* Albert ( electoral district ), a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada from 1867 to 1903

* Abitibi — Témiscamingue ( Canada ), a federal electoral district

* Abitibi — Baie-James — Nunavik — Eeyou ( Canada ), a former federal electoral district

* Abitibi, a former Quebec provincial electoral district

* Calgary-Buffalo, a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada

The territory is subdivided into sixth districts that are governed by district managers and that have a role as electoral districts and as regional units for statistics.

* Cambridge ( electoral district ), a federal electoral district

* Cambridge ( provincial electoral district ), a provincial electoral district

* Cape Breton ( electoral district )

* Cape Breton South ( federal electoral district )

* Cape Breton South ( provincial electoral district )

* Glace Bay ( provincial electoral district )

** Electoral district of Canterbury, an electoral district in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

electoral district )

* Cumberland ( Saskatchewan provincial electoral district )

Although Lincoln won only a plurality of the popular vote, his victory in the electoral college was decisive: Lincoln had 180 and his opponents added together had only 123.

Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".

" If the remainder of the Conservative Party could muster the electoral support necessary to form a government, then Disraeli was now guaranteed high office.

Blake further argued that Disraeli's imperialism " decisively orientated the Conservative party for many years to come, and the tradition which he started was probably a bigger electoral asset in winning working-class support during the last quarter of the century than anything else ".

There were two more nominal bishops, but on the petition of the latter of these, the electoral prince John George, the secularisation of the bishopric was undertaken and finally accomplished, in spite of legal proceedings to reassert the imperial immediacy of the prince-bishopric within the Empire and so to likewise preserve the diocese, which dragged on into the seventeenth century.

A comeback of sorts was seen during the 1960s and 1970s, but it was not until 1981, when the Liberals allied with the newly formed SDP to form the SDP-Liberal Alliance, that the party enjoyed significant electoral success.

Lloyd George offered a degree of support to the Labour government in the hope of winning concessions, including a degree of electoral reform to introduce the alternative vote, but this support was to prove bitterly divisive as the Liberals increasingly divided between those seeking to gain what Liberal goals they could achieve, those who preferred a Conservative government to a Labour one and vice-versa.

An additional problem was competition in the Liberal heartlands in Scotland and Wales from the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru who both grew as electoral forces from the 1960s onwards.

Though the merger process was traumatic and the new party suffered a few years of extremely poor poll results, it gradually found much greater electoral success than the Liberal Party had done in the post-war era.

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.

Costa Rica was among the first to call for a postponement of the May 22 elections in Peru when international observer missions found electoral machinery not prepared for the vote count.

The nearest CND has come to having an electoral arm was the Independent Nuclear Disarmament Election Campaign ( INDEC ) which stood candidates in a few local elections during the 1960s.

Francisco Vázquez Gómez took over the nomination, but during Madero's time in jail, Díaz was " elected " as president with an electoral vote of 196 to 187.

It was the largest party in Dáil Éireann at every general election from the 1932 general election until the 2011 general election, when it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the Irish state, a loss described as " historic " in its proportions, where it saw its electoral support base diminished by 75 %, as a reaction to the intervention, and in the running of the Irish economy, of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in November 2010.

The FDP had promised to lower taxes in the electoral campaign but after being part of the coalition they had to admit that this was not possible regarding the economic crisis.

Those who thought that revolution was an effort to bring about electoral democracy and economic and social reforms either resigned or could not maintain their place in the parties.

While the popular vote total was close, with Cleveland winning by just one-quarter of a percent, the electoral votes gave Cleveland a majority of 219 – 182.

There was a significant disparity between the Prussian and German electoral systems.

First printed in March 1812, this political cartoon was drawn in reaction to the state senate electoral districts drawn by the Massachusetts legislature to favour the Democratic-Republican Party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists.

Support in Scotland was critical to Labour's overall electoral fortunes as without Scottish MPs it would have gained only two UK electoral victories in the 20th century ( 1945 and 1966 ).

