When Election Day arrived, Andrew Jackson won, although narrowly, pluralities of the popular and electoral votes, but not the necessary majority of electoral votes.

When the votes were counted, the party doubled its federal vote from 1. 9 million ( PDS result in 2002 ) to more than 4 million — including an electoral breakthrough in industrial Saarland where, for the first time in a western state, it surpassed the Greens and FDP due, in large part to Lafontaine's popularity and Saarland roots.

When third parties are built around an ideology which is at odds with the majority mindset, many members belong to such a party not for the purpose of expecting electoral success but rather for personal or psychological reasons.

When Gladstone first joined Palmerston's government in 1859, he opposed further electoral reform, but he changed his position during Palmerston's last premiership, and by 1865 he was firmly in favour of enfranchising the working classes in towns.

When the returns were all in, Guzmán handed Balaguer the first loss of his electoral career.

When Labour came to power in 1997 he was appointed a Parliamentary Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, and was promoted to Minister of State in the department as Minister for Housing and Planning from 1999 to 2001, and Minister for Local Government 2001-02, and in the again reorganised Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2005, with special responsibility for local government, English regions, electoral law, fire, health and safety and London.

When the electoral vote was counted in Congress on February 8, 1837, it was revealed that while Van Buren received 170 votes for president, Johnson had received only 147 for vice-president.

When the 1996 election, the first conducted under the MMP electoral system, gave the balance of power to the centrist New Zealand First party, many believed that Labour would return to power, but in the end New Zealand First allied itself with the National Party.

When the reign of Louis Philippe came to a close through the opposition of his ministry, with Guizot at its head, to the demand for electoral reform and through the policy of the Spanish marriages, Cousin, who was opposed to the government on these points, lent his sympathy to Cavaignac and the Provisional government.

When parliamentary reform came to prominence again in the mid-1860s, Cranborne worked hard to master electoral statistics until he became an expert.

When the Liberal Reform Bill was being debated in 1866, Cranborne studied the census returns to see how each clause in the Bill would affect the electoral prospects in each seat.

" When the UNITA demand was originally rebuffed by the MPLA, Savimbi vastly intensified his military pressure, while alleging that the MPLA was resisting free and fair elections because they feared a UNITA electoral victory.

When an election is imminent, such details ( multi-page ) can be inspected at the electoral commission's website, http :// www. aec. gov. au.

When a person is appointed Divisional Returning Officer for a seat, his electoral enrolment will be transferred from the electorate where he lives to the one he administers.

When PCF ministers resigned in 1984 to protest Mitterrand's change of economic policies, the party's electoral decline accelerated.

When Speaker Edward FitzRoy, previously a Conservative MP, was opposed by a Labour Party candidate at the 1935 general election, there was strong disapproval from other parties and a sub-committee of the Cabinet considered whether a special constituency should be created for the Speaker to remove the obligation to take part in electoral contests.

When Indira Gandhi was found guilty of violating electoral laws by the Allahabad High Court, Narayan called for Indira to resign, and advocated a program of social transformation which he termed Sampoorna kraanti Revolution.

When Briggs was abolished in an electoral redistribution, Rann was elected to the seat of Ramsay at the 1993 election.

When the Italian Social Movement had its greatest electoral gains since the Second World War in June, 1971, crowds at the party headquarters cheered and gave the outstretched arm salute.

When no agreement could be reached on the electoral strategy McCarten and Harré disassociated themselves from the Alliance.

When proportional representation was introduced in 1919, the new farmers ' parties won significant electoral support, especially in Zürich and Bern, and eventually also gained representation in parliament and government.

When Sousa Franco and his SPD-inspired social democrats started their break with the rest of the party he referred to a division between " a rural wing, led by Sá Carneiro, and an urban wing, more moderate and truly social democratic, close to the positions of Helmut Schmidt " Due to the electoral influence of ruralism on the PSD's politics they may be seen inside of or influencing most factions.

When his own electoral prospects looked dim in 1972, he encouraged Carson to run for the Indiana House of Representatives, which she did ; she was elected in 1972, serving as a member for four years.

When it became clear after another six ballots that Van Buren would not win the required majority, Polk emerged as a " dark horse " candidate.

) When a vote is successful, the ballots are burned alone, sending white smoke ( fumata bianca ) through the chimney and announcing to the world the election of a new pope.

When wage reforms were rejected by two national ballots, Gormley declared that each region could decide on these reforms on its own accord ; his decisions had been upheld by courts on appeal.

When the ballots were in, Pat Harrison lost by one vote, 37-to-38.

When Cuyahoga county's primary was held on May 2, 2006, officials ordered the hand-counting of more than 18, 000 paper ballots after Diebold's new optical scan machines produced inconsistent tabulations, leaving several local races in limbo for days and eventually resulting in a reversal of the outcome of one race for state representative.

When the ballots were counted, the Green Party secured 4. 3 percent of the popular vote, thereby surpassing the 2 percent threshold required for party financing under new Elections Canada rules.

When the poll close at 7 pm, the scanned ballots are counted and the results announced soon after.

When electronic ballots are used there is no risk of exhausting the supply of ballots.

When administering elections in which ballots are offered in multiple languages ( in some areas of the United States, public elections are required by the National Voting Rights Act of 1965 ), electronic ballots can be programmed to provide ballots in multiple languages for a single machine.

When the ballots were counted the Tories were reduced to a minority government.

When ranked ballots are used, a voter can vote for a minor party candidate as their first choice, and also indicate their order of preference for the remaining candidates, without regard for whether a candidate is in a major political party.

When a janitor discovers the two discarded ballots and presents them to the principal, McAllister resigns from his job.

When the Infirmarii return to the Chapel, the ballots are counted to ensure that their number matches with the number of ill cardinals ; thereafter, they are deposited in the appropriate receptacle.

When Martin ’ s unexpired term ended in January 1832, the Maryland General Assembly elected Howard for a full-year term, receiving 64 o the 82 ballots cast.

When those ballots were counted, it was enough for Ford to unseat Kuykendall by only 744 votes -- one of the closest races of the 1974 cycle.

When administering elections in which ballots are offered in multiple languages ( in some areas of the United States, public elections are required to by the National Voting Rights Act of 1965 ), DRE voting systems can be programmed to provide ballots in multiple languages on a single machine.

When this system proved unwieldy, the Twelfth Amendment was passed in 1804 providing that the President and Vice-President run on the same ticket but be elected on different ballots.

When the nominees were selected the ballots were sent to an international voting committee of over 1, 000 dance music experts.

When the ballots were counted on December 13, 1991, the Carey slate had won a huge upset victory.

When all the ballots were tallied, Reichert had won with 53 % of the vote compared to Burner's 47 %.