In the 2004 elections, the INC won the largest number of Lok Sabha seats and formed a government with a coalition called the United Progressive Alliance ( UPA ), supported by various parties.

On 22 May 2004, Manmohan Singh was appointed the Prime Minister of India following the victory of the INC & the left front in the 2004 Lok Sabha election.

She has served as the Chairperson of the ruling United Progressive Alliance in the Lok Sabha since 2004.

Advani became Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009.

The Bharat Uday Yatra took place in the run-up to the 2004 Lok Sabha Elections.

In March 2004, Gandhi announced his entry into politics by announcing that he would contest the May 2004 elections, standing for his father's former constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha, India's lower house of Parliament.

His Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency seat was held by his daughter-in-law, and wife of Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi from 2004 until now.

Meanwhile the central government changed and Indian National Congress came to power after 2004 Lok Sabha elections.

from Allahabad before he was defeated in the Lok Sabha elections of May, 2004.

After 2004 Lok Sabha elections, he joined the United Progressive Alliance government headed by Manmohan Singh as the Minister of Agriculture.

In the Lok Sabha elections 2004 Sangma was one of two NTC MPs elected.

However despite the popular measures taken by the government, in the 2004 Lok Sabha election, the party, in alliance with the BJP again, was humiliated, not even winning any of the 39 Lok Sabha seats from the state.

In the 13th Lok Sabha ( 1999 – 2004 ), it had 12 ( out of 545 ) members.

Continuing its upswing in electoral fortunes, the party won 21 Lok Sabha seats in the 2004 elections that it fought in alliance with Congress.

With the hope of playing a major role at the center, Yadav contested Lok Sabha elections of 2004 from Mainpuri when Yadav was the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Arun Jaitley was specifically put in charge of Karnataka, which went to polls simultaneously with the Lok Sabha in May 2004.

In the 2004 Lok Sabha Elections, he led the DMK-led DPA ( UPA and Left Parties ) in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry to win all 40 Lok Sabha seats.

In the Lok Sabha elections of 2004, he was defeated in Hazaribagh Constituency.

In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections the party presented candidates from Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.

* GGP Lok Sabha 2004 Election Result

Tohra was a member of Lok Sabha in 1977-79 though earlier he was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1969 to 1976, re-elected in May, 1980, April, 1982, in April, 1998 and again in March 2004.

By 2004 the support for SLD in the polls had dropped from about 30 % to just below 10 %, and several high-ranking party members had been accused of taking part in high profile political scandals by the mainstream press ( most notably the Rywin affair: Rywin-gate ).

The band remained stable enough to record If I Should Fall from Grace with God in 1988 ( with its Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl " Fairytale of New York ", which was voted " the best Christmas song ever " in VH1 UK polls in 2004 ) and 1989's Peace and Love.

The song has become a festive classic in the UK and Ireland over the years, and was voted the best Christmas song of all time three years running in 2004, 2005, and 2006 in polls by music channel VH1 UK, despite not achieving Christmas Number One when it was released.

After the October 10, 2004 speech by President Chen, polls showed as little as 5 % support for reunification, with 60 % support for maintaining the status quo and 65 % opposition to the founding of a Republic of Taiwan in 2008 ( the projected date for completion of the 2006 constitutional reforms proposed by President Chen in his speech ).

The Broncos finished the season in the Top 25 polls in 2002 ( 12th ), 2003 ( 15th ), 2004 ( 13th ), 2006 ( 5th ), and started the 2005 season ranked 18th and the 2007 season ranked 22nd.

They cite Pew Research Center exit polls from the 2004 elections finding that 25 % of polled voters support same-sex marriage and another 35 % support civil unions.

The Liberals, under leader Shawn Graham, led in public opinion polls as of the summer of 2004 and maintained that lead ; however, Lord remained the most favoured Leader to be Premier of New Brunswick for a time.

" This, and other critical statements of the President, led to speculation that he would not back Chen again in the 2004 elections until he issued a statement of support for the DPP on March 17, 3 days before polls opened.

However, polls conducted from 1966 to 2004 found that as many as 80 percent of Americans have suspected that there was a plot or cover-up.

After the February peak, National suffered a steady decline in public opinion polls, leaving it 11 points behind Labour at the end of 2004.

In anticipation of the 2004 national elections in Greece, polls indicated that PASOK was very likely to lose as the conservative New Democracy party was heading towards a landslide.

In February 2004 Beattie again went to the polls, and again a crisis blew up shortly before the election, with a highly critical report on the state of Queensland's system of child protection.

Until March 2004, Labor under Latham's leadership held a strong lead in national opinion polls.

Although Deutsch consistently led opinion polls in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metropolitan area, and had the largest amount of cash on hand for most of the race, he lagged in statewide opinion polls behind rival Betty Castor, whose fundraising dramatically accelerated during the summer of 2004 with the help of EMILY's List, which contributed close to $ 4. 5 million in television and advertising dollars.

Throughout the autumn of 2004, opinion polls predicted Năstase would win, boosted in areas and among sectors where the PSD traditionally received strong support: in rural areas, in small and medium sized towns in the south and east of the country, and among pensioners and labor groups.

As a result of these policies, the Party was defeated at the polls in the election of 2004.

* ROC presidential election, 2004: Lagging behind his rival Lien Chan in opinion polls, President Chen Shui-bian promises not to declare Taiwan independence if he is re-elected.

Despite an early lead in the polls after the primaries, as well as fellow Democrat Mike Easley running for a second term as governor at the top of the state party ticket, Bowles was defeated in the 2004 race as well.

In 2004, BBC's Football Focus ran polls to determine club's cult heroes, and Dean Spink was named as Shrewsbury's cult hero, ahead of Steve Anthrobus and Austin Berkley.

Foss was also a CAP candidate in the 2004 election but he fared poorly at the polls.

He was a candidate in the presidential election held on 3 April 2004, and although pre-election polls had suggested he would come in first, he actually came in third behind former prime minister Vladimír Mečiar and Ivan Gašparovič, thus preventing him from contesting the run-off.

The Queenscliffe Borough was not required to go to the polls in 2004 as the number of candidate nominations did not exceed the number of vacancies available.

These factors assisted the Parti Québécois in winning back many voters in the beginning of 2004 to take first place in the public opinion polls again.