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Election
2006
Stephen Harper, wins the election in Canada and is the first conservative Prime Minister in 12 years
2004
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
Al Gore concedes presidential election, George W. Bush named president
1995
Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election
1995
Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
1995
Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
1995
Congress party loses India national election
1995
Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election
1994
Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
1994
Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
1994
Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election
1994
Botswana President Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election
1994
Vladimir Meciars HZDDS wins Slovakia parliamentary election
1994
Parliamentary election in Ukraine
1994
Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
1994
Parti Quebecois wins parliamentary election
1994
Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election
1994
H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election
1994
Parliamentary election in Aruba
1994
Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election
1994
Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election
1994
D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1994
1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]
1994
1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr. Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote
1994
Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election
1994
Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election
1994
Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election
1994
El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war
1993
Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election
1993
Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Quebecois wins parliamentary election
1993
Parliamentary election in Poland
1993
Nigerian presidential election
1993
Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election
1993
Parliamentary election in Morocco
1993
Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
1993
Conservatives win French parliamentary election
1992
Bill Clinton wins U.S. presidential election over President Bush
1992
Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election
1991
Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election
1991
Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
1990
Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland
1990
1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
1990
Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election
1990
Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica
1989
Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1989
Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland
1989
Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1989
Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
1988
Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins parliamentary election
1987
Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election
1987
Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy
1986
Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election
1986
Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados
1986
Joaquin Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election
1986
Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election
1986
Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos
1985
PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election
1985
Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election
1985
Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
1985
Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece
1985
El Salvador's President Duartes Christian-Democrats win election
1985
French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
1984
Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India
1984
Julio M Sanguinetti wins Uruguay presidential election
1984
South African election for parliament boycvotted
1984
Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election
1983
Raul Alfonsin wins Argentine presidential election
1983
Margaret Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election
1983
Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election
1983
Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
1982
Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep
1981
Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
1981
Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election
1981
Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti President election
1980
Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe
1979
Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles
1979
Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
1978
Victor de la Torre wins Peru election
1977
Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote
1977
Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election
1977
Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
1977
Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel
1977
Christian-democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
1977
Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India
1977
Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election
1976
Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election
1976
Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election
1976
Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy
1975
Australian Conservatives and Liberals win parliamentary election
1975
Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal
1975
Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's free election
1974
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974
Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election
1974
Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election
1974
Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
1974
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1973
ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean President election
1973
Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh
1972
Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election
1972
Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election
1971
Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election
1970
Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile
1970
Conservatives win British parliamentary election
1970
Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
1968
Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 chairs
1966
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1964
Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election
1962
North Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
1961
CDU loses West German election
1959
Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election)
1959
Conservatives win British election
1959
Hawaii's 1st U.S. election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
1958
Democrats win U.S. congressional election
1958
Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
1957
Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany
1957
Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland
1957
Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election
1956
Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49
1956
Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election
1956
M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon
1955
Conservatives win British parliamentary election
1954
Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election
1954
Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern and 15 pioneers
1954
General Zahedi wins election in Persia
1952
Papagos' Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election
1952
Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election
1952
Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
1951
David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
1951
De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election
1951
Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
1950
CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election
1950
Labour wins British parliamentary election
1949
1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
1949
Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)
1949
NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
1949
1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins
1948
Indonesia begins it's 2nd political election
1948
KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
1947
Hungarian Communist Party wins election
1947
Indonesia begins 1st political election
1946
Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election
1946
KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands
1946
1st election for Japanese Diet
1945
The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of
1945
France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%)
1945
After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM
1945
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1935
Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)
1935
Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
1935
1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
1932
Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile
1932
German election - KPD defeats NSDAP
1932
German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%)
1932
German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
1930
Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
1927
Nicaragua agrees to a U.S. supervised presidential election in 1928
1927
Left wins national election in Thuringen
1925
SDAP wins 4 chairs in Second-Parliamentary election
1925
Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
1924
German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis and Communists lose)
1924
Labour loses British parliamentary election
1924
Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election
1924
German Republic election fascists and communists win
1923
NSDAP 1st election in Munich
1922
British Conservative wins election/Labour 2nd party
1922
1st general election in Netherlands
1915
1st U.S. election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
1913
Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)
1913
17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
1913
17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote
1913
17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
1910
1st Washington State election in which women could vote
1908
Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election
1907
1st federal corrupt election practices law passed
1903
1st direct primary election law in U.S. adopted, by Wisconsin
1897
Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1894
Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium
1894
1st election of Hawaiian Republic
1878
German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
1877
U.S. Electoral College declares R. Hayes winner presidential election
1877
Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden
1876
President Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)
1868
Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1867
Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South
1867
Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
1854
1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
1853
Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election
1845
1st nationally observed uniform election day in US
1845
Uniform U.S. election day for president and VP authorized
1824
House of Representatives begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams,
1811
George Caleb Bingham, U.S., politician/painter, Country Election
1794
U.S. Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
1694
English parliamentary election set for every 3 years
1659
General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland
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