However, the elections were marred by controversy in the Senate race over the calculation of whether Senate candidates had achieved the majority required to avoid a run-off election ( in Haiti, seats where no candidate wins an absolute majority of votes cast has to enter a second-round run-off election ).

In the midst of a tight race, Carnahan died in an airplane crash two weeks prior to the election.

In his election address Foot contended that " the armaments race in Europe must be stopped now ".

The unified support from the conservative base helped propel Hoffman to frontrunner status and effectively killed Scozzafava's campaign, forcing her to drop out of the race several days before the election.

Fairbanks withdrew from the race, and would later support Taft for re-election against Roosevelt in the 1912 election.

Because of the bullet wound, Roosevelt was taken off the campaign trail in the final weeks of the race ( which ended election day, November 5 ).

In a letter, published after the election, Grant sought to unequivocally distance himself from General Orders No. 11: " Grant's self-serving explanation ", notes Jonathan Sarna, " did not actually bear close scrutiny ," but Jews nonetheless generously accepted his attempt at self-extrication: " I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit.

Kaunda's UNIP party boycotted the parliamentary polls to protest the exclusion of its leader from the presidential race, alleging in addition that the outcome of the election had been predetermined due to a faulty voter registration exercise.

* November 8 – United States presidential election, 1960: In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard Nixon, to become ( at 43 ) the second youngest man to serve at the President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to this position.

* The experimental television station, W9XAP, in Chicago, Illinois, broadcasts the election for the U. S. Senate, which is the first time that a senatorial race, with continual tallies of the votes, is ever televised.

According to The American Political Science Association, over the past 2004 presidential election, the women's vote may have well decided the outcome of the race.

Cook County Assessor Thomas Hynes ( Chicago First Party ), a Daley ally, dropped out of the race 36 hours before the mayoral general election.

The United States presidential election of 1848 was an open race.

After the 1852 election the Whig Party quickly collapsed, and the members of the declining party failed to nominate a candidate for the next presidential race ; it was soon replaced as the Democratic Party's primary opposition by the new Republican Party.

The United States presidential election of 1900 was a re-match of the 1896 race between Republican President William McKinley and his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan.

In any election, each voter casts one vote for one candidate in a multi-candidate race for multiple offices.

In 1956, Anderson was elected State's Attorney in Winnebago County, Illinois, first winning a four-person race in the April primary by 1300 votes and then the general election in November by 11, 000 votes.

He did give an indication that it wouldn't be President Obama since Robertson said God told him Obama's views were at " odds with the majority ", but left some room for interpretation if the 2012 election expands beyond a two-person race.

As it became clear that the election would be a race between Allende and Frei, the political rightwhich initially had backed Radical Julio Durán – settled for Frei as " the lesser evil ".

" The election became a two-man race, and Zyuganov, who lacked Yeltsin's resources and financial backing, watched haplessly as his strong initial lead was whittled away.

Metzenbaum lost the general election race to Robert Taft, Jr.

Gilles Duceppe announced on 11 May 2007 that he would run in the Parti Québécois leadership race to replace André Boisclair, who resigned on 8 May 2007, after the poor performance in the March 2007 Quebec provincial election and internal dissent forced him to step down.

In the 2004 presidential election, Lien Chan proposed a confederation-style relationship ( though he later moderated his stance amid a tight race ).

If a majority of the voters in the election vote to recall the governor, then the person who gains a plurality of the votes in the replacement race will become governor.

When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.

At no time did I attempt to seek approval or commendation for the members of the Chicago board of election commissioners for the discharge of their duties.

He worked in oil for years before beginning his work in watercolor, and his first public recognition and early honors, including his election to the Academy, were for his essays in the heavier medium.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

As part of the same arrangement, Torrio had, in the spirit of peace and good will, and in exchange for armed support in the April election campaign, bestowed upon O'Banion a third share in the Hawthorne Smoke Shop proceeds and a cut in the Cicero beer trade.

When, as a diplomatic gesture of amity and in payment for the loan of gunmen in the April election, Torrio had given O'Banion a slice of Cicero, the profits from that district had been $20,000 a month.

`` I wish you good luck, but please don't dig up too tough a case for me this close to election.

The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.

Mayer Goldberg, attorney for election judges in the 58th precinct of the 23d ward, argued this procedure constituted intimidation.

He suggested that a regrouping of forces might allow the average voter a better pull at the right lever for him on election day.

Mr. Martinelli has, in recent weeks, been of the opinion that a special town meeting would be called for the vote, while Mr. Bourcier said that a special election might be called instead.

The proposal, Sheets said, represents part of his program for election reforms necessary to make democracy in New Jersey more than a `` lip service word ''.

In the 1920 presidential election they had that right and many of them did vote for the first time.

Board members indicated Monday night this would be done by an advisory poll to be taken on Nov. 15, the same date as a $581,000 bond election for the construction of three new elementary schools.

Sydney Larson, a staff representative for the United Steel Workers, which the firm's 25 workers joined before striking, said the state Labor Relations Board has been asked to set up an election to pick a bargaining agent.

`` This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated '', he said.

The Hopkinsian universal disinterested benevolence, although holding to original sin and the doctrine of election, inspired its adherents to heroic endeavours for others, looked for the early coming of the Millennium, and was paralleled by the confidence in man's ability cherished by the Unitarians, Emerson, and the Transcendentalists.

His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederacy.