The 1857 Congressional rejection of the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was the first multi-party solid-North vote, and that solid vote was anti-slavery to support the anti-slavery majority in Kansas Territory.

Déby won the country ’ s first multi-party presidential elections with support in the second round from opposition leader Kebzabo, defeating General Kamougue ( leader of the 1975 coup against Tombalbaye ).

In 1991, following growing pressure for a more pluralistic society, multi-party elections were held for the first time.

On 22 April and 7 May 1990, the first free multi-party elections were held in Croatia.

Following the collapse of the ruling Communist Party in Yugoslavia, Croatia adopted a new constitution in 1990 – which replaced the 1974 constitution adopted by the Socialist Republic of Croatia – and organised its first multi-party elections.

A constitution was approved by voters and on 30 July 2006 the Congo held its first multi-party elections since independence in 1960.

Zenawi's government was re-elected in 2000 in Ethiopia's first multi-party elections.

Sweeping political reforms in 1990 led to a new constitution, and the PDG garnered a large majority in the country's first multi-party elections in 30 years.

After a peaceful transition, the elections produced the first representative, multi-party, National Assembly.

Despite further anti-government demonstrations after the untimely death of an opposition leader, the first multi-party National Assembly elections in almost 30 years took place in September-October 1990, with the PDG garnering a large majority.

In December 1993, Conté was elected to a 5-year term as president in the country's first multi-party elections, which were marred by irregularities and lack of transparency on the part of the government.

Guinea-Bissau's first multi-party elections for president and parliament were held in 1994.

It leaves unanswered, however, the question of when and how Malaysia will acquire a first world political system ( a multi-party democracy, a free press, an independent judiciary and the restoration of civil and political liberties ) to go with its new economic maturity.

The first multi-party elections were held on 11 and 25 November and 9 December 1990.

Malaysia has a multi-party system since the first direct election of the Federal Legislative Council of Malaya in 1955 on a first-past-the-post basis.

The 2009 elections were the first multi-party elections in the country.

A new Constitution was ratified in August 2008, paving the way for the country's first multi-party presidential election two months later.

On October 8, 2008, the country held its first ever multi-party presidential election.

In 1992, Alpha Oumar Konaré won Mali's first democratic, multi-party presidential election, before being re-elected for a second term in 1997, which was the last allowed under the constitution.

The Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social ( PRDS ), led by President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, has dominated Mauritanian politics since the country's first multi-party elections in April 1992 following the approval by referendum of the current constitution in July 1991.

Mongolia's first multi-party elections for a People's Great Khural were held on 29 July 1990.

* 1994 – Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.

* 1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.

In addition, a new regional constitution was drafted and later passed on 15 June 2009, which is believed to represent a significant step toward the eventual introduction of a multi-party political system to the region for the first time ; such a system already exists in the adjacent Somaliland region.

It was the first time since the multi-party system was introduced in Zanzibar that CUF agreed to recognize Karume as the legitimate president of Zanzibar.

King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

Although the government was probably prepared for elections by mid-1958, the first decision was no doubt made more difficult as party strife multiplied.

From the rather tortuous history of electoral planning in Morocco an important point emerges concerning the first elections in a developing country and evaluating their results.

That same year, first parliamentary and presidential elections were held.

" The Republicans gained majorities in both House and Senate for the first time since Democrats in the 1856 elections, they were to be seated in numbers which Lincoln might use to govern, a national parliamentary majority even before pro-slavery House and Senate seats vacated.

* 1957 – In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S.

After two years of Democratic Party control, the Democrats lost control of Congress in the mid-term elections in 1994, for the first time in forty years.

The 1965 constitution led to the first general elections and to independence on 30 September 1966.

After the fall of the communism in 1990, the former communist party changed to Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) and won the first post-communist elections for the new constitution in 1990 with a small majority.

Meanwhile, Zhelyu Zhelev, a communist-era dissident from the new democratic party-Union of Democratic Forces, was elected President by the Assembly in 1990, and in 1992 won Bulgaria's first presidential elections and served as president until 1997.

The country's first post-communist Assembly elections, in November 1991, made the winning new pro-reform Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) to make government alone, having won 110 out of the 240 seats in the assembly.

Unlike the communist parties in most other East European states, the BCP ( changing its name to Bulgarian Socialist Party ) retained majority power after the transition in Bulgaria by winning the first free national elections in June 1990.

In 1995, Burkina held its first multiparty municipal elections since independence.

After the six-year voting ban on Bal Thackeray was lifted in 2005, he voted for the first time in the 2006 BMC elections .< ref name =" Voting ban lifted ">

Cameroon's first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held in 1992 followed by municipal elections in 1996 and another round of legislative and presidential elections in 1997.

Much of the resources for these first democratic elections since independence came from locally represented donors and agencies called the " Groupe informel des bailleurs de fonds et representants residents " ( GIBAFOR ).

" An era of peaceful democracy in Costa Rica began in 1889 with elections considered the first truly free and honest ones in the country's history.

Several smaller new parties that participated for the first time in the 2006 elections include Partido Unión Patriótica and Partido Alianza Democrática Nacionalista.

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.