Mr. Reama, who retired as vice president of the American Screw Co. in 1955 said, `` Both parties in the last election told us that we need a five per cent growth in the gross national product -- but neither told us how to achieve it ''.

Following the general election of 1950, the Labour party experienced a greatly reduced parliamentary majority, a mere five seats compared to the triple-digit majority of five years previous, despite an increase in the popular vote ( possible because of the first-past-the-post voting system ).

On February 23, 2011, former Illinois Congressman and White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, won the municipal election to become mayor of Chicago, heavily beating five rivals with 55 percent of the vote.

The FDP retained their seats in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was held six months after the federal election, but out of the seven state elections that have been held since 2009, the FDP have lost all their seats in five of them due to failing to cross the 5 % threshold.

The President is elected every five years by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ), a special body convened only for this purpose, comprising the entire Bundestag and an equal number of state delegates selected especially for this purpose in proportion to election results for the state diets.

This rule, often called the " five percent hurdle ", was incorporated into Germany's election law to prevent political fragmentation and strong minor parties.

Following every House of Keys general election, the members of Tynwald elect from amongst themselves the Chief Minister of the Isle of Man, who serves as the head of government for five years ( until the next general election ).

The Chief Minister is elected by Tynwald following every House of Keys general election and serves for five years until the next general election.

Lynch spent the five months preceding the election relentlessly attacking Governor Craig Benson, the first-term Republican incumbent, for what Lynch claimed was a lack of integrity following a long series of scandals during Benson's tenure.

Parliamentary elections are held at least once every five years, with the last general election being in March 2008.

In 1973 Nasir was elected to a second term under the constitution as amended in 1972, which extended the presidential term to five years and which also provided for the election of the prime minister by the Majlis.

Candidates for members of parliament are voted upon when the prime minister asks the Governor-General to call a national election, a maximum of five years after the previous national election.

At the 1996 election, the Keating Government was swept from power in a landslide, losing 29 seats and suffering a five percent two party preferred swing -- in terms of seats lost, the second-worst defeat of a sitting government at the federal level in Australia.

The lifespan of parliament is limited by the constitution to five years and, though the governor general may still, on the advice of the prime minister, dissolve parliament and issue the writs of election prior to the date mandated by the Canada Elections Act ; the King-Byng Affair was the only time since Confederation that the viceroy deemed it necessary to refuse his prime minister's request for a general vote.

Celestine II governed the Church for only five months and thirteen days from his election until his death on 8 March 1144.

There were no imperial representatives present during the election, and Valentine had no opportunity to ratify his election with the emperor, as he was dead within five weeks, dying on 10 October 827.

Although five candidates announced their intention to run, the three representing minor parties ( Benny Begin of Herut – The National Movement, Azmi Bishara of Balad and Yitzhak Mordechai of the Centre Party ) dropped out before election day, and Ehud Barak beat Netanyahu in the election.

The elections of 1990, which had been mandated by the constitution passed in 1987, saw the Bush administration funnel $ 49. 75 million of ‘ non-lethal ’ aid to the Contras, as well as $ 9m to the opposition UNO — equivalent to $ 2 billion worth of intervention by a foreign power in a US election at the time, and proportionately five times the amount George Bush had spent on his own election campaign.

He narrowly lost the seat at the 1984 election but was returned to serve as an MEP in 1989 election where he sat with the regionalist Rainbow Group He also canvassed for IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, in which Sands was elected to Westminster.

The 1951 election illustrated the intense regionalism that was forming in the French colony ; the election has been cited as when regionalist parties arose.

The 1951 election has been cited as when regionalist parties arose, and it was the first whose pamphlets mentioned ethnicity.

Despite the close ties with the parties of the centre-left, UV contested the 2006 general election in competition with The Union ( rallied in the Autonomy Liberty Democracy list ), as part of the regionalist coalition named Autonomy Progress Federalism Aosta Valley, causing the split of the Valdotanian Renewal ( RV ), but it lost and since then the party was no more represented in the Italian Parliament.

In the 2008 general election UV member Antonio Fosson was elected to the Senate for the regionalist coalition, defeating incumbent Carlo Perrin ( 41. 4 % against 37. 4 %), but was not able to take back also the seat in the Chamber of Deputies as Ego Perron was narrowly defeated by incumbent Roberto Nicco, member of the regional Democratic Party ( 37. 8 % against 39. 1 %).

In the 2008 regional election UV won 44. 4 % of the vote and 17 regional deputies ( out of 35 ), while the three-party regionalist coalition won 62. 0 % and a large majority, composed of 22 regional deputies.

Colonial Labour parties contested seats from 1891, and federal seats following the Federation at the 1901 federal election.

Although most South African parties announced their candidate list for provincial premierships in the 2009 election, the ANC did not.

The remaining opposition parties regrouped in preparation for 1997 legislative elections and the 1998 presidential election.

