Impatient demands for victory centered around short-term electoral cycles play into the hands of the guerrillas, though it is equally important to recognize when a cause is lost and the guerrillas have won.

By this time the " New " Labour Party was seen as a reformed and fresh alternative under the leadership of Tony Blair, and after eighteen years in office the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election in one of the worst electoral defeats since the Great Reform Act of 1832.

The standing of Heffron's government suffered when the electors rejected its proposal to abolish the New South Wales Legislative Council at a referendum in April 1961, being the first time Labor had lost a state electoral poll in 20 years.

As the Democratic-Republican ( then called Republican ) presidential candidate in 1796, Jefferson lost to John Adams, but had enough electoral votes to become Vice President ( 1797 – 1801 ).

Gladstone's support for electoral reform and disestablishment of the Anglican Church in Ireland had alienated him from his constituents in his Oxford University seat, and he lost it in the 1865 general election.

Andrew Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes in the Election of 1824, but still lost to John Quincy Adams when the election was deferred to the House of Representatives.

Cleveland, who had won the popular vote against Harrison in 1888, lost the electoral vote ( and thus the election ) in that year.

Although he lost the election by less than 1 % of the popular vote, ( 43. 4 % for Nixon ( 31, 783, 783 votes ) to 42. 7 % ( 31, 271, 839 votes ) for Humphrey, with 13. 5 % ( 9, 901, 118 votes ) for George Wallace ), Humphrey only carried 13 states with 191 electoral college votes.

By 1969, the Labour Party was suffering serious electoral reverses, and by the turn of 1970 had lost a total of 16 seats in by-elections since the previous general election.

Stevenson lost his second bid for the Presidency by a landslide, winning only 42 % of the popular vote and 73 electoral votes from just seven states.

In 2009 elections, FPV candidates lost in the four most important electoral districts ( home to 60 % of Argentines ), only in the Province of Buenos Aires by a narrow difference.

Frances Fitzgerald dramatically lost the party's only seat at the 2002 general election, leaving Fine Gael for the first time in the constituency's history without a Fine Gael TD even though commentators regarded Dublin South – East as " natural Fine Gael " electoral territory.

The Conservative Party, in office since 1951, had lost standing as a result of a sexual scandal involving a senior minister in 1963, and at the time of Home's appointment as Prime Minister seemed headed for heavy electoral defeat.

The 1974 election marked the electoral demise of the DLP, which lost all four of its remaining seats, largely as a backlash against Gair's actions.

In the latter capacity, he orchestrated the Conservatives ' unexpected fourth consecutive electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat in the House of Commons.

However, at a snap election in 1989 Dukes did not receive electoral credit for his statesmanlike approach, and the party only made minor gains, reclaiming 5 of the 20 lost seats.

In the political crisis that followed the electoral success of the left, Phoumi lost his ministry.

The SDP came second in many constituencies, including nearly 70 % of the Conservative-won seats, though the bulk of Labour's defectors to the SDP in 1981 lost their seats, but Britain's first past the post electoral system meant that this success did not translate into parliamentary seats.

Although there is no set election threshold, many electoral districts have lost population in recent decades, and some now elect as few as six representatives.

As Otto Liebe was unable to organise an election, M. P. Friis replaced him after a week, and succeeded in holding the election, and as a result the Social Liberal Party lost half their electoral support and their rivals the Liberal Party ( Denmark ) were able to form the minority cabinet led by Niels Neergaard: the Cabinet of Neergaard II.

However the Liberals lost the 1895 general election and Salisbury once again became Prime Minister, leading Britain to war against the Boers and the Unionists to another electoral victory in 1900 before relinquishing the premiership to his nephew Arthur Balfour.

A system where only 3 parties have a realistic possibility of winning an election or forming a coalition is sometimes called a " Third-party system ", however in some cases the system is called a " Stalled Third-Party System " when there are 3 parties in the system, and all 3 parties win a large number of votes, however only 2 have a chance of winning a general election ; this is usually because the electoral system penalises the third party e. g. UK politics, the Liberal Democrats gained 23 % of the vote in 2010 elections but won less than 10 % of the seats due to the First-Past-The-Post electoral system, however despite this they still have enough seats ( and enough public support ) for the other major 2 parties to form coalitions with them or make deals with the third party so to gain their support e. g. Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition formed after the 2010 general election and the Lib-Lab pact during Prime Minister James Callaghan's Minority Labour Government when Labour lost its 3 seat majority in 1977, the pact fell short of a full coalition.

