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.

* Voted YES on requiring photo ID for voting in federal elections.

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.

* 1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U. S. Congress for use in federal elections.

Half an hour after the election results, the SPD chairman Franz Müntefering announced that the chancellor would clear the way for new federal elections.

The existence of the grand coalition on federal level helped smaller parties ' electoral prospects in state elections.

It is difficult to tell what the SPD defeat in the federal politics means for the state elections, as both big parties did well in some but not in others.

In the 2009 federal elections, the party won 10. 7 % of the votes and 68 out of 622 seats in the Bundestag.

After some success at state-level elections, the party won 27 seats with 5. 7 % of the vote in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, in the 1983 federal election.

In the 1990 federal elections, taking place post-reunified Germany, the Greens in the West did not pass the 5 % limit required to win seats in the Bundestag.

The Greens gained a record 13 of Germany's 99 seats in these elections, mainly due to the perceived competence of Green ministers in the federal government and the unpopularity of the Social Democratic Party.

For almost two years after the federal elections in 2005, the Greens were not part of any government at the state or federal level.

His first act was to appoint the inaugural Prime Minister, Edmund Barton, since the first federal elections were not held until March.

After repeated victories in 1983, 1987, 1990 and 1994 he was finally defeated by a landslide that was the biggest on record, for the left in the 1998 federal elections, and was succeeded as Chancellor by Gerhard Schröder of the SPD.

:::: a ) shall announce elections to the State Duma in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation and federal law ;

Lee in turn threatened to run PAP candidates in Malaya at the 1964 federal elections, despite an earlier agreement that he would not do so ( see PAP-UMNO Relations ).

At the May 1969 federal elections, the UMNO-MCA-MIC Alliance polled only 48 percent of the vote, although it retained a majority in the legislature.

* John David Ford, Canadian political figure ; Green Party leader in Ottawa South ; candidate in 2004 and 2006 federal elections ( Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007 )

All political parties must be registered before the Federal Electoral Institute ( IFE ), the institution in charge of organizing and overseeing the federal electoral processes, but must obtain at least 2 % of votes in the federal elections to keep their registry.

All elections are direct ; that is, no electoral college is constituted for any of the elections at the federal, state or municipal level.

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

As of June 18, 2009, a regional federal court order lifting the prohibition on the sale of Counter-Strike was published.

As of March 21, 2009 a federal judge says members of the church in Ashland can import, distribute and brew ayahuasca.

It has been in federal government longer than any other party, as the junior coalition partner to either the CDU / CSU ( 1949 – 56, 1961 – 66, 1982 – 98, and since 2009 ) or the Social Democratic Party ( 1969 – 82 ).

In November 2008, the SPD re-elected Franz Müntefering as its chairman and made Frank-Walter Steinmeier its leading candidate for the federal election in September 2009.

Map showing Alliance 90 / The Greens vote in each of the German constituencies at the German federal election, 2009

In June 2010, in the first state election following the victory of the CDU / CSU and FDP in the 2009 federal election, the " black-yellow " CDU-FDP coalition in North Rhine-Westphalia under Jürgen Rüttgers lost its majority.

In 2009 a federal court of appeals in San Francisco found that Ashcroft could be sued and held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of material witness Abdullah al-Kidd – an American citizen arrested in March 2003 and held for 13 months in maximum security to be used as a witness in the trial of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen ( who himself was acquitted of all charges of supporting terrorism ).

A federal judge agreed, throwing out all claims related to McNamee's statements to investigators on February 13, 2009 but allowing the case to proceed on statements McNamee made about Clemens to Pettitte.

After Washington prosecutors showed " a renewed interest in the case in the final months of 2008 ," a federal grand jury was convened in January 2009 to hear evidence of Clemens ' possible perjury before Congress.

In the United States, where analog shutdown was completed in 2009 for full-service broadcasters, a federal subsidy was offered for coupon-eligible converter boxes with deliberately-limited capability which would restore signals lost to digital transition.

In June 2009, Governor John de Jongh, Jr. rejected the resulting draft constitution, saying that the document " violates federal law, fails to defer to federal sovereignty and disregards basic civil rights ".

As an example, the 2009 arrest of an illegal immigrant from El Salvador in the murder of federal intern Chandra Levy saw many questions arise surrounding the credibility of various witnesses.

Following the 2009 redistribution of New South Wales federal elecorates, the Division of Prospect was renamed the Division of McMahon starting at the 2010 federal election.

In the absence of official reports on the full cost of the monarchy, the Monarchist League of Canada regularly issues a survey based on various federal and provincial budgets, expenditures, and estimates ; the 2009 edition found that the institution cost Canadians roughly $ 50 million in 2008.

With the passage of the Farm Bill in the summer of 2008 these expanded federal income tax incentives were extended such that they also apply to all conservation easements donated in 2008 and 2009 and then this provision was extended again to apply to donations in 2010 and 2011.

Although the CDU / CSU lost support in the 2009 federal elections, the FDP experienced the best election cycle in their history, thereby enabling a CDU / CSU-FDP coalition.

The SPD last governed at the federal level in a grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union from 2005 until 27 October 2009.

The SPD conceded defeat in the federal election of September 2009, with its share of votes having dropped from 34. 2 % to 23 %, compared to 2005, and became the largest opposition party represented in the Bundestag.

At the 2009 federal election, the party lost its only constituency in the entire state of Bavaria ( in Munich ).

In the federal elections of 2005, Westerwelle was his party's frontrunner.