In the 2005 leadership election, she initially supported Kenneth Clarke again.

Albert Frederick initially refused to recognize the election of Stefan Bathory and supported the candidacy of Maximilian of Hapsburg.

Though he initially stood for election, unsuccessfully, as a Radical, Disraeli was a Tory by the time he won a seat in the House of Commons in 1837 representing the constituency of Maidstone.

The Court initially consisted of 11 judges and 4 deputy judges, recommended by member states of the League of Nations to the Secretary General of the League of Nations, who would put them before the Council and Assembly for election.

Although initially willing to stand in the 1984 elections, the UNO, headed by Arturo Cruz ( a former Sandinista ) declined participation in the elections based on their own objections to the restrictions placed on the electoral process by the State of Emergency and the official advisement of President Ronald Reagan's State Department, who feared that their participation would legitimize the election process.

After Clinton's 1992 election, Foster joined his White House staff in early 1993, after initially being reluctant to do so.

As it became clear that the election would be a race between Allende and Frei, the political rightwhich initially had backed Radical Julio Durán – settled for Frei as " the lesser evil ".

The eponymous founder of the party was Pim Fortuyn, a charismatic former university professor and political columnist who initially had planned to contest the 2002 general election as leader of the Livable Netherlands ( LN ) party.

The 1984 federal election resulted in the first Conservative majority government in 26 years — and only the second in 54 years — initially seemed to give Mulroney a very formidable position.

He had initially indicated a willingness to contest the June 1927 general election as a Sinn Féin candidate but withdrew after the Irish Republican Army threatened to court-martial any member under IRA General Army Order 28, which forbade its members from standing in elections.

In his panegyric to Majorian, the poet Sidonius Apollinaris tells that Majorian initially refused the election:

Macmillan initially refused a peerage and retired from politics in September 1964, a month before the 1964 election which the Conservatives narrowly lost to Labour, now led by Harold Wilson.

At an election night party, Sandra Day O ' Connor became upset when the media initially announced that Gore had won Florida, her husband explaining that they would have to wait another four years before retiring to Arizona.

In the 2005 KMT chairmanship election, Soong, who retains significant following within the KMT, despite initially instructing party officials not to support either Ma Ying-jeou or Wang Jin-pyng, endorsed Wang at the last minute.

After the Nationalists were heavily defeated in the ensuing election, Hughes initially supported the Labor government of James Scullin.

Starting as the underdog in the 1968 presidential election, running against ambassador Gunnar Thoroddsen who initially had a 70 % lead in the opinion polls, Eldjárn won 65. 6 % of the vote on a 92. 2 % voter turnout.

* Seán Cullen-Cullen has appeared several times on the show, initially as the leader of Corky and the Juice Pigs for a musical number comparing the 1993 Federal election to Gilligan's Island ; he also appeared as " Quint " in a spoof of the movie Jaws.

Unrestricted women's suffrage in terms of voting rights ( women were not initially permitted to stand for election ) was adopted in New Zealand in 1893.

In the 2006 local elections the British National Party initially gained a seat, but it soon transpired their candidate's election had been caused by a counting error and the result was subsequently overturned in favour of the previously third-placed Labour party candidate following an election petition.

Lindemann had initially opposed Bowra's election as a fellow of Wadham, proposing that a scientist should be preferred, but had warmed to Bowra because of his vociferous opposition to the Nazi regime in Germany and the policy of Appeasement.

Though for years private polling companies and several news media published polls predicting Arias would win by a wide margin, the election was initially deemed too close to call.

Brown initially had strong public support and plans for a quick general election were widely publicised, though never officially announced.

After seizing power, Bozizé initially said he would not run in a planned future presidential election, but after the successful constitutional referendum, he announced his intention to stand as a candidate on 11 December:

After initially struggling with the election threshold, the N-VA operated as part of an alliance with CD & V.

One of the great orators of the day, Bryan generated enormous excitement among Democrats with his " Cross of Gold " speech, and appeared in the summer of 1896 to have a good chance of winning the election, if the Populists voted for him.

While the endorsement generated publicity for Nader and the Reform Party, the party was only able to provide Nader with seven ballot lines down from the 49 of 51 guaranteed ballot lines the party had going into the 2000 election.

Although Douglas successfully secured the seat by election in the Illinois legislature, Lincoln became famous for his position on slavery, which generated national support for him.

Following the controversy generated by the public disclouse of her expense Follett announced her decision to stand down at the 2010 general election on 1 October 2009.

In the general election scheduled for 6 – 13 May 2006, Baba attempted a political comeback, this time on the ticket of the ruling Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua ( SDL ), a political switch that generated a considerable degree of public discussion.

On 15 May 2005, the publication of " Speight of Violence ," coauthored by Baba, his wife Unaisi Nabobo-Baba ( a fellow USP academic ( at the time ) now ( 2011 ) of the University of Guam ) and journalist Michael Field, generated controversy with the claim that Mahendra Chaudhry had promised him the Prime Ministership before and during the 1999 election campaign, and that Chaudhry had reneged on that promise.

