Five per cent of the voters in each county must sign petitions requesting that the Republicans be allowed to place names of candidates on the general election ballot, or 2

Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.

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.

This campaign featured Republicans who voted for Bush in the 2000 election giving their personal reasons for voting for Kerry in 2004.

A 2007 study looked at the introduction of Fox News into local U. S. markets between 1996 and 2000, and found that in the 2000 presidential election " Republicans gained 0. 4 to 0. 7 percentage points in the towns that broadcast Fox News ".

On December 8, 1980, one month after the election of Ronald Reagan brought Republicans back to power in Washington, he switched his party affiliation from Independent to Republican.

When urgent telegrams from Republicans begged for Army help to put down the violence by paramilitary groups at election time, he told his Attorney General that, " the whole public is tired of these annual autumnal outbreaks in the South ," insisting that state militias should handle the problems, not the Army.

Taft commented as follows on the state of his party after the election, "... it behooves the Republicans to gather again to the party standard and pledge anew their faith in their party's principles and to organize again to defend the constitutional government handed down to us by our fathers.

Even after the election of Bobby Sands as MP for Fermanagh / South Tyrone, a part of the mass mobilization associated with the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike by republican prisoners in the H blocks of the Maze prison ( known as Long Kesh by Republicans ), Adams was cautious about the level of political involvement by Sinn Féin.

When Hayes appeared to have narrowly lost the election, the Republicans launched recount efforts.

The election of 1878 brought no significant opposition to Garfield's seat in the House, though two potential obstacles existed: the Greenback Party put up a candidate, Judge Tuttle ; and the district had been re-shuffled by the Democrats in an attempt to weaken the Republicans ' hold.

It was a long, bitter re-match of the 1796 election between the pro-French and pro-decentralization Republicans under Jefferson and Aaron Burr, against incumbent Adams and Charles Pinckney's pro-British and pro-centralization Federalists.

With the two parties tied 65 – 65 in the Electoral College, the last state to vote, South Carolina, chose eight Republicans, giving the election to Jefferson and Burr.

Although the election of 1800 had given majority control of the House of Representatives to the Republicans by 103 seats to 39, the presidential election would be decided by the outgoing House, which had been elected in the Federalist landslide of 1798 and was controlled by the Federalists, 60 seats to 46.

Democratic leaders hoped that the radical Republicans would put forth a ticket in the election.

Before the election, the War Democrats joined the Republicans to form the National Union Party.

The United States presidential election of 1880 was largely seen as a referendum on the end of Reconstruction in Southern states carried out by the Republicans.

Republicans made O ' Neill the target of their election campaigns in 1980 and 1982 ; nevertheless, Democrats managed to retain their majorities in both years.

In 1997, several Republican Congressional leaders tried to force Speaker Newt Gingrich to resign ; however Gingrich refused since that would have required a new election for Speaker, which could led to the possibility that Democrats — along with dissenting Republicans — would vote for the Democrat Dick Gephardt ( then Minority Leader ) as Speaker.

Sometimes, however, the Speaker will play a big role even when they belong to the same party as the President, such as when Speaker Nancy Pelosi played a role in continuing the push for health care reform during the presidency of fellow Democrat Barack Obama ; subsequently the Republicans targeted her in the 2010 midterm election.

In the 1952 general election Republicans won a majority in both House and Senate.

The election of 1866 decisively changed the balance of power, giving the Republicans two-thirds majorities in both houses of Congress, and enough votes to overcome Johnson's vetoes.

Concerned that President Johnson viewed Congress as an " illegal body " and was attempting to overthrow the government, Republicans in Congress took control of Reconstruction policies after the election of 1866.

The efforts to renew the Bank's charter put the institution at the center of the general election of 1832, in which BUS president Nicholas Biddle and pro-Bank National Republicans clashed with the " hard-money " Andrew Jackson administration and eastern banking interests in the Bank War.

