For example, in the 2008 United States presidential election, a politician and actor named Fred Thompson ran for the Republican Party nomination.

For four years he worked hard, with help from his supporters in Congress, to defeat Adams in the presidential election of 1828.

For his efforts, Luthor receives a presidential pardon for his past crimes.

For example, it is used in French presidential, legislative, and cantonal elections, and also to elect the presidents of Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uruguay, Zimbabwe — see: Table of voting systems by nation.

For example, some analysts suggest that the Electoral College system in the United States, by favoring a system of winner – takes – all in presidential elections, is a structural choice favoring only two major parties.

For that reason, they contend Senator Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman presidential candidate ; she was nominated at the 1964 Republican National Convention.

For example, at the start of the 2000 election cycle Dick Cheney was a resident of Texas ; Cheney quickly changed his residency back to Wyoming, where he had previously served as a U. S. Representative, when Texas governor and Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush asked Cheney to be his vice presidential candidate.

For the first time in their history, the Whigs held a national convention to determine their presidential candidate.

For the first time significant numbers of delegates to the national conventions were elected in presidential preference primaries.

For example, ' Nixon ' refers to the same person in every possible world in which Nixon exists, while ' the person who won the United States presidential election of 1968 ' could refer to Nixon, Humphrey, or others in different possible worlds.

For the 1968 U. S. presidential campaign, Brzezinski was chairman of the Hubert Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force.

For the presidential election, Mobutu was the only candidate, and voters were offered two ballot choices: green for hope, and red for chaos: Mobutu won with a vote of 10, 131, 699 to 157.

For example, Congress suspended sectio 315, equal time provision, for a TV forum on presidential election in 1960 because every candidate has to have same portion of time to speak.

For the presidential race that year, LeMay originally supported Richard Nixon ; he turned down two requests by George Wallace to join his American Independent Party that year on the grounds that a third-party candidacy might hurt Nixon's chances at the polls ( by coincidence, Wallace had served as a sergeant in a unit commanded by LeMay during World War II ).

For the 1981 presidential election, both Le Pen and Pascal Gauchon of the PFN declared their intents to run.

For the 2002 presidential election, opinion polls had predicted a run-off between incumbent President Chirac and PS candidate Lionel Jospin.

For the 2007 presidential election, Le Pen and Mégret had agreed to join forces.

For the 2012 presidential election, opinion polls showed Marine Le Pen as a serious challenger, with a few polls even suggesting that she could win the first round of the election.

For the presidential election, Venevision devoted 84 % of its coverage to Chavez's positions, and only 16 % to the opposition.

For the next seven weeks, there were daily demonstrations in front of the presidential palace.

For 2010 presidential electiones, four parties held primary elections: The Liberal Party elected former minister Rafael Pardo as candidate, the Democratic Pole elected senator Gustavo Petro, the Conservative Party chose ambassador Noemi Sanin and the Green Party chose former mayor of Bogota Antanas Mockus.

For example the press referred to a filing by Restore Our Future, Inc, that listed 3 large donations by coworkers of 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, as being " Mitt Romney's FEC filing ".

For example, Jones and Moscone met privately with vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale on his campaign plane days before the 1976 election and Mondale publicly praised the Temple.

For this reason, journalists and commentators often apply the word disparagingly to politicians and their positions, such as the Village Voices reference to a perceived change in Rudy Giuliani's position (" Rudy Adopts New Shtick ") or Slate. com's subtitle for a criticism of presidential candidate Mitt Romney's presentation of his Mormonism (" Mitt Romney's Clumsy Mormon Shtick ").

: For the use of the term " democracy " as referring to a system involving multiparty elections, representative government, and freedom of speech, see Liberal democracy.

For elections to Dáil Éireann the city is divided into five constituencies: Dublin Central ( 4 seats ), Dublin North – Central ( 3 seats ), Dublin North-East ( 3 seats ), Dublin North – West ( 3 seats ), Dublin South – Central ( 5 seats ) and Dublin South – East ( 4 seats ).

For that reason most democratic constitutions provide that elections are held at fixed regular intervals.

For example, in the Dauphiné the provincial assembly agreed to double the number of members of the third estate, hold membership elections, and allow one vote per member, rather than one vote per estate.

For almost two years after the federal elections in 2005, the Greens were not part of any government at the state or federal level.

For the 1996 national elections, the center-left parties created the Olive Tree coalition while the center-right united again under the House of Freedoms.

For the 1947 elections, anti-Yoshida forces left the Liberal Party and joined forces with the Progressive Party to establish the new Democratic Party ( Minshuto ).

( For instance, in some elected monarchies only those of certain pedigrees are considered eligible, whereas many hereditary monarchies have legal requirements regarding the religion, age, gender, mental capacity, and other factors that act both as de facto elections and to create situations of rival claimants whose legitimacy is subject to effective election.

For elections to the European Parliament, most member states use open lists ; most of the United Kingdom uses closed lists, but Northern Ireland uses the Single transferable vote, as does Ireland.

For Gorbachev, demokratizatsiya originally meant the introduction of multi-candidate ( but not multiparty ) elections for local Communist Party ( CPSU ) positions and Soviets.

For the 2011 elections, this system allowed for 266 senators, 208 of which were elected and 58 of which were designated by the autonomous communities.

For instance, elite-based parties execute an often sporadic political labor, focused on elections.

For local elections, it is part of the Ballymun – Finglas local electoral area of Dublin City Council.

For example, elections are held every three years for half the membership of the Australian Senate, the term of a senator being six years.

For N candidates, this requires pairwise hypothetical elections.

For General elections, the county is divided into two constituencies, Donegal South – West and Donegal North – East, with both having three representatives in Dáil Éireann.

For elections to the European Parliament, the county is part of the North – West constituency ( formerly Connacht – Ulster ).

) For local ( non-statewide ) office, the number of signatures required to place a candidate on the ballot is much lower for qualified parties, and they are the only parties eligible to hold primary elections.

For elections to Dáil Éireann, the county is divided into five constituencies — Cork East, Cork North – Central, Cork North – West, Cork South – Central and Cork South – West.

For example, in Ireland, only citizens may vote in a constitutional referendum, whereas citizens of the United Kingdom are also entitled to vote in general elections.

For local elections to Louth County Council, the town forms part of two local electoral areas-Drogheda East ( 6 ) and Drogheda West ( 4 ).

For the purposes of elections to Dáil Éireann, the town is part of the five seat Louth constituency which returns five TDs.

" For the PNDC, therefore, the district elections constituted an obvious first step in a political process that was to culminate at the national level.