* Don Johnson, a Transylvania farmer who has run unsuccessfully as a Republican for state agriculture commissioner in 1987, 1991, 1995, 2003, and 2007.

His son Mike Freeman ran unsuccessfully for Governor in 1998, and has served non-consecutive terms as County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota ( 1991 to 1999, and 2007 to the present ).

He served as the 52nd Mayor of the City of Charlotte from 1991 – 1995, and ran unsuccessfully for Governor of North Carolina in 1996, 2000, and 2004.

Wall ran unsuccessfully for the Progressive Conservative nomination for Swift Current in April 1991.

He was President of the National Movement of the Development Society ( MNSD ) from 1991 to 1999 and unsuccessfully ran as the MNSD's presidential candidate in 1993 and 1996 before being elected to his first term in 1999.

In January 1991, Soviet political and military forces tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the legitimate Latvian authorities by occupying the central publishing house in Riga and establishing a " Committee of National Salvation " to usurp governmental functions.

* Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the ultra-nationalist LDPR, has unsuccessfully run for president five times ( 1991, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012 ).

* Jimmy Griffin had a successful career as Mayor of Buffalo, New York from 1977 to 1993, but spent his post-mayoral career as a political gadfly: he unsuccessfully ran for Erie County executive in 1991 and 2007, President of the United States in 1996, and twice sought to win his old job as mayor of Buffalo back, in 1997 and 2002, the latter year as part of a recall petition that turned out to be illegal.

In 1991, Energizer unsuccessfully sued the Adolph Coors Company for creating a parody of its Energizer bunny ads.

In 1991 some members of Congress sought unsuccessfully to pass an excess profits tax of 40 percent upon the larger oil companies as part of energy policy.

He was Prime Minister of Cape Verde from April 4, 1991 to July 29, 2000, and he unsuccessfully ran for President as the candidate of the Movement for Democracy ( MpD ) in 2001 and 2006.

Humphries tried, unsuccessfully, to " smuggle " a toy knife, a gun, and hand grenades into the DFW Airport as an on-radio shock jock stunt on January 15, 1991.

He ran unsuccessfully at the 1991 local elections in the Castleknock area.

In 1991, a group of interested parties formed a taskforce to investigate reconstruction of the Walhalla railway as a tourist attraction, something which had been unsuccessfully attempted on at least one other occasion previously.

He was knighted in 1991 and after he stood down from parliament the following year, he lobbied unsuccessfully for a peerage, and held several visiting professorships at American universities.

He ran unsuccessfully for Senator at-large in the 1991 and 1995 PNP primaries.

In 1991, Midway Still covered " You Made Me Realise " on the b-side of their " Wish " single, rather unsuccessfully, as they claimed in Melody Maker, because they could not understand the lyrics, so they made some of them up.

The same reports suggested that Labor had unsuccessfully tried to publish the same allegations at the 1991, 1995 and 2003 elections as well.

This trend began to change when the Red Sox bid aggressively ( but unsuccessfully ) for Kirby Puckett after the 1991 season.

In the 1991 mid-term parliamentary elections, Gujral contested from Patna constituency in Bihar against Samajwadi Janata Party ( Rashtriya ) candidate and then-Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha.

One year later, he became leader of the party and in May 1991 gained a seat in the House of Assembly by winning Gibraltar's first contested by-election.

In 1989, she successfully contested the Khajurao seat, and retained it in elections conducted in 1991, 1996 and 1998.

MINURSO was established in 1991 under Security Council Resolution 690, as part of the Settlement Plan, which had paved way for a cease-fire in the conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front ( as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ), over the contested territory of Western Sahara ( formerly Spanish Sahara ).

These include a far right organisation formed by Raymond Edwin Shenton in 1984, which contested the Enfield Southgate by-election, 1984 ; and a party founded in 1991 by Christopher Nickerson which has contested a couple of parliamentary elections.

In Australia the Westfield Ultra Marathon was an annual race between Sydney and Melbourne contested between 1983 and 1991.

* The ground hosted its first and only AFL Grand Final in 1991, which was contested by Hawthorn and the West Coast Eagles because the Melbourne Cricket Ground at the time was undergoing construction of the Great Southern Stand.

In 1991, So contested politics for the first time and was elected as one of the Councillors of the City of Melbourne.

Although anti-Ershad sentiment was strong, H M Ershad contested the election from jail and still won all 5 different constituencies he contested from in 1991.

The party was split in two, and in 1991 West Bengal state assembly elections two RCPIs contested in the Hansan constituency.

The 1990-91 championship was contested between the 1990 Apertura ( Newell's ) and 1991 Clausura ( Boca Juniors ) champions, which Newell's won in home-and-away matches.

The IPF lost its Lok Sabha seat in the 1991 parliamentary election, losing about a fifth of its votes compared to 1989 ( having contested 15 Lok Sabha seats ).

MGR MMK contested the 1991 Kerala assembly elections.

The party contested in 11 seats in the 1991 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections and won in 2 of them.

Wilson's family contested Landy's control of Wilson, pursuing ultimately successful legal action in late 1991.

He was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Singheshwar, Madhepura in 1990 as an independent candidate, and in 1991 he contested and won through to the 10th Lok Sabha from Purnia.

He contested his first General election in 1991 as leader of Mauritius Labour Party.

He contested in his first major championship at the 1991 Open Championship, making the cut before finishing in a tie for 64th place.

Since 1991, Environmental Kuznets Curves ( EKC ) have become standard features in the technical literature of environmental policy, though their application here is strongly contested.

CPN ( D ) contested the 1991 parliamentary elections, having launched 75 candidates.

The party first contested national elections in 1991, when it won 6. 8 % of the vote, but failed to win a seat.

He is currently the leader of the opposition Workers ' Party ( WP ), and since 1991 has been a Member of Parliament ( MP ) representing the Single Member Constituency ( SMC ) of Hougang until 2011 where he contested and won in Aljunied Group Representation Constituency ( Aljunied GRC ).