During the campaign, Polk's opponents said that at the age of 29 Polk was too young for a spot in the House, but he won the election and took his seat in Congress.

With Jackson's victory in the election Polk began to support the administration's position in Congress.

Leaving Congress in 1839, Polk became a candidate in the Tennessee gubernatorial election, defeating the incumbent Whig, Newton Cannon by about 2, 500 votes, out of about 105, 000.

Polk received one electoral vote from Tennessee for Vice President in the election.

He was selected as one of six presidential electors for the 1844 presidential election and campaigned effectively throughout Mississippi for the Democratic candidate, James K. Polk

* December 4 – U. S. presidential election, 1844: James K. Polk defeats Henry Clay.

This election was unique in that electors cast votes for four men who had been or would become President of the United States: current President Martin Van Buren ; President-elect William Henry Harrison ; Vice-President-elect John Tyler, who would succeed Harrison upon his death ; and James K. Polk, who received one electoral vote for Vice President, and who would succeed Tyler come 1845.

In the United States presidential election of 1844, Democrat James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy, with Polk favoring the annexation of Texas and Clay opposed.

It is also the most recent presidential election where the winner, Polk, lost both his home state ( North Carolina ) and his state of residence ( Tennessee ).

The election was close ; New York's 36 electoral votes proved the difference, and went to Polk by a slim 5, 000 vote margin.

The victory of James K. Polk ( Democrat ) over Henry Clay ( Whig ) in the 1844 presidential election had caught the southern Whigs by surprise.

Presidential candidate James K. Polk used this popular outcry to his advantage, and the Democrats called for the annexation of " All Oregon " in the 1844 U. S. Presidential election.

In the 2008 presidential election, 48. 92 % of Polk County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 48. 43 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 2. 64 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

These numbers show a small shift toward the Democratic candidate when compared to the 2004 presidential election, in which 55 % of Polk Country voters voted for George W. Bush, while 43. 6 % voted for John Kerry, and 1. 4 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

* December 4, 1844: U. S. presidential election, 1844: James K. Polk defeated Henry Clay

In the 1844 Democratic convention Cass stood as a candidate for the presidential nomination, losing on the 9th ballot to dark horse candidate James K. Polk, who went on to win the presidential election.

With the election of James K. Polk, however, his power began to ebb, and his views diverged from the party's.

While Welles dutifully supported James K. Polk in the 1844 election, he would abandon the Democrats in 1848 to support Van Buren's Freesoil campaign.

Polk won the nomination on the ninth ballot, and went on to win the presidential election.

After his election as president, however, James K. Polk supported the 49th parallel as a northern limit for U. S. annexation in Oregon Country.

In 1845, following the election of another Democrat, James K. Polk, as president, he was reappointed Surveyor-General of Iowa Territory, one year before the southeastern eastern area of Iowa Territory became the State of Iowa.

After the election, the Tyler administration realized that public opinion was in favor of annexation, consulted with President-elect Polk, and set out to accomplish annexation by means of a joint resolution.

Due to the dominance of the then Democratic Party of Van Buren, Polk, and Buchanan the American School was not embraced as the economic philosophy of the United States until the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, who with a series of laws during the American Civil War was able to fully implement what Hamilton, Clay, List, and Carey theorized, wrote about, and advocated.

In 1992, Blaise Compaoré was elected president, running unopposed after the opposition boycotted the election because of Compaoré's refusal to accede to demands of the opposition such as a sovereign National Conference to set modalities.

Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the Democratic Left ( ID ) party won the presidency in 1988, running in the runoff election against Abdalá Bucaram of the PRE.

Many new political parties formed in anticipation of running candidates in the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011 – 2012.

His extensive campaigning on this stance was widely seen as swinging the election to the SPD in the weeks running up to the election.

It was the largest party in Dáil Éireann at every general election from the 1932 general election until the 2011 general election, when it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the Irish state, a loss described as " historic " in its proportions, where it saw its electoral support base diminished by 75 %, as a reaction to the intervention, and in the running of the Irish economy, of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in November 2010.

At the 1934 federal election Holt unsuccessfully contested the safe Labor seat of Yarra for the UAP, running against former Prime Minister James Scullin.

The Sun newspaper, still at this stage supporting the Conservative Party, had lost faith in Major and declared its support for Redwood in the leadership election, running the front page headline " Redwood versus Deadwood ".

While in Dallas, Texas, where the insurance company he worked for was based, he spoke to John F. Kennedy as the presidential candidate and his running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, who were touring the city during the 1960 Presidential election campaign.

He was Engler's running mate in the 1998 election and served from 1999 to 2003.

In 1998, Ashcroft briefly considered running for U. S. President ; but on January 5, 1999, he announced that he would not seek the presidency and would instead defend his Senate seat in the 2000 election.

He was constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 election, which was won by Mwai Kibaki.

For example, the June 2004 election campaign of the Liberal Party of Canada was compared with " the Keystone Kops running around " by one of its parliamentary members, Carolyn Parrish.

In June 1993, incumbent Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat won the first popular presidential election running as the candidate of the democratic opposition.

Its first election win came in 1953, with its members running as independents.

However, if the governing party selects a new leader shortly before an election is due, and that new leader is not a member of the legislature, he or she will normally await the upcoming election before running for a seat in parliament.

The election campaign was a relatively low-key affair, with the Government and Bracks largely running on their record, as well as their plans to tackle infrastructure issues in their third term.

Conservative talk show hosts also lent their unified support for Congressional candidate Doug Hoffman, a conservative third-party candidate who was running in New York's 23rd congressional district special election, 2009 against a liberal Republican ( Dierdre Scozzafava ) and a mainstream Democrat ( Bill Owens ).

In November 2009, state media in Turkmenistan published the names of candidates running in the parliamentary election that authorities described as a step toward democracy.

He made such an effort to root out corruption and " machine politics " that Republican boss Thomas Collier Platt forced him on McKinley as a running mate in the 1900 election, against the wishes of McKinley's manager, Senator Mark Hanna.

The highest-ranking Greens ever elected in the nation were: John Eder, a member of the Maine House of Representatives until his defeat in November 2006 ; Audie Bock, elected to the California State Assembly in 1999 but switched her registration to Independent seven months later running as an independent in the 2000 election ; and Richard Carroll, elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008 but switched parties to become a Democrat five months after his election.