on December 12, 1854 ), Wyandotte was incorporated as a city, and granted a charter by the State of Michigan, on December 12, 1866, with the first city election held in April 1867 ( the second oldest incorporated city in Wayne County outside of Detroit ).

* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

However, commercial and social activities came to center on Astoria as that city grew, and an election in 1854 chose Astoria to be the new county seat.

The current Orangeville post office ; in 1854 the village narrowly won an election over Oneco for post office location.

In 1854, it became Fremont after General John C. Fremont, the first candidate of the Republican Party in the presidential election of 1856.

It controlled Democratic Party nominations and political patronage in Manhattan from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 through the election of John P. O ' Brien in 1932.

He was elected to the French Academy in 1854, occupying the thirty-eighth chair, becoming leader of the Academy ’ s " religious party ", in which capacity he opposed the election of agnostic intellectuals.

He won election to the Upper Canada legislature in 1850 and won re-election by acclamation in both 1854 and 1857.

First elected to the New Brunswick Assembly as a Liberal in 1850, he sat in opposition until the 1854 election swept the reformers to power.

The official election for Federal Council held by the Federal Assembly in 1854 proved to be a struggle as well ; Franscini did not receive the absolute majority of votes until the third round, and many members of the assembly had given their vote to his Ticinese friend Giovanni Battista Pioda.

Founded in 1854 by Northern anti-slavery expansion activists and modernizers, the Republican Party rose to prominence with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican to campaign on the Northern principles of anti-slavery.

Rumors spread through the South that 30, 000 Northerners were descending on Kansas, and in November 1854, thousands of armed pro-slavery men known as " Border Ruffians ," mostly from Missouri, poured over the line in an attempt to steal the election to Congress of a single territorial delegate.

In 1853 the Liberal government of the colony's first premier, George Coles, was defeated in the general election and was forced to resign in early 1854 when it could not command the support of the House of Assembly which now had a Conservative majority.

Due to changes in the franchise which broadened the right to vote from property owners to universal male suffrage a new election was held in June 1854 and the Liberals again won power and were able to form a government when the legislature resumed in 1855 ending Holl's few months as Premier.

Fessenden's strong anti-slavery principles caused his election to the U. S. Senate in 1854, with the support of Whigs and Anti-Slavery Democrats.

At the New York state election, 1854, he was elected Governor of New York in the closest gubernatorial election in New York State history.

This split would be exacerbated following the 1852 presidential election, when disputes over patronage led to an even broader split between Hards and Softs, and helped lead to the defeat of the Soft governor, Horatio Seymour, for re-election in 1854.

Tammany Hall was the name given to the Democratic political machine that dominated New York City politics from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 through the election of Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1933.

Woodworth did not stand for re-election in 1850 and returned briefly to private life as a banker in Chicago, but returned to public service in 1853, serving as the Water Commissioner, until his election to the United States Congress in the elections of 1854.

The Clear Grit faction in parliament had previously been aligned with Francis Hincks's governing Reformers, but this alliance ended after the 1854 election.

It opened on 24 May 1854, following New Zealand's first general election ( held the previous year ).

In the election of 1854, Milliken defeated Amos Throop, who ran on the Temperance Party ticket, with nearly 60 % of the vote.

While the Tories won a majority in the legislature in the 1948 election, Drew himself was defeated in his High Park electoral district, in west-end Toronto, by CCFer and temperance crusader William " Temperance Willie " Temple who had targeted Drew over his softening of Ontario's liquor laws by legalizing cocktail bars in Ontario.

The 1926 provincial election was fought on the issue of the government's proposal to repeal the Ontario Temperance Act and permit controlled sales of liquor in government owned stores.

In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against expanding slavery beyond the states in which it already existed.

The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.

Since the 1951 general election, the party system has been dominated by the personalist Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), dominated by the Bird family, particularly Prime Ministers Vere and Lester Bird.

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

In the presidential election in 1848, the Democratic Party split over the slavery issue, with the abolitionists leaving the party and forming the Free Soil Party, and making Martin Van Buren their nominee.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

* 1992 – John Major's Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.

In the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.

The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and The Left ( Die Linke ) took control of the city government after the 2001 state election and won another term in the 2006 state election.

After the 2011 state election, there is a coalition of the Social Democratic Party with the Christian Democratic Union, and for the first time ever, the Pirate Party won seats in a state parliament in Germany.

The province is currently governed by the BC Liberal Party, led by Premier Christy Clark, who became leader as a result of the party election on February 26, 2011.

During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as " stupid " and a " disgrace to women ".

After six years in opposition, Disraeli and the Conservative Party won the election of 1874, giving the party its first absolute majority in the House of Commons since the 1840s.

A crowd waits outside Leeds Town Hall to see them elect a Liberal Party candidate during the United Kingdom general election, 1880 | 1880 general elections.

The result was a catastrophic split in the Liberal Party, and heavy defeat in the 1886 election at the hands of Lord Salisbury.

In the 1918 general election Lloyd George, " the Man Who Won the War ", led his coalition into another khaki election, and won a sweeping victory over the Asquithian Liberals and the newly emerging Labour Party.

In the February 1974 general election the Conservative government of Edward Heath won a plurality of votes cast, but the Labour Party gained a plurality of seats due to the Ulster Unionist MPs refusing to support the Conservatives after the Northern Ireland Sunningdale Agreement.

* List of UK Liberal Party general election manifestos