Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) ranked in second place in numerous polls leading up to the election.
Lopez Obrador, of the Democratic Revolution Party, garnered 31.59% of votes, election officials said.
Named for an 18th-century anti-tax uprising on the eve of the American Revolution, the Tea Party demands lower taxes and less government spending.
In Zanzibar violence broke out after the ruling Party of the Revolution was declared the winner of presidential and parliamentary elections.
The PRI and PAN, and smaller Green Party voted in favor, while the leftist parties led by the Party of Democratic Revolution, or PRD, opposed it.
Mexico's conservative opposition, the National Action Party, largely favors a broader opening of the energy business to private investment, while the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution has proposed a more limited opening for areas like refining.
Dante Delgado, a popular former governor running for a centre-left coalition based on the Party of the Democratic Revolution, Mexico's third main party, polled a respectable 28.3%.
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Even the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution, which makes most such claims, was last month riven by charges of foul play in its internal leadership contest.
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Some Mexican historians still claim that another opposition candidate, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas from the PRD (the Party of the Democratic Revolution), was the real winner of those elections.
In many areas the tally was certified by his own centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolution, which scored its best-ever result in the vote for Congress.
Now, this is perhaps the toughest test so far because there is one point separating Mr. Calderon, from the Conservative National Election Party, and Mr. Lopez Obrador, from the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution.
Leftist candidate Lopez Obrador, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, had not seen the video, but said he agreed with the theme of change.
But Mr Lopez Obrador, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, said the election had been fraudulent and that he would file an appeal next week.
As for the Republicans who joined with the Tea Party to stage a revolution just a few years ago, only to be presented with Romney and Santorum, they must be asking if all their effort was remotely worth it.
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But his skill in holding the caucus together through the traumas of the Gingrich revolution and the Clinton impeachment earned him the unanimous support of his party.
Now she has managed to pull some of Mr Yushchenko's own supporters over to her side and form a new coalition that takes in the small party of Vladimir Litvin, who served as speaker before the orange revolution and has now got the job back again.
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The symbol of the crescent embracing the cross was the banner of the 1919 revolution against British control of Egypt, and became the badge of the nationalist Wafd party which dominated Egyptian politics until the early 1950s.
It also might seem to set limits to the scope of Mr Harris and his Common Sense Revolution. (After all, in Ottawa his party has fewer seats than a rival right-wing group, the Reform Party.) But in Ontario's election, at least, he and his revolution have been the main issue.
Fouad Serageddin, the octogenarian boss of the conservative New Wafd Party, served as interior minister in King Farouk's last government before the 1952 revolution.
That was the first time the Democrats controlled Congress since the 1994 Republican revolution, when Rep. Newt Gingrich led his party to a sweeping victory.
Yet for a Social Democratic party traditionally wedded to fortifying the welfare state, they constitute a mini-revolution.
Union leaders describe the league as an armed wing of the ruling Ennahda party, a moderate Islamist group that dominates Tunisia's post-revolution government.
Jebali denied that his party had anything to do with the killing -- the first assassination since Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution" -- and urged his fellow countrymen to act with restraint.
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