He was still a student when he witnessed the sweeping triumph of the Republican party in Paris at the general election in 1863, during the Second French Empire.

The political situation continued to unravel throughout 1972: both opposition parties ( In Tam's Democratic Party and Sirik Matak's Republican Party ) refused to contest the elections to the National Assembly held in September, leading to a sweeping victory for Lon Non's Socio-Republican Party ( Sangkum Sathéaranak Râth ).

Margolis wrote about Barack Obama's election that: Americans did not " liberate " Iraq, but they certainly liberated their own nation last week by sweeping the Republican Party from power.

Thereafter as the Democratic nominee, Nunn defeated the Republican Fletcher Thompson, an Atlanta-area U. S. representative even as Richard M. Nixon was sweeping Georgia in the presidential election against the Democrat George S. McGovern.

" A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington, according to interviews in recent weeks and American diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks .” </ BLOCKQUOTE >

Despite being heavily out matched in fundraising, he rode a late surge fueled by sweeping editorial endorsements to finish third in the March 16, 2004 Illinois U. S. Senate Republican primary election that was won by Jack Ryan, and was a front-runner to replace Ryan as the Republican nominee in the first two weeks after Ryan quit the Senate race.

He defeated Democratic Congressman Jim Slattery in the Republican sweeping elections of 1994 at the age of 41, and became one of the youngest Governors in Kansas history.

A sweeping Republican wave election victory not equaled until 2010.

:" A sweeping indictment of Republican rule in this state ( and, by inference, other southern states ), Pike's dramatic, " eye-witness " account gained much attention throughout the country.

In 2003, Dewhurst assisted the Republican leadership, including then U. S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick, and Governor Rick Perry, in passing a sweeping congressional redistricting bill that increased the number of Republican U. S. House seats in Texas from fifteen to twenty-one in the 2004 elections.

Democrat Bill Clinton was stopped in his plan for government health care, and in 1994 the GOP made sweeping gains under the leadership of Newt Gingrich, the first Republican to become Speaker in 40 years.

In the 1918 general election Lloyd George, " the Man Who Won the War ", led his coalition into another khaki election, and won a sweeping victory over the Asquithian Liberals and the newly emerging Labour Party.

The Haitian general election, 1995 in June 1995 saw Aristide's coalition, the Lavalas ( Waterfall ) Political Organization, gain a sweeping victory, and René Préval, a prominent Aristide political ally, elected President with 88 % of the vote.

The Coalition scored a stunning victory over the ALP, winning many former ALP seats and sweeping back into power with ( at the time ) the largest parliamentary majority since Federation.

When Mexico rejected American annexation of Texas, Polk led the nation to a sweeping victory in the Mexican-American War, which gave the United States most of its present Southwest.

* 1980 – Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.

European Union officials welcomed the AK Party's sweeping victory, describing it as " a mandate for the reforms it wants Turkey to complete during its membership talks.

Reelected in Labor's sweeping victory of 1929 election, he expected to be named to James Scullin's cabinet, but disapproval of his drinking kept him on the back bench.

Following the sweeping electoral victory of the United National Party ( UNP ) in July 1977, the TULF became the leading opposition party, with around one sixth of the total electoral vote winning on a party platform of secession from Sri Lanka.

The elections, held on 5 December 2001, saw a sweeping victory for the United National Front, led by Ranil Wickremasinghe, who campaigned on a pro-peace platform and pledged to find a negotiated settlement to the conflict.

These problems would not come to fruition until Rutherford had left office, however ; in the short-term, the government's involvement in the telephone business helped it to a sweeping victory in the 1909 election, in which the Liberals won 37 of 41 seats in the newly expanded legislature.

The Wings opened the series with a 16-12 victory at home, before sweeping the series with a dominating 17-12 road victory in Baltimore Arena.

