— about 55 years ago
Date | Event |
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1192-04-28 |
Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne confirmed by election. Killing carried out by Hashshashin. |
1659-12-16 |
General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland |
1694-12-03 |
English parliamentary election set for every 3 years |
1794-02-28 |
US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin |
1824-12-01 |
US House of Representatives begins to decide outcome of election deadlock between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson (Adams wins) |
1834-10-14 |
In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning down of a block of buildings. |
1845-01-23 |
Uniform US election day for president & VP authorized |
1845-11-04 |
First nationally observed uniform election day in US |
1853-05-17 |
Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election |
1853-07-14 |
New Zealand holds its first general election |
1854-01-30 |
1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast |
1860-02-27 |
Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency. |
1867-04-01 |
Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama |
1867-08-01 |
Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tenn) |
1868-11-03 |
Ulysses Grant (R) wins US presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D) |
1876-11-07 |
Pres Rutherford B. Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R) |
1877-01-25 |
Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden |
1877-02-27 |
US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner presidential election |
1878-07-30 |
German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election |
1893-11-28 |
Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election. |
1894-10-29 |
First election of Hawaiian Republic |
1894-12-09 |
Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium |
1896-07-08 |
Charles Tupper resigns as Prime Minister of Canada after losing the June 23rd election, his 69-day term the shortest in Canadian history |
1897-06-15 |
Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election |
1900-03-06 |
After a meeting in Indianapolis, USA, a group forms the Social Democratic Party and nominates Eugene Debs as its candidate for President in the forthcoming election (becomes the Socialist Party in 1901) |
1900-06-19 |
In the USA, the Republican Party nominate President William McKinley for re-election, but choose a new candidate for Vice-President: Theodore Roosevelt |
1901-03-29 |
Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia's first election of its parliament |
1901-12-31 |
In the first election under their new constitution, Cuba elects a Congress and their first president, Tomas Estrada Palma |
1903-05-23 |
1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin |
1904-07-06 |
The US Democratic Party nominates little known New York judge Alton B Parker for presidential nominee - virtually assuring the election of Theodore Roosevelt |
1906-01-12 |
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H.H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election. |
1906-02-24 |
Tomas Estrada Palma defeats Jose Gomez in the election for president of Cuba, but Gomez and his followers refuse to accept results and sponsor an uprising |
1907-01-26 |
1st federal corrupt election practices law passed |
1907-02-26 |
Louis Botha Het Volk Party wins a majority in the election in Transvaal, South Africa |
1908-05-24 |
Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election |
1910-11-08 |
1st Washington State election in which women could vote |
1911-09-21 |
Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier loses the election to Robert Bordon of the Conservative Party |
1913-04-08 |
17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified |
1913-05-09 |
17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote |
1913-05-31 |
17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified |
1913-06-25 |
Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority) |
1915-11-02 |
First US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio |
1922-07-05 |
1st general election in Netherlands |
1922-11-15 |
British Conservative Party wins election; /Labour Party comes second |
1923-01-28 |
NSDAP 1st election in Munich |
1924-05-04 |
German Republic election fascists & communists win |
1924-05-11 |
Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election |
1924-10-29 |
Labour party loses British parliamentary election |
1924-12-07 |
German election (Social Democrats win, Nazis & Communists lose) |
1925-04-05 |
Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election |
1925-07-01 |
SDAP wins 4 chairs in Second-Parliamentary election |
1927-01-30 |
Left wins national election in Thuringen |
1927-05-04 |
Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928 |
1930-08-07 |
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King loses the election to Richard Bedford Bennett of the Conservative Party |
1930-09-14 |
Nazis gain 107 seats in German election |
1931-09-22 |
