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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 electoral ballots were opened and counted on February 11, 1801, it turned out that the certificate of election from Georgia was defective ; while it was clear that the electors had cast their votes for Jefferson and Burr, the certificate did not take the constitutionally-mandated form of a " List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each ".
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 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 and vote
When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.
When the regimental companies in the Grants had been raised, they held a vote in Dorset to determine who would command the regiment.
When Haiti announced that its first direct elections ( all men twenty-one or over were allowed to vote ) would be held on October 8, 1950, Magloire resigned from the junta and declared himself a candidate for president.
When elections were finally organized, this time under terms of universal suffrage ( both men and women now had the vote ), Duvalier, a black, painted himself as the legitimate heir to Estimé.
When the vote was nearing, and the constitution still looked likely to be defeated, Madison pleaded with a small group of anti-federalists, and promised them he would push for a bill of rights later if they changed their votes.
When the vote was held, the convention barely had sufficient votes to ratify, and these likely did not appear until the last minute.
When logrolling occurs within a Direct Democracy, a few individuals vote openly, and votes are easy to trade, rearrange, and observe.
When a legislator needs a few more votes to acquire a simple majority, he will seek support through a vote exchange.
When people have ideologies at opposite ends of the political spectrum, it ’ s difficult to ensure a simple majority, so buying a supermajority vote through logrolling may be the most cost effective ( Buchanan and Tullock 1962 ).
When methods of trade do not conflict with given standards or ethical procedures, individuals naturally seek mutually advantageous vote trades.
When the vote was taken, enough of the majority refrained from voting to produce a tie and give Calhoun his longed-for " vengeance.
When it appeared that, in spite of heavy pressure, non-communist parties might receive in excess of 40 percent of the vote in the August 1947 Hungarian elections, an all-out repression was instituted to suppress independent political forces.
) 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 any six ( or more ) members vote in favor of a position, that position becomes an official position of the Rabbinical Assembly.
When only one member of a state was on the floor, then that state ’ s vote did not count.
When the 20 candidates were asked to anonymously vote for which other candidate they would like to see as the first to fly, all but three chose Gagarin.
When the IFC's Board of Directors votes on matters brought before it, each executive director's vote is weighted according to the total share capital of the member countries represented by that director.
When questioned about which episode in their career they most regretted, none of the other candidates would answer the question, except Anderson, who cited his vote for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
When the voters in New Hampshire went to the polls, Anderson again exceeded the expectations, finishing fourth with just under 10 % of the vote.
When the 110th Congress convened on January 4, 2007, she was nominated and elected as the 60th Speaker by a vote of 233-202, becoming the first woman to be elected Speaker of the House.
When the Senate could not muster a two-thirds vote to pass a treaty of annexation with Texas, Calhoun devised a joint resolution of the Houses of Congress, requiring only a simple majority ; Texas joined the Union.
When the talks concluded, Callaghan led the Cabinet in declaring the new terms acceptable and he supported a ' Yes ' vote in the 1975 referendum.
When establishing new requirements such as subjectively administered literacy tests, in some states, they used " grandfather clauses " to enable illiterate whites to vote.
" When the House of Representatives finally took a roll call vote on February 9, 1941, the 260 to 165 vote fell largely along party lines.

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