With almost 20 parties competing in the first round, the presidential election came down to a January 7, 1996 runoff in which PAN candidate Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen defeated Alfonso Portillo Cabrera of the FRG by just over 2 % of the vote.

Guatemala held presidential, legislative, and municipal elections on November 7, 1999, and a runoff presidential election on December 26.

In the latest elections, which took place in 2011, Retired General Otto Pérez Molina of the Patriotic Party won the presidential election in a runoff against populist Manuel Baldizón of the LIDER party.

Communist candidate Dimitris Christofias won a crucial presidential runoff in Cyprus, defeating his conservative rival with a majority of 53 %.

As no presidential candidate received a majority in the October election, a runoff was held in November.

* January 6 – The runoff for the Guatemalan presidential election is won by Jorge Serrano Elías.

* April 26 – French presidential election: A first-round runoff results between Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing and François Mitterrand

* April 21 – French presidential election, 2002: The first round results in a runoff between Jacques Chirac and the leader of the main French far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

However, it ended subsequent to the legislative elections that followed Chirac's decisive defeat of Jospin ( who failed even to make it through to the runoff ) in the 2002 presidential election.

The 2002 French presidential election consisted of a first round election on 21 April 2002, and a runoff election between the top two candidates ( Jacques Chirac and Jean-Marie Le Pen ) on 5 May 2002.

This presidential contest attracted a greater than usual amount of international attention because of Le Pen's unexpected victory over Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin and subsequent appearance in the runoff election.

He won the country's 2005 presidential election ; he received the most votes in the first round in March 2005, but less than a majority, requiring a runoff election, which he won in May 2005.

Lavín again represented UDI in the 2005 presidential election, but ended in third place with 23. 23 % of the vote, due the presence of another right-wing candidate in the race, Sebastián Piñera, who made it to the runoff election with 25. 41 % of the vote.

In the 2008 presidential election, Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC candidate, received the most votes but did not receive an absolute majority, thus a runoff was necessary.

He was elected president of Sierra Leone in the 1996 Sierra Leone presidential election with 59 % of the vote defeating his closest rival John Karefa-Smart of the United National People's Party ( UNPP ) who had 40 % in the runoff vote.

In the Tehran area, the runoff elections were postponed to be held with the Iranian presidential election of June 17, 2005.

* In the 2012 Egyptian presidential election the two candidates who qualified for the runoff election, Freedom and Justice Party candidate Mohamed Morsi ( 24. 8 %) and Independent candidate Ahmed Shafik ( 23. 7 %), each received more votes than any other candidate, but they failed to get enough votes to prove that each winning candidate was actually more popular than the Dignity Party candidate Hamdeen Sabahi ( 20. 7 %), Independent candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh ( 17. 5 %), or Independent candidate Amr Moussa ( 11. 1 %).

Following the first round of the presidential election, she faced Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round of voting on 6 May in a two-way runoff.

This presidential election process would involve political parties nominating a presidential and vice presidential ticket with the option of runoff election.

Three days later, he held a press-conference saying the story violated the pre-election silence ( second round runoff presidential elections contested between Vojislav Koštunica and Miroljub Labus were held on October 13 ) even if neither candidate was so much as mentioned in the story.

In the 2006 Peruvian national election, Union for Peru aligned itself with the Peruvian Nationalist Party and endorsed Ollanta Humala, who faced Alan García in the presidential runoff election.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

As the war drew to a close, Lincoln's presidential Reconstruction for the South was in flux ; having believed the federal government had limited responsibility to the millions of freedmen.

Johnson was nominated as the vice presidential candidate in 1864 on the National Union Party ticket.

In 1840 Johnson was appointed as a presidential elector for his state, giving him more statewide exposure.

Though he was not enamored of the party's presidential nominee, Franklin Pierce, Johnson campaigned for him, but he failed to carry Tennessee.

Abadeh airport ( OISA ) was planned to be built in Akbar Hashemi Rafsenjani's presidential period.

SDI research was cut back following the end of Reagan's presidency, and in 1995 it was reiterated in a presidential joint statement that " missile defense systems may be deployed ... will not pose a realistic threat to the strategic nuclear force of the other side and will not be tested to ... that capability.

It was enacted July 14, 1798, with an expiration date of March 3, 1801 ( the day before Adams ' presidential term was to end ).

Col. Eugene Holmes, an Army officer who was involved in Clinton's case, issued a notarized statement during the 1992 presidential campaign: " I was informed by the draft board that it was of interest to Senator Fullbright's office that Bill Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar, should be admitted to the ROTC program ...

Clinton won the 1992 presidential election ( 43. 0 % of the vote ) against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush ( 37. 4 % of the vote ) and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent ( 18. 9 % of the vote ) on a platform focusing on domestic issues ; a significant part of Clinton's success was Bush's steep decline in public approval.

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.

After Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was over, Bill Clinton continued to raise funds to help pay off her campaign debt.

Meanwhile, Zhelyu Zhelev, a communist-era dissident from the new democratic party-Union of Democratic Forces, was elected President by the Assembly in 1990, and in 1992 won Bulgaria's first presidential elections and served as president until 1997.

Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

The 1986 presidential election was won by Óscar Arias of the PLN.

The prohibition was officially recognized as unconstitutional in April 2003, allowing Óscar Arias to run for President a second time in the 2006 Costa Rican presidential elections, which he won with approximately a 1 % margin.

A new presidential election was expected to be held in October 2005.

The most recent presidential election was held on 10 January 2010, and was won by Ivo Josipović.

However, weeks before the UN deadline, Klerides was defeated in presidential elections by centre candidate Tassos Papadopoulos.

Political violence against FARC and UP members ( including presidential candidate Jaime Pardo ) was blamed on drug lords and also on members of the security forces ( to a much lesser degree on the argued inaction of Betancur administration ).