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

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.

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.

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.

A woman casts her vote in the second round of the French presidential election of 2007

In the national elections held in early months of 2008 the DPP won less than 25 % of the seats ( 38. 2 % vote share ) in the new Legislative Yuan while its presidential candidate, former Kaohsiung mayor Frank Hsieh, lost to KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou by a wide margin ( 41. 55 % vs. 58. 45 %).

Ellensburg leans toward supporting Democrats, giving then-Senator Barack Obama of Illinois 56. 3 percent of its total vote in the 2008 presidential election to 41. 5 percent for his Republican rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona.

The most recent Fine Gael presidential candidate, Gay Mitchell, finished fourth in the 2011 presidential election, with 6. 4 % of the vote.

Vinicio Cerezo, a civilian politician and the presidential candidate of the Christian Democracy Party, won the first election held under the new constitution with almost 70 % of the vote, and took office on January 14, 1986.

With almost 20 parties competing in the first round, the presidential election came down to a January 7, 1996 runoff in which PAN candidate Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen defeated Alfonso Portillo Cabrera of the FRG by just over 2 % of the vote.

On November 9, 2003, Óscar Berger, a former mayor of Guatemala city, won the presidential election with 38. 8 % of the vote.

The PLH claimed victory when its presidential candidates collectively outpolled the PNH candidate, Rafael Leonardo Callejas, who received 42 % of the total vote.

* 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $ 100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.

The Moral Majority was founded as being " pro-family ", " pro-life ", " pro-defense " and pro-Israel. The group is credited with delivering two thirds of the white, evangelical Christian vote to Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential election.

In the first open presidential elections in a quarter century, in December 1992, Moi won with 37 % of the vote, Matiba received 26 %, Mwai Kibaki ( of the mostly Kikuyu Democratic Party ) 19 %, and Odinga 18 %.

Charles Taylor won the 1997 presidential elections with 75. 33 percent of the vote, while the runner-up, Unity Party leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, received a mere 9. 58 percent of the vote.

Although the opposition campaign was hurt by the desire of the Mexican electorate for stability, following the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the intended PRI candidate, and the recent outbreak of hostilities in the state of Chiapas, Zedillo's share of the vote was the lowest official percentage for any PRI presidential candidate up to that time.

Roberto Madrazo, the presidential candidate, polled only 22. 3 percent of the vote, and the party ended up with only 121 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, a loss of more than half of what the party had obtained in 2003, and 38 Senate seats, a loss of 22.

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.

Despite his inelegant appearance — many in the audience thought him awkward and even ugly — Lincoln demonstrated an intellectual leadership that brought him into the front ranks of the party and into contention for the Republican presidential nomination.

In an attempt to blunt that reaction and reunite the Democratic party, presidential hopeful Stephen A. Douglas developed the Freeport Doctrine of popular sovereignty in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.

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.

The constitution limits holders of the presidential office to a maximum of two terms, and prevents the president from being a member of any political party.

Following the 1998 presidential election, Klerides tried to form a government of national unity, by including six ministers from Klerides ' Democratic Rally party, two ministers from the socialist EDEK, three from the Democratic Party ( who broke ranks with party leader Spyros Kyprianou ) and one from the United Democrats.

On 19 March, a constitutional referendum was voted on and passed reforming the laws surrounding the power and election of the presidency, limiting the presidency to two four-year terms, providing judicial supervision of elections, requiring the president to appoint a deputy, calling for a commission to draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election, and providing easier access to presidential elections by candidates ( 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature ).

* 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei ; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

He ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States in 1980, but was chosen by party nominee Ronald Reagan to be the vice presidential nominee, and the two were subsequently elected.

In the latest elections, which took place in 2011, Retired General Otto Pérez Molina of the Patriotic Party won the presidential election in a runoff against populist Manuel Baldizón of the LIDER party.

In parliamentary systems, the word " government " is used to refer to what in presidential systems would be the executive branch and to the governing party.

As the November 1985 election approached, the PLH could not settle on a presidential candidate and interpreted election law as permitting multiple candidates from any one party.

Some of the characteristics of a presidential system ( i. e., a strong dominant political figure with an executive answerable to them, not the legislature ) can also be found among absolute monarchies, parliamentary monarchies and single party ( e. g. Communist ) regimes, but in most cases of dictatorship, their stated constitutional models are applied in name only and not in political theory or practice.

Preliminary talks to set up conditions for official negotiations began between leading negotiators from both parties on July 10, and on July 22, the three party leaders met for the first time in Harare to express their support for a negotiated settlement of disputes arising out of the presidential and parliamentary elections.

Candidates from each party expressed opinions on both sides of the personal privacy issue, and Kemp rejected the Times inquiry as " beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate ".

Prominent businessman and later 3rd party presidential candidate Ross Perot was known to have called her an " egg roll " after it was revealed that she was Asian.

