The Republicans must hold a primary under the county unit system -- a system which the party opposes in its platform.

The Republicans managed to hold out in Madrid, despite a Nationalist assault in November 1936, and frustrated subsequent offensives against the capital at Jarama and Guadalajara in 1937.

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.

Gingrich's hold on the leadership was weakened significantly by that and several other controversies, as he faced a caucus revolt in 1997, and after the Republicans lost House seats in 1998 ( although retaining a majority ) he did not stand for a third term as Speaker.

Republicans hold every county-wide elected office.

Republicans hold six of the eight seats on the Board of Supervisors as well as the offices of County Sheriff and Clerk of the Court.

Republicans hold two of the three U. S. Congressional seats ( VA-1 and VA-10 ).

Republicans hold a 10 to 2 majority on the county council.

Republicans hold the commissioner majority while Democrats hold all county row offices.

Republicans hold all but four of the elected positions in the county.

Republicans hold all but two of the elected positions in the county.

Republicans hold all but two of the elected positions in the county.

Republicans hold all of the elected positions in the county.

Republicans hold all but two of the elected positions in the county.

Republicans hold all but three of the elected positions in the county.

Republicans hold all but one of the elected positions in the county.

Every summer, Irish Republicans of various political and paramilitary groupings hold commemorations at Tone's grave in Bodenstown, County Kildare.

** Monarchy denies the people a basic right – Republicans believe that it should be a fundamental right of the people of any nation to elect their head of state and for every citizen to be eligible to hold that office.

She was the first Democrat to hold the district for more than one term in over 50 years ( the district, known as the 11th from its formation in 1943 until 1953, the 13th from 1953 to 1975 and the 19th from 1975 to 1993, had been held by Republicans from 1947 until Walter Capps was sworn in in 1997 ).

As of 2011, Republicans hold a majority of seats in the Senate with 26 ; Democrats hold 12 seats.

As of 2011, Republicans hold a majority of seats in the House of Representatives with 63, and Democrats hold the remaining 47 seats.

* 1995 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U. S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

The county is generally considered a " red county ," with Republicans usually outvoting Democrats in most statewide and national offices ( for instance, in 2004 George W. Bush defeated John Kerry in Cattaraugus County by a 60-40 margin ) though Bill Clinton won the Cattaraugus County very narrowly in 1996.

Republicans control the vast majority of state, county and municipal elected offices in Lancaster County.

While Republicans have controlled the commissioner majority most of the time and continue to control most county row offices, Democrats have become more competitive in Berks in recent years.

In 2002, Republicans Diana Linnenbringer, Dennis Thornsberry and Barbara Shackelford ( now Barbara Thomas ) were elected to the offices of county clerk, western district county commissioner, and county treasurer, defeating Democrats in those offices.

All county-level offices are held by Republicans and have been for decades.

Bannock County routinely elects more Democrats than Republicans to county-level offices.

In 1988, White County elected virtually an entire slate of Republicans to county offices.

However, through the years Republicans occasionally have been able to win offices.

For example, in the elections of 1894, a coalition of Populists and Republicans led by Populist Marion Butler swept state and local offices in North Carolina, and the coalition would go on to elect Republican Daniel Lindsay Russell as Governor in 1896.

Harris was not invited ; Republicans said the tour was only for nominees to statewide offices.

Scholars Diane Blair and Jay L. Barth continue: “ As long as Rockefeller led the Arkansas Republicans, the party had a progressive, reformist cast, and those whom Rockefeller had brought into the party continued to dominate party offices and shape presidential preferences until 1980 ,” when the nomination and election of Ronald W. Reagan of California as president and Frank D. White as governor moved power within the state GOP “ sharply to the right .” Ultimately the growth of the Republican Party was slower in Arkansas than in the other southern states in the post-segregation era.

Although he registered as a Democrat, Cohn supported most of the Republican presidents of his time and Republicans in major offices across New York.

Some 117 Republicans were nominated, elected, or appointed to the most lucrative and important state executive positions, judgeships, and federal legislative and judicial offices between 1868 and 1881.

In late 1994, after Republicans attained a majority in the House, they announced plans to rescind funding for 28 " legislative service organizations " which received taxpayer funding and occupied offices at the Capitol, including the CBC.

In Oklahoma Hoover did even better and trounced Smith with 63. 7 % of the vote and many Oklahoma Republicans won state offices due to his coattails, including seats on the Oklahoma Supreme Court, a near majority in the Oklahoma House, and considerable gains in the Oklahoma Senate.

In all, Republicans captured four of the seven statewide constitutional offices in 2003 ; Trey Grayson was elected Secretary of State and Richie Farmer was elected Commissioner of Agriculture.

The Democrats and Republicans fought over control of offices, which were the rewards for party activists, as well as major economic issues.

He was governor during the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, which occurred two days after the election in which Republicans won most of the offices in the city: the mayor and two-thirds of the aldermen were white, but Democratic Party white supremacists had planned to overthrow the government if they lost.

While some Populists disliked what they saw as a compromise made on some of their core beliefs, Butler saw short-term success, as the Populists and Republicans swept North Carolina Elected offices in the Election of 1894.

In late March, Republicans Register and Shaw occupied their offices in the Colfax courthouse.