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2013 Event - In Greenland, the Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, setting up Aleqa Hammond to become the country's first female Prime Minister

2013 Event - The running mate of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, claims that votes cast in Kenya's presidential election have been falsified

2012 Event - Prime Minister Victor Ponta, of the Social Liberal Union, is nominated by Romanian President, Traian Basescu, to form a new government after Romania holds its parliamentary election later this December

2012 Event - Japan holds it's general election, with Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister and opposition Liberal Democratic Party leader, predicted as winner

2012 Event - U.S. voters hold their 2012 presidential election, with Democratic President Barack Obama projected to defeat Republican opponent, Governor Mitt Romney

2012 Event - Venezuelans go to the polls to vote in the country's presidential election; President Hugo Chavez competes against Henrique Capriles Radonski of the opposing Justice First party

2012 Event - The parliamentary election in Georgia is determined to be 'fair and free' by the OSCE

2012 Event - The President of Germany's Social Democratic Party, Sigmar Gabriel recommends Peer Steinbruck as the party's Chancellor candidate for the 2012 German federal election

2012 Event - President Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Party's nomination as candiate for the 2102 Presidential election

2012 Event - At the National Convention in Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Republican Party nominates Mitt Romney as its candidate in the 2012 presidential election

2012 Event - The Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney names Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Congressman, as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate in the November 2012 presidential election

2012 Event - In France, voters participate in a legislative election, with the Socialist Party winning a majority

2012 Event - Egypt's voters go to the polls for a second round of voting in their first presidential election

2012 Event - The Wisconsin Senate recall election is held, and Wisconsin voters re-elect incumbent governor Scott Walker

2012 Event - Voters in Lesotho, a landlocked country completely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa, go to the polls for a general election

2012 Event - Fifteen months after President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in Egypt by a revolution, voters go to the polls for a presidential election

2012 Event - Sybrand van Haersma Buma becomes the top candidate for 2012's Dutch general election after being elected as the new party leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal

2012 Event - In the second round of the French presidential election Francois Hollande is elected President of France

2012 Event - Greece Prime Minister Lucas Papademos resigns, calling for a new election within a month

2012 Event - Russians stage protests in response to last week's election of Vladimir Putin as President for a third term

2012 Event - Senegalese voters go to the polls for Senegal's presidential election, which has been marked by controversy and violence

2012 Event - In the Finnish Presidential election, conservative candidate Sauli Niinisto wins in a landslide

2012 Event - In Kuwait, voters go to the polls for a parliamentary election

2012 Event - The main opposition leader of the Democratic Republic of the congo condemns parliamentary election as rigged; he calls for a strike in protest of his house arrest

2012 Event - Finland holds the first round of its Presidential election

2011 Event - Outbreaks of violence are reported as voters in the Democratic Republic of the congo go to the polls for a general election

2011 Event - The Justice and Development party of Morocco claims victory after Moroccans vote in a parliamentary election

2011 Event - In Spain, voters go to the polls for the general election; the center-right Popular Party wins a parliamentary majority

2011 Event - In Georgia's region of South Ossetia, voters go to the polls for a presidential election and referendum

2011 Event - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accepts a proposal from President Dmitry Medvedev to run in Russia's 2012 Presidential election

2011 Event - In Berlin, Social Democrats do well in a state election; the Pirate Party enters a state parliament for the first time, with the Free Democrats achieving 2% of the vote

2011 Event - Latvian voters head to the polls for a parliamentary election

2011 Event - Tony Tan Keng Yam wins Singapore's presidential election, becoming President-elect

2011 Event - Singapore holds a presidential election; voters head to the polls

2011 Event - The Ames Straw Poll for 2012 Presidential election candidates is taken; Michele Bachmann is the winner

2011 Event - Voters in Turkey go to the polls for a general election

2011 Event - In Singapore, two cabinet ministers, George Yeo and Li Hwee Hua, become the highest ranking ministers to be unseated in a general election since 1963

2011 Event - Former U.S. Olympic champion Carl Lewis is granted a place on the ballot for the Democratic primary election for a New Jersey Senate seat

