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.

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.

In 1992, Blaise Compaoré was elected president, running unopposed after the opposition boycotted the election because of Compaoré's refusal to accede to demands of the opposition such as a sovereign National Conference to set modalities.

The current President of Burundi is Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader of the Hutu National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy who was elected unopposed as the new President of Burundi by the parliament on 19 August 2005.

Mobutu quickly consolidated his power and was elected unopposed as president in 1970.

If one follows Polybius, the course of events was the following: Despite the Carthaginian pre-war naval advantage, the Roman landing was virtually unopposed.

Stephen effectively reigned unopposed until his death in 1154, although his hold on the throne was still uneasy.

When the king himself died in 1509, the position of the Tudors was secure at last, and his son succeeded him unopposed.

Because Ismail Khan was contained by the Afghan National Army, the warlords who opposed him were quickly able to occupy strategic locations unopposed.

Unfortunately for John, his fleet was dispersed by bad storms and Louis landed unopposed in Kent.

In October 1991, Akayev ran unopposed and was elected President of the new independent republic by direct ballot, receiving 95 % of the votes cast.

The Lombards were joined by numerous Saxons, Heruls, Gepids, Bulgars, Thuringians, and Ostrogoths, and their invasion of Italy was almost unopposed.

Meanwhile, the takeover of Al-Andalus by Abd ar-Rahman I in 756 was not unopposed.

He was elected unopposed at further elections in 1983 and 1987.

Bracks ' Treasurer John Brumby was elected unopposed by the Victorian Labor Caucus as Premier, while Attorney-General Rob Hulls was elected Deputy Premier.

The Danish army, unopposed, was approaching Uppsala, where the members of the Swedish Riksdag had already assembled.

The Persian fleet roamed the Aegean Sea unopposed, but the first invasion force was defeated at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.

However, her chief minister Sir Robert Cecil had corresponded with the Protestant King James VI of Scotland, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and James's succession to the English throne was unopposed.

In 1968 Kaunda was re-elected as president, running unopposed.

In this way Kaunda was re-elected unopposed with a yes or no vote in 1973, 1978, 1983 and 1988.

James Monroe, the sitting U. S President since 1817, was re-elected in 1820, virtually unopposed.

He was the last ruler of the Seleucid Empire to rule unopposed

Harthacnut, his position in Denmark now secure, did plan an invasion, but Harold died in 1040, and Harthacnut was able to cross unopposed with his mother to take the English throne.

The United States presidential election of 1820 was the third and last presidential election in United States history in which a candidate ran effectively unopposed.