When Cermak challenged the incumbent " Big Bill " Thompson in the 1931 mayor's race, Thompson, representative of Chicago's existing power structure, responded with ethnic slurs:

When Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom, won the 1979 general election defeating the incumbent Labour Party led by James Callaghan, Britain had endured several years of severe inflation, which was rarely below 10 % and by the time of the election in May 1979 stood at 10. 3 %.

When Balaguer left office that year, it marked the first time in the Dominican Republic's history that an incumbent president peacefully surrendered power to an elected member of the opposition.

When Quayle decided to challenge three-term Democratic incumbent Birch Bayh in the 1980 U. S. Senate election, Coats ran for and won Quayle's seat in the U. S. House.

When Kramnik won the 2006 unification match, he also won Topalov's berth in the 2007 World Championship as the incumbent FIDE champion.

When Baker was cast to replace Davison, many fans cited that shooting scene in Arc of Infinity, prompting Baker to say jokingly that he got the part of the Doctor by killing the incumbent.

When Mesić's turn came to automatically become the President on May 15, 1991, the Serbian incumbent Member Borisav Jović demanded, against all constitutional rules, that an election be held.

When he took office on January 31, 1961 ; it was the first time since Brazil became a republic in 1889 that an incumbent government peacefully transferred power to an elected member of the opposition.

When Kufuor was sworn in on 7 January 2001, it marked the first time in Ghana's history that an incumbent government had peacefully surrendered power to the opposition.

When Buyer first ran for Congress, in 1992, he faced three-term Democratic incumbent Jim Jontz in what was then the 5th District, comprising twenty mostly rural counties in north central Indiana.

When the incumbent six-term Republican in what was then the 2nd District, Tom Tauke made an unsuccessful run against Senator Tom Harkin during the 1990 election, Nussle ran as the Republican candidate for Tauke's House seat.

When eight-term incumbent and fellow DFLer Donald M. Fraser stepped down to run for the U. S. Senate, Sabo became the DFL candidate to succeed him in what had become the most reliably Democratic district in Minnesota ( Fraser had defeated a 10-term Republican in 1962 and hadn't faced serious opposition since ).

When Hagan defeated Republican incumbent Elizabeth Dole in the 2008 United States Senate election, she became the first woman to defeat a female incumbent in a Senate election.

When Hodges ran for governor in 1998, it was as an underdog against his Republican opponent, incumbent governor David Beasley.

When Richard F. Kneip was elected governor of South Dakota in 1970, defeating the Republican incumbent Frank Farrar, he was only the fourth governor elected from the Democratic Party since statehood.

When the abolition took place, Whitty began publishing the Daily Post at one penny per copy, undercutting the incumbent best-selling Liverpudlian newspaper, the Liverpool Mercury.

When the abolition took place, Whitty began publishing the Daily Post at one penny per copy, undercutting the incumbent best-selling Liverpudlian newspaper, the Liverpool Mercury.

When Pakistan's squad for the 2011 World Cup was announced no captain was named ; Afridi, the incumbent ODI captain and Misbah-ul-Haq, the Test captain, were the front runners for the position.

When incumbent Democratic governor Malcolm R. Patterson subsequently withdrew from the race, Taylor's brother Robert, then a United States Senator, was nominated by the Democrats as a replacement.

When Reagan defeated incumbent President Jimmy Carter in 1980, with Laxalt again serving as national chairman, the Nevada Senator's profile rose even higher.

When incumbent Jack Ford resigned from the House to become Mayor of Toledo, Ohio, Brown was appointed to serve the remainder of his term.

When Balaguer left office that year, it marked the first time in the Dominican Republic's history that an incumbent president peacefully surrendered power to an elected member of the opposition.

When the election was called, on March 26, 2011, his main campaign issue was that Davenport's incumbent MP, Mario Silva, was not a " full-time " MP.

When the general election of 2010 produced a hung parliament, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties agreed to form Her Majesty's current coalition government, the first in seventy years.

When Harding joined the U. S. Congress, both houses were controlled by the Democrats, and Woodrow Wilson, a progressive Democrat, was in the White House ; therefore, the legislative agenda was dominated by the opposition.

When asked in which religion he and his brother were raised, Ford has jokingly responded, " Democrat ," " to be liberals of every stripe ".

When Sirica ordered Nixon to comply with the committee's and Cox's demands, the President offered Cox a compromise: instead of producing the tapes, he would allow the Senator John Stennis ( a Democrat from Mississippi ) to listen to the tapes, with the help of a transcript prepared for him by the White House, and Stennis would then prepare summaries of the tapes ' contents.

When Martin Bell, a well-known BBC war correspondent, announced he would stand as an independent candidate in Tatton, the Labour and Liberal Democrat candidates for the area stood down in order to give Bell a clear run against Hamilton.

When the President is a Democrat, the party generally works closely with the President.

" When Cherry ran for office, he sought the governorship as a Democrat at a time when Arkansas had virtually no Republican presence.

When the American formally folded in 1911, some of its employees banded together to found the Nashville Democrat.

When Obenshain died in a plane crash two months later, Warner was chosen to replace him and narrowly won the general election over Democrat Andrew P. Miller, former Attorney General of Virginia.

When some polling late in the election showed Bush tied or narrowly leading Democrat John Kerry, Lingle attempted to help Republicans carry her state for the first time since 1984.

When Snowe announced in February 2012 that she would not seek re-election, it was reported that she and Democrat Ben Nelson had the closest overlap of any two members of the U. S. Senate.

When my Democrat colleagues of the leadership talk about health care reform, it's about a government-run, socialized health system.

When Charles Kennedy was elected as the Leader of the Liberal Democrats in 1999, Breed was promoted to the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet as the Shadow Agriculture minister.

He could have lectured me on it, and I would have sat there and taken notes .." When commenting in 2006 on his former pupil's ideas about a " Bill of Rights " to replace the Human Rights Act, however, Professor Bogdanor, himself a Liberal Democrat, said, " I think he is very confused.

When they debated the issue on December 16 and 17, Clement L. Vallandigham, a peace Democrat, proposed a resolution stating that the U. S. maintain the seizure as a matter of honor.

In an appearance in Milwaukee, fellow candidate and political rival Howard Dean stated, " When you act like Senator Kerry does, he appears to be more like George Bush than he does like a Democrat.

When the Assembly convened, they elected Crittenden to the U. S. Senate over Democrat James Guthrie by a vote of 94 – 40.

When Ray ran for reelection in 1828, he was approached by state Democrat leader Ratliff Boon to join their party.

When Willkie ran for president in 1940, Watson would not endorse the former Democrat.

When Nick Clegg was appointed as Liberal Democrat Leader, Kramer received a demotion to Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office.

When the American War Between the States started, Belknap, a loyal Democrat, joined the Union Army in the Autumn of 1861 and was commissioned Major in charge recruiting the 15th Iowa Volunteer Infantry on December 7.

When he took office in January 2003, he was the youngest Democrat in the House, at 29 years of age.

When nominations closed and it was revealed that Huggett was a candidate with the description " Literal Democrat ", the Liberal Democrats launched legal action in the High Court of Justice alleging that the Returning Officer had wrongly accepted a nomination which was designed to confuse voters.

When it appeared that a secessionist Democrat might be elected, Republicans abandoned their own candidate and threw their support to McDougall.