The presidential elections held in 1988 marked a watershed in Mexican politics, as they were the first serious threat to the party in power by an opposition candidate, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a defector from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) and son of former President Lazaro Cardenas, who was nominated by a broad coalition of leftist parties.

Van Buren's presidential victory represented a broader victory for Jackson and the party.

Though he did vote against the admission of Missouri as a slave state, and though he would be the nominated presidential candidate of the Free Soil Party, an anti-slavery political party, in 1848, there was no ambiguity in his position on the abolition of slavery during his term of office.

Prior to the 2000 election the media typically alternated which color represented which party each presidential election cycle.

In 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt declined to seek a third term, but allowed his political party to " draft " him as its presidential candidate and was subsequently elected to a third term.

Baptist pastor William Bell Riley, the founder and president of the World Christian Fundamentals Association, was instrumental in calling lawyer and three-time Democratic presidential nominee, former United States Secretary of State, and lifelong Presbyterian William Jennings Bryan to act as that organization's counsel.

* Job Harriman ( 1861-1925 ), vice presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America and founder of a utopian community

* 2011-Navy Seals under presidential order raid Al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, killing Bin Laden ; seize computers, Pakistan was not informed

A founder of the Minnesota Reform Party, Barkley ran for the U. S. House in 1992, a run inspired by Ross Perot's presidential campaign.

* Horace Greeley ( 1811 – 1872 ), unsuccessful U. S. presidential candidate 1872 ; founder of the New York Tribune

Arlette Laguiller has been its spokeswoman since 1973 and has run in each presidential election until 2012, when Nathalie Arthaud was the candidate, but Robert Barcia ( Hardy ) was its founder and central leader.

The split occurred when some members of the Reform Party, believing that party founder Ross Perot had rigged the party's 1996 presidential nomination for himself, walked out of the national convention.

* James M. Cox, 1920 Democratic presidential candidate, twice governor of Ohio, and founder of Cox Enterprises.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey, used the palace as a presidential residence during the summers and enacted some of his most important works here.

NAP founder Lenora Fulani campaigned as a Solidarity Party presidential candidate in 1988 and 1992.

Olympic athlete Bob Richards ( 1984 ), David Duke ( a founder of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and a future Louisiana state representative, 1988 ) and former Green Beret Bo Gritz ( 1992 ) were the Populist Party's only three presidential candidates.

" Working with founder Jeff Ayeroff, political director Hans Riemer led the effort to rebuild for the 2007-2008 presidential cycle before leaving the organization to become the youth director for Senator Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign.

* Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight. com-for 2008 presidential election prediction

Among the most famous current Sterling Professors are legal scholar Bruce Ackerman, Nobel Prize-winning biochemists Sidney Altman and Thomas Steitz, literary critic Harold Bloom, economist William Nordhaus, Judge Guido Calabresi, political scientist James C. Scott, political scientist Ian Shapiro, historian of China Jonathan Spence, medieval scholars R. Howard Bloch, Giuseppe Mazzotta, and María Rosa Menocal, historian of Ancient Greece and presidential advisor Donald Kagan, and Head Start founder Edward Zigler.

Three main candidates participated in the Peruvian presidential elections of 10 June 1962: Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, founder and leader of the APRA, future president Fernando Belaúnde, and former dictator Manuel A. Odría.

The company initial funding of $ 2 million came from a wide range of investors including President Bill Clinton's deputy chief of staff, Harold Ickes ; Alexander Gage, founder of TargetPost Consulting, who worked on the Bush 2004 campaign with Taylor ; Steve McMahon, media consultant and strategist for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign ; Rich Tarplin, a strategist for members of Congress ; and Linda Tarplin, a former senior staffer at the White House and Department of Health and Human Services under Presidents George H. W.

The party's founder, Moustapha Niasse, won 16. 8 % of the vote in the 2000 presidential election, coming in third place.

Watson has served on the boards of many academic journals and presidential foundations, such as the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, Harry S. Truman Foundation, Western Social Science Association, International Abraham Lincoln Journal, The Social Science Journal, and others and was the founder and editor of the journal, White House Studies.

A week before the 1992 presidential elections, JIL Church founder Eddie Villanueva claims divine guidance to endorse Fidel Ramos.

She is a founder, former president and the 2006 presidential candidate of the extinct Socialdemocratic Party ( in Spanish: Partido Socialdemócrata ).

Recent speakers have included Gloria Steinem ( activist and founder Ms. magazine ), Jill Bolte Taylor ( neuroanatomist and author My Stroke of Insight ), Kip Fulbeck ( artist, poet, filmmaker ), Penny Pritzker ' 77 ( Founder, Classic Residence by Hyatt ; National Finance Chair for the Obama presidential campaign ), Al Gore ( Nobel Laureate and former Vice President ), Marissa Mayer ( Vice President, Google ), Thomas L. Friedman ( author, The World is Flat, and Greg Mortensen ( author, Three Cups of Tea ).