Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election.

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

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

* Anything But Conservative, or ABC campaign, 2008 Canadian federal election political campaign

The most recent election, the German federal election, 2009, was held on September 27, 2009.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

The territory Country Party members first contested the 1919 federal election, with an established federal Country Party contesting the 1922 federal election.

After the 1974 federal election and subsequent Joint Sitting of parliament, legislation was passed to create a unicameral Legislative Assembly, as well as members with full voting rights at a federal level.

In the 2004 federal election, the NDP captured 28. 45 % of the vote in Nova Scotia, more than any other province.

In the 2004 federal election, the Conservatives had one of the worst showings in the region for a right-wing party, going back to Confederation, with the possible exception of the 1993 election.

In the 1997 federal election, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberals endured a bitter defeat to the PCs and NDP in many ridings as a result of unpopular cuts to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers, as well as closures of several Canadian Forces Bases, the refusal to honour a promise to rescind the Goods and Services Tax, cutbacks to provincial equalization payments, health care, post-secondary education and regional transportation infrastructure such as airports, fishing harbours, seaports, and railways.

* 2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.

During the run-up to the German general election in 2005, which was held ahead of schedule, Stoiber created controversy through a campaign speech held in the beginning of August 2005 in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.

In all federal election campaigns since the 1980s, the party sided with the CDU and CSU, the main conservative parties in Germany.

Later, as president, Clinton was the first President to pardon a death-row inmate since the federal death penalty was reintroduced in 1988.

He continued representing clients in federal courts until the U. S. Supreme Court ruled against him on March 21, 1988.

For example, they look at the 1992 increase in New Jersey's minimum wage, the 1988 rise in California's minimum wage, and the 1990 – 91 increases in the federal minimum wage.

In 1988 grand juries in Tampa and Miami indicted him on U. S. federal drug charges.

Prince Edward met with Sauvé at Rideau Hall on June 4, 1988, to present the Governor General with royal Letters Patent permitting the federal viceroy to exercise the Queen's powers in respect of the granting of heraldic arms in Canada, leading to the eventual creation of the Canadian Heraldic Authority, of which Sauvé was the first head.

As an example, in 1976 the regional council for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area ( ACOG ) received 90 % of its funds from the federal government, but by 1988 this had dropped to 24 %.

A separate holding by the Court in Pollock -- that federal taxation of interest earned on certain state bonds violated the doctrine of intergovernmental tax immunity — was declared by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1988 to have been " effectively overruled by subsequent case law " ( see South Carolina v. Baker ).

An Order in Council made by the Brian Mulroney government on 21 November 1988 created AMEX Bank of Canada, a Canadian banking subsidiary of American Express, although federal banking policy at the time would not ordinarily have permitted such an establishment by a foreign company.

In 2000, under Whitman's leadership, New Jersey's violations of the federal one-hour air quality standard for ground level ozone dropped to four from 45 in 1988.

Prior to entering provincial politics, Klein considered himself a Liberal Party supporter, although he did support the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Brian Mulroney in the 1988 federal election .< ref >

The party fought in the 1988 federal election, but was never considered more than a fringe element, and none of its 72 candidates won election.

Nonetheless, he was not successful in translating this into an election victory in the 1988 federal election, since the Liberals reaped most of the benefits from opposing free trade.

The Walloon liberals participated in the federal government from 1973 to 1977 ( Leburton governments I-II, Tindemans governments I-III ), in 1980 ( Martens government III ), from 1981 to 1988 ( Martens governments V-VII ), and from 1999 to 2003 ( Verhofstadt I Government ).

PS had been in the government subsequently since 1988 ( in the regional government and in the federal government ), but the liberal PRL ( now MR ) became in the 1999-elections as strong as the PS.

Following the 1987 injury of California mill worker George Alexander, tree spiking was declared a federal felony in the United States in 1988.

