In 1873, it became known that Allan had contributed a large sum of money to the Conservative government's re-election campaign of 1872 ; some sources quote a sum over $ 360, 000.

While he campaigned for Conservative candidates in the 1917 federal election he did not stand for re-election himself.

It was in 1966 that Dalton Camp, who was by then President of the Progressive Conservative Party, ran for re-election in what was widely believed to be a referendum on Diefenbaker's leadership.

Consequentially the paper opposed Macmillan ’ s government ’ s re-election in 1959, complaining: " The continued Conservative pretence that Suez was a good, a noble, a wise venture has been too much to stomach … the Government is taking its stand on a solid principle: ' Never admit a mistake.

However, prior to that, Somoza worked out an agreement allowing him to stand for re-election in 1974 ; he would be replaced as president by a three-man junta consisting of two Liberals and one Conservative while retaining control of the National Guard.

In 2010 John Gummer chose not to seek re-election and Therese Coffey was returned as MP for the Conservative Party with a majority of 9, 128.

In November 2003, having turned down an offer of a Shadow Cabinet post from the incoming Conservative leader Michael Howard, Portillo announced that he would not seek re-election and he left the House of Commons at the 2005 general election.

In 1859, Haliburton was elected the Member of Parliament for Launceston, Cornwall as a member of the Conservative minority ; he did not stand for re-election in 1865.

He announced that he was considering standing against a third Conservative MP, Sir Nicholas Winterton, the MP for Macclesfield in the 2010 General Election, but following the latter's announcement that he was not going to seek re-election, did not do so.

McGuinty himself faced a surprisingly difficult re-election in Ottawa South, but defeated his Progressive Conservative opponent by about 3, 000 votes.

Gardiner campaigned for re-election in Reigate, but was not successful, losing to the new Conservative candidate.

Following Blocher's failed re-election as Federal Councillor in 2007, moderates within the party split off, forming the Conservative Democratic Party ( BDP ).

Members of Parliament ( MPs ) André Bachand, John Herron, Joe Clark and Scott Brison declined to join the new party – Brison immediately crossed the floor to the Liberals, Bachand and Clark sat out the remainder of the 37th Canadian Parliament as Progressive Conservatives and then retired from office in the 2004 election, and Herron sat as a Progressive Conservative for the remainder of the term but then ran for re-election in 2004 as a Liberal.

He was closely involved in John Major's re-election campaign as leader of the Conservative Party in July 1995.

Guthrie, however, stayed with the Conservatives, becoming Minister of Defence and running for re-election as a Conservative in the 1921 election.

Cassidy faced a difficult re-election in Ottawa Centre, and defeated Progressive Conservative candidate David Small by only 599 votes.

Worth was disappointed with the new constitution and refused to run for re-election on the Conservative Party ticket in the election of 1868.

Ross successfully ran as a Conservative candidate for the district of Champlain in the 1872 federal election election, but did not run for re-election in the 1874.

He allowed Norquay to retake the leadership of the " Conservative Party ", and did not seek re-election in 1888.

When Major resigned to fight for re-election as Conservative Party Leader in July 1995, Lord Cranborne led his re-election campaign.

Despite his success in his first term in office, pundits suggested that Savoy faced a tough battle for re-election especially with the creation of the new Conservative Party of Canada out of the old Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties whose combined vote in 2000 was 63 %.

He immediately joined the Liberal Party caucus of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and subsequently ran and won re-election as a straight Liberal against Conservative and Socialist opponents.

Led by public figures of the MNSD outside government, the group took the name of Tandja's 2004 re-election slogan, Tazartché: a Hausa word meaning " Continuity ".

Former President Fujimori ’ s tainted re-election to a third term in June 2000 strained Peru's relations with the United States and with many Latin American and European countries, but relations improved with the installation of an interim government in November 2000 and the inauguration of Alejandro Toledo in July 2001 after free and fair elections.

In June 2008 the then Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resigned his parliamentary seat over what he described as the " erosion of civil liberties " by the then Labour government, and successfully won re-election on a civil liberties platform ( although he was not opposed by candidates of other major parties ).

In a move that some saw as a reaction to Chen's re-election, the People's Republic of China enacted a proposed anti-secession law that allows the use of force on Taiwan and the Republic of China government if it formally declares independence.

