He will be succeeded by Ivan Allen Jr., who became a candidate in the Sept. 13 primary after Mayor Hartsfield announced that he would not run for reelection.

Some eastern Republicans even favored the reelection of Douglas for the Senate in 1858, since he had led the opposition to the Lecompton Constitution, which would have admitted Kansas as a slave state.

* 2002 – 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $ 35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.

His decision to run for reelection disappointed younger men who nursed political ambitions, and rumors that Chaves would strengthen the police at the army's expense disappointed the military.

Wilson, after deliberating, decided keeping Marshall on would demonstrate party unity ; thus in 1916 Marshall won reelection over the still divided Republican Party and became the first vice president re-elected since John C. Calhoun in 1828, and Wilson and Marshall became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected since Monroe and Tompkins in 1820.

After getting elected president in his own right in 1904, on election night on the lawn of the White House, Roosevelt publicly declared he would not run for reelection in 1908, a decision that he immediately regretted.

Because President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek reelection, the purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party ’ s candidate for the office.

However, in June 2009, she announced she would run for reelection to the House.

In the same address, Johnson announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection in 1968, surprising everyone, Clifford included.

Harper is warned privately in chambers by his political adviser, Charlie Halloran ( William Frawley ), that doing so would be disastrous for his upcoming reelection bid.

When the Republican Party chose to endorse Democratic Councilman Kyle Kotary for town supervisor in May 2011, then-supervisor Messina announced he would not seek reelection.

However, given his original intention NOT to run, he officially announced that he would allow his name to be placed on the ballot, but he would not carry out a campaign for reelection.

On March 31, in a surprise move, Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection.

Following the 1968 election, McCarthy returned to the Senate, but announced that he would not be running for reelection in 1970, to the dismay of many Minnesotans.

Several weeks later, Johnson announced he would not seek reelection.

Jagland announced in September 2008 that he would not seek reelection.

After David Durenberger announced he would not seek reelection, Grams surprised many by announcing, just months into beginning his first term in the US House, that he would run for the US Senate.

Hoard made the extremely controversial law the centerpiece of his reelection campaign, rejecting the advice of professional politicians that it would doom the GOP.

" When she was invited by Vice President Charles Curtis to preside over the Senate she took advantage of the situation to announce that she would run for reelection.

Elon stated that he would not seek reelection and American immigrant Uri Bank took his place on the Jewish Home list.

Fitzgerald declined to run for reelection largely because many Republican insiders who had failed to support him in his first run in 1998 had made it clear he would not have their support again, in what he knew would be a much tougher race.

In addition to the growing appeal of conservative sentiment, President Jimmy Carter's prospects for reelection in the U. S. presidential election of 1980 were strengthened when he easily beat back a primary challenge by liberal icon Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts.

When Bentsen was up for reelection in 1982, he played a significant role in electing the most liberal slate of statewide officials in living memory by leading a unified Democratic campaign and tapping his substantial campaign funds for a sophisticated get-out-the-vote effort.

She sought reelection, but was narrowly defeated in the general election by City Councilman Joe Moakley, a more liberal Democrat who was running as an Independent.

He befriended fellow freshman state representative Lena Guerrero of Austin, a staunch liberal Democrat who endorsed Perry's reelection bid in 2006 on personal, rather than philosophical, grounds.

As an opponent of a Republican incumbent, Bud Shuster, in a Republican district in a year in which U. S. President Ronald W. Reagan won a landslide reelection, Kulp was the underdog despite the otherwise favourable climate for liberal Democrats in Pennsylvania as a whole.

His reelection in a heavily fought primary in 1938 solidified his reputation as the most prominent liberal in Congress.

By then he had fully converted to the liberal party, and as such he was a representative and senator in the Congress, as well as a candidate to presidential reelection in 1857, which he lost to conservative Mariano Ospina Rodríguez.

