If Mr Hague does as well as expected, Mr Clarke may not want to fight on and contest a third ballot.
Bailiff Geoff Rowland made the announcement after the third ballot.
Mr Gauck, a non-partisan civil rights campaigner put forward by the centre left, appeared close to tears as his supporters applauded his result in the third ballot, which needed a simple majority.
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Robert Drown, representing the UK Independence Party, finished third in the ballot with 25, 228 votes (15.01%).
Larkin, a 12-time All-Star and one-time National League MVP, was elected in his third year on the ballot.
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Samaranch, whose father was president of the IOC from 1980 to 2001, says the Spanish capital will look for a "combination of vitality and reliability" as the bid team aim to improve on their third place in the ballot to host the 2012 Games.
On July 18, 1940, the Democratic Convention meeting in Chicago overwhelmingly nominated FDR for a third term on the first ballot.
He notes the name and passes the ballot to the third scrutineer, who reads it aloud for all the cardinals to hear.
Nader said in certain states such as North Carolina he is starting a Populist Party to take advantage of less stringent ballot qualifications for third parties.
If there is no clear outright winner in the ballot, second and third preference votes will be counted.
The fact that more than a third of people chose not to cast a ballot scuppered the Yes campaign's chances.
Also on Tuesday's ballot were 11 state governorships, a third of the seats in the 100-member US Senate and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives.
McGwire was on the ballot for a seventh time and Palmeiro, a third.
Then when the Republican wing of the Republocrat Party freezes him out of its privileged slot on the ballot, he will be positioned to pivot into a third-candidate run against both heads of the two-headed Republocrat beast of prey.
Then you wait in a third line to hand somebody the handwritten ID form and have your paper ballot optically scanned by a scanning machine.
Some voters hedged their bets in the proportional-representation part of the ballot by supporting the new Your Party that is fast emerging as a third force in Japanese politics (see article).
Mr Lee now finds himself in third place in the polls, trailing Rhee In Je, the runner-up in the ruling party's ballot for a presidential candidate.
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