It also marked the first time the Peronist movement was defeated in a free election.
Nor since the 1950s has Sao Paulo state in any free election chosen a conservative governor.
Despite running a pork-free election campaign (while his rival Congress Party was promising voters free electricity), Naidu won by a landslide.
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The 48 political parties contesting Indonesia's first free election for more than 40 years began the final stage of their campaigns.
An Islamist party called Nahda seems likely to have captured the lion's share of the votes cast in the first free election in Tunisia.
They look like being joined by Indonesia, whose new civilian government, formed after its first free election in 44 years, contains many former opposition leaders.
Earlier this year, the Palestinian people voted in a free election.
On the other hand I feel optimistic and happy to see, Somaliland's (my parents birthplace) fair and free election that took place on the 26th of June 2010.
For all that, it is hard to see Mr Chernomyrdin triumphing, as he hopes, in a free presidential election.
Fifteen months after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians voted in their first free presidential election on May 23rd and 24th, with no opinion poll confidently predicting a winner among the three or four front-runners.
This in itself would be a momentous event, marking the first time in Egypt that a reasonably free presidential election had been held, producing a head of state legitimised by the popular will, albeit in a polarised society.
There is still some optimism here that Zimbabwe can pull off a free and fair election later this year.
He wants the region and the UN to intervene to restore peace and conditions for a free and fair election.
"These two have tremendously enhanced the registration of women, " said Muddassir Rizvi, CEO of the Islamabad-based Free and Fair Election Network.
"If Mugabe's position that we need a free and fair election is a ruse, then he would have cheated me, " he is quoted as saying.
"I have repeatedly said that my main competitor should have the opportunity to face me in a free and fair election, whose outcome is determined by the people of Kenya, " he said.
It's rare when any political leader wins a 60% mandate in a free and fair election, which is why commentary on last week's Indonesian election has focused on the personal success of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Vice President Suleiman is in charge of a process in representing the Egyptian government to negotiate with those not in government in order to get us on a path toward an orderly transition that ends in a free and fair election.
These include a call for a postponement of the election by 60-90 days, an independent assessment of alleged coercive behavior by the Front government and a tying of Western economic assistance to the correction of any such practices and the holding of a genuinely free and fair election.
In his Christmas message, Mr Cameron said he hoped for an election "free from fake political dividing lines".
Western governments have said they might ease key sanctions against Myanmar if Sunday's election is free and fair.
If Mr Medvedev has liberal instincts, the best way to show them would be to run a free and fair presidential election.
For his part, Medvedev was first to instruct election authorities to look into reports of violations, but insisted the election was free and democratic.
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The Brisbane meeting should see continued pressure on Mr Mugabe to meet minimum standards for a free and fair presidential election, which must be held by April.
Tests like Dr Mebane's one could provide monitors with quantitative estimates of exactly how free and fair an election has been, on which to base their qualitative judgment of whether that is indeed acceptable.
The Security Council this evening declared its support for a free and fair presidential election in Lebanon conducted according to Lebanese constitutional rules devised without foreign interference or influence and, in that connection, called upon all remaining foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon.
Mr Hun Sen may worry that he could still lose an election that was free and fair.
Obama, who won't ever face re-election, felt free to ramp up the inaugural program's celebrity quotient this time.
But truly, these articles do not justify the nullification of the American people's free choice in a national election.
Mr. Carter was trounced in his 1980 re-election bid by free-marketer Ronald Reagan, who slashed marginal income-tax rates and regulations and lowered trade barriers.
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