In 1912, Harding gave the nominating speech for incumbent President William Howard Taft, who would later serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during Harding's administration, at the embattled Republican National Convention in Chicago — before he completed his introduction, a fist fight ensued between the Taft supporters and the more progressive Roosevelt faction, but the speech was quite a personal success.

The candidates were Chief Justice John Jay, a Hamiltonian, and incumbent George Clinton, who was allied with Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans.

The final incumbent, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, became the first Chief Constable of the PSNI.

The incumbent Chief of Cabinet is Jacques van Ypersele de Strihou, who is reportedly sometimes referred to as viceroy, Richelieu or Rasputin.

The incumbent Chief of Staff, is alleged to be John " Bunter " Graham, referred to by Martin Dillon as " Mr. F ".

In 1976, Tommy West was replaced with " Mr. F " who is alleged to be John " Bunter " Graham and remains the incumbent Chief of Staff as of 2012.

The Leader of the Opposition is seen as the alternative Prime Minister, Premier or Chief Minister to the incumbent and heads a rival alternative government known as the Shadow Cabinet or Opposition Front Bench.

In British politics, the Chief Whip of the governing party in the House of Commons is customarily appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury so that the incumbent, who represents the whips in general, has a seat and a voice in the Cabinet.

In several countries, the Chief Justice is second in line to the Office of President or Governor General, should the incumbent die or resign, or third, if there is a Vice President or Lieutenant Governor General.

Its Chief Minister candidate who is also an incumbent Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee also lost from his Jadavpur assembly constituency.

Emanuel resigned as Chief of Staff effective October 1, 2010, in order to pursue a campaign to run for Mayor of Chicago pending the announced retirement of incumbent Richard M. Daley.

Fabian Picardo is the incumbent Chief Minister, since 9 December 2011.

In December 2007, Arun Jaitley orchestrated a well organized campaign to return the incumbent Chief Minister Narendra Modi back to power.

Recently one Chief executive officer of Canadian origin was elevated by incumbent President, Sir Anerood Jugnauth at his own pleasure without the advise of the Parliament.

In British politics, the Chief Whip of the governing party in the House of Commons is usually appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury so that the incumbent, who represents the whips in general, has a seat and a voice in the Cabinet.

His candidacy was criticised by some as he was competing against an incumbent Chief Rabbi.

Smith was elected Principal Chief on July 24, 1999, defeating the incumbent Principal Chief Joe Byrd in a runoff election.

The post came into existence on 1 January 1956 and the only incumbent was Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Dickson who served until 1 January 1959 when he became the first Chief of the Defence Staff.

At the same time it announced that its CEO would be replaced early in 2010, the incumbent, Bob Lawrence, who had been at the helm of JT since 1991 would step down in favour of Graeme Millar, formerly Chief Commercial Officer of Mobile TeleSystems, the Russian mobile operator.

The Commission arrived to similar conclusions with respect to Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Rafael Eitan ( tantamount to a breach of duty that was incumbent upon the Chief of Staff ), as well as Director of Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Yehoshua Saguy, and other Intelligence officials — though the Mossad was not reprimanded and parts of the report commenting on its role remain under military censorship.

In the penultimate episode Institutional Memory, Will considers taking a job as the Chief Executive of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, but becomes preoccupied with the task of finding a candidate to challenge incumbent Republican Congressman John Heffinger in the Oregon 4th in 2008.

* 2007 – At least 200, 000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

For example, the 1972 Constitution designates the Prime Minister as constitutional successor of the Head of State in case of incapacity, death, resignation or unaccountable absence of the incumbent.

In 1939 Holt's mentor Robert Menzies became Prime Minister after the sudden death of the incumbent Joseph Lyons and the short-term caretaker ministry of Sir Earle Page.

In 1990 he became leader of the Labour Party and consequently Prime Minister for a few months, convincing the Labour caucus that, while he could not win the election for Labour, he would help save more seats than staying with the incumbent, Geoffrey Palmer.

