At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.

Vladimír Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, which received about 27 % of the vote in 1998 ( almost 900, 000 votes ) received only 19. 5 % ( about 560, 000 votes ) in 2002 and again went into opposition, unable to find coalition partners.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 5, 2006 ' won getting the 37. 99 % of the valid votes cast 930. 802 votes equivalent to relatively higher than the two forces princiapl opisitora presented at election they were the party of the Second Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance ( ALN ) with the degree candidate Eduardo Montealegre Rivas who won 693. 391 votes recorded corresponding to a 28. 30 % and third place went to the Constitutionalist Liberal Party with Dr. José Rizo Castellón who earned a total 664. 225 of valid votes corresponding to 27. 11 %.

He humiliated his opponents by not appearing in televised presidential debates and went on to win 259 out of the 300 electoral college votes, with his nearest rival, Raino Westerholm of the Christian Union, receiving only 25.

49 % votes went in favor of the statue.

Sked went on to lose his deposit in the by-election, polling only 601 votes ( 1. 0 %).

Pierce and running mate William R. King went on to win what was at the time one of the nation's largest electoral victories, trouncing Scott and his vice-presidential nominee, William Alexander Graham of North Carolina, 254 electoral votes to 42.

Although some political pundits predicted a close race, Roosevelt went on to win the greatest electoral landslide since the beginning of the current two-party system in the 1850s, carrying all but 8 electoral votes.

The effort failed, as several votes on delegate credentials went McGovern's way, guaranteeing his victory.

Many of these early boroughs ( such as Winchelsea and Dunwich ) were substantial settlements at the time of their original enfranchisement, but later went into decline, as a result elected two MPs by only a few electors ' votes ; they were often known as rotten boroughs.

Marina Silva's Green Party in the Brazilian presidential election, 2010 won 19. 33 % of the vote of the first round taking enough votes from Dilma Rousseff of the incumbent PT party to stop her getting the 50 % needed to avoid a second round of which she went on to beat Jose Serra of the opposition PSDB party.

The election was close ; New York's 36 electoral votes proved the difference, and went to Polk by a slim 5, 000 vote margin.

In one of the largest upsets in the Territory during the 1990s, Martin went on to win the seat by 69 votes, becoming one of only two ALP MLAs in Darwin.

The fact that the parliamentary bill authorising the drowning went through without support from any Welsh MPs showed that the MPs ' votes in Westminster were not enough to prevent such bills from passing.

The article went on to say " Wenner used a technicality about the day votes were due in.

Griffey received the most votes of any player in the National League for the 2007 All-Star balloting and on the July 10 game, he went on to drive in two runs for the National League.

It went on to win 285, 616 votes in England and Wales in the 2010 General Election ,, with Party leader Caroline Lucas winning the Brighton Pavilion seat.

Nebraska split its electoral vote when Senator Obama won the electoral vote from Nebraska's 2nd congressional district ; the state's other four electoral votes went to Senator McCain.

Hendon is represented by Matthew Offord who has a slim majority of 106 votes.

In April 1895 he was elected Speaker by a majority of eleven votes over Sir Matthew White Ridley, the Unionist nominee.

Former Governor William McKinley of Ohio was nominated on the first ballot with 661½ votes to 84½ to House Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine, 61½ votes for Pennsylvania Senator Matthew S. Quay, 58 votes for Governor Levi P. Morton of New York who was Vice President ( 1889 – 1893 ) under President Benjamin Harrison.

He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1949 provincial election, defeating Liberal-Progressive candidate Matthew R. Sutherland by forty votes in the Lansdowne constituency.

All voters were allowed to nominate five players and while there was no disclosure of which five each voter chose, Wisden editor Matthew Engel revealed that Weekes voted for Dennis Lillee and, as Sir Donald Bradman received 100 votes, it is obvious Weekes voted for Bradman as well.

He was defeated, losing to government candidate Matthew Robert Blake by a margin of 9, 656 votes to 3, 472.

Campbell faced a challenge from Liberal Matthew Laurie, and defeated him by 278 votes on October 29, 1900.

He finished second on the first count with 1, 563 votes ( 36. 47 %), and lost to Liberal-Progressive Matthew R. Sutherland on the second count.

Lloyd George was returned as Liberal MP for Carnarvon Boroughs — by a margin of 19 votes — on 13 April 1890 at a by-election caused by the death of the former Conservative member.

He won 14, 302 votes and retained his deposit but Selwyn Lloyd held on to the seat for the Conservatives.

( John Hospers in 1972, Ronald Reagan in 1976, Lloyd Bentsen in 1988, and John Edwards in 2004 all received one electoral vote from faithless electors, but none won these votes in a general election.

However on 5 December 2006 she was defeated by Lloyd by 11 votes when she sought re-election, with her closeness to Tony Blair being cited as a reason for her defeat.

White received 1, 697, 870 votes ( 53. 2 percent ) to Clements ' 1, 465, 537 ( 45. 9 percent ) in a year where Texas Democrats swept all the statewide offices being led by U. S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen ( who won a third six-year term to the Senate ) and the legendary Lieutenant Governor of Texas William P. Hobby Jr. ( Hobby was first elected lieutenant governor in 1972 ) both of whom carried the Democratic Party's statewide banner which also included the elections of Jim Mattox as state attorney general, Bob Bullock, who won his third term as Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts-having been elected in 1974, Ann Richards as state treasurer, Garry Mauro as Commissioner of the General Land Office, and Jim Hightower as Texas Commissioner of Agriculture while Democrats easily maintained their majorities in both houses of the Texas Legislature.

He was very narrowly defeated — by only 273 votes — by State Senator Lloyd Doggett of Austin, who was later a long-term Democratic congressman.

Huband was elected leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party on February 22, 1975, defeating his lone opponent Lloyd Henderson by 381 votes to 87.

In 1909, hoping to force an election, the Lords rejected the financial bill based on the government budget ( the " People's Budget ") put forward by David Lloyd George, by 350 votes to 75.

The riding was held by Lloyd Axworthy at the time, and was considered as safe for Liberal Party of Canada ; Radcliffe received only 3878 votes, against Axworthy's 25667.

In the 1981 provincial election, Kovnats was re-elected over NDP candidate Lloyd Schreyer by about 700 votes in the redistributed riding of Niakwa.

He resigned his seat to run for the Canadian House of Commons again in the 1984 federal election, but was unsuccessful, losing to Liberal Lloyd Axworthy in the riding of Winnipeg -- Fort Garry by just over 2, 000 votes.

When Lloyd Axworthy resigned his seat in 1979, Westbury ran to succeed him in the riding of Fort Rouge, and defeating New Democrat Vic Savino by 368 votes.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1959 provincial election, unexpectedly defeating CCF leader Lloyd Stinson by 326 votes in the south-central Winnipeg riding of Osborne.

On the latter occasion, he defeated Liberal candidate Lloyd Axworthy, later a prominent federal cabinet minister, by 790 votes.

He was re-elected over McIsaac by 228 votes in the 1959 election, and defeated former CCF leader Lloyd Stinson by 220 votes in the 1962 campaign.

Maybank defeated Kennedy a second time in the 1940 election, and defeated future Manitoba Cooperative Commonwealth Federation leader Lloyd Stinson by 3, 996 votes in the 1945 election.

Despite the general trend away from the Labour Party, Donnelly beat Lloyd George by playing on the fact that he was supporting the Conservatives, and won the seat by 129 votes.

In the 1920 election, Williams defeated Farmer candidate Duncan Lloyd McLeod by only ten votes.