The APC, with its leader Siaka Stevens, narrowly won a small majority seats in Parliament over the SLPP in a closely contested 1967 Sierra Leone general election and Stevens was sworn in as Prime Minister of April 26, 1968.

In 1974, Kibaki, facing serious competition for his Doonholm Constituency seat from a Mrs. Jael Mbogo, whom he had only narrowly and controversially beaten for the seat in the 1969 elections, moved his political base from Nairobi to his rural home, Othaya, where he was subsequently elected as Member of Parliament.

He ran for Parliament for the first time in 1974 in the Fort George constituency and was narrowly defeated by Dean Lindo, losing by 46 votes.

Peters himself narrowly lost his longstanding hold on Tauranga to National MP Bob Clarkson, but New Zealand First did well enough to receive seven seats ( down from 13 in 2002 ), allowing Peters to remain in Parliament as a list MP.

The current MSP is Michael Matheson, who won the 2007 Scottish Parliament General Election by a margin of just 3 %, less than the number of spoilt ballot papers, narrowly defeating his rival, Dennis Goldie, former Provost and well known for his refusal to back the Labour Party's pro-gay rights stance.

He narrowly beat his nearest opponent, Maxime Carlot Korman, another former Vanuatu Prime Minister and the leader of the Vanuatu Republican Party, who captured 25 votes in Parliament.

In 1977, Robinson was elected as a councillor to the Castlereagh Borough Council in Dundonald, Belfast and in 1979 he became the youngest serving Member of Parliament ( MP ) when he was narrowly elected as MP for Belfast East.

At the 1987 general election, he was elected as member of Parliament for Clwyd South West, narrowly beating the Conservative incumbent Robert Harvey.

Similar legislation was again brought forward in the form of private member's bill C-391 during the 40th Parliament but was narrowly defeated on September 22, 2010.

However the Labour Party was narrowly defeated by the SNP with the Nationalists winning 47 seats to Labour's 46, leaving the SNP short of an overall majority in the Parliament.

He attempted to return to Parliament in the 1945 election from a seat in Victoria, British Columbia, but lost narrowly to the Liberal candidate.

He had been narrowly elected as a Conservative to the London County Council in 1958 in Lewisham North, and was then selected to stand for Parliament in the same seat.

She had previously contested the 1999 European Parliament election in the same constituency ( then called Connacht – Ulster ), but had narrowly failed to be elected, losing out to Dana Rosemary Scallon for the third seat in the constituency.

In the 1984 federal election, he ran for Parliament for Saint-Léonard — Anjou narrowly defeating the Progressive Conservative candidate.

Edward Natapei of the Vanuaku Pati narrowly defeated his nearest opponent, Maxime Carlot Korman, leader of the Vanuatu Republican Party, with 27 votes to 25 votes in Parliament in a vote three weeks later on 22 September, succeeding Lini as Prime Minister.

Returning to England, Loder was narrowly elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Leicester East in 1924, a seat he held until being defeated in the 1929 General Election.

In the provincial election of 1999, Cunningham narrowly defeated New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) Marion Boyd in the redistributed riding of London North Centre ( the Harris government had previously reduced the number of provincial ridings from 130 to 103, forcing many MPPs to run against one another ).

Later that year, she became pregnant with her first child, and her husband campaigned for a seat in Parliament, narrowly losing.

In the 1996 election, however, the Coalition narrowly missed out on entering Parliament.

In the 1999 elections ACT ranked her tenth on its party list, and she narrowly missed out on a seat in Parliament.

Goudie was first elected to Parliament in the 2002 elections, narrowly winning the seat of Coromandel by defeating Labour candidate Max Purnell and pushing incumbent Green MP Jeanette Fitzsimons into third place.

Following the election of John Key as the National Party leader in November 2006, Mapp became more prominent within the National Party caucus, narrowly missing out on a front-bench position in Parliament.

Later that year the party returned two members of the European Parliament, narrowly missing out on sending a third.

In the first MMP elections he narrowly missed out on entering Parliament as a list MP.

The Bahamian Parliament approved legislation in 1993 that extended most Freeport tax and duty exemptions through 2054.

Nonconformist members and members from constituencies which would not have been affected by the Revised Book were only exercising their full legal rights in throwing out a Measure which was approved by the majority of English Members of Parliament.

If a Committee manages to adopt a joint text, it then has to be approved in a third reading by both the Council and Parliament or the proposal is abandoned.

But if the joint conciliation text is not approved, the Parliament may adopt the budget definitively.

Gurgenidze was formally approved on the position and granted the trust of the Parliament of Georgia on November 22, 2007.

New Prime Minister and two Ministers Koba Subeliani and Maia Miminoshvili were approved on their positions on November 22, 2007 by a confidence vote of the Parliament of Georgia.

Parliament approved “ An Act to enable His Majesty to grant commissions to a certain number of foreign Protestants, who have served abroad as officers or engineers, to act and rank as officers or engineers in America only, under certain restrictions and regulations .” Earl of Loudoun, who as commander-in-chief of the forces in North America, was appointed colonel-in-chief of the regiment.

Once approved by Parliament, the bill was then presented to voters in a referendum, and approved by 64 % of those voting in 16 March 2003.

The President heads the executive branch and appoints the Cabinet ; Like many presidential democracies, each member of the cabinet need to be approved by the Parliament.

The Moldovan Parliament approved the country's membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States and the CIS charter on economic union in April 1994.

At first, Charles II opposed the alliance with the Dutch ruler — he preferred that Mary marry the heir to the French Throne, the Dauphin Louis, thus allying his realms with Catholic France and strengthening the odds of a Catholic successor in Britain ; but later, under pressure from Parliament and with a coalition with the Catholic French no longer politically favourable, he approved the union.

According to the constitution, the King's declaration of a state of emergency must be approved by a two-thirds majority of the lower house of the Parliament.

From the Drawing by S. Begg The Parliament Act 1911 eliminated the Lords ’ veto power over legislation approved by the House of Commons.

This in turn led to the new French constitution of the Fourth Republic approved on 27 October 1946 and the election of the first African members of Parliament in Paris.

Based on the commission's recommendations a constitution re-establishing a multi-party system was approved by the exclusive APC Parliament by a 60 % majority vote, becoming effective on 1 October 1991.

Based on that recommendation, a constitution was approved by Parliament in July 1991 and ratified by referendum in September ; it became effective on 1 October 1991.

In 2001, the Italian Parliament finally approved the legislation resolving the last open issues regarding the Slovenian minority in Italy.

The Statute of Autonomy is the basic organic institutional law, approved by the legislature of the community itself as well as by the Cortes Generales, the Spanish Parliament.

A recent example, is when a court ruled that it was illegal for local authority councils to hold prayers before undertaking the council business ( though part of the session ) and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government signed a Parliamentary Order approved by Parliament, to overrule the court and legally allow all local authorities to hold prayers at sessions.

In 2005 Parliament approved a proposal by the independent Elections and Boundaries Commission to increase the number of seats in the House of Representatives from 36 to 41.

The prime minister is appointed by the President and approved through a vote of confidence ( güvenoyu ) in the Parliament.

England ’ s declaration against " cruel and unusual punishments " was approved by Parliament in February 1689, and was read to King William III and his wife Queen Mary II on the following day.

The Uruguayan constitution allows citizens to challenge laws approved by Parliament by use of a referendum or to propose changes to the Constitution by the use of a plebiscite.

The day after, both Houses of Parliament approved of the Address and Herbert Gladstone accepted a public funeral on behalf of the Gladstone family.