The Obama administration urged Karzai to exclude ineffective or corrupt officials from the new government, while powerful Afghans who helped deliver his re-election were demanding positions.

The first was that the government should be " in a Parliament and a single person limited and restrained as the Parliament should think fit ", and he later proposed that the English Council of State be subject to re-election every three years by the House of Commons, that the militia should be controlled by Parliament, and that supplies should only be granted to the army for limited periods.

The constituency lines were redrawn under the Electoral ( Amendment ) Act 1974 in an attempt to secure re-election for the sitting Fine Gael-Labour Party government in the 1977 election and Haughey represented Dublin Artane in 1977, this constituency was abolished in 1981 and most of Haughey's electoral area was moved into the reformed Dublin North – Central constituency which he served from 1981 until his retirement in 1992.

Alderman Eddy Ford became mayor in 1993 and served in that position until April 2009, when he failed to win re-election, losing to Dr. Ralph McGill, another of the original founders of the town government.

After the re-election of Chen Shui-bian in 2004, Hu's government changed tactics.

A deadlock between a head of state and the legislative body can give rise and cause for a head of state to prematurely dismiss the elected government, requiring it to seek re-election.

Following Stoltenberg's re-election in 2009, the government has put further restrictions on immigration matters due to ongoing threats of terrorism, centralised and re-organised health care and public hospitals, dealt with the ongoing global recession and championed for environmentalist policies through private and corporate taxation.

The government was widely expected to win re-election in 1997.

In the March 2007 election, his government won re-election but was reduced to a minority government, the first minority government in Quebec in 129 years.

* The re-election of the Fianna Fáil – Progressive Democrats government, the first occasion since 1969 when an Irish government won re-election.

Against them stood Greenfield's government, UFA president Henry Wise Wood ( whom Bevington was challenging for re-election ), and radical Labour Member of Parliament William Irvine.

On 18 August 1903, Reid resigned ( the first member of the House of Representatives to do so ) and challenged the government to oppose his re-election on the issue of its refusal to accept a system of equal electoral districts.

In a move that some saw as a reaction to Chen's re-election, the People's Republic of China enacted a proposed anti-secession law that allows the use of force on Taiwan and the Republic of China government if it formally declares independence.

Though not as successful as the CSR, the Blueprint was part of a successful re-election campaign, allowing Harris to win another majority government ( defeating new Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty ).

There was a thaw in 1983 when Metzenbaum endorsed Glenn for president and again in 1988 when Metzenbaum was opposed for re-election by Cleveland mayor George Voinovich.

Gradi returned to management in June 1983, when he accepted an offer to manage Crewe Alexandra, a team who regularly finished near the bottom of the Fourth Division and had been forced to apply for re-election on several occasions in order to avoid slipping into the Northern Premier League and, since its creation in 1979, the Football Conference.

Jackson died in office in 1983 after winning re-election for the fifth time in 1982.

However, David never won a seat in Congress, and Dan ended up being defeated for re-election in 1984 due, in part, to his involvement in the 1983 Congressional page sex scandal.

In 1983, Edwards defeated Treen's re-election attempt.

Freeman easily won re-election in 1983 by defeating Edwards ' first lieutenant governor, Democrat Jimmy Fitzmorris.

Presser announced on June 7, 1983, that he intended to endorse Reagan for re-election.

He was eventually replaced by Michael Heseltine in January 1983 when Nott announced he would not seek re-election in 1983.

In 1983, during Laxalt's second Senate term and on the eve of Reagan's re-election bid, the Sacramento Bee published two articles about Laxalt's business dealings while his family owned a hotel-casino in Carson City in the early 1970s.

He won re-election three times and served until 1983.

( Martinez served out the remainder of the term but declined to run for re-election in 1983 ).

Banks succeeded first-term alderman Louis Farina, who declined to run for re-election in 1983 under pressure from then Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, because of Farina's eminent indictment.

Under his management, the club avoided the re-election zone in 1982 – 83, but again struggled in 1983 – 84, and he left the club in March 1984, later returning to Vale Park as a coach.

He served in the U. S. Senate from 1983 to 1989, refusing to stand for re-election in 1988 so that he may spend more time with his family.

Although the Democratic Committee rejected Foerster and endorsed Wecht for re-election as commissioner in 1983, the committee paired him with Sheriff Gene Coon, with whom he also had a longstanding political feud.