In the 1970s it became a fully-fledged political party, and since then it has fielded candidates in elections to Westminster and the European Parliament, as well as local government in Cornwall.

The Alberta Alliance continued to grow following the federal party's merger, and the provincial party fielded a full slate of candidates for the 2004 provincial election, on November 22, 2004, and won one seat in the Legislature.

The first Green Party in North America, was formed in British Columbia, Canada on February 4, 1983, registering as both a provincial society and a political party shortly before the 1983 provincial election in which it fielded four candidates and received 0. 19 % of the vote under the leadership of Adriane Carr.

In the 1986 provincial election, the party won 0. 23 % of the vote and fielded nine candidates.

In 1832, the party fielded William Wirt as its presidential candidate.

K. S. Venkatakrishna Reddiar was elected President and the party fielded candidates in 55 constituencies in the 1957 state assembly elections, to emerge as the second largest party in Madras state with 13 seats in the legislative assembly.

The minimum number of signatures for a presidential candidate fielded by a political party with no parliamentary representation is 100, 000, down from 2 million before amendmends to the law.

Due to the needs of the state parties to collect signatures, the party fielded several different vice presidential nominees, including Chicago activist Peggy Terry, activist Rodolfo " Corky " Gonzales, radical economist Doug Dowd, and Judith Mage, who had been nominated at the national convention.

In the 2000 federal election, the party fielded 111 candidates, up from 78 in 1997.

The party fielded twelve candidates in the June 2009 local elections.

The party fielded Malachy Steenson in the Dublin Central by-election on the same date.

In the 1981 general election the party fielded 7 candidates, with Noël Browne elected for Dublin North – Central.

In the 2008 election the Alliance fielded candidates in all major New Zealand centres, contesting 15 electorate seats and running a party list of 30 candidates under the co-leaders Kay Murray and Andrew McKenzie.

Founded in 1963, the party fielded humorous candidates in many ridings with a satirical platform.

The party had fielded a number of new, high-profile candidates, including Justin Keating, Conor Cruise O ' Brien, David Thornley, and Noël Browne.

The party fielded candidates in 12 district council elections.

The party fielded a candidate in the 3 March 2011 local by-election for the Walkden North ward for Salford City Council.

The party fielded a candidate, Kent based Steve Uncles, in the Welsh Assembly constituency of Monmouth, in line with their view that Monmouthshire should be returned to English governance.

The party fielded 101 candidates in the local elections in England, including district council elections, mayoral contests and elections to the Greater London Assembly.

At the 2005 General Election the party fielded one candidate, in Sittingbourne and Sheppey, who managed to poll more votes than the Veritas candidate.

It has not fielded a candidate for governor in 2006 or 2010, making it impossible for the party to gain automatic ballot access until at least the 2014 election.

The party fielded eight candidates for the March 3, 2008 Alberta general election.

The apex of the party was in the 1912 election when it fielded 17 candidates, winning two seats in the legislature, and 11 % of the popular vote.

" The term was sufficiently prevalent that during the year's Presidential campaign, most notably with Democratic party nominee Jimmy Carter describing himself as " born again " in the first Playboy magazine interview of an American Presidential candidate.

In the 2008 elections, the opposition Union for a Presidential Majority ( UMP ) party boycotted the election, leaving all 65 seats to the ruling RPP.

Arrested by the dictatorship shortly after being declared Presidential candidate by his party, the opposition leader escaped from prison and launched the Plan of San Luis Potosí from the United States, in this manner beginning the Mexican Revolution.

After he finally broke with Taft, Roosevelt saw himself as the only person who could save the Republican party from defeat in the upcoming Presidential election and announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination.

Prior to that, party bosses often used the Vice Presidential nomination as a consolation prize for the party's minority faction.

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.

Taft indicated to Roosevelt he wanted to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, not President, but there was no vacancy and Roosevelt had other plans – in 1907 he began touting Taft as the best choice for the Presidential nomination by the party.

This is the only time that both members of a major party Presidential ticket have died during the term they sought election for.

As the left-wing Socialist Party was in thorough disarray following Jospin's defeat, Chirac reorganised politics on the right, establishing a new party – initially called the Union of the Presidential Majority, then the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ).

Doenecke stated that the fight over Robertson was not important enough to disturb party unity over Presidential authority since the previous customs collector, Edwin A. Merrit, appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878, was a reformer.

A grouping of left-leaning parties and dissident Peronists – the Front for a Country in Solidarity ( Frente por un País Solidario, FREPASO )– emerged in the 1990s as a serious third party, coming second in the 1995 Presidential elections.

The nominations for party Presidential candidates were held on the 28th August, 2006, amid reports of the Government intimidating and unfairly detaining Opposition members and sympathisers, and of using the machineries of state ( including the national media arm of the Government, GRTS ), to gain an unfair advantage during political campaigns.

Presidential elections indicate a strong sense of support for the Republican party.

In the later 20th century, Stark County's voting record swung from one party to another, closely tracking the winner of the U. S. Presidential election.

In past Presidential elections third party candidates sometimes did well here.

The Pan-Green Coalition formed in the aftermath of the 2000 ROC Presidential election, after which Lee Teng-hui was expelled from the Kuomintang and created his own party, the Taiwan Solidarity Union, which maintains a pro-independence platform.

The latter requirement would allow a party to kill a referendum proposal by asking that their voters boycott the vote as was done by the KMT with the referendums associated with the 2004 Presidential Election.

In the 2000 Presidential Election, Ma remained loyal to the KMT and supported its candidate, Lien Chan, over James Soong, who had bolted from the party and was running as an independent.

Presidential elections in Tajikistan have consistently been criticized by international observers as unfair and favoring the ruling party.

In spring 1981, members of the Centre Party, whose party was included in the government coalition, launched an attempt behind the scenes to bring down the cabinet with a parliamentary vote of no confidence, so that Koivisto would not be able to conduct a Presidential election campaign from the position of Prime Minister.

In 1925 he was the Presidential candidate for the conservative Kokoomus party, but was not elected.

It was due to this that, in the Presidential election of 1937, the Social Democrats and the Agrarian party voted against him.

" Both primaries and caucuses are used in the Presidential nomination process, beginning in January and culminating in the late-summer political party conventions.

During the 1964 American Presidential campaign, the Republican party spent about five million dollars on " peace through strength " TV spots.