2011 Event - Nigeria's presidential election, held April 16, 2011, declares the winner is President Goodluck Jonathan

2011 Event - Singapore dissolves its Parliament for the 14th General Election, planned for May 7, 2011

2011 Event - Nigeria holds a presidential election

2011 Event - Kazakhstan holds a presidential election; President Nursultan Nazarbayev wins 95% of the vote

2011 Event - New South Wales swears in its new Premier, Barry O'Farrell, following its state election

2011 Event - Rebel leader Yoweri Museveni continues his 30-year rule after being re-elected President of Uganda; the opposition claims the election was a 'sham'

2011 Event - Voters in Uganda participate in the Ugandan general election; voters fear the election is rigged to extend the 30-year rule of rebel Yoweri Museveni

2010 Event - In Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko claims he won the presidential election with 79% of the vote; hundreds protesting the vote were arrested

2010 Event - While world leaders back Africa's Alassane Ouattara as the Ivory Coast presidential election winner, a swearing-in ceremony is held for Laurent Gbagbo in Cote D'Ivoire

2010 Event - Results from the Afghan parliamentary election are announced since September balloting

2010 Event - Alaska's State Senator Lisa Murkowski becomes the first write-in candidate to successfully win an election since 1954

2010 Event - Rival political parties clash in Guinea ahead of a presidential run-off election; at least 24 people are injured

2010 Event - Two days after Rwanda's presidential election, Kigali, Rwanda reports that a grenade attack occurred during rush hour

2010 Event - The first democratic election in the history of Guinea is held

2010 Event - Hungary's parliamentary election results in 28 regional seats for the left-wing Hungarian Socialist Party, and 26 regional seats for the far-right Movement for a Better Hungary

2010 Event - Viktor Yanukovych is declared the official winner of Ukraine's presidential election

2009 Event - Kosovo holds its first local election since declaring independence from Serbia

2008 Event - Bhutan holds it's first public election

2007 Event - Nicolas Sarkozy wins the French presidential election

2006 Event - Stephen Harper, wins the election in Canada and is the first conservative Prime Minister in 12 years

2004 Event - Ukraine re-elects Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. but the election results were thrown out after large protests about the way the election was conducted

2000 Event - Al Gore concedes presidential election, George W. Bush named president

1995 Event - Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election

1995 Event - Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election

1995 Event - Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election

1995 Event - Congress party loses India national election

1995 Event - Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election

1994 Event - Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election

1994 Event - Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election

1994 Event - Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election

1994 Event - Botswana President Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election

1994 Event - Vladimir Meciars HZDDS wins Slovakia parliamentary election

1994 Event - Parliamentary election in Ukraine

1994 Event - Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election

1994 Event - Parti Quebecois wins parliamentary election

1994 Event - Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election

1994 Event - H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election

1994 Event - Parliamentary election in Aruba

1994 Event - Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election

1994 Event - Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election

1994 Event - D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election

1994 Event - 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]

1994 Event - 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr. Nomaza Paintin is 1st black South African to vote

1994 Event - Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election

1994 Event - Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election

1994 Event - Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election

1994 Event - El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war

1993 Event - Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election

1993 Event - Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Quebecois wins parliamentary election

1993 Event - Parliamentary election in Poland

1993 Event - Nigerian presidential election

1993 Event - Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election

1993 Event - Parliamentary election in Morocco

1993 Event - Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election

1993 Event - Conservatives win French parliamentary election

1992 Event - Bill Clinton wins U.S. presidential election over President Bush

1992 Event - Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election

1991 Event - Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election

1991 Event - Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years

1990 Event - Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland

1990 Event - 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany

1990 Event - Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election

1990 Event - Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica

1989 Event - Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years

1989 Event - Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland

1989 Event - Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election

1989 Event - Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election

1988 Event - Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins parliamentary election

1987 Event - Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election

1987 Event - Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy

1986 Event - Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election

1986 Event - Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados

1986 Event - Joaquin Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election

1986 Event - Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election

1986 Event - Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos

1985 Event - PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election

1985 Event - Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election

1985 Event - Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India

1985 Event - Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece

1985 Event - El Salvador's President Duartes Christian-Democrats win election

1985 Event - French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)

1984 Event - Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India

1984 Event - Julio M Sanguinetti wins Uruguay presidential election

1984 Event - South African election for parliament boycvotted

1984 Event - Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election

1983 Event - Raul Alfonsin wins Argentine presidential election

1983 Event - Margaret Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election

1983 Event - Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election

1983 Event - Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election

1982 Event - Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep

1981 Event - Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election

1981 Event - Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election

1981 Event - Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti President election

1980 Event - Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe

1979 Event - Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles

1979 Event - Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election

1978 Event - Victor de la Torre wins Peru election

1977 Event - Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote

1977 Event - Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election

1977 Event - Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election

1977 Event - Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel

1977 Event - Christian-democrats win Belgium parliamentary election

1977 Event - Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India

1977 Event - Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election

1976 Birthday - Vanessa Kerry, born in Boston, Massachusetts, medical resident, daughter of John Kerry, campaigned with her father in the 2004 Presidential election

