Clinton's election ended twelve years of Republican rule of the White House and twenty of the previous twenty-four years.

In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected-office experience.

Willkie received 22. 3 million votes ( more than any previous Republican candidate ), but was outpolled by Roosevelt with 27. 3 million.

Lazare Carnot played a large part in the reorganization of the French army from 1793 to 1794 — a time which saw previous French misfortunes reversed, with Republican armies advancing on all fronts.

However, Dewey polled 46 % of the popular vote, a stronger showing against Roosevelt than any previous Republican opponent.

One Illinois Republican expressed a common fear that if the South were allowed to simply restore its previous established powers, that the " reward of treason will be an increased representation ".

The conservative Republican Proposal secured 26 seats, gaining 12 from the previous election.

In recent years, according to the results of previous elections, Chester Township tends to support the Republican Party on the national and state levels.

The total weight of a pilum was between two and five kilograms, with the versions produced during the Empire being a bit lighter than those dating from the previous Republican era.

Stevens became the Senate's President Pro Tempore when Republicans regained control of the chamber as a result of the 2002 mid-term elections, during which the previous most senior Republican senator and former President Pro Tempore Strom Thurmond retired.

At the start of each Congress the Clerk of the House of the previous session creates a roll of those who have been elected to serve in the House of Representatives of that Congress ( current Congress is the 112th ) and calls the House to order, conducts opening ceremonies, and determines whether a quorum is present by electronic roll call, and seeks and recognizes nominations for Speaker from the Chairmen of the Democratic Caucus and the Republican Conference, and presides over the House until the election of a Speaker has occurred.

Despite Harris's support of many Republican causes and her previous statewide victories, some party leaders expressed doubt about her statewide appeal:

" He also dismissed Texas Governor James W. Throckmorton, a former Confederate, for being an " impediment to the reconstruction of the State ," replacing him with the Republican who had lost to him in the previous election.

Another example might be to predict whether a voter will vote Democratic or Republican, based on age, income, gender, race, state of residence, votes in previous elections, etc.

The first Democrat to serve as Governor in 20 years, Dayton succeeded Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty. On January 5, 2011, Governor Dayton signed two Executive Orders allowing the Minnesota Departments of Commerce and Health to apply for federal health-care grants, and provide $ 1. 2 billion in federal funds toward an Early Option for a statewide Medicaid Opt-In program ; these Executive Orders reversed the previous administration's ban on federal funding for the state's health-care system.

In an attempt to succeed his father, he ran as Democratic candidate for New York Governor in 2002, but withdrew before the primary after criticizing Republican incumbent George Pataki's leadership after the terrorist attacks on the city on 9 / 11 the previous year.

In the 1954 general election campaign against Little Rock Mayor Pratt C. Remmel, Faubus secured the endorsement of the previous 1950 and 1952 Republican gubernatorial nominee, Jefferson W. Speck, a planter from Mississippi County in eastern Arkansas.

It was a good showing for a Republican candidate in Arkansas, compared to previous races in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Coinage was introduced by the Roman Republican government in circa 300 BC, " surprisingly late " in southern European terms ; the Greek world had already been using coinage over the previous three centuries.

But some of the all-white delegations from other southern states threatened to leave the convention and bolt the party ( as they had done in previous years ) if the regular Mississippi delegation was unseated, and Johnson feared losing Southern support in the coming campaign against Republican Party candidate Barry Goldwater.

Carper governed for two terms as a moderate, business-oriented " New Democrat ", following the lead of the two previous Republican governors.

Carper governed for two terms as a moderate, business-oriented " New Democrat ", following the lead of the two previous Republican governors.

Many of the Republican soldiers had already surrendered to Caesar in previous campaigns and had then deserted his army to rejoin Pompeius: they would fight with desperation, fearing that they would not be pardoned a second time ( indeed Caesar had executed prisoners at his last major victory, at Thapsus ).

Lingle ran on her " Agenda for New Beginnings ," a campaign platform developed to promote Republican leadership and highlight their criticisms of the previous 40 years of Democratic administration of the state.

Although many people believed Hagel had no chance of winning, he won a " stunning upset " in the election, receiving 56 % of the vote, winning virtually all demographic groups including many black precincts that had always voted Democratic in previous elections, and becoming the first Republican in twenty-four years to win a Senate seat in Nebraska.

Although McKinley outpolled him by 600, 000 votes, Bryan received more votes than any previous presidential candidate.

The studio's candidate for Best Picture the previous year, Saving Private Ryan, lost to Shakespeare in Love, so the studio took a new approach by hiring outsiders to provide input for the campaign.

In 1587, he was a candidate for the monarch of Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, following the death of previous Polish king, Stefan Batory.

The first Trustees on the school's Board were James W. Reid ( who had done the most to shepherd the authorization bill through the legislature ), Norman B. Willey ( who had just stepped down as Idaho governor ), Benjamin Wilson ( a previous gubernatorial candidate ), J. Morris Howe, and C. W. Schaff.

The law's promulgator, L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, was shortly afterwards elected Pontifex Maximus after the death of the incumbent Metellus Dalmaticus: something of a personal revenge because, the previous year, he had expected to be co-opted as a pontiff to replace his late father, but the pontifical college had appointed another candidate in his place.

Additionally, John McCain carried every Western Pennsylvania county except for Allegheny County and Erie County, in sharp contrast to previous years, like 2004, in which Democratic candidate John Kerry carried 5 counties in Western Pennsylvania.

4, 426, 165, 368 candidate solutions — about 1 / 60, 000 of the previous estimate.

For example, when searching for a proper divisor of a random number n, it is better to enumerate the candidate divisors in increasing order, from 2 to n-1, than the other way around — because the probability that n is divisible by c is 1 / c. Moreover, the probability of a candidate being valid is often affected by the previous failed trials.

In the 2008 Presidential election, Tredyffrin voters gave 58 % of its votes to Democratic candidate Barack Obama over John McCain, a significant change from previous elections.

Ken Gill became the party ’ s first elected officer in 1968 and ex-Communist Hugh Scanlon was elected president of the AEU with Broad Left support the previous year – defeating Reg Birch, the Maoist ex-party candidate.

Instead they selected Cárdenas to be the ruling party's presidential candidate, and Calles went along with it, thinking he could control him as he had the previous two.

In 1831 he published his important Essentials of Parliamentary Reform ( an elaboration of his previous " Statement "), and, after refusing to stand as parliamentary candidate for the City of London in 1831, changed his mind and was elected head of the poll, with three other Liberals, in December 1832.

He also showed the same for Consistent Mastermind ( playing the game so that every guess is a candidate for the secret code that is consistent with the hints in the previous guesses ).

Bell reversed his previous decision and stood for the European Parliament in the June 2004 elections, but was ultimately unsuccessful as an independent candidate in the UK's eastern region, winning only 6. 2 % of the vote ( see European Parliament election, 2004 ( UK )).

For example, if you assume that the breakdown of the US population by party identification has not changed since the previous presidential election, you may underestimate a victory or a defeat of a particular party candidate that saw a surge or decline in its party registration relative to the previous presidential election cycle.

MacDonald ran as the NDP candidate in Toronto Centre — Rosedale in the 1997 election ; in the previous election, he was the PC incumbent, and like every other PC candidate in Ontario in 1993, was defeated.

Maxton was the only Labour candidate at that election to gain a seat won by the Conservatives at the previous general election.

Should the State Duma refuse to give its approval, the President will have to nominate another ( or the same ) candidate within one week of the rejection of the previous candidate.