passed during the Wilson administration, the legislation was introduced by Alabama Democrat Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. in the U. S. House of Representatives, where the act passed by a vote of 277 to 54 on June 5, 1914.

De Lugo was elected as a Democrat Delegate to the United States House of Representatives, serving from January 3, 1973 to January 3, 1979.

De Lacy was elected to the United States Congress in 1944, replacing fellow Democrat Warren G. Magnuson who had retired from the House to run ( successfully ) for United States Senate.

De Priest was defeated in 1934 by Democrat Arthur W. Mitchell, who was also an African American.

De la Piedra meanwhile broke away, and formed his Nationalist Social Democrat Party the same year.

James B. McCreary, a Democrat from Kentucky, challenged Reed's authority to count him as present ; Reed replied, " The Chair is making a statement of fact that the gentleman from Kentucky is present.

Coleman's 2008 US Senate re-election bid, in which he was challenged by Democrat Al Franken and former senator Dean Barkley, was long unresolved.

Jones had run earlier as a Democrat for the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas's 4th congressional district in 1956 against Representative William F. Norrell, in 1961 against Norrell's widow, Representative Catherine Dorris Norrell, and in 1966 for the open seat vacated by the resignation of Oren Harris, when he challenged fellow Democrat David Hampton Pryor of Camden and Republican A. Lynn Lowe of Texarkana.

In 2004, as Holden sought re-election, he was challenged for the Democratic nomination for Governor by a fellow Democrat, State Auditor Claire McCaskill.

He was challenged by Democrat Roxanne Conlin, a former U. S. Attorney, and Libertarian John Heiderscheit, an attorney.

Herger has easily been reelected to Congress due to the " safe " Republican voter registration advantage in this district, but his election campaigns have been challenged by Democrat candidates in recent elections.

Former presidential candidate Bob Bowman, a Democrat, challenged Weldon in 2006.

In 1982, he challenged incumbent Democrat John G. Fary in the primary for, which included most of southwestern Chicago.

Hastings was challenged by Democrat Jay Clough ( campaign site, PVS ), a nuclear waste cleanup contractor and USMC veteran.

In the United States House elections, 2006, Saxton was challenged by Democrat Rich Sexton, a lawyer and U. S. Navy veteran from Mount Laurel.

In 1969, Bradley first challenged incumbent Mayor Sam Yorty, a conservative Democrat ( later Republican ) though the election was nonpartisan.

His most substantive opposition was in 1996, with Democrat Jeff Grey, and again in 1998, with Democratic Roanoke mayor David Bowers who challenged him.

In 2008, he was challenged by Democrat Sam Rasoul of Roanoke.

In the 2011 election, McGuinty was challenged by Conservative Elie Salibi, who had run in 2008, New Democrat James McLaren, Green Party candidate Mick Kitor, Progressive Canadian candidate Al Gullon and Pirate Party candidate Mike Bleskie.

Reichert was challenged by Democrat Suzan DelBene.

In 1968, Pelly was challenged by John E. McCluskey, a Democrat from Seattle.

On the floor of the United States House of Representatives, Wilcox was challenged by his poor command of the English language, and his lack of alignment with either of the main parties ( Democrat and Republican ).

In her 2004 bid for her first full term in the Ohio Senate, Padgett was challenged by Democrat Terry Anderson of Athens, Ohio, who in the 1980s had been held hostage by Islamic radicals in Lebanon when working on a story for the Associated Press.

In 1912, Haskell unsuccessfully challenged his fellow Democrat Robert Latham Owen in a hard-fought primary for Owen's Senate seat.

Appalled by the micromanagement of the campaigh by Perot's staff in Houston, Arnebeck eventually challenged its legitimacy in a Washington press conference before the election In 1996 Arnebeck decided to challenge the political establishment by running for Congress as a Democrat against Wylie's successor, GOP Congresswoman Deborah Pryce.

Disturbed at what he perceived as the behind the scenes manipulation of the political system, he filed a suit and successfully challenged the Ohio Chamber of Commerce's financing of the campaign in 2000 to defeat Justice Alice Robie Resnick, a Democrat.

In the U. S. territory of Guam, in the western Pacific Ocean, Republican Governor Felix P. Camacho was challenged by Democrat Robert Underwood.

Gilleland unsuccessfully challenged Democrat incumbent Ed DeGrange for a State Senate Seat in 2002, taking 41 % of the vote .< ref >

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

In 1929, he lost the election for mayor to incumbent Democrat Jimmy Walker by a landslide.

According to Puglisi, in the post-1960 period the Times displays a more symmetric type of watchdog behaviour, just because during presidential campaigns it also gives more coverage to the typically Republican issue of Defense when the incumbent President is a Democrat, and less so when the incumbent is a Republican.

Running against Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and Progressive (" Bull Moose ") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt, a former President, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.

* November 8 – U. S. presidential election, 1904: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats Democrat Alton B. Parker.

* November 6 – United States presidential election, 1956: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat challenger Adlai E. Stevenson in a rematch of their contest 4 years earlier.

* November 5 – United States presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States ' first and only third-term president.

The 1888 election for President of the United States saw Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, try to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U. S. Senator from Indiana.

The Democratic Party's repudiation of the Bourbon Democrats ( their pro-business wing, represented by incumbent President Grover Cleveland ), set the stage for 36 years of Republican control of the White House, interrupted only by the two terms of Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

In the last of these, Cattaraugus County's votes proved pivotal in the 2008 elections: incumbent Republican Randy Kuhl, who had strongly carried the county in 2004 and 2006, lost Cattaraugus County to Democrat Eric Massa in the 2008 elections.

In 2010, Republican Carl Paladino carried Cattaraugus County over Democrat ( and eventual winner ) Andrew Cuomo 65 % to 31 %, but Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Senator Chuck Schumer, both incumbent Democrats, carried the county by 51 % to 46 % and 54 % to 43 % margins respectively.

In 1948, Stevenson entered the Illinois gubernatorial race as a Democrat, and in an upset victory he defeated incumbent Republican Dwight H. Green in the Truman landslide.

Dole was the Republican Party presidential nominee in the presidential election of 1996, but he lost to incumbent Democrat Bill Clinton.

In 2006, Democrat Bob Casey Jr. received 54 % of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 56 % of the vote against Lynn Swann.

In 1996, Sanchez changed parties and ran as a moderate Democrat in the 46th District against six-term Republican incumbent Bob Dornan.

Running as a Republican, Warren was elected Governor of California on November 3, 1942, defeating incumbent Culbert Olson, a liberal Democrat.

Independent candidate David A. Bowers, a former Democrat, defeated incumbent Democrat Nelson Harris for Mayor in the May 2008 election with 53 % of the vote.

Former Roanoke mayor Ralph Smith won the 2007 election in the neighboring 22nd Senate district after defeating incumbent Brandon Bell for the Republican nomination in the primary election and Democrat Michael Breiner in the general election.

In 1834, Seward was nominated as the Whig candidate for Governor of New York, but he lost the election to the incumbent Democrat William L. Marcy.

In 2006 Democrat Tim Seip won the heavily Republican 125th House district and Bob Casey Jr. carried Schuylkill when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum.

In 2005, Bethlehem Mayor Don Cunningham unseated incumbent County Executive Jane Ervin to become the first Democrat to be elected to the office.

In 2006, Democrat Bob Casey Jr. received 51 % of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 50. 6 % of the vote against Lynn Swann.

In 2006, Democrat Bob Casey Jr. received 55 % of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 50. 2 % of the vote against Lynn Swann.