The Liberal Democrats could point to steady progress under Charles Kennedy, gaining more seats than the main two parties – albeit only six overall – and maintaining the performance of a pleasing 1997 election, where the party doubled its number of seats from 20 to 46.

After a brief Conservative interlude ( during which the Second Reform Act was passed by agreement between the parties ), Gladstone won a huge victory at the 1868 election and formed the first Liberal government.

The third group under Sir Herbert Samuel pressed for the parties in government to fight the election on separate platforms.

The 1987 election saw the Alliance's share of the votes drop slightly and it now had 22 MP's, and in the election's aftermath Liberal leader David Steel proposed a merged of the two parties.

The two dominant political parties in Canada have historically been the Liberal Party of Canada and Conservative Party of Canada ( or its predecessors ), and as of the 2011 election the social-democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has risen to prominence.

In East Germany after local election losses, a forced merger of political parties in the Socialist Unity Party (" SED "), followed by elections in 1946 where political opponents were oppressed.

In the Romanian general election elections of 1946, the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) employed widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud to obtain 80 percent of the vote and, thereafter, eliminated the role of the centrist parties and forced mergers, the result of which was that, by 1948, most non-Communist politicians were either executed, in exile or in prison.

FUNCINPEC then entered into a coalition with the other parties that had participated in the election.

Because the government refused to consider opposition demands for an independent election commission, the three major opposition parties boycotted the October 1997 presidential election, which Biya easily won.

This election was also important because new parties won several seats in Congress, more than ever.

However, this new election could not be held on time due to delay in preparation and has been postponed to October 2006 after an agreement was reached amongst the rival parties.

Compared to only three parties allowed to exist in the New Order era, a total of 48 political parties participated in the 1999 election, a total of 24 parties in the 2004 election, and 38 parties in the 2009 election.

Davis received 1,119 votes in Saturday's election, and Bush got 402.

Many local citizens feared that there would be irregularities at the polls, and Williams got himself a permit to carry a gun and promised an orderly election.

In the 2008 general election the party got 90 deputies and 48 senators elected.

The story got around that he had refused to join the new party because he feared he would not be able to keep his Hamilton seat at a general election ; local Scottish National Party supporters nicknamed him " Chicken George ".

In the 2009 European Parliament election the EFA got six MEPs elected: two from the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one from the PC ( Jill Evans ), one from the Party of the Corsican Nation ( PNC ; François Alfonsi ), one from the ERC ( Oriol Junqueras ) and Tatjana Ždanoka, individual member of the EFA from Latvia.

On election night party leader Westerwelle said his party would work to ensure that civil liberties were respected and that Germany got an " equitable tax system and better education opportunities.

There was a general riot by the Ghibelline party in Rome when news of his election got out, but peace was maintained by the aid of King Ladislaus of Naples, who hastened to Rome with a band of soldiers to assist the Pope in suppressing the insurrection.

However, when McMahon lost the 1972 election to Labor Leader Gough Whitlam, relations between Sydney and Canberra got even worse.

In Malaysia, the Socialist Party of Malaysia got its first Member of Parliament, Dr. Jeyakumar Devaraj, after the 2008 general election.

While Halonen started from fourth place in the presidential election polls, surprisingly in the first round of the elections she got the most votes, 40. 0 %.

The winner-take-all election system opened a wide gap between winners, who got all the patronage, and losers, who got none.

The ceremonial election of the regent Gustav Eriksson as king of Sweden was made when the leading men of Sweden got together in Strängnäs in June 1523.

In the Swedish 1973 general election the Socialist-Communist and the Liberal-Conservative blocs got 175 places each in the parliament.

" As the presidential election got closer, two other newspaper editors left Rwanda.

In the 1998 election the Social Democrats gained even fewer votes than in the 1991 election, when they got voted out of office.

The young Wenceslaus accepted the election and got engaged to Elizabeth, the daughter of King Andrew III and he was crowned with the Holy Crown of Hungary in Székesfehérvár by Archbishop John of Kalocsa.

Following an appeal from his supporters who got 40, 000 signatures, in January 2007, Bové announced he would run in the 2007 French presidential election.

Amid the first talk of the Spanish government investigating the ties of Herri Batasuna with ETA, in 1998 Herri Batasuna was the driving force of the newly formed Euskal Herritarrok ( We Basque Citizens ) coalition, an acronym which got the best results to date for Basque left separatism in the Basque community, with 224, 000 votes out of a total of 1, 250, 000 in the Basque election held that year.

Although Barack Obama got only 38. 45 % of Hamilton County's vote during the 2008 election, it is the highest percentage a Democrat presidential candidate has been able to get for this county since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 ( who himself had also lost the county ).

According to George Schlatter, the show's creator, " Humphrey later said that not doing it may have cost him the election ", and " said the rest of his life that appearing on Laugh-In is what got him elected.

In the 2006 state governor election, Arnold Schwarzenegger got just over 62 % of the vote, while Democratic opponent Phil Angelides got over 34 %.