Besides many NDP supporters nationwide voting Liberal to ensure that the Conservatives would be defeated ( to avoid the vote-splitting of the 1988 election ), the Rae government's unpopularity was a major factor in the federal NDP's losses.

During his tenure at the helm of CBC's flagship newscast beginning May 1, 1988 ( as co-anchor of CBC Prime Time News from November 1992 to fall 1995, and as sole anchor of The National otherwise ), he has covered Canadian news stories including federal elections, party leadership conventions, the Meech Lake Accord negotiations, the Charlottetown Accord and its referendum, the 1995 Quebec referendum, floods in Manitoba in 1997, ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in 1998, the six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, the 2003 blackout across much of Eastern North America and the death and state funeral of Jack Layton.

By late 1989, federal officials had been investigating Barry for six years on suspicion of illegal drug possession and use ; that fall, they were able to make cases against several of Barry's associates for past cocaine use, including Charles Lewis – a native of the U. S. Virgin Islands who was implicated in a drug investigation involving Barry and a room at Washington ’ s Ramada Inn in December 1988 – and a former girlfriend, ex-model Rasheeda Moore.

In 1988, Copps was re-elected without difficulty in the federal election.

* Philipp Jenninger, President of the German federal parliament ( 1984 – 1988 )

* Rita Süssmuth, President of the German federal parliament ( 1988 – 1998 )

In 1988, Oral Roberts and his son Richard were sued for $ 15 million dollars in federal court by patients at City of Faith Medical Center, claiming the two were frauds who did not visit or heal patients in the hospital.

He was retained as the NDP's External Affairs Critic after the Progressive Conservatives won a second consecutive majority government in the 1988 federal election, and was also chosen as his party's spokesman for federal-provincial relations and the Constitution.

Minkow and 10 other ZZZZ Best insiders were indicted by a Los Angeles federal grand jury in January 1988 on 54 counts of racketeering, securities fraud, money laundering, embezzlement, mail fraud, tax evasion and bank fraud.

This was contested in Gibbons v. Ogden ( 22 U. S. 1 ) ( 1824 ), which decided that the regulation of interstate commerce fell under the authority of the federal government, thus influencing competition in the newly developing steam ferry service in New York Harbor.

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 party contested several federal and state elections between 1990 and 1997.

In one study, the conviction rate in contested Japanese trials in 1994 was found to be 98. 8 %, while the comparable conviction rate in contested United States federal trials in 1994 was 30. 9 %.

At the 1998 federal election, Hanson contested the new seat of Blair after a redistribution effectively split Oxley in half.

In the United States, under the rules of civil procedure governing practice in federal courts and most state courts, the entry of judgment is the final order entered by the court in the case, leaving no further action to be taken by the court with respect to the issues contested by the parties to the lawsuit.

On 28 November 2003, Crean announced that he would resign as Leader of the Labor Party, becoming the first federal Labor leader to be replaced without having contested an election since the expulsion of Billy Hughes in 1916.

The party contested state and federal elections, achieving its best results in 1972, but failing to win any seats.

A separate Tasmanian Revenue Tariff Party contested the 1903 federal election in Tasmania and won two seats but also sat and merged with the Free Trade Party in federal parliament.

Bagnell ran for his fifth term in the 2011 Canadian federal election but was defeated by Conservative candidate Ryan Leef finishing second place out of four candidates in a closely contested election.

It contested the 1998 federal election as part of the Democratic Socialist Electoral League.

The SWP and the DSP regularly contested Australian federal elections but seldom polled significant votes.

But although it contested the 2001 federal election and the 2004 federal election, as well as several state elections, it has failed to attract significant support.

It has not contested federal elections since 1965.

The division was one of the original 75 divisions first contested at the first federal election.

The Bloc populaire canadien contested neither the 1948 provincial election nor the 1949 federal election, and soon ceased to exist.

The National Party of Canada was a short-lived Canadian political party that contested the 1993 federal election.