The Mayor declined in two interviews with reporters yesterday to confirm or deny the reports that he had decided to run and wanted Mr. Screvane, who lives in Queens, to replace Abe Stark, the incumbent, as the candidate for President of the City Council and Mr. Beame, who lives in Brooklyn, to replace Mr. Gerosa as the candidate for Controller.

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

The incumbent President is Girma Wolde-Giorgis.

The idea is to check whether newspapers display some kind of partisan bias, by giving more positive or negative coverage to the same economic figure, as a function of the political affiliation of the incumbent President.

Controlling for the economic data being released, the authors find that there are between 9. 6 and 14. 7 percent fewer positive stories when the incumbent President is a Republican.

According to Puglisi, in the post-1960 period the Times displays a more symmetric type of watchdog behaviour, just because during presidential campaigns it also gives more coverage to the typically Republican issue of Defense when the incumbent President is a Democrat, and less so when the incumbent is a Republican.

Governor Reagan's term ended in 1975, and he did not run for a third ; instead, he met with advisors to discuss a possible bid for the presidency in 1976, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

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.

The then incumbent President of Somalia, Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, peacefully withdrew his candidature.

On September 10, 2012, the new Federal Parliament also elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the incumbent President of Somalia.

He conducted a vigorous campaign against incumbent President Juho Kusti Paasikivi to finish third in the first and only ballot, receiving 62 votes in the electoral college, while Paasikivi was re-elected with 171.

At the 1996 Democratic National Convention, Clinton and incumbent Vice President Al Gore were renominated with token opposition.

A number of Republican candidates entered the field to challenge the incumbent Democratic President, Bill Clinton.

Two Reform candidates entered the field to challenge the incumbent Democratic President, Bill Clinton.

With deep fissures in the party on this question, the anti-slavery faction prevented the re-nomination of its own incumbent President Fillmore in the 1852 presidential election ; instead, the party nominated General Winfield Scott.

Four states ' electors voted for Clinton and one ( Kentucky ) for Jefferson for Vice President in opposition to incumbent John Adams as well as casting their votes for President Washington.

In 1933, incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis announced the election of House Speaker John Nance Garner as his successor, while Garner was seated next to him on the House dais.

Of the thirteen Presidential elections from 1956 to 2004, nine featured the incumbent President ; the other four ( 1960, 1968, 1988, 2000 ) all featured the incumbent Vice President.

Former Vice Presidents also ran, in 1984 ( Walter Mondale ), and in 1968 ( Richard Nixon, against the incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey ).

The first Presidential election to include neither the incumbent President nor the incumbent Vice President on a major party ticket since 1952 came in 2008 when President George W. Bush had already served two terms and Vice President Cheney chose not to run.

The United States presidential election of 1828 featured a rematch between John Quincy Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson, the runner-up in the 1824 election.

The United States presidential election of 1832 saw incumbent President Andrew Jackson, candidate of the Democratic Party, easily win re-election against Henry Clay of Kentucky.

In 2010, Republican Carl Paladino carried Cattaraugus County over Democrat ( and eventual winner ) Andrew Cuomo 65 % to 31 %, but Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Senator Chuck Schumer, both incumbent Democrats, carried the county by 51 % to 46 % and 54 % to 43 % margins respectively.

The Orchestra has worked with an esteemed array of Principal Conductors including Sir Dan Godfrey, Rudolf Schwarz, Constantin Silvestri, Paavo Berglund, Andrew Litton and Marin Alsop, with Kirill Karabits the current incumbent.

Blackfriars was not a seat with high prospects attached ; a working-class area, it had returned Liberal Party MPs since it was created in 1884, and the incumbent, Andrew Provand, was highly popular.

* December 3, 1828: U. S. presidential election, 1828: Challenger Andrew Jackson beat incumbent John Quincy Adams and was elected President of the United States

Instead of supporting the reform-minded incumbent, Andrew Ryan McGill, a majority of party stalwarts rallied behind William Merriam, an ambitious St. Paul banker and speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives.

Burton first ran for Congress in 1970, losing to Democratic incumbent Andrew Jacobs, Jr. in Indiana's 11th congressional district.

A special election was called after President Jimmy Carter appointed incumbent U. S. Congressman Andrew Young to be U. S. ambassador to the United Nations.

In January 1977, incumbent Democrat U. S. Congressman Andrew Young, of Georgia's 5th congressional district, decided to resign in order to become the U. S. Ambassador to the U. N. under President Jimmy Carter.

It was widely expected that the incumbent Hawke Labor government would be easily re-elected, but an exceptionally long 10-week campaign and a strong campaign performance by Liberal leader, Andrew Peacock, saw the government ’ s majority reduced ( although this was disguised by the increase in the size of the House from 125 to 148 ).

In late January 2010, Andrew Romanoff, who challenged the incumbent Senator Michael Bennet in the 2010 Colorado Senate election, announced his campaign had hired Trippi as one of its four new, prominent consultants.

* On 19 April 2010, it was announced BBC presenter Adrian Chiles was quitting his roles with the corporation, to join ITV plc on a six year contract, co-presenting on GMTV and casting doubt over the futures of incumbent male hosts Andrew Castle and Ben Shephard

She campaigned for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1981 provincial election as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party, and lost to Progressive Conservative incumbent Larry Grossman in St. Andrew — St.

It was expected that this would benefit the Liberal Democrats in this marginal constituency, however, in a shock result, when the seat was first contested on its new boundaries in 2010, the Labour incumbent Andrew Smith managed to quadruple his majority.

In 1987 he was defeated by the current Labour incumbent, former Cabinet minister, Andrew Smith.

Another prominent member is the incumbent independent MP Andrew Wilkie, elected at the 2010 election.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1927 provincial election, defeating Progressive incumbent Andrew E. Foster by 255 votes in the constituency of Killarney.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1920 provincial election, defeating Liberal incumbent Andrew W. Myles by 180 votes in the rural constituency of Cypress.

In 2005, Harding had secured employment at the Health Insurance Plan of New York for the incumbent State Assemblyman in District 28 ( Queens ), who then did not run for re-election so that Hevesi's son, Andrew, could run for State Assemblyman.

Emmond first defeated Andrew McCleary to win the nomination of the local " People's Independent Party " ( primarily a farmers ' organization ), and then defeated Liberal incumbent William H. Sims by 619 votes in the general election.

Eric Schneiderman was elected to replace incumbent Andrew Cuomo who successfully ran for governor.

Andrew Cuomo was elected to replace incumbent Eliot Spitzer who successfully ran for governor.

In 1980, she challenged three-term incumbent Democratic Congressman Andrew Maguire, and won in what was then the.