On September 5, 2005, the National Elections Board of Ethiopia released the final election results, which confirmed that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front retained its control of the government, but showed that opposition parties had increased their share of parliamentary seats, from 12 to 176.

On September 5, 2005, the National Elections Board of Ethiopia released the final election results in which confirmed that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front retained its control of the government, but showed that opposition parties had increased their share of parliamentary seats, from 12 to 176.

In the snap elections in North Rhine-Westphalia a week later, the FDP not only crossed the threshold, but also increased its share of the votes to 2 percentage points higher than the previous state election.

Even the relationship with France improved, after the election of Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing as president, trade increased and the two countries exchanged diplomatic visits.

Partly due to the impact of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and to growing awareness of the threat of air pollution and acid rain to German forests (" Waldsterben "), the Greens increased their share of the vote to 8. 3 % in the 1987 federal election.

Despite the crises of the preceding electoral period, in the 2002 federal election, the Greens increased their total to 55 seats ( in a smaller parliament ) and 8. 6 %.

De Gaulle responded by calling a legislative election for 23 June, in which his UDR party increased their vote, and the protests faded away during the summer.

Although the party's share of first preference votes increased by some 22 % from 3. 84 % to 4. 69 % nationally in the 2007 general election, held on 24 May 2007, the party failed to increase the number of TDs returned.

Singapore was a part of Malaysia for two years ( 1963-65 ), but it ultimately was asked by Tunku to secede after increased racial tensions due to the election campaigns in 1964.

In the 1994 election, in spite of an anti-communist " Red Socks " campaign by the then-ruling Christian Democrats aimed at scaring off eastern communist voters, the PDS increased its vote to 4. 4 percent.

The election of Valentine was another sign of the increased influence the Roman nobility was having in the papal electoral process.

The new party directed its preferences to the Liberals, with the Menzies government re-elected with an increased majority at the 1955 election.

The Menzies government was able to exploit Labor's divisions over the Cold War and the American alliance, winning an increased majority at what would be Menzies ' last election, the 1963 election.

At the 24 February 1968 election, Askin increased his majority by six seats against Labor's Renshaw and an overall majority of 12 over the Labor Party and the two Independents.

In this election, the government increased its majority in parliament to 11 seats.

By the 1890s, support for the introduction of direct election for the Senate had substantially increased, and reformers worked on two fronts.

He won the election in March 2012 and will serve an increased, six-year term.

* Following the deadlock tie in the election of the Venetian Doge, the number of electors is increased from 40 to 41 in order to prevent such future occurrences.

The 1982 election was followed by the 1983 Westminster election, in which Sinn Féin's vote increased and Gerry Adams was elected, as an abstentionist, as MP for Belfast West.

The election in 1870 brought an increased level of criticism of Garfield for his failure to support higher tariffs, especially from the iron producers in his district.

Representation of the military increased by a large margin from the previous Congress ( 28 % of the delegates were PLA members ), and the election of more PLA members to the new Central Committee reflected this increase.

However the results at the 1929 general election were disappointing: the Liberals increased their support only to 60 or so seats, while Labour became the largest party for the first time.

On his election to the papacy, the size and magnificence of this building programme was increased to reflect his change in status.

He was re-elected in the new riding of Broadview — Greenwood in the 1979 federal election, and gained national prominence as the NDP's finance critic.

Besides many NDP supporters nationwide voting Liberal to ensure that the Conservatives would be defeated ( to avoid the vote-splitting of the 1988 election ), the Rae government's unpopularity was a major factor in the federal NDP's losses.

During the 2003 provincial election, Hampton argued that Rae was wrong to reverse the NDP's commitment to public auto insurance.

He was retained as the NDP's External Affairs Critic after the Progressive Conservatives won a second consecutive majority government in the 1988 federal election, and was also chosen as his party's spokesman for federal-provincial relations and the Constitution.

As Layton did not have a seat in the Commons, Blaikie also served as the NDP's parliamentary leader until the 2004 federal election.

It remains the NDP's worst result in a federal election since its formation and the only election where the party polled less than one million votes.

The charismatic and dynamic Lewis ran a strong election campaign that forced the Tories to promise to implement the NDP's rent control policies.

An ominous sign for the party came in the 1993 federal election, in which all of the NDP's Ontario MPs lost their seats.

The NDP's representation in the Legislature was again reduced to seven seats when Marilyn Churley resigned her seat to run in the 2006 federal election.

In response to the results of the 2003 election, the entire Saskatchewan Party caucus voted in favour of the NDP's Crown Corporations Public Ownership Act, which provided legislative entrenchment for the ownership of the major crown utilities and services.

Goodale blamed the NDP's Judy Wasylycia-Leis for sabotaging the Liberals in the 2006 election.

The election was the first to be conducted under the NDP's new partial one member, one vote system, in which the popular vote of the members is weighted for 75 % of the result.

In the 1978 election, the Liberals were wiped out, and the Tories became the Official Opposition with 17 seats to the governing NDP's 44.

" Despite this, however, the CAW supported Mordue as the Liberal candidate in the 2006 federal election instead of endorsing the NDP's Zoe Kunschner.

Historically, his election as leader has been interpreted as a victory of the provincial NDP's " establishment " over its extreme left-wing Waffle faction, because Lloyd was trying to move the party more to the political left, which meant he supported the Waffle Manifesto at the October 1969 Federal NDP convention in Winnipeg.

In the NDP's election for its chairman in 1979, KCIA backed Yi Chul-seung to prevent the election of hardliner Kim Young Sam, but Cha Ji-chul interfered in KCIA's political sabotage with its own behind-scene manueverings.

Binns ' PC Party defeated the Liberal Party led by Milligan in the general election on November 18, 1996, gathering 18 seats to the Liberals ' 8, and the NDP's 1.

In 1989, McDonald became Minister of Finance and served in that position until 1991 when he again became Minister of Education until the NDP's defeat in the 1992 election.

Dosanjh was the former leader of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia and briefly Premier of British Columbia before his and the BC NDP's election loss in 2001.

Mulcair retained the riding for the NDP in the 2008 federal election, marking the NDP's first re-election and first general election victory in Quebec.

However, the NDP's " orange wave " in the 2011 election overwhelmed previous distinctions, with the New Democrats winning 149 of 218 polling divisions in the district.