In the 1968 election, the UBP won 30 House of Assembly seats, while the PLP won 10 and the BDP lost the three seats it had previously held.

Bermuda electoral politics has been characterized by single-party dominance: the UBP was the dominant party from 1968 to 1998, winning every election ; while the PLP has continuously been in power since 1998.

At the 24 February 1968 election, Askin increased his majority by six seats against Labor's Renshaw and an overall majority of 12 over the Labor Party and the two Independents.

The APC, with its leader Siaka Stevens, narrowly won a small majority seats in Parliament over the SLPP in a closely contested 1967 Sierra Leone general election and Stevens was sworn in as Prime Minister of April 26, 1968.

** U. S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats the Democratic candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.

United States presidential election, 1968

Thus, Truman's election confirmed the Democratic Party's status as the nation's majority party, a status it would retain until the conservative realignment in 1968.

* Campaign commercials from the 1968 election

* How close was the 1968 election?

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Humphrey was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election but lost to the Republican nominee, Richard Nixon.

* Radio airchecks / recordings of Hubert H. Humphrey from 1946-1978 including interviews, radio appearances, newscasts, 1968 election concession speech, etc.

For example, ' Nixon ' refers to the same person in every possible world in which Nixon exists, while ' the person who won the United States presidential election of 1968 ' could refer to Nixon, Humphrey, or others in different possible worlds.

* 12 June 1968 Wilson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society under Statute 12 of the Society's regulations, which covers people who have rendered conspicuous service to the cause of science or are such that their election would be of signal benefit to the Society.

This process was triggered for the first time on May 31, 2010, when Horst Köhler resigned the office, as all his predecessors ( with the exception of Heinrich Lübke, who announced in 1968 that he would resign the following year, his resignation taking effect after the regular election of his successor and just three months before the scheduled end of his term of office ) had served their terms in full.

This turned out to be the first sign that Mulroney's grand coalition was coming apart at the seams ; the PCs had dominated Alberta's federal politics since the 1968 election.

With many veteran Tories having been defeated in the 1968 election, the party effectively skipped a generation by selecting Clark as its new leader.

Following the 1968 election, LeMay returned to private life, including pursuing several charitable projects.

These did not, however, result in an immediate change of government, with a right-wing administration being triumphantly reelected in the snap election of June 1968.

Bermuda's first election held on the basis of universal adult suffrage and equal voting took place on 22 May 1968 ; previously, the franchise had been limited to property owners and those above the age of 21.

* United States presidential election, 1968

After the June 1968 election, he was appointed Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

For that reason the Gaullists refused to re-elect him in this function after the 1968 legislative election.

The coalition fell apart around the bitter factionalism during the 1968 election, but it remains the model that party activists seek to replicate.

It was not until 1968 that synchronized swimming became officially recognized by FINA as the fourth water sport next to swimming, platform diving and water polo.

In 1968 Nixon campaigned on a platform critical of the Johnson administration's handling of the war and promised to achieve " peace with honor ".

In 1968 he joined the Liberal Party of Canada and ran in that year's Liberal leadership convention under the name Ernest Zundel as a self-described " nuisance candidate " running on an " immigrant rights " platform.

In the 1968 presidential election, McCarthy was the first candidate to challenge incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, running on an anti-Vietnam War platform.

The platform declared independence on 24 June 1968, under the Esperanto name " Insulo de la Rozoj ," with Rosa as self-declared President.

It is most notable for its nomination of Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, who carried five states in the 1968 presidential election running on a segregationist platform.

The Down platform at Princes Risborough and the passenger bridge were demolished and there was only a single track through the station from 1968 until 1998.

Production of the Vanden Plas Princess limousine stopped in 1968 when it was replaced by the Daimler DS420 Limousine ( Jaguar had acquired Daimler in 1960 ) built by Vanden Plas on a lengthened Jaguar Mark X platform.

He ran for president of the soon-to-be independent country against Prime Minister Bonifacio Ondó Edu on a strongly nationalist platform in what has turned out to be the country's only honest election, in 1968.

With the closure of Carnforth MPD in 1968, the station facilities were closed, and the main line platform removed.

He made his debut on the concert platform in 1968 and then gradually established himself as a Carnatic vocalist.

His claims for genuineness and truth were based on the overwhelming evidence of characteristics revealed in his study of child art ... From 1946 until his death in 1968 he was president of the Society for Education in Art ( SEA ), the renamed ATG, in which capacity he had a platform for addressing UNESCO ... On the basis of such representation Read, with others, succeeded in establishing the International Society for Education through Art ( INSEA )

Although based on its own platform, since 1968, the E-Series has used many components from the F-Series line of pickup trucks.

In December 1968, Adair sealed a large gas leak at an Australian gas and oil platform off Victoria's south-east coast.

The Corona name was also used on a larger, all new platform called the Toyota Corona Mark II in 1968, which gave buyers more interior space while still offering dependable, affordable performance.

His mission was to prevent nuclear war on Earth by sabotaging a missile platform launched by the United States in 1968.

The Coronet and similar Plymouth Belvedere received complete redesigns in 1968, as did the Dodge Charger, which shared the B-body platform.

The front page of the 9 June 1968 edition of the Washington Post has a large photograph that depicts Ted Kennedy and Longet standing together on the rear platform of the funeral train as it passed through North Philadelphia.

Among its most famous car lines were the Skyline and Gloria, both of which were absorbed into the Nissan range after their 1966 merger ; however, they also built the 15-passenger Homy which was eventually shared with the Nissan Caravan and the Nissan Laurel, a four-door sedan platform mate with the Skyline, on which Prince had begun development before the merger but was introduced after the merger in 1968.

On several occasions between 1948 and 1968, a prominent conservative Southern Democrat broke from the Democrats to run a third party campaign for President on a platform of states ' rights: Strom Thurmond in 1948, Harry F. Byrd in 1960, and George Wallace in 1968.

It served in the Canadian Forces from 1968 to 1971 as a testing platform for anti-submarine warfare technology on an ocean-going hydrofoil.

As with the rest of the Harlem Line, the merger of New York Central with Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 transformed it into a Penn Central station, which received platform extensions in 1971.

On 17 November 1968 platforms 3 and 4 were taken out of use, and on 5 September 1969 platform 2 was also decommissioned.