In the 1920 presidential election they had that right and many of them did vote for the first time.

Split badly during the recent presidential election into almost equally divided camps of party loyalists and independents, the Democratic party in Mississippi is currently a wreck.

One day last week, Nixon faced a painful constitutional chore that required him to officiate at a joint session of Congress to hear the official tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to make `` sufficient declaration '' of the election of the man who defeated him in the tight 1960 presidential election.

An exceptionally astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, he reached out to War Democrats and managed his own re-election in the 1864 presidential election.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

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 population of Armenia voted overwhelmingly for independence in a September 1991 referendum, followed by a presidential election in October 1991 that gave 83 % of the vote to Levon Ter-Petrosyan.

* 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

Alcott voted in a presidential election for the first time in 1860.

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.

When the presidential election of 1856 approached, Johnson and supporters harbored a vague hope for the presidency, and he gave a speech to the Tennessee Democratic delegates reiterating his views ; some county conventions designated him a favorite son and the Nashville Union and American proposed his nomination.

* United States presidential election, 1864

After only about a month, Clinton postponed his plans to be a coordinator for the McGovern campaign for the 1972 United States presidential election in order to move in with her in California.

Clinton won the 1992 presidential election ( 43. 0 % of the vote ) against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush ( 37. 4 % of the vote ) and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent ( 18. 9 % of the vote ) on a platform focusing on domestic issues ; a significant part of Clinton's success was Bush's steep decline in public approval.

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

The remaining opposition parties regrouped in preparation for 1997 legislative elections and the 1998 presidential election.

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

He heavily campaigned for George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election.

He campaigned for Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election.

Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

International observers noted numerous serious irregularities in presidential and legislative election proceedings.

Because the government refused to consider opposition demands for an independent election commission, the three major opposition parties boycotted the October 1997 presidential election, which Biya easily won.

Picture of the 1915 presidential election in Chile.

In 1840 Johnson was appointed as a presidential elector for his state, giving him more statewide exposure.

The band contributed " Tippecanoe and Tyler Too ", a political campaign song from the presidential election of 1840.

The United States presidential election of 1840 saw President Martin Van Buren fight for re-election against an economic depression and a Whig Party unified for the first time behind war hero William Henry Harrison and his " log cabin campaign ".

In the presidential election of 1840, he zealously advocated the election of William Henry Harrison.

On December 31, 1840, he married Margaretta Sergeant, daughter of John Sergeant, running mate of Henry Clay in the 1832 presidential election.

The term appears to have achieved national prominence in 1840, when supporters of the American Democratic political party claimed during the 1840 United States presidential election that it stood for " Old Kinderhook ," a nickname for a Democratic presidential candidate, Martin Van Buren, a native of Kinderhook, New York, who was Andrew Jackson's protégé.

* November 7, 1840: U. S. presidential election, 1840: William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren

* 1840-United States presidential election, 1840

The journal supported Martin Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election ( he lost ) and James K. Polk in the 1844 election ( he won ).

In the 1840 presidential election, Crittenden again encouraged Kentucky Whigs to support the nomination of Henry Clay.

Crittenden was re-elected to the Senate in 1840 even though he was widely expected to be named to a position in Harrison's presidential cabinet.

Although William Henry Harrison was not one of them, he and the Whigs during the 1840 presidential election were the first to use a log cabin as a symbol to show North Americans that he was a man of the people.

He moved to Niagara Falls in 1836 and was a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840.

Forward was an active supporter of the Harrison-Tyler ticket in the U. S. presidential election, 1840.

Trousdale campaigned for the unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate, Martin Van Buren, in 1840.

In 1840, Jones was an elector for presidential candidate William Henry Harrison.

He was an elector for Hugh Lawson White in 1836, and campaigned for William Henry Harrison and Henry Clay in the presidential elections of 1840 and 1844, respectively.

One of his first artistic opportunities came when he painted a banner for the presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison in 1840.

He was the principal political advisor to the prominent New York politician William H. Seward and was instrumental in the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison ( 1840 ), Henry Clay ( 1844 ), Zachary Taylor ( 1848 ), Winfield Scott ( 1852 ), John Charles Frémont ( 1856 ) and Abraham Lincoln ( 1860 ).

Weed then put the power of the New York Whig party behind William Henry Harrison's presidential bid in 1840.