2015 Event British Prime Minister David Cameron is re-elected for five more years in a decisive victory that upset predictions of a close election and resulted in the first Conservative majority government since 1992 2015 Event Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ruling Likud party have retained victory in this week's election; Netanyahu will now focus on forming a coalition government 2014 Event Police arrest over 140 people and continue clearing away camps formed by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong; the protesters seek autonomy in selection of Hong Kong candidates rather than selection of election choices by the Chinese government 2014 Event In light of recent separatist elections, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko seeks to nullify a law that gave greater autonomy to rebel regions; Ukraine does not recognize the election results and will hold national elections as planned in December 2014 Event Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah have agreed to share power in a unity government, with Ghani as president and Abdullah as chief executive officer of Afghanistan; both men claimed fraud after the election, prompting a U.N.-monitored recount 2014 Event Afghan presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani agree to an election vote recount to settle allegations of fraud after Ghani was declared the winner; the process could take weeks, requiring the inauguration ceremony to be postponed 2014 Event Eric Cantor, majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, will step down from his leadership position at the end of July following a surprising primary election defeat by Tea Party candidate David Brat 2014 Event Early election tallies show that Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will be the next president of Egypt; el-Sisi, the military commander who removed former president Mohamed Morsi from office due to mass protests, resigned his military position to run for president 2014 Event Businessman Petro Poroshenko wins the Ukraine's presidential election; election turnout was strong despite the nation's internal conflicts with separatist groups, who kept many voting locations closed in the eastern part of the country 2014 Event The Bharatiya Janata Party wins India's general election, defeating the Indian National Congress; the results appear to signal a desire for greater economic progress 2014 Event Regions of eastern Ukraine announce that their self-organized elections show most voters to be in favor of secession; the election results aren't recognized by the Ukrainian government or its allies 2014 Event Afghans show up at the polls in spite of potential violence to vote for their next president; this is the third such election since the 2001 removal of the Taliban from power 2014 Event Kim Jong Un is re-elected as leader of North Korea with 100% of the vote; the election was the first since the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, in 2011 2013 Event Chilean voters elect President Michelle Bachelet in the country's presidential election; Bachelet served as the first female Chilean president in 2006 2013 Event Abdulla Yameen wins the Presidential election in the Maldives with 51.3% of the popular vote, compared to 48.6 % for former leader Mohamed Nasheed 2013 Event Falkland Island voters head to the polls to participate in their general election and elect Legislative Assembly members 2013 Event Tajikistan voters head to the polls to participate in the country's presidential election 2013 Event Giorgi Margvelashvili wins a landslide victory in Georgia's election, ending a decade of power by pro-Western President Mikheil Saakashvili 2013 Event Austria holds its legislative election 2013 Event Germany holds its federal election; Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party obtains the most votes since 1990 2013 Event Rwandan President Paul Kagame achieves a landslide victory in the country's parliamentary election 2013 Event India's Bharatiya Janata Party names Narendra Modi as their leader in the next general election 2013 Event In Mali, voters head to the polls for a presidential election 2013 Event In Kuwait, voters go to the polls for a general election; half of the parliamentary seats are lost by Shiite candidates 2013 Event Russian politician Alexei Navalny, a prominent opposition figure, registers as candidate for Mayor in Moscow's September's election 2013 Event Iranians go to the polls for a presidential election and local elections 2013 Event After the death of Frank Lautenberg, Governor Chris Christie appoints Jeffrey Chiesa as U.S. Senator for New Jersey until a special election is held later this year 2013 Event Australia's government plans to hold a referendum to recognize local government in its constitution; the referendum will coincide with the country's federal election taking place September 14, 2013 2013 Event Iceland's center-right opposition party is set to return to power after the country's parliamentary election results are finalized 2013 Event In Italy, a deal on forming a new government is finalized two months after the 2013 Italian parliamentary election 2013 Event The first-ever European MP's of Croatia are determined in an election held in anticipation of Croatia gaining formal entry into the European Union 2013 Event Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of Kenya's Presidential election by the Supreme Court of Kenya 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