In New Zealand, the Coalition Government forms to combat the Depression (their lack of success led to the election of the First Labour Government in 1935) |
1932-04-24 |
German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia) |
1932-07-31 |
German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%) |
1932-11-06 |
German election - KPD defeats NSDAP |
1932-12-24 |
Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile |
1935-02-06 |
1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey |
1935-04-05 |
Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election |
1935-04-18 |
Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote) |
1945-07-05 |
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
1945-07-26 |
After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes British Prime Minister |
1945-07-26 |
Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister after election defeat |
1945-10-24 |
France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%) |
1945-11-15 |
The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of Fame |
1946-03-31 |
The first election is held in Greece after World War II. |
1946-04-10 |
1st election for Japanese Diet |
1946-05-29 |
KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands |
1946-11-10 |
Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election |
1947-07-21 |
Indonesia begins 1st political election |
1947-08-31 |
Hungarian communist party wins election |
1948-06-07 |
KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election |
1948-12-18 |
Indonesia begins its 2nd political election |
1949-01-25 |
1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins |
1949-05-30 |
NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname |
1949-06-25 |
Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote) |
1949-06-26 |
1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains) |
1950-02-24 |
Labour wins British parliamentary election |
1950-06-04 |
CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election |
1951-02-11 |
Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana) |
1951-06-18 |
De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election |
1951-08-01 |
David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election |
1952-01-21 |
Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India |
1952-06-25 |
Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election |
1952-11-16 |
Papagos' Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election |
1954-02-20 |
General Zahedi wins election in Persia |
1954-08-05 |
Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern & 15 pioneers |
1954-09-25 |
Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election |
1955-05-26 |
Conservatives win British parliamentary election |
1956-04-08 |
M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon |
1956-04-27 |
Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election |
1956-06-13 |
Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49 |
1957-01-20 |
Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election |
1957-03-05 |
Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland |
1957-09-15 |
Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany |
1958-06-01 |
Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election |
1958-11-04 |
Democrats win US congressional election |
1959-07-28 |
Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress |
1959-10-08 |
Conservatives win British general election |
1959-11-03 |
David Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins Israeli parliamentary election |
1960-09-02 |
The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day. |
1961-09-16 |
CDU loses West German election |
1962-10-08 |
North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers' Party |
1962-11-07 |
Richard Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California |
1964-10-16 |
Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election |
1966-03-31 |
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
1968-03-31 |
LBJ announces he will not seek re-election |
1968-05-16 |
In the Stormont (Northern Ireland parliament) by-election in the city of Londonderry (Derry) the Ulster Unionists retain the seat |
1968-06-30 |
Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 seats |
1969-02-03 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill announces the dissolution of the Stormont parliament and the holding of an election on 24 February 1969 |
1969-02-24 |
Northern Ireland Stormont parliament election held leading to fragmentation of the Unionist party into 'Official Unionist' and 'Unofficial Unionist' |
1970-03-01 |
Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election |
1970-06-18 |
Edward Heath's Conservative Party win the General Election in UK, replacing the Labour Party |
1970-06-19 |
Conservatives win British parliamentary election |
1970-09-04 |
Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile |
1970-12-15 |
Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election. |
1971-04-28 |
Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election |
1972-11-19 |
Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election |
1972-12-05 |
Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election |
1973-03-07 |
Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh |
1973-04-02 |
ITT admits to asking CIA to influence Chilean presidential election |
1974-02-28 |
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
1974-03-10 |
Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election |
1974-05-19 |
Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election |
1974-07-09 |
Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election |
1974-10-10 |
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
1975-04-25 |
Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's free election |
1975-04-26 |
Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal |
1975-12-13 |
Australian Conservatives & Liberals win parliamentary election |
1976-06-21 |
Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy |
1976-09-18 |
Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election |
1976-10-03 |
Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election |
1977-02-15 |
Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election |
1977-03-20 |
Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India |
1977-04-17 |
Christian-democrats win Belgium parliamentary election |
1977-05-17 |
Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel |
1977-05-25 |
Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election |
1977-07-21 |
Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election |
1977-07-26 |
The 'Committee of 10' formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to have total autonomy in Soweto, South Africa |
1977-08-31 |
Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote |
1978-05-28 |
Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. The election is won by incumbent Sangoulé Lamizana. |
1978-06-18 |
Victor de la Torre wins Peru election |
1979-04-24 |
Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election |
1979-07-08 |
Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles |
1980-03-04 |
Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe |
1981-04-09 |
Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands wins a by-election to be elected as a Member of Parliament at Westminster; the law is later changed to prevent prisoners standing in elections |
1981-06-12 |
Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti pres election |
1981-06-21 |
Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election |
1981-11-08 |
Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election |
1982-05-16 |
Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep |
1982-08-18 |
Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation. |
1983-04-24 |
Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election |
1983-04-25 |
Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election |
1983-06-09 |
Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election |
1983-11-30 |
Raúl Alfonsín wins Argentine presidential election |
1984-05-06 |
Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election |
1984-11-06 |
President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D) |
1984-11-25 |
Julio M Sanguinetti wins Uruguay presidential election |
1984-12-28 |
Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India |
1985-03-10 |
French socialists lose election (National Front 9%) |
1985-03-31 |
El Salvador's Pres Duartes' Christian-Democrats win election |
1985-06-02 |
Andreas Papandreou's PASOK-party wins election in Greece |
1985-09-25 |
Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India |
1985-10-13 |
Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election |
1985-10-29 |
Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia. |
1985-11-22 |
PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election |
1986-02-07 |
Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent filippino dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos |
1986-02-15 |
Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election |
1986-05-16 |
Joaquín Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election |
1986-05-28 |
Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados |
1986-07-06 |
Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election |
1987-06-15 |
Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy |
1987-12-13 |
Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election |
1989-02-09 |
Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election |
1989-03-12 |
Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election |
1989-11-12 |
Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years |
1990-04-08 |
New Democracy wins the national election in Greece. |
1990-05-28 |
Eugenia Charles' Dominican Freedom Party wins election in Dominica |
1990-11-25 |
Lech Walesa wins in Poland's first popular election |
1990-12-02 |
1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany |
1990-12-09 |
Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland |
1991-03-31 |
Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years |
