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She contested the elections of 2008 from Ershad's Jatiya Party again but lost her seat in a controversial seat sharing deal against the party's ally Awami League.
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She played Serena in the final, which was the first Grand Slam singles final contested by two sisters during the open era.
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She unsuccessfully contested the Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency at the 1983 Election.
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She contested the parliamentary seat of Cheadle at the 1987 General Election she finished in third place some 25, 000 votes behind the sitting Conservative MP Stephen Day.
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She contested the constituency again at the February 1982 general election, but saw her vote drop and once again failed to be elected.
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She easily won her party's nomination, and eventually got 40 % of the votes in the first round of the presidential elections, and 51. 6 % in the second, thus defeating the Centre Party's Esko Aho and becoming the 11th president of Finland.
She was defeated by a 3-1 margin in the elections of November 2007 by Philip Fawcett.
She organised mock elections at the school, in which she stood as the Labour candidate.
She was the first female member of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving from 18 November 1990 until April 1992 after having been elected in the first multi-party elections in 1990 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
She won the by-election, on 4 May, with a majority of 3, 311 votes and has held the seat there since, winning in the 2001 and 2005 general elections.
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She was reelected to the European Parliament in the 2009 European Parliament elections with the second highest tally of votes in Finland after Timo Soini.
She led the campaign to success and FPTP remains the system used in UK parliamentary elections.
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She soon became strongly unpopular among the electorate and had to leave office after less than one year, following the Socialists ' poor showing in 1992's regional elections.
She was elected for that constituency in 2002 and re-elected at the subsequent elections in 2005 and 2009.
She lost this seat in 2005 elections.
She has never lost an election in 35 years as an elected official, and in the 2006 midterm senatorial elections, Snowe won with a reported 73. 99 % of votes.
She has served as the acting head of state of Georgia twice ; the first time from 23 November 2003 to 25 January 2004 in the wake of Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation during the Rose Revolution, and again from 25 November 2007 to 20 January 2008, when Mikheil Saakashvili stepped down to rerun in the early presidential elections.
" She left the UCG in 2002, forming an opposition party called the Burjanadze-Democrats to fight the November 2003 parliamentary elections.
She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1991 by John Major after delivering " a spectacular victory " in Westminster for the Conservatives in the 1990 elections.
She defeated eight other Republicans in the 1978 primary elections to replace retiring Republican James B. Pearson and then defeated former Democratic Congressman Bill Roy ( who narrowly lost a previous election bid to Kansas's junior senator, Bob Dole, in 1974 ) in the general election.
She has been elected to five separate parliamentary constituencies in the general elections of 1991, 1996 and 2001.
She was re-elected to the Second Dáil in the elections of 1921.
She was re-elected in the new riding of Edmonton West in the 1997 and 2000 elections, despite the Liberals ' general unpopularity in Alberta.
She decided to run for President of Serbia in the Serbian presidential elections, 2004, despite her cousin Alexander's objections, stating that the Royal Family should stay out of politics.
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