At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

Al Sharpton, former Pentecostal minister, now a Baptist minister and Civil rights leader, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 said that asking whether gays or lesbians should be able to get married was insulting: " That's like saying you give blacks, or whites, or Latinos the right to shack up – but not get married [...] It's like asking ' do I support black marriage or white marriage '...

In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

Since 20 July 2004, ELDR is politically represented in the European Parliament by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe ( ALDE ) parliamentary group, formed in conjunction with the European Democratic Party.

The ELDR Europarty allied with the European Democratic Party in 2004 to form the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, with a matching group in the European Parliament.

In 2004 during the Democratic Primaries, Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic Nominee for President, visited George Mason University and gave a speech on the floor of the Johnson Center.

Dunst supported Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 U. S. presidential election.

In the June 2004 parliamentary elections, the CSV won 24 seats, the LSAP 14, the DP 10, the Green Party 7, and the Alternative Democratic Reform Party 5.

In December 1999, at the Founding Congress of the Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ), he was elected its Chairman, holding the function continuously till February 2004.

In result of criticism in his own party, the Democratic Left Alliance, in February 2004, Leszek Miller resigned from chairing the party.

Mali is an active contributor to peacekeeping forces in West and Central Africa ; the Library of Congress said that in 2004 Mali was participating in United Nations operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( MONUC, 28 personnel including 27 observers ), Liberia ( UNMIL, 252 personnel, including 4 observers ), and Sierra Leone ( 3 observers ).

From 2000 to 2004 MPRP was back in power, but results of the 2004 elections required the establishing of the first ever coalition government in Mongolia between the MPRP and MDC ( Motherland Democratic Coalition ).

Beginning in 2004, she favored what many consider to be the Democratic Party's position, and urged President George W. Bush to support federally funded embryonic stem cell research in the hope that this science could lead to a cure for Alzheimer's disease.

The Nigeria Police Force and troops have served in places like UNIPOM ( UN India-Pakistan Observer mission ) 1965, UNIFIL in Lebanon 1978, the UN observer mission, UNIIMOG supervising the Iran-Iraq ceasefire in 1988, former Yugoslavia 1998, East Timor 1999, and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( MONUC ) 2004.

Smith supported Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 election.

On 30 December 2004 President Abdoulaye Wade announced that he would sign a peace treaty with two separatist factions of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance ( MFDC ) in the Casamance region.

The show caused a stir during the 2004 Democratic Primary when Carville gave candidate Howard Dean a soundbite during a location shoot that Dean then used in a debate.

In the elections of 2003, the People's Party received ( effective January 1, 2004 ) a second seat in the Federal Council, reducing the share of the Christian Democratic Party to one seat.

* Party of the Democratic Left ( Slovakia ), a former political party of Slovakia ( 1990 – 2004 )

Ujjal Dosanjh was the New Democratic Party Premier of British Columbia from July 2004 until February 2005, and currently serves as a Liberal frontbench MP in Ottawa.

An outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2004 – 05 recorded more than 42, 000 cases and 214 deaths.

The " free speech zone " at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

Willkie's name was prominently mentioned by keynote speaker and Democratic Senator Zell Miller at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

During the process of the enlargement of the European Union, the acquis was divided into 31 chapters for the purpose of negotiation between the EU and the candidate member states for the fifth enlargement ( the ten that joined in 2004 plus Romania and Bulgaria which joined in 2007 ).

The country was finally accepted as EU candidate in July 2004.

In February 2004 Edmund Stoiber became a candidate of Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder for the presidency of the European Commission but he decided not to run for this office.

However, with the influx of new members in 2004, together with awarding Turkey candidate status, public opinion in the EU turned against enlargement.

* John David Ford, Canadian political figure ; Green Party leader in Ottawa South ; candidate in 2004 and 2006 federal elections ( Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007 )

Malawi saw its first transition between democratically elected presidents in May 2004, when the UDF's presidential candidate Bingu wa Mutharika defeated MCP candidate John Tembo and Gwanda Chakuamba, who was backed by a grouping of opposition parties.

Perhaps the most prominent candidate running on the NLP platform was John Hagelin, who campaigned for U. S. president in 1992, 1996, and 2004.

The joint PNL-PD candidate, Traian Băsescu, won the second round on December 12, 2004 with 51 % of the vote and thus became the third post-revolutionary president of Romania.

The Natural Law Party did not run a candidate for president in the 2004 U. S. election and Hagelin went on to create an organization called the US Peace Government.

* Archive of 2004 LP presidential candidate web site

In 1997, Al Sharpton, a Christian minister and a candidate for the 2004 presidential election, who had also taken part in other Unification Church events and holidays, took part in a blessing ceremony at RFK Stadium, Washington, D. C., as a wedding-vow renewal with his wife.

Nevertheless, all of the aforementioned parties except for the Reform Party endorsed the Constitution Party's Michael Peroutka as their presidential candidate in 2004.

Sweden's row of three successive Championships was broken in Slovenia in 2004, when Germany won despite not being touted as a medal candidate by news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur.

Know Your Values and Frame the Debate, self-labeled as " the Essential Guide for Progressives ", was published in September 2004 and features a foreword by former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean.

Democratic U. S. Senator Patty Murray narrowly carried Clark County in the United States Senate election in Washington, 2010 with 52 % of the vote, but lost the county to Republican Senate candidate George Nethercutt in 2004.

In the presidential elections of March 21, 2004, ARENA was victorious again, this time with the candidate Elias Antonio Saca González, securing the party's fourth consecutive term.

In the 2000 presidential election, independent candidate James Soong proposed a European Union-style relation with mainland China ( this was echoed by Hsu Hsin-liang in 2004 ) along with a non-aggression pact.

As a Democrat, Bon Jovi toured extensively on behalf of Presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004, appearing at and playing acoustic sets ( with Richie Sambora ) at rallies for the Kerry-Edwards ticket throughout the United States.

In the 2004 presidential election, her name was used as a disparaging epithet against John Kerry, the former VVAW leader, who was then the Democratic Party presidential candidate.

In October 2004 Li ran in the December 11 legislative election as a non-partisan candidate in the South Taipei constituency, for which he was subsequently elected in the last winning place.