The ANC has dominated South African politics since its first democratic election in 1994.
There was a big turnout for East Timor's first democratic election after centuries of foreign domination.
That the country has successfully held its fourth consecutive democratic election bodes well for overall political stability.
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It was a heady time in South Africa, between Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990 and the country's first democratic election in 1994.
If 2012 was the year of modest economic recovery and surprising Democratic election success, 2013 may be the year of perpetual fiscal policy crisis.
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Bush made the comments the same day election officials announced that interim Afghanistan leader Hamid Karzai has won 55 percent of the vote in the country's first democratic election.
The fact the SNP have a majority in the Scottish Parliament is the result of a fair democratic election - presumably Labour don't have a problem with simple democracy?
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More than that, they allegedly persuaded Mr Carey to contribute Teamster funds to Democratic election efforts, and then encouraged their friends to fill Mr Carey's own election coffers in return.
Upsetting to many Indonesians is the image now spread around the world of a country in turmoil - when it has just come peacefully through a second democratic election, and has been maintaining economic growth despite the world downturn.
Koch lost the 1989 Democratic primary election to Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, who would go on to win election as New York's first black mayor.
Indonesia has had only one democratic general election in recent years, and that was in June, when the voters went to the polls to choose a legislature.
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Anger was strong against Mr Bush at the 2002 mid-term election, yet the Democratic leadership at that election was a disaster, and the party was slaughtered.
None of President Bush's pending free trade deals have much chance of getting past a Democratic Congress this election year.
He said tens of thousands of votes were added to Mahama's tally "following collusion" between National Democratic Congress and election officials, Ghana News Agency reported.
In addition to the convention and the Arizona Democratic primary, Election.com has conducted legally binding online elections for a number of private organizations, including as the Sierra Club, and the United Nations employees credit union.
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The silver-lining came for Republicans when, despite the Golden State's Democratic leanings, actor-turned-politician Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won re-election against Democratic challenger, state Treasurer Phil Angelides.
Helmut Kohl, Germany 's chancellor, suffered a setback in his campaign for re-election when his Christian Democratic Union was humiliated in a state election in Saxony-Anhalt.
Mr. Lehane said the governor's gun-control efforts would play well with Democratic primary and general election voters.
One of them will wind up carrying the banner of the great Democratic Party in this election, and they will have earned it.
The decision could give Edwards, a U.S. senator from North Carolina, a boost in the convoluted caucuses, the first major Democratic contest of the election year.
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He also narrowly won Virginia, home to the capital of the old Confederacy, and a state that has not voted Democratic in a presidential election since 1964.
Christie is fairly popular in New Jersey, and yet it seems unlikely he would have helped Romney carry a state that votes for Democratic presidential candidates in election after election.
Christie is seeking re-election in Democratic-tilting New Jersey.
Or, despairing of the prospects of the outgoing prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, successfully carrying the democratic torch in an election, he could simply be putting in place an alternative, in the person of Vladimir Putin.
Naturally, in the course of a national election, Democratic politicians are reluctant to part company from the man at the top of their ticket, especially in ways that might be seen to align them with his critics.
Nader's announcement was widely watched by Democrats, many of whom blame him for siphoning off votes in Florida in the 2000 election that might have gone to Democratic nominee Al Gore, who lost the state and the overall election in a split decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
They were among 14 Democrats and four Republicans in the special primary, but the Democratic winner was expected to sail through the April 9 general election because of the area is heavily Democratic.
He is not remotely concerned about "spoiling" the election for a Democratic candidate, he says.
Since the 1964 presidential election, the Democratic Party has won overwhelming majorities of the African-American vote, Fauntroy said.
For Jimenez, the Los Angeles auto mechanic, this election is the Democratic Party's last chance to secure his support.
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