1976 Event - Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election

1976 Event - Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election

1976 Event - Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy

1975 Event - Australian Conservatives and Liberals win parliamentary election

1975 Event - Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal

1975 Event - Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's free election

1974 Event - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election

1974 Event - Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election

1974 Event - Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election

1974 Event - Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election

1974 Event - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election

1973 Event - ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean President election

1973 Event - Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh

1972 Event - Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election

1972 Event - Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election

1971 Event - Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election

1970 Event - Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile

1970 Event - Conservatives win British parliamentary election

1970 Event - Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election

1968 Event - Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 chairs

1966 Event - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election

1964 Event - Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election

1962 Event - North Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party

1961 Event - CDU loses West German election

1959 Event - Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election

1959 Event - Conservatives win British election

1959 Event - Hawaii's 1st U.S. election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress

1958 Event - Democrats win U.S. congressional election

1958 Event - Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election

1957 Event - Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany

1957 Event - Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland

1957 Event - Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election

1956 Event - Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49

1956 Event - Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election

1956 Event - M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon

1955 Event - Conservatives win British parliamentary election

1954 Event - Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election

1954 Event - Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern and 15 pioneers

1954 Event - General Zahedi wins election in Persia

1952 Event - Papagos' Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election

1952 Event - Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election

1952 Event - Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India

1951 Event - David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election

1951 Event - De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election

1951 Event - Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)

1950 Event - CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election

1950 Event - Labour wins British parliamentary election

1949 Event - 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)

1949 Event - Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)

1949 Event - NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname

1949 Event - 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins

1948 Event - Indonesia begins it's 2nd political election

1948 Event - KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election

1947 Event - Hungarian Communist Party wins election

1947 Event - Indonesia begins 1st political election

1946 Event - Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election

1946 Event - KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands

1946 Event - 1st election for Japanese Diet

1945 Event - The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of

1945 Event - France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%)

1945 Event - After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM

1945 Event - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election

1935 Event - Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)

1935 Event - Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election

1935 Event - 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey

1932 Event - Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile

1932 Event - German election - KPD defeats NSDAP

1932 Event - German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%)

1932 Event - German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)

1930 Event - Nazis gain 107 seats in German election

1927 Event - Nicaragua agrees to a U.S. supervised presidential election in 1928

1927 Event - Left wins national election in Thuringen

1925 Event - SDAP wins 4 chairs in Second-Parliamentary election

1925 Event - Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election

1924 Event - German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis and Communists lose)

1924 Event - Labour loses British parliamentary election

1924 Event - Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election

1924 Event - German Republic election fascists and communists win

1923 Event - NSDAP 1st election in Munich

1922 Event - British Conservative wins election/Labour 2nd party

1922 Event - 1st general election in Netherlands

1915 Event - 1st U.S. election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio

1913 Event - Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)

1913 Event - 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified

1913 Event - 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote

1913 Event - 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified

1910 Event - 1st Washington State election in which women could vote

1910 Event - 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed

1908 Event - Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election

1903 Event - 1st direct primary election law in U.S. adopted, by Wisconsin

1897 Event - Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election

1894 Event - Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium

1894 Event - 1st election of Hawaiian Republic

1878 Event - German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election

1877 Event - U.S. Electoral College declares R. Hayes winner presidential election

1877 Event - Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden

1876 Event - President Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)

1868 Event - Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)

1867 Event - Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South

1867 Event - Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama

1854 Event - 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast

1853 Event - Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election

1845 Event - 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US

1845 Event - Uniform U.S. election day for president and Vice President authorized

1824 Event - House of Representatives begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams,

1811 Birthday - George Caleb Bingham, U.S., politician/painter, Country Election

1794 Event - U.S. Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin

1694 Event - English parliamentary election set for every 3 years

1659 Event - General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland

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