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* 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.

won and second
Turk Lown was tagged with the loss, his second against no victories, while Ray Moore won his second game against a single loss.
The team achieved good results and in 1960 the club presented a team that won the third division of the Buenos Aires league, reaching the second division.
With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.
In the funeral games at the pyre of Patroclus, he contended with Odysseus and Antilochus for the prize in the footrace ; but Athena, who was hostile towards him and favored Odysseus, made him stumble and fall, so that he won only the second prize.
Johnson won a second Congressional term in 1845 against his perennial opponent, Wiliam G. Brownlow ; in this second campaign, Johnson particularly took up the mantle as defender of the poor against the aristocracy.
He won the nomination at the party's convention in Baltimore on the second ballot, and thereby replaced incumbent Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin as Lincoln's running mate.
In 1999, Arizona won 100 games in only its second season to win the NL West title.
AZ's second championship was the first Eredivisie title in 28 years, and the first time since then that the Eredivisie was won by a team other than the " big three " ( Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord ).
Their second Coppa Italia trophy was won in 1968 – 69 when it was competed in a small league like system.
The second scudetto did not elude Roma for much longer ; in 1982 – 83 the Roman club won the title for the first time in 41 years, amidst celebrations in the capital.
The show returned for a second and third season, won by Committed and Pentatonix, respectively.
The second president was another member of the Union of Demicratic Forces-Petar Stoyanov and served until 2002, when the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party-Georgi Parvanov began to replace him, he won two mandates and served until 2011, when Rosen Plevneliev of the right-oriented GERB was elected for a five-year mandate.
The Bulgarian Socialist Party won the parliamentary elections in 2005 with 82 out of the 240 seats, thus it didn't get the majority of the seats, with Simeon's movement being the second party.
First basemen, with 34 winners, have won the most MVPs among infielders, followed by second basemen ( 16 ), third basemen ( 15 ), and shortstops ( 14 ).
With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.
The " No Name Orioles ", along with Rookie of the Year Eddie Murray, won 97 games and finished tied for second place with Boston.
Déby won the country ’ s first multi-party presidential elections with support in the second round from opposition leader Kebzabo, defeating General Kamougue ( leader of the 1975 coup against Tombalbaye ).
Bozizé won on the second run-off round on 8 May 2005, defeating Martin Ziguélé, who ran on the ticket of the MLPC, the former ruling party.
The MLPC came in second with 11 seats while the RDC won only eight seats.
The prohibition was officially recognized as unconstitutional in April 2003, allowing Óscar Arias to run for President a second time in the 2006 Costa Rican presidential elections, which he won with approximately a 1 % margin.
The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.
The Browns, who lost the last game of the regular season to the Lions only a week before, won their second NFL crown 56 – 10.
However, Cleveland only won a single pennant in the decade, in 1954, finishing second to the New York Yankees five times.

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