Florida's votes gave Bush, the Republican candidate, 271 electoral votes, one more than the required 270 electoral votes to win the Electoral College and defeat Democratic candidate Al Gore, who received 266 electoral votes ( a District of Columbia elector abstained ).

On 8 April 1997, Hamilton became the Tory candidate for Tatton ( 182 for, 35 against, 100 abstained ).

He was the only candidate put forward for the job by a six-owner search committee ( Wellington Mara, Lamar Hunt, Art Modell, Robert Parins, Dan Rooney, and Ralph Wilson ), however, a group of eleven newer owners who wanted more of a voice in the selection process abstained from voting, preventing Finks from receiving the nineteen votes necessary to become Commissioner.

The conservative party abstained of participating in the contest, and Zaldúa, as only candidate, won the presidency election.

He received 115 votes from the 138 participating deputies ; the only other candidate, Noumoutié Sogoba of African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence ( SADI ), received eight votes, while 15 deputies abstained.

However, if the governing parties had been united in support of the Hungarian Socialist Party candidate, Katalin Szili, Sólyom would not have secured enough votes to take the Presidency ; but because Szili was not acceptable to the Alliance of Free Democrats, the smaller party in the governing coalition, they abstained from voting, and Sólyom's election was secured.

Szili as a high ranking a member of the Socialist party was considered partisan, the SZDSZ abstained, enabling the more neutral candidate Sólyom ( who was originally nominated by a non-governmental organization Védegylet and later supported by the opposition ), to win the office.

When Mazuz's predecessor Elyakim Rubinstein resigned to accept appointment to the Supreme Court, Mazuz was chosen by Justice Minister Yosef Lapid ; his selection and confirmation were carried out without the involvement of Sharon or vice-premier Ehud Olmert ( also a target of the campaign-finance investigation ) who both abstained in order to avoid a conflict of interest.

He has struggled with drug addiction for the majority of his life and has abstained from substance use since 2000.

He abstained against attempts by the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) to exclude Sinn Féin from office in July 2000 and October 2001.

He described as " unfortunate " Canada's decision to support an United Nations resolution critical of Israel in October 2000, and later argued that Canada should have abstained.

A Democratic elector from the District of Columbia in the 2000 U. S. Election, she abstained from voting in the Electoral College rather than vote for Al Gore as was expected, in protest of the District's lack of a voting representative in Congress.

When voting for the referendums took place in 2000, Berlusconi almost abstained and said the vote was " mostly pointless " as he would take care of all reforms when he would return to power.

Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.

On the recent airstrike resolution supporting military action in Libya, Brazil joined fellow BRICS in the Council and abstained.

But whatever were the reasons behind the votes of the majority, the rejection of the Measures made it plain that the Church does not possess full spiritual freedom to determine its worship ..." Stephen Neill points out that the Roman Catholic members of parliament abstained from voting.

This was thanks to two members of the ČSSD, Miloš Melčák and Michal Pohanka, who abstained.

The deputies of Mayotte abstained.

It is said that in the later years of their marriage Emma and Einhard abstained from sexual relations, choosing instead to focus their attentions on their many religious commitments.

" 62 deputies have voted ' no ,' and 7 people abstained.

Following a failed royalist coup, the monarchist parties abstained, leading to a landslide for the Liberals and their allies.

Among the artists of the core group ( minus Bazille, who had died in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 ), defections occurred as Cézanne, followed later by Renoir, Sisley, and Monet, abstained from the group exhibitions so they could submit their works to the Salon.

He seems to have abstained for a considerable time from the study of the classics and to have plunged deeply into that of the Bible, under the impulse of Apollinaris of Laodicea, then teaching in Antioch and not yet suspected of heresy.

In the evening of 18 February 1918, Trotsky and his supporters in the committee abstained and Lenin's proposal was accepted 7 – 4.

On 21 April, in the Commons the Bill went virtually unopposed ( 204 in favour, 59 opposed, and 250 abstained ), the Lords acquiesced, and Charles, fearing for the safety of his family, signed on 10 May.

Nazirite Jews ( in Hebrew: נזיר ) abstained from grape products, haircuts, and contact with the dead.

Clement VIII presided at the conferences to determine the questions of grace and free will, controverted between the Jesuits and Dominicans, were commenced under him, but he abstained from pronouncing a decision.

This was a festival of secret women-only rituals connected with marriage customs and commemorated the third of the year, in the month Pyanepsion, when Kore was abducted and Demeter abstained from her role as goddess of harvest and growth.

Intergovernmental Affairs minister Michael Chong resigned from his position and abstained from voting, arguing that this motion was too ambiguous and had the potential of recognizing a destructive ethnic nationalism in Canada.

An Eastern body of Christian Sabbath-keepers mentioned from the 8th century to the 12th is called Athenians (" touch-not ") because they abstained from uncleanness and intoxicating drinks, called Athinginians in Neander: " This sect, which had its principal seat in the city of Armorion, in upper Phrygia, where many Jews resided, sprung out of a mixture of Judaism and Christianity.

