He won election to the state legislature ; though he ran as a Whig, many Democrats favored him over a more powerful Whig opponent.

Though the Republican legislative candidates won more popular votes, the Democrats won more seats, and the legislature re-elected Douglas to the Senate.

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

After 16 years of the Christian-Liberal coalition, led by Helmut Kohl, the Social Democrats together with the Greens won the elections of 1998.

The Democrats spread the word of this insult in the days before the election, and Cleveland narrowly won all four of the swing states, including New York by just over one thousand votes.

However, his iron rule of the House was broken, and Cannon lost the Speakership when the Democrats won a majority later that same year.

The Democrats ( DP ) won 27 seats with the three remaining seats going to minor parties and an independent.

Her retirement coincided with the ending of her party's federal parliamentary representation ; the Democrats ' support had collapsed after 2002 and they won no seats at the 2004 and 2007 half-senate elections.

The Democrats won the election by a large margin: Pierce won 27 of the 31 states including Scott's home state of Virginia.

In 1945, O ' Dwyer received the nomination of the Tammany Hall Democrats and easily won the mayoral election.

At the same time she never won over many old-guard " Daley Democrats " with whom she contended for control of the fading Cook County Democratic Party organization.

Mark Oaten had previously won the seat for the Liberal Democrats during the 1997 general election in which he defeated Gerry Malone, a Health Minister in John Major's Conservative Government.

Although his answers during the debates were often general, many Democrats and Republicans conceded that Perot won at least the first debate.

In the Senate, Thurman served on the Judiciary Committee, becoming its chairman when the Democrats won control of the Senate in the 46th Congress.

In the 2006 midterm elections, the Democrats won majority of the House.

The Democrats won a majority of seats in the 2006 midterm elections.

Hollings ' wit and experience, as well as his call for a budget freeze, won him some positive attention, but his relatively conservative record alienated liberal Democrats, and he was never really noticed in a field dominated by Walter Mondale, John Glenn and Gary Hart.

Labour won 28. 7 % of the vote, Liberal Democrats 21. 1 %, the Green Party 3. 2 %, United Kingdom Independence Party 1. 9 %, and the Legalise Cannabis Alliance 0. 7 %.

An important sign of the anti-navalist mood of the country was the Reichstag elections of 1928 where one of the main issues was the " pocket battleship " programme, and the Social Democrats won the largest number of votes on a platform of killing the plan to build " pocket battleships ", and used the money on social programs instead.

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.

In statewide elections it has gone for Democrats both Eliot Spitzer and Hillary Clinton won it in 2006 with over 60 % of the vote.

Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee won most of the primaries, but he was unpopular with President Truman and other prominent Democrats, who saw him as a party maverick who could not be trusted.

In the 1954 election, Johnson was re-elected to the Senate, and since the Democrats won the majority in the Senate, Johnson became majority leader.

Their power continued to grow in the South ; more than 10 years after the end of the war, Democrats regained political power in every state of the former Confederacy and began to reassert white supremacy.

He stated that " the death of both parties is all but certain ; the Democrats, because every idea they have brought forward in the past 12 years is dead ; and the Republicans, because its ideas have been realized.

South Carolina and other states of the Deep South had supported the Democrats in every national election from the end of Reconstruction, when white Democrats re-established political control in the South, to 1960.

When the bill was returned to the House the Senate bill prevailed ; every Northern Whig still supported the proviso, but 22 northern Democrats voted with the South.

The Sweden Democrats are in favour of the traditional nuclear family and believe that every child should have " one father and one mother ", according to their website.

The Christian Democrats are represented in almost every municipality and region in Sweden.

" Helfin retorted, " The Senator from Arkansas can not remain leader of the Democrats and fight the Roman Catholics ' battle every time the issue is raised in this body.

The Prohibition Party has nominated a candidate for president in every election since 1872, and is thus the longest-lived American political party after the Democrats and Republicans.

By the late 1830s, the Jacksonian Democrats and the Whigs politically battled it out nationally and in every state.

The cordon sanitaire turned out to be counterproductive with the Centre Democrats winning 77 seats in the 1994 local elections and gaining representation in almost every city where it fielded a candidate.

Together the Scottish Labour Party, the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and the Scottish National Party eliminated every seat the Conservatives held in Scotland.

North Carolina Democrats condemned the legislature's " depraved villains, who take bribes every day ;" one local Republican officeholder complained, " I deeply regret the course of some of our friends in the Legislature as well as out of it in regard to financial matters, it is very embarrassing indeed.

Between 1864 and 1952, the Democrats went second every year ( except for 1888 ).

It is a region with one of the highest levels of support for the Democratic Party in the United States, with the majority of voters in every state voting for the Democrats in the 1992, 1996, 2004, and 2008 Presidential elections, and every state but New Hampshire voting for Al Gore in 2000.

The attack had the most fatalities of violent events following the disputed contest in 1872 between Republicans and Democrats for the Louisiana governor's office, in which both candidates claimed victory ( in fact, " every election Louisiana between 1868 and 1876 was marked by rampant violence and pervasive fraud .").

In September 2010, Kentucky. com reported that Chandler was one of several “ moderate Democrats facing tough re-election bids who are bucking the Obama administration and pushing to extend tax cuts at every income level .”

This was further expanded during the so-called " footnote policies " of the 1980s, where the Danish Social Democrats sought a political weakening of the NATO alliance, much like France, through a tactic of inserting footnotes containing reservations or objections into every NATO document that Denmark agreed upon.

The Twenty-first Amendment was introduced by the Fianna Fáil – Progressive Democrats coalition government of Bertie Ahern and was supported by every political party with representation in the Dáil ( the lower house of parliament ).

The Twenty-third Amendment was introduced by the Fianna Fáil – Progressive Democrats coalition government of Bertie Ahern and was supported by every major political party.

Despite every other party leader in the House of Commons opposing the bill, Bill C-391 passed second reading in the House of Commons in November 2009 by a vote of 164 to 137 due to 8 Liberal MPs, 12 New Democrats and one independent voting with the minority Conservative government.

New Jersey Republicans expressed dismay, and New Jersey Democrats and the leaders of just about every veterans group expressed outrage.

Democrats won by large margins in the region in every presidential election from 1876 to 1948 except for 1928, when candidate Al Smith, a Catholic and a New Yorker, ran on the Democratic ticket ; even in that election, the divided South provided Smith with nearly three-fourths of his electoral votes.