He subsequently lost the presidential election against Ronald Reagan by the largest electoral college margin since the 1936 presidential election victory by Franklin Delano Roosevelt over Alf Landon.

Barry was sentenced to six months in federal prison shortly before the November election, which he lost – in the first ( and to date only ) electoral loss of his career – despite doing well among the voters of Ward 8.

He lost all sense of dignity.

Leicester had a population of approximately 230, 000 at the previous census, but its petition was granted as an exception to the policy, as it was officially a restoration of a dignity lost in the past.

Although this dignity was a titular one, Berthold actually lost it when in the course of the Investiture Controversy he joined the rising of his former rival Rudolf of Rheinfelden against German king Henry IV in 1073.

She never lost her dignity for a moment.

Under these conditions there is no chance for art — one simply grows into an automaton, performing mechanical work ; no dignity remains to the artist ; he is lost ....

His most significant and influential works are based Greek and world poetry – Epiphania ( Giorgos Seferis ), Little Kyklades ( Odysseas Elytis ), Axion Esti ( Odysseas Elytis ), Mauthausen ( Iakovos Kambanellis ), Romiossini ( Yannis Ritsos ), and Romancero Gitano ( Federico García Lorca ) – he attempted to give back to Greek music a dignity which in his perception it had lost.

In 1704 he lost his sight and was constituted a " veteran ," a dignity which gave him the privileges of an academician, while exempting him from the duties.

When one lost their honour or the situation made them lose it, the only way to save their dignity was by death.

starring Lili Palmer, which covers much the same ground, but the central character is " perhaps even more lost, mad and pathetic, but she, too, has moments when she is a woman of presence and dignity ".

Mozarabs inevitably lost more and more status, but they long maintained their dignity and the integrity of their culture, and they never lost personal and cultural contact with the Christian world.

I particularly want to extend my sympathy to his family and dear ones and to the countless citizens of Arkansas who have lost in his passing a distinguished leader and a native son whose devotion to constitutional principles and human dignity won him the confidence and admiration of all who knew him.

Rutland Barrington as Hildebrand, 1884Her wager lost, Ida yields to Hilarion and bitterly asks Lady Blanche if she can resign her post with dignity.

In the 14th century, ( during the reign of King Robert the Bruce ) the Chapel at Polnar lost its importance and was doomed to fall into decay, while the Church at the Bass assumed the name and dignity of the parish church.

Although Henry was restored to the Church, any expectations that the Pope would restore support of Henry's right to the throne were soon dashed: in March, a small group of powerful Saxon and South German territorial magnates, including the archbishops of Salzburg, Mainz and Magdeburg and several bishops, met at Forchheim and, on the assumption that Henry had irretrievably lost the imperial dignity, repudiated the Salian dynasty's claim to pass the imperial crown by heredity and, in the words of Bruno of Merseburg, present in his bishop's entourage, declared " that the son of a king, even if he should be preeminently worthy, should become king by a spontaneous election ".

The title lapsed after Hervey lost his English lands during the Anarchy, since at that time one could not be an earl without the territory to support the dignity.

This dignity was quickly lost after bloodthirsty Hindu mobs savaged his corpse, desmembrating it and letting it be devoured by dogs and other beasts of the field.

However, its current state is that it is lost and so has little accidental dignity.

In the weeks before the match, He claimed to have " lost his dignity " when Angle tranquilized him in the middle of the ring using a dart gun and shaved his head.

In the following year, he was made a peer, a dignity which he had lost by refusing to take the required oath in 1803.

In Latin, the epithalamium, imitated from Fescennine Greek models, was a base form of literature, when Catullus redeemed it and gave it dignity by modelling his Marriage of Thetis and Peleus on a lost ode of Sappho.

The form-master, Mr Quelch, stayed ( at least in name ), but he lost his dignity and aloofness.

Ernest retained the southern Thuringian estates with Saalfeld ; his grandson John Frederick I lost the electoral dignity in the 1547 Capitulation of Wittenberg ending the Schmalkaldic War, along with all his possessions outside of Thuringia.

From these inscriptions it is known that nothing short of complete annihilation of the Pallavas ( prakrity-amitra ) could redeem the lost dignity of the Chalukyas.