1991-12-01 |
Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election |
1992-06-23 |
Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election |
1992-11-03 |
Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R) |
1993-03-28 |
Conservatives win French parliamentary election |
1993-03-30 |
Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election |
1993-06-25 |
Parliamentary election in Morocco |
1993-07-18 |
Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election |
1993-08-14 |
Nigerian presidential election |
1993-09-19 |
Parliamentary election in Poland |
1993-10-25 |
Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Québécois wins parliamentary election |
1993-11-28 |
Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election |
1994-03-20 |
El Salvador's 1st pres election following 12-year-old civil war |
1994-03-28 |
Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election |
1994-04-19 |
Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election |
1994-04-24 |
Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election |
1994-04-26 |
1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote |
1994-04-28 |
1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days] |
1994-05-03 |
D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election |
1994-05-06 |
Nelson Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa's first post apartheid election |
1994-05-17 |
Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election |
1994-05-29 |
Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election |
1994-07-21 |
Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way for him to become Prime Minister in 1997. |
1994-07-29 |
H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election |
1994-07-29 |
Parliamentary election in Aruba |
1994-08-21 |
Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election |
1994-09-12 |
Parti Québécois wins parliamentary election |
1994-09-18 |
Austrian conservative FVP wins election; extreme right gets 18.5% |
1994-09-18 |
Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election |
1994-09-24 |
Parliamentary election in Ukraine |
1994-09-30 |
Vladimir Meciars HZDDS wins Slovakia parliamentary election |
1994-10-09 |
Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right) |
1994-10-15 |
Botswana Pres Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election |
1994-10-30 |
Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election |
1994-11-15 |
Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election |
1994-12-18 |
Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election |
1995-03-05 |
Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election |
1995-03-12 |
Congress party loses India national election |
1995-03-19 |
Finnish Social Democratic Party wins parliamentary election |
1995-05-07 |
Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election |
1995-07-02 |
Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election |
1995-07-09 |
Former South Africa President F. W. de Klerk is implicated of knowing and condoning a 'dirty tricks' campaign that was waged against the ANC between 1990 and the 1994 election in a bid to destabilise the organisation |
1999-05-02 |
Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama. |
2000-11-07 |
Controversial US presidential election that was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case. |
2001-05-13 |
Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing "House of Freedoms" coalition wins the Italian general election. |
2001-06-07 |
Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election |
2001-07-24 |
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office. |
2004-03-19 |
Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20. |
2004-07-05 |
First Indonesian presidential election by the nation. |
2004-10-29 |
The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election. |
2004-11-21 |
The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, unleashing massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity. |
2005-05-05 |
The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party is re-elected for a third consecutive term. |
2005-09-07 |
First presidential election was held in Egypt. |
2005-09-12 |
The red-green coalition, led by Jens Stoltenberg, wins the Norwegian parliamentary election, taking 87 of 169 seats in the parliament. |
2005-10-10 |
Negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany had concluded that both parties would form a grand coaltion with Angela Merkel of the CDU as chancellor after both parties lost seats in the 2005 German federal election. She was subsequently elected in the Bundestag as chancellor on November 22 of the same year. |
2006-01-24 |
After losing the federal election to Stephen Harper, Paul Martin resigns as leader of the Liberal party |
2006-03-25 |
Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested. |
2007-02-13 |
Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. |
2007-03-04 |
Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet. |
2007-05-04 |