Since " Prime Minister " is a position, not a title, the incumbent should be referred to as " the Prime Minister ".

If the prime minister is declared permanently incapacitated, or that period expires, the President of Israel oversees the process of assembling a new governing coalition, and in the meantime the acting prime minister or other incumbent minister is appointed by the Cabinet to serve as Interim Prime Minister.

Prime Minister Václav Klaus and his incumbent Civic Democratic Party emerge as the winners, but are unable to form a majority government.

The incumbent Donald Tusk is completing his first term and is the first Prime Minister to be re-elected since the fall of the People's Republic of Poland in 1989.

The four top-ranking contenders following the first round presidential elections were Mathieu Kérékou ( incumbent ) 45. 4 %, Nicephore Soglo ( former president ) 27. 1 %, Adrien Houngbédji ( National Assembly Speaker ) 12. 6 %, and Bruno Amoussou ( Minister of State ) 8. 6 %.

In the elections that year his party, strongly focusing on the popularity of its leader, managed to win a clear victory over the Likud of incumbent Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.

Viktor Yanukovych, the incumbent Prime Minister, supported by both Kuchma and by the Russian Federation, wanted closer ties with Russia.

Throughout the period of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister the incumbent government of the United Kingdom was Conservative with the government led by Thatcher.

The last time the King attempted to exercise political authority was in February 1914 when King Gustav V delivered a speech to 30, 000 peasants, assembled on the yard of the Royal Castle in Stockholm, an action which precipitated the fall the incumbent liberal cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Karl Staaff.

In the election of 1972, Manley defeated the unpopular incumbent Prime Minister, his cousin Hugh Shearer, running on the slogans " Better must come ", " Giving power to the people " and leading " a government of truth ".

* After an incumbent Prime Minister loses an election, it is expected that they will advise the Governor-General to appoint the leader of the larger party as Prime Minister so the Governor-General does not need to act on their own initiative.

The incumbent Prime Minister of Portugal is Pedro Passos Coelho, who took office on 21 June 2011 as 12nd Prime Minister of the second Portuguese Constitutional Republic.

The incumbent Paymaster General is Francis Maude, who is also the Minister for the Cabinet Office.

* In the Sherifian kingdom of Morocco ( historically a sultanate till the incumbent assumed the higher royal style of Malik on 14 August 1957, shortly after the end of the simultaneous French and Spanish protectorates ; the additional Islamic title Amir al-Mu ´ minin " Commander of the Faithful " stayed in use ), a Sadr al-A ' zam ( Grand Vizier ) was in office until 22 November 1955, replaced since 7 December 1955 a ( part-political ) Prime Minister ; Vizier was the style of a minister of state ( other titles for various portfolios ).

In 2006, it repeated its historic endorsements of every Republican incumbent for Congress in Northern Virginia.

Another New Zealand First candidate, Tau Henare, unseated the Labour incumbent in Northern Maori, helping to convince people that New Zealand First was not simply Peters ' personal vehicle.

In April 2010, Babauta declared his candidacy for Northern Mariana Islands ' Delegate to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican against incumbent Rep. Gregorio Kilili Sablan.

The incumbent local exchange carriers in 705 / 249 are Bell Canada, Northern Telephone, Ontera, East Link and some municipally-owned carriers.

In Northern Ireland, however, the opposite is the case, where BT Ireland still hold dominance as the former incumbent fixed-line telco, and Eircom NI is a new challenger, rolling out its own network.

She was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1990 provincial election, defeating incumbent Liberal Taras Kozyra by 1, 034 votes in the Northern Ontario riding of Port Arthur.

Fannie Bay has been an exception in Northern Territory politics, as it has tended to be neither marginal or safe for either party, with incumbent members of both parties having managed to easily hold the electorate for several years.

In January 2008 Scrymgour was appointed Acting Chief Minister of the Northern Territory while the incumbent Paul Henderson was on holiday, becoming the first Aboriginal government leader in Australian history.

Northwestel Inc. is the incumbent local exchange carrier ( ILEC ) and long distance carrier in Northern Canada.