However, a referendum on devolution in 1979 was unsuccessful as it did not achieve the necessary support of 40 per cent of the electorate ( despite a small majority of those who voted supporting the proposal ) and the SNP went into electoral decline during the 1980s.

Political institutions and parties were allowed to function, which was combined with electoral manipulation and strong-arming of those not willing to cooperate into submission.

In the meantime, an Interim Political Authority ( IPA ), charged with reviewing the electoral structure in the country, was created in December 1998 and devised a proportional electoral system to ensure that there be opposition in the National Assembly.

* Caverphone, created to assist in data matching between late 19th century and early 20th century electoral rolls, optimized for accents present in parts of New Zealand.

Garfield's report, along with others, created enough doubt to change the election results in that state, as well as in Florida, South Carolina, and Oregon ; these states then were saddled with two conflicting slates of electoral votes, which under the Constitution made Congress the final arbiter of the election.

The jockeying for electoral votes, regional divisions, and the propaganda smear campaigns created by both parties made the election recognizably modern.

It was for this reason, as much as it was for those stated by Annan, that a five-member District Assembly Committee was created in each of the nation's 110 administrative districts and was charged by the NCD with ensuring that all candidates followed electoral rules.

The Stirling Scottish Parliament ( or Holyrood ) constituency created in 1999 is one of nine within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region.

It also created previously unknown interracial and ecumenical coalitions, and stimulated new electoral activity in pastors and congregations.

As a result, in the late 1960s and in the 1970s, the federal government gradually created electoral constituencies and transferred many federally run programs to the territorial government.

During this last presidential election coverage, NBC graphic designers created images of a giant electoral map on the Rockefeller Plaza ice-skating rink, and cherry-pickers tallied the electoral vote count on the GE Building.

That being the case, no Prime Minister has died in office or resigned suddenly ( except following his or her party's electoral defeat ) since the 1890s, many decades before the office of Deputy Prime Minister was created.

The United States contributed to the 1990 election that brought Violeta Chamorro to power as they allocated $ 9 million to aid her party and created systems that monitored the electoral process.

When Speaker Edward FitzRoy, previously a Conservative MP, was opposed by a Labour Party candidate at the 1935 general election, there was strong disapproval from other parties and a sub-committee of the Cabinet considered whether a special constituency should be created for the Speaker to remove the obligation to take part in electoral contests.

Ecclesall electoral ward was created 1934 when the old Ecclesall Bierlow ward was divided into Ecclesall, Broomhill and Hallam.

The Lochaber district of the Highland region was created by merging the Ardnamurchan district and the Ballachulish and Kinlochleven electoral divisions of the former county of Argyll with the burgh of Fort William and the district of Lochaber of the former county of Inverness.

In August 2006 the voters of Newport petitioned for a Parish Council to be created in all eight electoral wards of Newport.

She later created some controversy by not accompanying Clark during his electoral campaigns, and she did not undertake the hosting duties that other Prime Minister's wives have traditionally done.

The North East Fife Scottish Parliament ( or Holyrood ) constituency created in 1999 is one of nine within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region.

The 1951 election was a relative success for the RPF, but the electoral law ( apparentements ), created to favor the Third Force coalition ( MRP, SFIO, RGR etc.

The Socialist Alliance had been created in alliance with other forces in the hopes of using joint electoral work amongst Australian socialists to increase trust and collaboration between socialists, and in the process making socialist organisation a more attractive option to the left.

" In his own nomination, Walton received only " an extremely small per cent of the total votes cast ," yet was still selected as the Democratic Party candidate, and this perceived injustice led to the Oklahoma Legislature resolving to adopt a different electoral system ; eventually, they created the Oklahoma primary electoral system.

The most prominent was the electoral reform of 1945, which created a modern Electoral Code of Laws and a Supreme Tribunal of Elections.

The Highlands and Islands is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament which were created in 1999.