The Scottish National Party wins the Scottish general election and becomes the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time ever. |
2007-05-16 |
Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotland. He is the first Scottish National Party leader to be elected as First Minister after winning a historic victory at the Scottish general election on the 3rd May. |
2007-11-24 |
Australians elect the Kevin Rudd-led centre-left Australian Labor Party at the federal election, ending the eleven-year tenure of the John Howard-led centre-right Liberal/National coalition government. |
2007-11-25 |
The first European Parliament election and a referendum on changing the voting system (called by the President and declared invalid because of insufficient turnout) were held in Romania. |
2008-03-02 |
Riots in Yerevan, Armenia concerning the Armenian presidential election, 2008 come to a fatal end, with police forces clashing with civilians in their peaceful protest, resulting in 8 deaths. |
2008-03-24 |
Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election. |
2008-12-09 |
The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency |
2009-06-12 |
Protests in Iran following the presidential election. |
2010-05-11 |
Imelda Marcos win election to Philippine House of Representatives representing Ilocos Norte province. |
2011-02-25 |
In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921. |
2012-01-14 |
Ma Ying-jeou wins re-election as President of the Republic of China with 51% of the vote |
2012-02-21 |
Yemen voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot paper is vice-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi |
2012-03-04 |
Vladimir Putin wins Russian presidential election amid allegations of voter fraud |
2012-04-11 |
Prime Minister of Greece, Lucas Papademos, resigns and calls an election for May 6 |
2012-05-06 |
Greeck parliamentary election results in 60% support for parties opposed to austerity measures |
2012-06-17 |
France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election |
2012-06-17 |
Greek voters return to the polls after the failed May 6 election |
2012-07-08 |
Tens of thousands protest over election corruption in Mexico City after Enrique Pe |
2012-09-30 |
Two opposition Venezuelan politicians are shot dead a week before the presidential election |
2012-11-10 |
The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to defeate Mitt Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes |
2012-12-09 |
Incumbent Ghanaian president John Mahama wins the general election amidst allegations of fraud |
2012-12-19 |
Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nation's first female president |
2013-01-26 |
Miloš Zeman wins the Czech Republic's presidential election |
2013-02-17 |
President Rafael Correa wins the Ecuadorian general election in a landslide victory |
2013-02-24 |
Nicos Anastasiades wins the Cypriot presidential election |
2013-02-25 |
Italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, wins the Italian general election |
2013-03-30 |
Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of the Kenyan presidential election by the Supreme Court |
2013-04-06 |
22 people are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing at an election campaign tent in Baquba, Iraq |
2013-04-08 |
Filip Vujanović's election as President of Montenegro is confirmed by the electoral commission |
2013-04-28 |
8 people are killed and dozens are injured after Taliban attacks on election candidates in Pakistan |
2013-08-01 |
Robert Mugabe continues to maintain power after winning 142 out of 210 seats in the Zimbabwean election |
2013-09-07 |
Tony Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Australia after a Liberal-National Coalitions wins the election |
2013-10-27 |
Giorgi Margvelashvili wins the Georgian Presidential election in a landslide victory |
2014-05-10 |
The African National Congress wins the 2014 South African General Election |
2016-03-23 |
US Election 2016: Trump and Clinton win big in Arizona |
2016-04-29 |
US election 2016: Former House Speaker Boehner calls Ted Cruz 'Lucifer' |
2016-07-21 |
US election: Ted Cruz booed for failing to back Donald Trump |
2016-07-27 |
Obama says it is possible Russia would try to sway US election |
2016-09-04 |
China wary as Hong Kong election exposes underlying strains |
2016-09-04 |
US election: Donald Trump woos black vote at Detroit church |
2016-09-06 |
Clinton voices concern about Russian interference in election |
2016-10-19 |
Obama disputes Trump on rigged election, tells him to 'stop whining' |
2016-10-27 |
More Republicans expect Clinton to win US election than Trump |
2016-11-09 |
Marco Rubio Wins Re-election in Florida Senate Race |
2016-12-09 |
Figures show Trump spent $66 million of his own cash on election campaign |
2016-12-13 |
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin End Election Recount Efforts |
2016-12-16 |
White House supports claim Putin directed US election hack |
2016-12-30 |
Obama sanctions Russia for intervening in 2016 election |
2017-04-19 |
British lawmakers set to approve PM May's June 8 election plan |