At the same time, Wesley attacked the determinism that he claimed characterized unconditional election and maintained a belief in the ability to lose salvation.

He was attacked by the followers of Jackson, who accused him of being a partner to a " corrupt bargain " to obtain Clay's support in the election and then appoint him Secretary of State.

In 1127, William Clito, a potential claimant to the English throne, seemed likely to become the Count of Flanders ; Stephen was sent by the king on a mission to prevent this, and in the aftermath of his successful election, William Clito attacked Stephen's lands in neighbouring Boulogne in retaliation.

Some questioned the wisdom of incorporating traditional chiefs and the degree to which these traditional leaders would be committed to the district assembly idea, while others attacked the election guidelines as undemocratic and, therefore, as contributing to a culture of silence in Ghana.

In 1146 an angry mob, displeased with Murdac's role in opposing the election of William FitzHerbert to the archbishopric of York, attacked the abbey and burnt down all but the church and some surrounding buildings.

This echoed his attacks on Major's government which he had made before the 1992 election while still shadow chancellor, most memorably when he attacked Tory plans for cutting income tax to 20 % as " irresponsible " and joked at a Labour Party rally in Sheffield that the Tories would have a box office disaster with " Honey, I Shrunk the Economy "-in reference to the recent Disney motion picture Honey, I Shrunk the Kids-mocking the recession which was plaguing the British economy at the time.

In the same speech, Smith also attacked the Tories ' broken election promises ( in particular Lamont's recent Budget decision to impose VAT on domestic energy bills )-claiming he possessed the last copy of a 1992 policy document " to escape the Central Office shredder ".

For example, in the 1997 federal election, Bloc Québécois MP Suzanne Tremblay attacked Charest by saying, " First, let's recall who Jean Charest really is ... his real name is John, that's what's on his birth certificate, not Jean.

Conservative leader Edward Michener attacked the government's speech from the throne for failing to commit itself on railway policy and attacked Sifton for failing to call a general election or seek the confidence of the legislature during his first half year in office.

The Liberal Party was attacked by the opposition parties for failing to keep many of the promises that the party campaigned on in the 1993 federal election.

" In 1990, he attacked the opposition presidential candidate Mary Robinson on a radio show, accusing her of " having a new-found interest in her family " for the purposes of her election campaign.

Joseph Smith vehemently denied Bennett's account, speculating that Boggs — no longer governor, but campaigning for state senate — was attacked by an election opponent.

Joseph Smith vehemently denied Bennett's account, speculating that Boggs — no longer governor, but campaigning for state senate — was attacked by an election opponent.

Despite being attacked as a liberal, Sanford defeated Broyhill by three percentage points in the November election.

In 1987, Chamblain allegedly headed government death squads that attacked voters at the Haitian presidential election, 1987, causing it to be cancelled ; the election was to permit transition to civilian rule.

The plan was attacked by the PLQ and ADQ as being " improvised " since it was only presented near the beginning of the election.

The race was considered too close to call until the week before the election, when the Casey campaign staff, led by Carville, launched the now infamous " guru ad " which attacked Scranton's practice of transcendental meditation.

Federalists, who controlled the Massachustts legislature, attacked his statements in support of Jefferson, and he lost the election to Christopher Gore amid a complete Federalist takeover of the Massachusetts government ( even though the outgoing Jefferson administration repealed the embargo before to the election took place ).

He also verbally attacked fellow Tasmanian Liberal Senator Eric Abetz, blaming him for the poor election result in Tasmania, and said the Liberal Party in Tasmania was " battling to stay relevant ".

The lookalike would dress like bin Laden, accompany them in their helicopter to various election meetings, share the stage with them and make speeches that attacked the United States for its alleged anti-Muslim activities.

One example of an attack ad backfiring was during the 1993 federal election in Canada when the Progressive Conservative Party attacked Liberal Party leader Jean Chrétien by appearing to many to implicitly mock his Bell's Palsy partial facial paralysis.