Lincoln was sure that he would not be re-elected.

Lincoln was re-elected in a landslide, carrying all but three states, and receiving 78 percent of the Union soldiers ' vote.

The United Progressive Party government was re-elected with nine seats and supported by the sole member from Barbuda, affiliated to the Barbuda People's Movement.

Ter-Petrosyan was re-elected in 1996.

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

In 1829 Johnson helped organize a mechanics ' party ticket ; he was elected as a town alderman, and re-elected until he was elected Mayor in 1834.

" Administration spokesman Richard Socarides said, "... the alternatives we knew were going to be far worse, and it was time to move on and get the president re-elected.

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

Seretse Khama, a leader in the independence movement and the legitimate claimant to the Ngwato chiefship, was elected as the first president, re-elected twice, and died in office in 1980.

The presidency passed to the sitting vice president, Ketumile Masire, who was elected in his own right in 1984 and re-elected in 1989 and 1994.

Despite several army mutinies and increasing civic concern both at his erratic style and arbitrary, corrupt method of governing he was re-elected for another 6-year term in September 1999.

In 2003, the CSU was re-elected as the Bavarian government with a majority ( 60. 7 % and 124 of 180 seats in the state parliament ).

He was re-elected in 1987 but died of a heart attack a short time later.

The tone of the 17th Party Congress was different than its predecessors ; several old oppositionists became delegates, and were re-elected to the Central Committee.

On December 2011, Joseph Kabila was re-elected for a second term as president.

In the presidential election held April 8, 2005 Ismail Omar Guelleh was re-elected to a second 6-year term at the head of a multi-party coalition that included the FRUD and other major parties.

Guelleh was re-elected in the 2011 presidential election.

He was re-elected, unopposed, to a second 6-year term in April 1987 and to a third 6-year term in May 1993 multiparty elections.

In 1838 he was re-elected to the Missouri State House of Representatives.

Later in 1843, Atchison was appointed to serve the remainder of Linn's term, which he shared with fellow senator Jason Zein, and was re-elected in 1849.

In 2004, President Chen Shui-bian was re-elected by a narrow margin following a controversial assassination attempt on him and the Vice President Annette Lu only hours before the election.

Zenawi's government was re-elected in 2000 in Ethiopia's first multi-party elections.

Gerhard Schröder was re-elected as chancellor by the parliament in a coalition with the Greens.

A United Nations plan sponsored by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was announced on 31 March 2004, based on what progress had been made during the talks in Switzerland and fleshed out by the UN, was put for the first time to civilians on both sides in separate referendums on 24 April 2004.

The PDFLP was headed by Secretary-General Nayef Hawatmeh, who had been referred to as a leader of the PFLP's Maoist tendency.

Presidential Office Secretary-General Yu Shyi-kun was elected in a three-way race against legislator Chai Trong-rong and Wong Chin-chu with 54. 4 % of the vote.

In 1983, Brundtland was invited by then United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to establish and chair the World Commission on Environment and Development ( WCED ), widely referred to as the Brundtland Commission, developing the broad political concept of sustainable development in the course of extensive public hearings that were distinguished by their inclusiveness and published its report Our Common Future in April 1987.

In 1972 Max Jakobson was a candidate for Secretary-General of the UN.

A backer of independent roads to socialism ( sometimes referred to as, although incorrectly, " national communism " or more correctly " Titoism "), he was one of the main founders and promoters of the Non-Aligned Movement, and its first Secretary-General.

Subsequently Tito was appointed Secretary-General of the still-outlawed CPY.

Staffan de Misura, Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for Southern Lebanon stated that he was " deeply concerned that air violations by Israel across the Blue Line during altercations with Hezbollah are continuing to take place ", calling " upon the Israeli authorities to cease such violations and to fully respect the Blue Line ".

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that he was sending a team led by Ireland's deputy police commissioner, Peter FitzGerald, to investigate the assassination.

Nonetheless, Malaysia was active in the opposition to apartheid that saw South Africa quit the Commonwealth in 1961, and was a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) in 1967 and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC ) in 1969, with the Tunku as its first Secretary-General in 1971.

In 1961, U Thant, then Burma's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former Secretary to the Prime Minister, was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations ; he was the first non-Westerner to head any international organization and would serve as UN Secretary-General for ten years.

Among the Burmese to work at the UN when he was Secretary-General was the young Aung San Suu Kyi.

This is the result of the unification of the opposition: Vice-President Doy Laurel was elected as the president of the Nacionalista Party, with former Labor Secretary and Assemblyman Blas Ople emerged as the Executive Vice-President and former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile as the Secretary-General

Dag Hammarskjöld's former farm at Backåkra, close to Ystad in southern Sweden, was bought in 1957 as a summer residence by Hammarskjöld, then Secretary-General of the United Nations ( 1953 – 1961 ).

She was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1930 to 1932 and Secretary-General of the Chinese Aeronautical Affairs Commission from 1936 to 1938.

In 2006, she was mentioned by many sources as a potential candidate for the United Nations Secretary-General selection, but later she stated that she wanted to finish her term as president before thinking about other career options.

Canadian John Peters Humphrey was called upon by the United Nations Secretary-General to work on the project and became the Declaration's principal drafter.

The UNU creation was set in motion by Secretary-General U Thant in 1969.

In 1969, Vice President Hubert Humphrey would have announced the election of his opponent, Richard Nixon ; however, on the date of the Congressional joint session ( January 6 ), Humphrey was in Norway attending the funeral of Trygve Lie, the first elected Secretary-General of the United Nations.