Another incumbent fell by the wayside when Cynthia McKinney lost her primary run-off election.
On off election years, that money should be donated to local, state, and national parties to carry on business.
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If no such clear winner emerges on the first ballot, however, the two leading vote-getters will face a run-off election.
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Mr Mousavi was hoping to prevent Mr Ahmadinejad winning more than 50% of the vote, in order to force a run-off election.
In the capital, Kinshasa, where three days of fighting greeted the announcement, in August, of a run-off election, people are visibly on edge.
On November 26, a run-off election will take place in Ecuador that will determine who the next President of Ecuador is going to be.
Two Democratic candidates will face one another in a run-off election to succeed Antonio Villaraigosa as mayor of Los Angeles, after neither won a majority in Tuesday's vote.
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The latest polls suggest no candidate will win more than 50% of the vote, in which case the top two will face a run-off election on 4 November.
But by falling short of an outright win, Mr Perez Molina seems set to face Manuel Baldizon, who garnered some 23%, in a run-off election on 6 November.
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The run-off election will be held on 21 May.
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Former leftist guerrilla Jose Mujica took up office on 1 March 2010, after having won a run-off election against conservative former President Luis Lacalle in November 2009 with about 53% of the vote.
This week, a conversation with Senator Joe Lieberman, who's defending his seat against opponent Ned Lamont in Connecticut's Democratic Primary next Tuesday, a run-off election in Congress Woman's Cynthia McKinney's District also coming up.
In the run-up to the Haiti elections yesterday, the OAS played a pivotal role in ensuring a free, fair run-off election involving the candidates who actually got the most number of votes in the first round of the election.
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The most anemic off-election cycle advance (14%) was in 1946-47 during the Truman Administration.
Mr Bush's Republican party had hoped to keep the economy off the election agenda.
So is he going to pivot immediately off the election to try and sell some of these ideas to voters?
And we're coming off an election and I think people want to sort of test the limits of what they can get.
On April 1st one of Italy's highest courts gave a ruling that could have meant putting off the election due on April 13th and 14th, at least for some weeks.
That nation faces its first run-off presidential election ever.
Stephen Kilijanczyk, 23, of Canton, Michigan, a McCain voter who helped at a rally for the candidate prior to the election, said he thought younger voters were turned off by the election.
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There are some obvious political advantages for Christie to put the election off until 2014.
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Nor is it down to teachers that playing fields are being sold off, despite election promises.
The Democrats haven't won that many, picked up that many seats since 1982 in an off-year election.
In this off-year election, we hear disproportionately from seniors, a population already covered by the universal Medicare program.
The alarm goes off late on Election Day. (Laughter.) Maybe you forget what day it is.
The Senate was back to work in September for two weeks before taking nearly seven weeks off for the election.
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Mr Johnson, for his part, can look back to 1966 and another politician who was written off long before election day.
But that's an off-year election for state offices and voter turnout will be greatest in New York City for the mayoral election.
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