The results of the election came as a surprise to many, including Attlee, when they were announced on 26 July.

To the surprise of most observers, both the campaign and the election were conducted with a minimum of violence and intimidation.

Major was promoted to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1987, following the general election, and in a surprise re-shuffle in July 1989, a relatively inexperienced Major was appointed Foreign Secretary, succeeding Sir Geoffrey Howe.

He won the seat for Labour for the first time, holding it until his surprise defeat by Dame Joan Vickers at the 1955 general election.

Gregory's election came as a complete surprise to him, partially because it happened while he was engaged in the Ninth Crusade at Acre with King Edward I of England in Palestine.

In 1996, when the first such election took place, the outcome was a surprise win for Benjamin Netanyahu after election polls predicted that Peres was the winner.

The working-class newspapers were taken by surprise at the news and had little time to express an opinion on Gladstone's manifesto before the election was over.

The election result was something of a surprise, as most of the opinion polls had predicted a third successive Labour win.

Powell's supporters claim that he contributed to the Conservatives ' surprise victory in the 1970 general election, which showed a late surge in Conservative support.

* December 24 – Pope Boniface VIII succeeds Pope Celestine V as the 193rd pope after Celestine V abdicates the papacy on December 13, only five months after reluctantly accepting his surprise election on July 5, wishing to return to his life as an ascetic hermit.

She was appointed Opposition Leader in 1999, and won a surprise victory at the 2001 territory election, becoming the first Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) and first female Chief Minister of the Northern Territory.

Wilson responded to this apparent recovery in his government's popularity by calling a general election, but, to the surprise of most observers, was defeated at the polls by the Conservatives under Heath.

The victory of James K. Polk ( Democrat ) over Henry Clay ( Whig ) in the 1844 presidential election had caught the southern Whigs by surprise.

Mulroney enthusiastically embraced political organization, and assisted the local PC candidate in his successful 1956 Nova Scotia provincial election campaign ; the PCs, led provincially by Robert Stanfield, swept to a surprise victory.

A quickly organized election was held in June, and a runoff election between the two highest vote-getters was held in July ; in a surprise result, Kyebich was soundly beaten by populist Alexander Lukashenko, a youthful anti-corruption crusader.

His election caused considerable surprise, and it is suggested by Ammianus Marcellinus that he was wrongly identified with another Jovianus, chief notary ( primicerius notariorum ), whose name also had been put forward, or that during the acclamations the soldiers mistook the name Jovianus for Julianus, and imagined that the latter had recovered from his illness.

Nonetheless it came as a surprise when Cumann na nGaedheal was defeated by Fianna Fáil in the general election of February 1932, winning only 57 seats to Fianna Fáil's 72.

To the surprise of his family, Liam decided to seek election to Dáil Éireann in the 1943 general election and was elected as a Teachta Dála ( TD ) for Dublin County at the age of 23, sitting in the 11th Dáil alongside his father W. T. Cosgrave who was one of the founders of the Irish Free State in the 1920s.

To the surprise of almost everyone except Heath, the Conservatives won the election, with a majority of 31 seats.

Despite the Conservatives ' surprise victory in the April 1992 general election, for these reasons, the ERM policy proved increasingly unsustainable and collapsed on Black Wednesday, when Lamont was forced to withdraw the pound from the ERM despite assuring the public that he would not do so just a week earlier.

According to most accounts, the popularity of Powell's perspective on race may have played a decisive contributory factor in the Conservatives ' surprise victory in the 1970 general election, and he became one of the most persistent rebels opposing the subsequent Heath government.

The election results were nonetheless a surprise to political observers across the province, even to longtime NDP supporters.

Therefore there was surprise when in 1980 a further series was announced as the third series ended.

He crossed a third time in a surprise attack on the forces of General Charles Cornwallis at the Second Battle of Trenton on January 2, 1777 and at the Battle of Princeton on January 3.

Flashdance opened to negative reviews by professional critics, but was a surprise box office success, becoming the third highest grossing film of 1983 in the USA.

Two of his ships were captured in a surprise Chinese attack, while the survivors escaped back to Portugal on the third ship ( see Second Battle of Tamao ).

There was a brief respite for the club on 5 January 1991, when it held West Ham United to a surprise goalless draw in the FA Cup third round at Upton Park.

To his surprise, Bell rounded third and brushed by him on the way home ; pitcher Murry Dickson of the St. Louis Cardinals had not thought to cover home with the catcher moving up the line, and Bell scored standing up.

" In a civilization where equality is the standard, where differences are not linked, where promiscuity is in favor, where the ancient idea of ' being true to oneself ' means nothing anymore — in such a splintered and materialistic society, it is clear that this phenomenon of regression and homosexuality should be particularly welcome, and therefore it is no way a surprise to see the alarming increase in homosexuality and the ' third sex ' in the latest ' democratic ' period, or an increase in sex changes to an extent unparalleled in other eras " ( The Metaphysics of Sex, p. 64 ).

In the end of the third century B. C., the Xiongnu Maodun attacked to destroy the Donghu by surprise and caused disintegration in the federation.

But the tourists recorded a surprise win in the third Test, the first Lions win in South Africa since 1910.

The following week, Eric Young turned on Team 3D and revealed himself as the surprise third member of the Band, replacing Syxx-Pac.

After being sent off in a match against Norway in an Euro 1992 qualifier, Bergomi spent years without getting a callback to the Azzurri, but received a surprise recall for the 1998 World Cup, at nearly 35, after playing 28 times in the league and leading the Nerazzurri to the UEFA Cup – his third and last.

Everton are putting up a surprise title challenge after more than a decade of mediocrity as they occupy third place and are just three points off the top.

At Montreal, she again suffered a surprise defeat to Cibulková in the third round, this time losing 7 – 6 ( 2 ), 6 – 2.

The North Korean invasion of South Korea in June 1950, which started the Korean War, took the administration entirely by surprise and raised fears of a third world war.

He led a surprise attack against the British in India on May 3, 1919, beginning the third Anglo-Afghan war.

The general of Tomyris's army, who was also her son Spargapises, and a third of the Massagetian troops killed the group Cyrus had left there and, finding the camp well stocked with food and the wine, unwittingly drank themselves into inebriation, diminishing their capability to defend themselves, when they were then overtaken by a surprise attack.

To the surprise and glee of his associates, Brian Wilson emerged near the end of the sessions to aid his brother and engineer Stephen Desper in the completion of the third movement, which combined the end of the 1966 demo with " Child Is Father of the Man " ( another Smile outtake ) for the coda and a final lyrical couplet possibly written by Rieley.

In the second round she had no problem beating Sayoko Kitabatake with 112-100, but in the third round she was unable to surprise third seed Joo Hyun-Jung and was eliminated with 109-104.

But in a major surprise, Marcel Hacker, who is in Semi B with Tufte, finishes third and fails to qualify.

He was named the tournament MVP after leading Honduras to a surprise third place finish in the 2001 Copa America.

To the surprise of many, América won two games and tied the third.

The surprise in qualifying was Jean-Pierre Jabouille who qualified his turbocharged Renault third.

The third row of the grid was a surprise, even at this power circuit.