While the Republicans were well organized at the state and local levels, the Federalists were disorganized, and suffered a bitter split between their two major leaders, President Adams and Alexander Hamilton.

In the 1912 presidential elections, because of the split votes amongst Republicans in most states, Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson was elected as president.

The Republicans, however, reclaimed the council majority in the 2007 General Elections due to a split Democratic Party in the mayor's race.

The split in the Radical party over Boulangism weakened his hand, and its collapse meant that moderate Republicans did not need his help.

The Official split of Catholic Church and State (" Séparation de l ' Eglise et de l ' Etat ") took place in 1905, and this major reform emphazises the Laicist and anti-clericalist mood of French Radical Republicans in this period.

Following the November 2, 2004, elections, the 50-member Senate was evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.

The split resulted from a vote at the first IRA Convention where a two-thirds majority voted that Republicans should take their seats if elected to the British, Irish or Northern Ireland Parliaments.

After the 2000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President Al Gore's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush took office and Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the majority once again.

For example, Tennessee ’ s Populist Party was demoralized by a diminishing membership, and puzzled and split by the dilemma of whether to fight the state-level enemy ( the Democrats ) or the national foe ( the Republicans and Wall Street ).

The Second Party System began when the Democratic-Republicans split into Jacksonian Democrats ( the predecessor of the modern Democratic Party ) and National Republicans ( later to become Whigs ).

The Republicans split from the CSU / CDU over this move.

Eventually, extravagant government spending and widespread corruption caused the Republicans to split into two factions: the " Minstrels ", who were mostly carpetbaggers, and the " Brindle Tails ", who were mostly Scalawags.

He became the first Republican elected president of the Senate in 118 years in November 1992, but agreed to serve only one year instead of the usual two, as a compromise between Republicans and Democrats who were evenly split in the Senate that year.

After the 1995 elections resulted in a 20 – 20 split between Democrats and Republicans in the State Senate, Goode seriously considered voting with the Republicans on organizing the chamber.

The split of the Republicans and Know Nothings made it difficult to defeat the united Democrats and Packer swept into office.

Republican Senator Pam Galloway, who faced a 2012 recall election, resigned on March 16, 2012 amid " significant challenges " within her family ; thereby leaving the Senate evenly split between Republicans and Democrats.

In 1953, when the RPF group split ( and Charles de Gaulle supposedly retired ), Chaban-Delmas became head of the Union of Republicans for Social Action and president of the National Centre of Social Republicans party.

By the 1880s, the state's Democrats had an unwritten agreement with the state's Republicans whereby Republicans would split presidential patronage of Republican presidencies with the Democrats so long as the Democrats allowed them continued influence in state affairs.

In 1992 and 1996, when the Democratic ticket consisted of two Southerners, ( Bill Clinton and Al Gore ), the Democrats and Republicans split the region.

Philip La Follette and the new Wisconsin Progressive Party, which split from the Republicans in 1934, won the election.

A faction of the Republican party, the Liberal Republicans, bolted in 1872, publicly denounced the political patronage system known as Grantism and demanded amnesty for Confederate soldiers.

The " Liberal Republicans " of 1872 shared the same outlook except they were especially opposed to the corruption they saw around President Grant, and believed that the goals had been achieved so that the federal intervention could now end.

When the Second Empire was swept away by the German War of 1870-1871, the people, in disgust at the Bonapartists and its fear of the Republicans, chose a great many royalists to represent it in the Assembly which met in Bordeaux on 12 February 1872.

In 1872, he joined the Liberal Republican Party which had been started by reformist Republicans such as Horace Greeley.

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.

Finally in 1872, the Liberal Republicans, most of them ex-radicals, ran a presidential campaign, and won the support of the Democratic Party for their ticket.

By 1872 the Liberal Republicans thought that Reconstruction had succeeded and should end.

Liberal Republicans ( in 1872 ) and Democrats argued the Radical Republicans were corrupt by the acts of accepting bribes ( notably during the Grant Administration ).

Most of the Republicans who felt this way became opponents of Grant and entered the Liberal Republican camp in 1872.

Carr did not win an absolute majority of the vote, perhaps foreshadowing the 1894 election, in which Democrats lost control of the legislature to an electoral fusion of Populists and Republicans, and the 1896 election, in which Democrats lost the governor's race for the first time since 1872.

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 Louisiana, Republican governor Henry Clay Warmoth defected to the Liberal Republicans ( a group that opposed Reconstruction ) in 1872.

In 1872 he was among the Republicans opposed to President Ulysses S. Grant who joined the short-lived Liberal Republican Party.

Fenton ( center ) is among the conspiratorial Liberal Republicans in this Harper's Weekly cartoon of March 16, 1872.

" Charles Eliot Norton, E. L. Godkin, and the Liberal Republicans of 1872 " American Nineteenth Century History 2001 2 ( 1 ): 53-74.

" The Liberal Republicans of 1872 in Historiographical Perspective ," The Journal of American History, Vol.

When election disputes occurred during the Alabama state elections in 1872 ; both state Democrats and Republicans appealed to U. S. Attorney General Williams for settlement.

On December 12, 1872 President Grant and George Henry Williams peacefully settled the disputed Alabama state elections between the Democrats and Republicans by issueing five resolutions to Governor David P. Lewis.

In 1872 Republicans dissatisfied with President Ulysses S. Grant formed the Liberal Republican Party and had a joint presidential campaign with the Democrats.

* 1872 – Republicans in frustration with the Grant administration formed the Liberal Republican Party and joined the Democratic Party.

:" The Democrats had won a signal victory, obtaining control of the next House of Representatives which would stand Democrats 168, Liberals and Independents 14, Republicans 108 as against the two-thirds Republican majority secured by the election of 1872.