At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

The incumbent, Republican John Paul Hammerschmidt, defeated Clinton in the general election by a 52 % to 48 % margin.

Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1978, having defeated the Republican candidate Lynn Lowe, a farmer from Texarkana.

He defeated four Republican candidates for governor: Lowe ( 1978 ), White ( 1982 and 1986 ), and businessmen Woody Freeman of Jonesboro, ( 1984 ) and Sheffield Nelson of Little Rock ( 1990 ).

He defeated William Randolph Hearst in the 1906 election to gain the position, and he was the only Republican statewide candidate to win office.

He defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson in a landslide, with an electoral margin of 442 to 89, marking the first Republican return to the White House in 20 years.

With the bouncy popular song " Happy Days Are Here Again " as his campaign theme, FDR defeated incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover in November 1932, at the depth of the Great Depression.

Lynch defeated Republican challenger Joseph Kenney, a State Senator and U. S. Marine, 70 % to 28 %, with 2 % of the vote won by the Libertarian candidate.

In the Republican primary, Ashcroft defeated Marc Perkel.

Lowden was defeated, but would later serve two terms in the office and be a major contender for the 1920 Republican presidential nomination.

Roosevelt was a powerful campaign asset for the Republican ticket, which defeated William Jennings Bryan in a landslide based on restoration of prosperity at home and a successful war and new prestige abroad.

The district was a Republican stronghold, and he was defeated.

Ultimately he endorsed the Democratic nominees, James M. Cox as president and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as vice president, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge.

Wilson soundly defeated Lewis in the general election by a margin of more than 49, 000 votes, although Republican William Howard Taft had carried New Jersey in the 1908 presidential election by more than 80, 000 votes.

In the contest for the Republican nomination, President William Howard Taft defeated former president Theodore Roosevelt, who then ran as a Bull Moose Party candidate, which assisted in Wilson's success in the electoral college.

In 1928 he ran for the United States Senate and was defeated by Republican Otis F. Glenn, receiving 46 % of the vote.

Washington defeated former mayor Jane Byrne in the February 24, 1987, Democratic mayoral primary by 7. 2 %, 53. 5 % to 46. 3 %, and in the April 7, 1987, mayoral general election defeated Vrdolyak ( Illinois Solidarity Party ) by 11. 8 %, 53. 8 % to 42. 8 %, with Northwestern University business professor Donald Haider ( Republican ) getting 4. 3 %, to win reelection to a second term as mayor.

The United States presidential election held on November 3, 1896, climaxed an intensely heated contest in which Republican candidate William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in one of the most dramatic and complex races in American history.

Having badly lost the 1904 election with a conservative candidate, the Democratic Party turned to two-time nominee William Jennings Bryan, who had been defeated in 1896 and 1900 by Republican William McKinley.

In 1997, Senators McCain and Feingold sought to eliminate soft money and TV advertising expenditures but the legislation was defeated by a Republican filibuster.

Virtually every prediction ( with or without public opinion polls ) indicated that incumbent President Harry S. Truman would be defeated by Republican Thomas E. Dewey.

Humphrey won the nomination, defeated Republican Congressman Clark MacGregor, and returned to the U. S. Senate on January 3, 1971.

The compromises contained in the agreement caused the civil war in the 26 counties in June 1922 – April 1923, in which the pro-Treaty Provisional Government defeated the anti-Treaty Republican forces.

In 1796 French Republican troops under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Italy, defeated the papal troops and occupied Ancona and Loreto.

`` This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated '', he said.

The MpD candidate also defeated the PAICV candidate in the presidential elections.

However, weeks before the UN deadline, Klerides was defeated in presidential elections by centre candidate Tassos Papadopoulos.

A member of the Conservative Party, Pastrana defeated Liberal Party candidate Horacio Serpa in a run-off election marked by high voter turn-out and little political unrest.

Madero's preferred candidate was again defeated by Porfirio Díaz's preferred candidate in the 1905 governmental elections.

In 1932, he was defeated for re-election to the House by James J. Lanzetta, the Democratic candidate.

With almost 20 parties competing in the first round, the presidential election came down to a January 7, 1996 runoff in which PAN candidate Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen defeated Alfonso Portillo Cabrera of the FRG by just over 2 % of the vote.

The PLH candidate Rafael Pineda was defeated by the PNH candidate Ricardo Maduro, who took office in January 2002.

Jacques Chirac was reelected in 2002, mainly because his socialist rival Lionel Jospin was defeated by the extreme right wing candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.

He was defeated in the election of 2009 by DPJ candidate Mitsunori Okamoto, which witnessed the end of almost uninterrupted LDP dominance since 1955.

Malawi saw its first transition between democratically elected presidents in May 2004, when the UDF's presidential candidate Bingu wa Mutharika defeated MCP candidate John Tembo and Gwanda Chakuamba, who was backed by a grouping of opposition parties.

She defeated Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan and Fine Gael's Austin Currie in the 1990 presidential election becoming, as an Independent candidate nominated by the Labour Party, the Workers ' Party and independent senators, the first elected president in the office's history not to have had the support of Fianna Fáil.

On May 2, 1999, Mireya Moscoso, the widow of former President Arnulfo Arias Madrid, defeated PRD candidate Martín Torrijos, son of the late dictator.

* The Supreme Court of the Philippines, through a unanimous opinion penned in 2005 by Associate Justice Leonardo Quisumbing, quoted The Moving Finger when it ruled that the widow of defeated presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. could not substitute her late husband in his pending election protest against Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, thus leading to the dismissal of the protest.

In the April 1996 snap parliamentary elections, Berlusconi was defeated by the centre-left candidate Romano Prodi.

The ruling CCM party ’ s candidate, Benjamin W. Mkapa, defeated his three main rivals, winning the presidential election with 71 % of the vote.