The sweeping victory of Messali Hadj's MTLD in the 1947 municipal elections frightened the colons, whose political leaders, through fraud and intimidation, attempted to obtain a result more favorable to them in the following year's first Algerian Assembly voting.

In 1935 all the parties of left and centre formed the Popular Front, which at the elections of June 1936 won a sweeping victory.

In April 1910 Labor won a sweeping election victory and Fisher returned to power.

The AK party won a sweeping victory in the 2002 elections, which saw every party previously represented in the Grand National Assembly ejected from the chamber.

** In this election, Ronald Reagan won a sweeping victory over Democrat Jimmy Carter, who won only six states ( plus the District of Columbia ), which accounted for just 10 % of the electoral vote.

On March 23, it was announced that the Janata party had won a sweeping victory, securing 43. 2 % of the popular vote and 271 seats.

Carter's subsequent sweeping of the black vote in the Michigan primary was key to his crucial and narrow victory in Michigan.

But the result of the general election, despite the fact that the Liberal Party polled over 7, 000 more votes than the United Opposition, was a sweeping victory for the opposition which came as a surprise in Great Britain.

The final game of the season saw a sweeping 4 – 0 victory against Salgueiros, sparking a nationwide party by all " Sportinguistas ".

In January 2001 he had a sweeping victory at the polls, winning a larger popular mandate ( 40 %) than any Thai prime minister has ever had in a freely elected National Assembly.

The Louisville Courier-Journal wrote: " It is the gallant Aristides, heir to a mighty name, that strides with sweeping gallop toward victory ... and the air trembles and vibrates again with the ringing cheers that followed.

Many Senators who accepted the Gulf of Tonkin resolution without question might well not have done so had they foreseen that it would subsequently be interpreted as a sweeping Congressional endorsement for the conduct of a large-scale war in Asia.

Congress had granted Franklin Roosevelt sweeping authority ; in Panama Refining v. Ryan, the Court for the first time struck down a Congressional delegation of power as violative of the doctrine of separation of powers.

After the 9 / 11 Commission published its findings, Maloney co-founded the bipartisan House 9 / 11 Commission Caucus and helped write and secure the enactment into law of many of its recommendations to reform the nation's intelligence agencies Congressional Quarterly wrote in its annual guide, 2006 Politics in America: " In the 108th Congress, Maloney reached out beyond her usual roles as a liberal gadfly and persistent Bush administration critic, helping win enactment of a sweeping bill to reorganize U. S. intelligence operations.

The FIS won sweeping victories in local elections and it was going to win national elections in 1991 when voting was canceled by a military coup d ' état.

His sweeping victories in the 2001, 2004 and 2006 state elections confirmed him as one of the most electorally successful politicians in Australia.

The elections of 1934 might have reflected the " radical upheaval sweeping the country ", as Roosevelt won the greatest majority either party ever held in the Senate and 322 Democrats won seats in the United States House of Representatives versus 103 Republicans.

When the State of Emergency was lifted and new elections called in 1977, opposition political parties such as the Congress ( O ), Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Bharatiya Lok Dal as well as defectors from the Congress ( R ) joined to form the Janata party, which won a sweeping majority in the Indian Parliament.

He then decided to shift his base to Bihar in 1989, when an anti-Congress wave was sweeping the country in the wake of the Bofors scandal, and won Muzaffarpur in the 1989 and 1991 general elections, He later joined the Janata Dal, a party which was formed from the Janata Party at Bangalore in August 1988.

Despite having won two mayoral elections convincingly, Shirley Franklin has nonetheless received criticism over her sweeping pro-business policies, which have resulted in increased property values and higher real estate taxes.

The party consolidated its position sweeping the 1999 and 2004 state elections.

Booker won the nonpartisan election of May 9, 2006 with 72 % of the vote, with his slate of City Council candidates, known as the " Booker Team ," sweeping the Council elections, and giving Booker firm leadership of the city government.

Till then the NSF had been sweeping student union elections in the 1950s and 1960s.