`` 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.

He argued before and during his election that the eventual extinction of slavery would result from preventing its expansion into new U. S. territory.

The province is currently governed by the BC Liberal Party, led by Premier Christy Clark, who became leader as a result of the party election on February 26, 2011.

However, most of this aid has been targeted at the Federation ; the previous government of the RS was anti-Dayton and not assisted by the U. S. The election of the " Sloga " or " Unity " Coalition government, led by Prime Minister Dodik, has shifted the balance of power in the Republika Srpska ( RS ) to a pro-Dayton stance and will result in an upsurge of funding to the RS from the international community.

The inevitable result was the speedy resignation of William Hague in the election aftermath.

The result was a catastrophic split in the Liberal Party, and heavy defeat in the 1886 election at the hands of Lord Salisbury.

In the non-USSR annexed portion of Poland, less than a third of Poland's population voted in favor of massive communist land reforms and industry nationalizations in a policies referendum known as " 3 times YES " ( 3 razy TAK ; 3xTAK ), whereupon a second vote rigged election was held to get the desired result.

In the Romanian general election elections of 1946, the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) employed widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud to obtain 80 percent of the vote and, thereafter, eliminated the role of the centrist parties and forced mergers, the result of which was that, by 1948, most non-Communist politicians were either executed, in exile or in prison.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

Kidd became captain, either the result of an election of the ship's crew or because of appointment by Christopher Codrington, governor of the island of Nevis.

In the 1997 federal election, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberals endured a bitter defeat to the PCs and NDP in many ridings as a result of unpopular cuts to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers, as well as closures of several Canadian Forces Bases, the refusal to honour a promise to rescind the Goods and Services Tax, cutbacks to provincial equalization payments, health care, post-secondary education and regional transportation infrastructure such as airports, fishing harbours, seaports, and railways.

However, Tshisekedi maintained that the result of the election was illegitimate and said that he intended also to " swear himself in " as president.

Many commentators fault Stoiber's reaction to the floods in eastern Germany, in the run-up to the election, as a contributory factor in his party's poor electoral result and defeat.

As a result, the party was considered as a potential member of two other political coalitions, following the election.

However, after reaching its best ever election result in 2009, the FDP's support has since collapsed.

The FDP opposed the 1996 spelling reform ; as a result, their election manifestos are written in the previously conventional spelling.

As a result of that federal election, the grand coalition came to an end.

While Bongo's major opponents rejected the outcome as fraudulent, international observers characterized the result as representative even if the election suffered from serious administrative problems.

Gairy won re-election in Grenada's first general election as an independent state in 1976 ; however, the opposition New Jewel Movement refused to recognize the result, claiming the poll was fraudulent, and so began working towards the overthrow of the Gairy regime by revolutionary means.

As a result, the PNH candidate, Carías, won the election by a margin of some 20, 000 votes.

As a result of that defeat, PASOK undertook a party election for a new leader.

As a result, the At-Large constituency and direct election of board members by the global Internet community were soon abandoned.

As a result, Labour had moved ahead of the Tories in the opinion polls, and in the aftermath of Foot's election as leader opinion polls showed a double-digit lead for Labour, boosting his hopes of becoming prime minister by the time of the next general election, which had to be held by May 1984.

Ramsay MacDonald was forced into a snap election in 1924, and although his government was defeated, he achieved his objective of virtually wiping the Liberals out as many more radical voters now moved to Labour whilst moderate middle-class Liberal voters concerned about socialism moved to the Conservatives.

In October 2000, Slobodan Milošević was forced out of office after a disputed election.

In East Germany after local election losses, a forced merger of political parties in the Socialist Unity Party (" SED "), followed by elections in 1946 where political opponents were oppressed.

On 28 September 2008, the CSU failed to gain an absolute majority, attaining 43 %, of the vote in the Bavaria state election for the first time since 1966 on a percentage basis and was forced into a coalition with the FDP.

After the election in 2010 of the new Fidesz-party government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Hungarian banks were forced to allow the conversion of foreign-currency mortgages to the forint.

It also proved to be the Queensland Nationals ' last hurrah ; Bjelke-Petersen was forced into retirement a few months after the federal election, and his party was heavily defeated in 1989.

Gondra won the presidential election in 1920, but the schaereristas undermined his power and forced him to resign.

He was a subdeacon when king Theodahad of the Ostrogoths forced his election and consecration.

A worsening economy, burgeoning national debt, and growing public antipathy towards Trudeau's perceived arrogance caused his poll numbers to fall rapidly in the mid and late 1970s Trudeau delayed calling the 31st Canadian general election as long as he could, but was forced to call one in the spring of 1979.

Almost immediately after his election, Eugene was forced to deal with the heresy of Monothelitism, i. e., that Christ had only one will.

An election forced Richard to accept Conrad of Montferrat as King of Jerusalem, and he sold Cyprus to his defeated protégé, Guy.

He made such an effort to root out corruption and " machine politics " that Republican boss Thomas Collier Platt forced him on McKinley as a running mate in the 1900 election, against the wishes of McKinley's manager, Senator Mark Hanna.

As a House freshman, Reed was appointed to the Potter Commission, which was to investigate voting irregularities in the presidential election of 1876, where his skill at cross examination forced Democrat Samuel J. Tilden to personally appear to defend his reputation.

The result was that the legislature was unable to convene for 53 days, and was forced to disband and call a new election.

By 1910, 31 state legislatures had passed resolutions calling for a constitutional amendment allowing direct election, and in the same year ten Republican senators who were opposed to reform were forced out of their seats, acting as a " wake-up call to the Senate ".

Without meaningful primary opposition, Clinton was able to focus on the general election early, while Dole was forced to move to the right and spend his campaign reserves fighting off challengers.

The democrats referred to Taft's nomination and potential election, pre-determined by the powerful Roosevelt, as a possible " forced succession to the presidency.

In February 1742, following poor election results and the disaster at Cartagena, Walpole was at last forced to succumb to the long-continued attacks of opposition, resigned and took a peerage.

The Westminster system enables a government to be defeated, or forced into a general election, independently of a new government being chosen.

With the growing influence of leftists and democratic socialists, under the leadership of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and amid growing public pressure and wide public disapproval of his policies and government, Khan was forced to hold the general election of 1970.

* November 15 – In the United Kingdom general election forced by the Conservatives ' withdrawal from the coalition government, the Conservative Party wins an overall majority.

In the two years following the election of Gregory VII, Henry was forced by the Saxon Rebellion to come to amicable terms with him at any cost.

An extreme example occured shortly after President Clinton began his first term as president ; Clinton was forced to abandon some of the spending increases he'd promised in his election campaign due to pressure from the bond markets.

That vote was marred by irregularities, and the electoral commission was forced to repeat that single election.