Since self-determination is not recognized in the Spanish Constitution of 1978, some Basques abstained and some even voted against it in the referendum of December 6 of that year.

Among other parties that abstained was COSEP, who had warned the FSLN that they would decline participation unless freedom of the press was reinstituted.

Several fierce advocates of equal rights, such as Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, abstained from voting because the amendment did not prohibit devices which states might use to restrict black suffrage, such as literacy tests and poll taxes.

The New York delegation, lacking permission to vote for independence, abstained.

In the Pennsylvania delegation, Dickinson and Robert Morris abstained, allowing the delegation to vote three-to-two in favor of independence.

The New York delegation abstained once again, since they were still not authorized to vote for independence, although they would be allowed to do so by the New York Provincial Congress a week later.

Despite the central role played by Canadian John Humphrey, the Canadian Government at first abstained from voting on the Declaration's draft, but later voted in favour of the final draft in the General Assembly.

No known examples of quarters were made in 1933, San Francisco abstained in 1934 and 1949, and stopped after 1955, until it resumed in 1968 by way of making proofs.

Capone's mayoral candidate won by a huge margin and weeks later announced that he would run Capone out of town.

* Fernando Ferrer – New York City mayoral candidate in 2001 and 2005

Donna Frye, former city council representative and mayoral candidate < BR >

However, after a sensational uncovering of massive bribes scandals in the early 1990s, the city had become a stronghold of the conservative coalition led by Milanese media-magnate Silvio Berlusconi combined with the secessionist far-right movement Northern League, a trend that seems to have been reversed only by the 2011 municipal elections, in which a progressive candidate successfully contested the mayoral seat, thus ending almost 20 years of conservative administrations.

When the bosses rejected his bid to become the mayoral candidate, Cermak swore revenge.

During the 2008 London mayoral election the newspaper and particularly its correspondent Andrew Gilligan published articles in support of Conservative candidate Boris Johnson, including frequent front-page headlines condemning Ken Livingstone.

When the Republicans nominate Sideshow Bob as its mayoral candidate, Bob rigs the election, briefly deposing Quimby.

Three days before mayoral election in West Berlin in 1975, candidate Peter Lorenz was kidnapped by Movement 2 June members.

Amid accusations of vote-rigging Argüello narrowly won the mayoral election in Managua on November 9, 2008 elections against the candidate of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party, Eduardo Montealegre, who had come second to Daniel Ortega in the 2006 presidential election.

Despite this result, the area still showed strong support for the conservative mayoral candidate Boris Johnson who won the largest share of the votes for the area before going on to be elected Mayor of London.

The winning at-large candidate who receives the greatest number of votes for mayor becomes the mayor ( at-large councilor candidates must ask to be removed from the ballot for mayor if they do not want to be listed on the mayoral ballot ).

As a result, voters must vote for their mayoral candidate twice, once as an at-large councilor, and once as the mayor.

The mayoral election on November 7, 2006 was declared null and void after allegations of voter fraud by the losing candidate ; a special election to fill the seat was scheduled for March 13, 2007.

The Democrats did not run a mayoral candidate, but did field four Township Council candidates: Thomas Battaglia and Charles Hasz for three-year terms, Alexandra Chirinos for a two-year term, and John Bonacci for a one-year term.

Green, former New York City Public Advocate and mayoral candidate ( former resident and high school graduate )

Some believe that the PFP's lack of experienced candidates in the December 2002 mayoral elections in Taipei and Kaohsiung ( the PFP supported the KMT's candidates ), and the PFP's poor performance the city council elections in those cities at the same time were major setbacks to Soong's chances of being the KMT-PFP candidate for president.

In the 2002 Republic of China municipal elections in Taipei and Kaohsiung, TSU fielded no mayoral candidate, and it suffered a defeat in winning no seats in the Taipei City council and won only two seats in the Kaohsiung City council.

In 2006, the mayoral candidate advocated obtaining state or federal funding to revitalize the commercial strip on Main Street which, in theory, could help the city capture some of the wine tourism dollars.

David Vallance was the 2006 candidate for the mayoral election in Toronto.

Conti considered running as the Conservative candidate in the 2008 London mayoral election.

In Haifa, where former Green candidate ( presently of Kadima ) Yona Yahav was re-elected to a second mayoral term, the Greens hold four seats, while in Tel Aviv, where Green Party chair Pe ' er Visner serves as deputy mayor, the Greens hold three seats.

In February 2003 he was again selected as Conservative mayoral candidate for the next elections in 2004.

This sermon urged people to vote against mayoral candidate Charles Bowles, who was being openly endorsed by the Klan.

Nominating Rankin as its mayoral candidate, COPE fielded a virtually full slate of candidates ( leaving three open spaces for the incumbent Civic Independents ) but was badly beaten, the returning to power for the first time in 14 years, and deprived for the next two years of Rankin's leadership in the council chamber.

COPE did not win any seats in 1996, thanks to a strong showing for the Greens and a left-right coalition called VOICE, led by Rankin's wife Connie Fogal and 1984 mayoral candidate Jonathan Baker.