For further exploration of my reasoning on this, see my answer to Who are the (compelling) third party candidates for the 2012 US Presidential Election? and my answer to After the economy, what is the single most important issue for the American electorate in the 2012 Presidential Race?
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Another case that may go before the court concerns three Constitutional Court magistrates sacked after they ruled in 1997 that Mr Fujimori could not run for a third term in the election due next April.
The Tories had promised before the general election to keep the funds for the poorest third of families and for parents with disabled children, but are now going back on this promise, he told MPs.
All members of the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate are up for re-election in November.
If there is no consensus candidate by then, it will be only the third contested election for RNC chairman since 1977.
Meanwhile, pilots considered to be hardliners won election to two of three leadership posts in Philadelphia, with a runoff election required for the third post.
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When you think about it, the first year is spent operating under the previous administration's budget, and part of the third and all of the fourth are spent running for re-election.
Mr Obama has made immigration reform one of his priorities, but analysts say legislation is unlikely to make it to Congress in a year when all the seats in the House of Representatives and a third of those in the Senate are up for election.
He joined the Lib Dems and soon rose through the ranks of activists to stand for Leicester South in the 2001 general election where he came in third but increased the Lib Dem share of the vote.
Mr Icahn called the management's move - which was not put to a shareholder vote - "an example of poor corporate governance", and criticised the fact that only a third of the company's board is up for election by shareholders each year.
We know that because of high youth turnout in 2004 and 2006, 2008 is the third and critical election for young voters.
All the congressional seats, a third of the Senate and thousands of local posts are also up for election, including governors and state attorneys-general.
This week, the Gallup Poll says that voters rank corruption as the third most important issue for this fall's election.
For example, in Sheffield, where a Lib Dem gain is widely expected, they point out that only one-third of the seats are up for election this year, and claim their plan has been to capture it next year rather than this.
In total, 153 cardinals gathered Wednesday at the Vatican for a third day of meetings, known as general congregations, before they set the timetable for the election.
Nor does he want to snub Israel's Russian immigrants who provided the bulk of the votes for Yisrael Beitenu, the rightist-secular party under Avigdor Lieberman, which came in third in the election.
The party came third in Cambridge last time but is hoping for a collapse in Liberal Democrat support at the next election.
On March 31st, the Reform Party candidate for the state Senate in southern Minnesota came in third in a special election.
He appears to be supporting the left-wing incumbent, Celio de Castro, in the election for mayor of Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third city.
June's general election delivered a surge of support for the Freedom Party, which won the third biggest share of the seats.
Senior Conservative MP David Davis said that if his party finished third in the by-election, it would create a "crisis" for David Cameron.
Political commentator Nichole Bacharan says the election was the triumph of a platform proposing far-reaching reforms for Europe's third-largest economy over one stressing the need to preserve the country's welfare state.
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