His conservative turn after his reelection in 1944, when he increasingly represented the interests of big business, large agribusiness concerns, and the oil industry, has obscured his historical reputation as a one-time liberal and progressive force in California politics.

In the wake of Bush's reelection some Americans looked to Canada as a more liberal alternative to the United States under the Bush administration.

* 1937 or 1938 – Vito Marcantonio, a liberal Republican congressman from New York left the party after being defeated for reelection, and joined the American Labor Party.

Picker was so effective as a liberal advocate that he was singled out by President Richard M. Nixon's reelection strategists as the top target of a list of 20 people on Nixon's Enemies List.

The liberal Ronka, an attorney who specialized in real estate, was elected to represent Los Angeles City Council District 1 in 1977, succeeding veteran Councilman Louis R. Nowell, who did not seek reelection.

In the 1910 Congressional elections, Democrats swept to power, and Taft's reelection in 1912 was increasingly in doubt.

Before then, the area traditionally voted Democratic and sent Democrats to the House of Representatives and the state legislature until 1994 when the incumbent Earl Hutto declined to run for reelection.

In the wake of President George W. Bush's reelection in 2004, several leading House Democrats believed that Democrats should pursue impeachment proceedings against the president.

In 1994, Obey only won reelection by seven points as the Democrats lost control of the House during the Republican Revolution.

His only serious opposition — indeed, one of only three serious runs Democrats have made in this district since it fell into Republican hands in 1972 — came in his first reelection bid, when Clarksville mayor Don Trotter faced him.

Due to her support for many of the President Bush's policies and her past campaigning with the president her reelection was closely watched on election night as an indicator as to how well the Democrats would do in the mid-term elections.

In 1936, the historian and political activist J. Evetts Haley organized at the Adolphus his third party, the " Jeffersonian Democrats of Texas ", to oppose within Texas the reelection of U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom Haley considered a socialist.

Cooley's reelection chances were already in serious jeopardy, but it was generally believed that an independent bid by Walden would allow the Democrats to sneak up the middle and win a seat they hadn't held since 1981.

He took over the midwest campaign for President Truman and was credited with assisting not only Truman's 1948 reelection but bringing nine Democrats into the Senate.

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.

Proving just how Republican this district was at the national level ( though conservative Democrats would hold most of the district's seats in the state legislature well into the 1990s ), Callahan was unopposed for reelection in 1986, a year widely reckoned as a bad one for the Republicans at the national level.

The Freedom Democrats efforts drew national attention to the plight of African-Americans in Mississippi, and represented a challenge to President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for reelection ; their success would mean that other Southern delegations, who were already leaning toward Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, would publicly break from the convention's decision to nominate Johnson — meaning in turn that he would almost certainly lose those states ' electoral votes in the election.

Despite the reelection of Clinton and Gore, and despite Democrats picking up a net eight seats in the elections to the United States House of Representatives held the same day, the Republicans had a net gain of two seats in the Senate, following major Republican gains two years previously in the 1994 elections.

Miller and Koch, though Democrats, supported Republican George W. Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, while Powell and Leach supported Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

However, he tended to caucus with the Republicans, and was defeated for reelection by the candidate of Virginia's Conservative Democrats, who were also assuming the other political control in Virginia they would later hold until the 1960s under the Byrd Organization.

DiPrete served as the 70th Governor of Rhode Island from 1985 to 1991, and was defeated for reelection in a landslide by former federal attorney and millionaire businessman Bruce Sundlun in 1990, who had twice lost to DiPrete who was one of the few Rhode Island Governors in recent history to be elected for 3 terms, all the more noteworthy because he was a Republican in a state where Democrats consistently control both houses of the Legislature with a hold of 85-90 % majority.

He served for the remaining six months of the term, but lost his bid for reelection as Democrats regained control of Virginia.

Of the Democrats affected by redistricting, Green is the only one who won reelection without being shifted to another district or changing parties.

Four Democrats lost their bids for reelection.

The Democrats were unable to secure his reelection in 1901, and the seat became vacant again.