Devlin held her seat in the 1970 general election but generated controversy when she had a child out of wedlock as well as for her fierce anti-clericalism.

The following year, the town's first direct Mayoral election generated surprise when the mascot of Hartlepool United F. C., H ' Angus the Monkey ( real name Stuart Drummond ) was elected on a platform that included free bananas for schoolchildren.

The documentary film Fahrenheit 9 / 11 generated, and even courted controversy since it was first announced, even before its release just prior to the U. S. presidential election, 2004.

Although her term was uneventful, her election generated worldwide interest from the press, sparking a debate regarding the feasibility of other towns following Argonia's lead, which ranged from objections to a " petticoat rule " to a " wait-and-see " attitude.

In the 2005 general election McDonnell generated one of the most sensational results in Northern Ireland when he won South Belfast, primarily due to a split in the unionist vote.

Brown largely ignored Wilkinson until a week before the election, when he began running ads questioning the amount of money Wilkinson claimed would be generated by a state lottery.

Due at least in part to the bad press generated by these stories and the Church of Scientology's views on homosexuality, she lost the Democratic primary election to win her party's endorsement for the general election in November of that year.

This has generated some controversy in the leadup to the parliamentary election scheduled for 2006.

By this time there is little doubt but what election plans were complete.

A member of the Conservative Party, Pastrana defeated Liberal Party candidate Horacio Serpa in a run-off election marked by high voter turn-out and little political unrest.

The congressional nominating caucus experienced little opposition during the administrations of Jefferson and Madison, but this situation changed in the election year of 1816.

With times reasonably good, a perception arguably reinforced by an extensive government advertising campaign selling the virtues of Victoria to Victorians, polls indicated little interest in change, although towards the end of the election campaign polling indicated that the Liberals under Baillieu were closing the gap.

On the other hand, the Sandinistas had little to fear from the election given the advantages of incumbency and the restrictions on the opposition, and they hoped to discredit the armed efforts to overthrow them.

The election was declared fair by the international community and praised as a model with little intimidation and few violent acts for the first time since a multiparty system was reinstated.

The working-class newspapers were taken by surprise at the news and had little time to express an opinion on Gladstone's manifesto before the election was over.

During his later years, the emperor took little part in German affairs beyond securing the election of his son Wenceslaus as king of the Romans in 1376, and negotiating a peace between the Swabian League and some nobles in 1378.

The spoiler effect describes the effect a minor party candidate with little chance of winning has in a close election, when that candidate's presence in the election draws votes from a major candidate similar to him / her, thereby causing the opposing candidate to win.

This discretion contributed not a little to his election to the papacy on 24 April 1585, with the title of Sixtus V. The story of his having feigned decrepitude in the conclave, in order to win votes, is pure invention.

During the 1944 election campaign, Dewey suffered an unexpected blow when a remark attributed to socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth ( daughter of Theodore Roosevelt ) mocked Dewey as " the little man on the wedding cake " ( alluding to his neat mustache and dapper dress ).

Sulla had a little more control over the election for consul, or at least, had enough power to be certain no one who supported his rival, Marius could be elected.

He had informed the house that he would bring a full Budget to the House when he made his ' little budget ' speech prior to the election.

Another election in 1974 resulted in little change.

With the increasingly racially-divisive politics that have followed the election of the PLP government, as well as the decades of increasing costs-of-living, the exclusion of unskilled workers from jobs in the white collar international business sector that has come to dominate Bermuda's economy, and the global economic downturn, all of which many Black Bermudians perceive as hitting them hardest, there is little sentiment today amongst people who have long been obliged to think of themselves as Black, in opposition to being White, to identify even partly with their European ancestry.

During his term, Harrison tried to pass the Lodge Bill, an election law enforcing the voting rights of blacks in the South, but Morton did little to support the bill against a Democratic filibuster in the Senate.

A programme for government was finally agreed, almost a month after the general election, and Reynolds returned as Minister for Finance in a coalition government that he described as a " temporary little arrangement.

How this election took place is not very clear today, as the chroniclers have little to report.

Although Theobald spoke out against the manner of election, he took little active part in the subsequent electoral disputes, which resulted eventually in the deposition of FitzHerbert and his replacement at York by Henry Murdac.

Because of the unsettled election disputes during the 1140s over the see of York, when it was contested between William of York and Henry Murdac, Theobald faced little challenge from either William or Murdac as to the traditional dispute between Canterbury and York.

He made little progress against Joseph Lyons ' government ( which was returned to office at the 1937 election by a comfortable margin ); but after Lyons ' death in 1939, Labor's position improved.

With McKinley's candidacy needing little of his attention, Hanna spent much of his time working to secure Sherman's re-election by the Ohio Legislature ( senators were elected by state legislatures until the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913 ) by raising funds to gain the election of Republican candidates.

While he was returned for the county seat of Middlesex in 1784, he found so little support that by 1790, he withdrew early in the election.

Hitherto little known, Khatami attracted global attention during his first election to the presidency when he captured almost 70 % of the vote.