DR Congo had a transitional government in July 2003 until the election was over.

New Prime Minister Tillman Thomas formed a government after narrowly losing by one seat to Mitchell's NNP in the November 2003 election.

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

Coleman was a candidate for governor in the 2003 California recall election.

The November 2003 party convention was held in Dresden and decided the election platform for the 2004 European Parliament elections.

( See Japan general election, 2003 ) Likewise, that year, the LDP won the election, even though it suffered setbacks from the new opposition party, the liberal and social-democratic Democratic Party ( DPJ ).

He was Engler's running mate in the 1998 election and served from 1999 to 2003.

See 2003 Mauritania election

Mauritania's presidential election, its third since adopting the democratic process in 1992, took place on November 7, 2003.

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.

In May 2003 Bracks broke an election promise and announced that the proposed Scoresby Freeway in Melbourne's eastern suburbs would be a tollway rather than a freeway, as promised at the 2002 elections.

The fact that he had only recently left his position as IDF Chief of Staff prevented him from participating in the 2003 election ( by which time Mofaz had joined Sharon's Likud ).

After her narrow election victory in the first election, Halonen's approval ratings rose and reached a peak of 88 % in December 2003.

On 1 June 2011, Belgium matched the record for time taken to form a new democratic government after an election, at 353 days, held until then by Cambodia in 2003 – 2004.

After resignation of Laar, Reform Party and Estonian Centre Party formed a coalition that lasted until next parliamentary election, 2003.

In the Dutch general election of 2003 the VVD gained four seats, making a total of twenty-eight.

In the following figure one can see the election results of the provincial election of 2003, 2007 and 2011 per province.

In the 2003 elections, Wouter Bos managed to regain almost all seats lost in the previous election, and the PvdA was once again the second largest party of the Netherlands, only slightly smaller than the CDA.

Following the 2003 election, the party was left in opposition.

In the January 2003 general election, the LPF shrank to 5. 7 % support and eight seats.

The Assembly elections of May 2003 saw the party's representation drop from 17 to 12, with the gains of the 1999 election falling again to Labour and the party's share of the vote declining to 21 %.

Ieuan Wyn Jones, who had resigned from his dual role as president and Assembly group leader following the losses in the 2003 Assembly election, was re-elected in the latter role.

In 2003, the centenary of Orwell's birth resulted in biographies by Gordon Bowker and D. J. Taylor, both academics and writers in the United Kingdom.

Latvia's state budget was balanced in 1997 but the 1998 Russian financial crisis resulted in large deficits, which were reduced from 4 % of GDP in 1999 to 1. 8 % in 2003.

In 2003, a series of phone calls between band members resulted in some low-key rehearsals, and soon to a decision to reunite.

In 2003, a nightclub fire in West Warwick claimed one hundred lives and resulted in nearly twice as many injured, and caught national attention.

The 2003 Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time article's inclusion of only two female musicians resulted in Venus Zine answering with their own list entitled, " The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time ".

According to an October 23, 2003 United Nations report, the smuggling and exportation of coltan has helped fuel the war in the Congo, a crisis that has resulted in approximately 5. 4 million deaths since 1998 – making it the world ’ s deadliest documented conflict since World War II.

Instead, ISOC gained the right to add new versions to the NFS protocol, which resulted in IETF specifying NFS version 4 in 2003.

These were brought about in late 2003 by the Parmalat scandal which caused the parent company to collapse and resulted in the club operating in controlled administration until January 2007.

The October 2003 provincial election resulted in the newly elected PC government announcing joint federal-provincial funding for a study of the concept, which was promptly derided by The Economist.

Non-government sanctioned re-introduction of Eurasian beaver ( Castor fiber ) in Spain around 2003 has resulted in tell-tale beaver sign documented on a 60 km stretch on the lower course of the Aragon River and the area adjoining the Ebro River in Aragon, Spain.

Since its inception in 2003, these attacks have resulted in the death and maiming of scores of Iranian civilians and government officials.

Construction of Stone Canyon Preserve, one of the final residential tract developments in the north of the city, commenced in 2003 as part of a complicated agreement between Pomona College and the City of Claremont which resulted in the creation of the Wilderness Park.

The 1999 storm resulted in eleven fatalities, while the 2003 storm resulted in eight fatalities.

Johansen's second DeCSS trial began in Oslo on 2 December 2003, and resulted in an acquittal on 22 December 2003.

The Global Education Initiative ( GEI ), launched during the Annual Meeting in 2003, brought together international IT companies and governments in Jordan, Egypt and India which has resulted in new personal computer hardware in the classrooms and more local teachers trained in e-learning.

In 2003 Deep Junior played a six-game match against Garry Kasparov that resulted in a 3-3 tie.

The for the Bush administration's conceptual War on Terror, which resulted in the 2001 Afghanistan war and the 2003 Iraq war, was the September 11 attacks in 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and the apparently intended attack on the United States Capitol in Washington, D. C.

In 2003, the documentary Living with Michael Jackson resulted in the threat of legal action by Michael Jackson.

In her 2003 Kenneth Myer Lecture at the National Library of Australia she talked about " modernity's paradox " in which increasing wealth and opportunity has also resulted in increased social differences and more problems for children and youth, including increases in asthma, obesity, diabetes, child abuse, binge-drinking, drug abuse and mental health problems.

In 2003, São Paulo made a deal with Spanish amateur side Santangelo Club Aficionado that resulted in the Spanish club changing its name to São Paulo Madrid.

Despite solid songwriting and album production, they never scored a true " hit ", which eventually resulted in the band's breakup in September 2003.

The reduction of national industry effected during the 1990s ( consequence of the affordability of imports made possible by the artificially low foreign currency exchange ), combined with the austerity economic policies put into place in the late 1990s and early 2000s in order to service the foreign debt and satisfy foreign creditors, had resulted by 2003 in a poverty rate of slightly over 50 %.

In 2003 the issue of the limitation of the right of a bishop to ordain candidates of his choice gave rise to a differences of opinions which resulted in two groups: a " traditional " and a more " liberal " one.