* 2006 Texas Governor Election ( a real-life example where incumbent Rick Perry won re-election despite gaining less than 40 percent of the vote )

Gairy won re-election in Grenada's first general election as an independent state in 1976 ; however, the opposition New Jewel Movement refused to recognize the result, claiming the poll was fraudulent, and so began working towards the overthrow of the Gairy regime by revolutionary means.

President Moi won re-election as President in the December 1997 elections, and his KANU Party narrowly retained its parliamentary majority.

Faure Gnassingbé won re-election in the March 2010 presidential election, taking 61 % of the vote against Jean-Pierre Fabre from the UFC, who had been backed by an opposition coalition called FRAC ( Republican Front for Change ).

In June 2008 the then Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resigned his parliamentary seat over what he described as the " erosion of civil liberties " by the then Labour government, and successfully won re-election on a civil liberties platform ( although he was not opposed by candidates of other major parties ).

Chirac won re-election by a landslide, with 82 percent of the vote on the second ballot.

Nevertheless, his nomination succeeded by acclamation and he won re-election by a margin of just less than 2-to-1.

Despite the information available at the time, Garfield made a strong showing at the convention in 1874, commanding over two-thirds of the delegates, and then won re-election against Democratic and Independent opponents, though by a smaller margin than in the past.

In elections held eight months later, on September 24, the PNM won 13 of the 24 elected seats in the Legislative Council, defeating 6 of the 16 incumbents running for re-election.

Walker won re-election by an overwhelming margin in 1929, defeating Republican Fiorello La Guardia and Socialist Norman Thomas.

Calhoun served four years under John Quincy Adams, and then, in 1828, won re-election as Vice President running with Andrew Jackson.

In 1980, Glenn won re-election to the seat, defeating Republican challenger Jim Betts, by over 40 percent.

" This 1992 re-election victory was the last time a Democrat won a statewide race in Ohio until 2006 ; DeWine later won Metzenbaum's seat upon his retirement.

The Liberals won re-election and Labor lost its slim majority.

Aliyev won re-election to another 5-year term in 1998, in an election marred by serious irregularities.

To protect himself further, Tiberius Gracchus won re-election to the tribunate in 133 BC, promising to shorten the term of military service, abolish the exclusive right of senators to act as jurors and include other social classes, and admit allies to Roman citizenship, all moves popular with the Assembly.

During his re-election bid in 2006, he lost the Democratic Party primary election but won re-election in the general election as a third party candidate under the party label " Connecticut for Lieberman ".

He also joined the Anti-Jacksonians in opposing President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act, and his opposition to Jackson caused his defeat when he ran for re-election in 1830 ; however, he won when he ran again in 1832.

In 2006, Maria Cantwell, the Democrat running for re-election to the U. S. Senate, won all precincts.

Thompson won re-election in 2006 and again in 2010, making him the first Republican to win election in a Knott County office.

He has won re-election each year since, and is the longest serving mayor in Troy history.

Democrats Governor Mike Beebe ( who was running for re-election ) and Broadway, who was running for Lieutenant Governor of the state, each won by at least 20 percentage points in the city during the 2010 election.

He did not seek re-election in December 2009 and ChileFirst won no seats in Congress in the election.

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

After winning the Dutch Mixing Championships ( DMC ) in 1988, he was invited for The World Mix Championships in the London Royal Hall and won third place in a fierce competition.

** won the Golden Palm at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Under Walsh the 49ers won Super Bowl championships in 1981, 1984 and 1988.

Chelsea won the Second Division title in 1983 – 84 and established themselves in the top division, before being relegated again in 1988.

He won three times in 1988, finishing third in the points standings behind Bill Elliott and Rusty Wallace.

In 1988 they won their first division title in 23 years ( since 1964 – 65, when they finished first in a one-division league ).

Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the Democratic Left ( ID ) party won the presidency in 1988, running in the runoff election against Abdalá Bucaram of the PRE.

The form book was rewritten in 1988 with the entry of the ambitious Reynard marque with a brand new chassis ; Reynard had won their first race in every formula they'd entered.

His first team honours came at Barcelona, where he won the Copa del Rey in 1988 and the European Cup Winners ' Cup in 1989.

Also in 1988, Polgár won the under-12 " Boys " section of the World Youth Chess and Peace Festival in Timişoara, Romania.

In 1988, if Kemp had won his campaign for the United States Presidency, it would have made him the first person to move from the United States House of Representatives to the White House since James Garfield.

In 1988, Ashcroft won an even bigger victory over his opponent Betty Cooper Hearnes, wife of former governor Warren Hearnes.

) Dalglish's final appearance for Scotland, after 15 years as a full international, was on 12 November 1986 at Hampden Park in a Euro 1988 qualifying game against Luxembourg, which Scotland won 3 – 0.

For television von Trier directed Medea ( 1988 ), which won the Jean d ' Arcy prize in France.

The team became Greek Champion in 1988 and won the Greek Cup in 1985 & 2007.

The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize and the Mainichi Film Award for Best Film in 1988.

The combination of Prost and Senna was particularly dominant — together they won all but one race in 1988 — but later their rivalry soured and Prost left for Ferrari.

* Falling Free – won the Nebula Award for Best Novel of 1988 ; nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1989

During their history, the Mets have won two World Series titles ( 1969 and 1986 ), four National League pennants ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 2000 ) and five National League East titles ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 1988, 2006 ).

The Mets continued playing well after 1986 and won the division in 1988, but lost the playoffs that year and declined into the 1990s.

Naguib Mahfouz (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006 ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

From 1988 to 1996, the Eagles qualified for the playoffs during 6 out of those 9 seasons, but they won the NFC East only once, in 1988.

Four Hundred Billion Stars, his first novel, won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1988.