2017-05-26 |
Greg Gianforte wins Montana special election a day after being charged with assault |
2017-06-02 |
Putin: 'Patriotically inclined' Russian hackers could be behind election interference |
2017-06-03 |
Putin suggests US hackers could have interfered with election, blamed Russia |
2017-10-23 |
Japan's Abe to push pacifist constitution reform after strong election win |
2018-02-18 |
Facebook plans to use US mail to verify IDs of election ad buyers |
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1811-03-20 |
George Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election) |
1883-01-03 |
Clement Attlee, 1964 General Election |
1888-9-19 |
Walter Elliot, The General Election Results |
1907-12-09 |
Ernest Marples, Election 70 |
1913-07-29 |
Jo Grimond, Election 83 |
1915-01-30 |
John Profumo, General Election |
1916-12-23 |
Robert Blake, Election 92 |
1919-11-11 |
Kenneth Harris, Election 70 |
1922-12-05 |
Don Robertson, Election |
1925-04-12 |
Ned Miller, Election |
1925-10-13 |
Gustav Winckler, Election Night |
1927-03-30 |
Robert Armstrong, Election 2010 |
1928-9-02 |
Horace Silver, Election |
1930-02-17 |
Doug Hoyle, Election Night |
1930-10-14 |
Alan Williams, The Election Results |
1932-06-22 |
John Wakeham, Election 92 |
1932-08-11 |
Angela Rumbold, Election 92 |
1933-10-19 |
Fred Emery, Election 92 |
1934-05-09 |
Bing-Man Tam, Election |
1935-03-03 |
George Gardiner, Election 97 |
1937-08-21 |
Donald Dewar, Election 92 |
1938-05-18 |
David Lomax, Election 92 |
1938-06-26 |
Neil Abercrombie, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama |
1938-9-13 |
John Smith, Election 92 |
1939-9-29 |
Rhodri Morgan, Election 2010 |
1940-07-21 |
James Clyburn, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama |
1941-04-23 |
Hal Daub, Election |
1941-08-21 |
Dominic Harrod, Election 74 |
1942-11-20 |
Joe Biden, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama |
1946-06-09 |
Peter Kilfoyle, Election 92 |
1947-04-02 |
Chung Wang, Election |
1947-11-15 |
Bill Richardson, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama |
1948-08-19 |
Tipper Gore, Election 2000 |
1948-12-13 |
Brian Wilson, Election 92 |
1948-12-29 |
Peter Robinson, Election 2010 |
1950-07-20 |
Edward Leigh, Election Night |
1950-07-21 |
Susan Kramer, Election 2015 |
1950-07-30 |
Harriet Harman, Election 2010 |
1951-04-14 |
Elizabeth Symons, Election 97 |
1951-06-05 |
Mark Harelik, Election |
1952-04-20 |
Eric Pickles, Election 92 |
1953-06-10 |
John Edwards, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama |
1953-07-04 |
Francis Maude, Election 92 |
1953-08-17 |
Casey Hotchkiss, Election |
1954-01-01 |
Bob Menendez, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama |
1954-04-09 |
Iain Duncan Smith, Election 97 |
1954-07-20 |
Ta-yu Lo, Election |
1955-04-22 |
Johnnie To, Election |
1956-03-23 |
Andrew Mitchell, Election 2015 |
1956-10-31 |
Charles Moore, Election 2010 |
1956-12-08 |
Melanie Morgan, Talk Radio and the Presidential Election |
1960-03-02 |
Antony Green, The Election |
1960-07-08 |
Chris Rennard, Election 2010 |
1961-08-03 |
Molly Hagan, Election |
1961-08-04 |
Barack Obama, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama |
1961-12-05 |
John Herbsleb, The Election |
1962-08-30 |
Daniel Finkelstein, Election 2010 |
1963-01-03 |
Matthew Taylor, Election 92 |
1963-02-22 |
Andrew Adonis, Election 2010 |
1963-03-29 |
Robert Gibbs, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama |
1965-12-25 |
Ed Davey, Election 2010 |
1966-11-23 |
Jillian Crane, Election |
1967-08-23 |
Jim Murphy, Election 2015 |
1967-10-26 |
Douglas Alexander, Election 2010 |
1967-11-24 |
Shahid Malik, Election 2010 |
1968-04-14 |
Nai-Hoi Yau, Election |
1968-11-26 |
Sophie C. Hopkins, Natural Election |
1969-04-30 |
Justine Greening, Election 2015 |
1969-9-26 |
Terrance Murphy, Election Fever |
1970-02-26 |
Mark Harper, Election Special |
1970-08-15 |
Maya Soetoro-Ng, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama |
1971-06-03 |
Tim Watson, Election |
1972-05-15 |
Danny Alexander, Election 2010 |
1973-03-12 |
Jason Singh, Election |
1973-05-14 |
Fraser Nelson, Election 2010 |
1974-06-12 |
Isabel Oakeshott, Election 2015 |
1975-9-28 |
Mandy Barnett, Election |
1976-11-30 |
Paul Nuttall, Election 2015 |
1982-10-30 |
Jessica Campbell, Election |
1984-02-28 |
Lauren Slattery, Election Day |
1988-07-22 |
Lexi Sakowitz, Election Day |
1990-10-25 |
Jordan Jacinto, Election Day |
Date | Event |
---|---|
1989-07-01 |
Anna Gaitskell, 1964 General Election |
1993-10-24 |
Jo Grimond, Election 83 |
1994-05-12 |
John Smith, Election 92 |
2000-10-11 |
Donald Dewar, Election 92 |
2002-11-16 |
George Gardiner, Election 97 |
2003-09-20 |
Robert Blake, Election 92 |
2005-06-24 |
Kenneth Harris, Election 70 |
2006-03-09 |
John Profumo, General Election |
2010-06-19 |
Angela Rumbold, Election 92 |
2013-08-04 |
Dominic Harrod, Election 74 |
2014-06-18 |
Horace Silver, Election |
2014-09-05 |
David Lomax, Election 92 |
2014-12-21 |
Alan Williams, The Election Results |
2015-03-16 |
Don Robertson, Election |