Although Rhode Islanders were preparing for the state elections, they watched John Brown's trial with extreme interest.

Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.

Finally, on 10 November 1989, at the November plenum of BCP Todor Zhivkov was dismissed as a long-time party leader and head of state and the communist regime gave way to democratic elections and government.

Before the 2008 elections in Bavaria, the CSU perennially achieved absolute majorities at the state level by itself.

Since the July 2006 elections, the country is led by a semi-presidential, strongly-decentralized state.

Dictatorships are often characterized by some of the following traits: suspension of elections and of civil liberties ; proclamation of a state of emergency ; rule by decree ; repression of political opponents without abiding by rule of law procedures ; these include single-party state, and cult of personality.

The elections were widely believed to be heavily rigged in the favor of Ayub Khan using state patronage and intimidation to influence the indirectly elected electoral college.

The support for state autonomy grew when Awami League introduced the Six point movement in 1966, and participated with full force in the 1970 general elections in which the Awami League had won and secured the exclusive mandate of East-Pakistan.

The party also made gains in the two state elections held at the same time, acquiring sufficient seats for a CDU-FDP coalition in the northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein and gaining enough votes in left leaning Brandenburg to clear the 5 % hurdle to enter that state's parliament.

The FDP retained their seats in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was held six months after the federal election, but out of the seven state elections that have been held since 2009, the FDP have lost all their seats in five of them due to failing to cross the 5 % threshold.

The change in leadership failed to revive the FDP's fortunes and in the next series of state elections the party lost all its seats in Bremen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin.

However, this was averted in the Schleswig-Holstein state elections, when they achieved 8 % of the vote, which was a severe loss of seats but still over the 5 % threshold.

In the snap elections in North Rhine-Westphalia a week later, the FDP not only crossed the threshold, but also increased its share of the votes to 2 percentage points higher than the previous state election.

The CDU won in some important state elections but was hit in 2000 by a party donation scandal from the Kohl years.

In its second term, the red green coalition lost several very important state elections, for example in Lower Saxony where Schröder was the prime minister from 1990 to 1998.

The existence of the grand coalition on federal level helped smaller parties ' electoral prospects in state elections.

After being elected into the Federal Government, the FDP suffered from heavy losses in the following state elections.

It is difficult to tell what the SPD defeat in the federal politics means for the state elections, as both big parties did well in some but not in others.

For almost two years after the federal elections in 2005, the Greens were not part of any government at the state or federal level.

Malaysia has had regular elections since 1974, and although campaigning is reasonably free at election time, it is in effect a one-party state, with the UMNO-controlled National Front usually winning nearly all the seats, while the DAP wins some Chinese urban seats and the PAS some rural Malay ones.

When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

Other references state that he visited in 1832, and again on August 14, 1839, in the whaler Gideon Howland, to bury an American seaman.

Military expenditures, from the independence wars and from an unsuccessful campaign to wrest Cauca Province from Colombia in 1832, kept the state treasury empty while other matters were left unattended.

In 1832, Michael Faraday's experiments led him to state his two laws of electrochemistry.

The borders of the Kingdom were reiterated in the London Protocol of 30 August 1832 signed by the Great Powers, which ratified the terms of the Constantinople Arrangement in connection with the border between Greece and the Ottoman Empire and marked the end of the Greek War of Independence creating modern Greece as an independent state free of the Ottoman Empire.

The Marshall court ruled that while Native American tribes were sovereign nations ( Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 1831 ), state laws had no force on tribal lands ( Worcester v. Georgia, 1832 ).

In 1832 the state passed legislation prohibiting worker contracts from lasting more than ten years.

The origins of the present state began with the establishment of a British settlement at King George Sound in 1826 ( later named Albany from 1832 ).

The modern Greek state was created in 1832, when the Greeks liberated a part of their historic homelands, Peloponnese, from the Ottoman Empire.

Henry's body was evidently well-embalmed, as an exhumation in 1832 established, allowing historians to state with reasonable certainty that the effigies do represent accurate portraiture.

A disputed 1804 treaty between Quashquame and William Henry Harrison ( future ninth President of the U. S .) that surrendered much of the future state of Illinois to the U. S. enraged many Sauk ( Sac ) Indians and led to the 1832 Black Hawk War.

In Worcester v. Georgia ( 1832 ), the US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that American Indian nations were " distinct, independent political communities retaining their original natural rights ," and entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments that infringed on their sovereignty.

* Seminole People, originally from the present-day state of Florida, signed the Treaty of Payne's Landing in 1832, in response to the 1830 Indian Removal Act, that forced the tribes to move to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma.

Houston left for Texas in December 1832 and was immediately swept up in the politics of what was still a territory of the Mexican state of Coahuila.

In 1832 South Carolina passed an ordinance of nullification, a procedure in which a state could in effect repeal a Federal law, directed against the most recent tariff acts.

Ottoman sovereignty lasted until 1821, when the islands revolted ; Naxos finally became a member of the Greek state in 1832.

However, in Worcester v. Georgia ( 1832 ), the Court ruled that Georgia could not impose laws in Cherokee territory, since only the national government — not state governments — had authority in Indian affairs.

Russell County was established by an act of the state general assembly on December 18, 1832, from lands ceded to the state by the Creek Indians.

The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis, and Kickapoos known as the " British Band " crossed the Mississippi River into the U. S. state of Illinois in April 1832.

* Montford Stokes ( 1762 – 1842 ), United States Senator, Governor of North Carolina ( 1816 – 1832 ), appointed by President Andrew Jackson to lead the Federal Indian Commission in what is now Oklahoma ; he is believed to be the only veteran of the Revolutionary War buried in that state.

In December, 1832 the Georgia General Assembly designated the extreme northwestern corner of the state as Murray County.

Cobb, along with several other counties in the same bill, was created December 3, 1832, by the Georgia General Assembly from the huge Cherokee " county " territory — land northwest of the Chattahoochee River which the state confiscated from the Cherokee Nation and redistributed to settlers via lottery, following the passage of the federal Indian Removal Act .< ref >

As the European-American population of Ouachita Parish continued to increase, the area was split into smaller parishes ; in 1832 Carroll Parish was carved out of Ouachita by the state legislature.

Livingston Parish was created by state legislature in 1832.