At first,people wondered: would President Hayes keep the promises that were made to help him win the election.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

So it was not clear at first who had won the presidential election.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

At least twenty-six people died in election day violence.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

Tehran is under pressure both at home, over the disputed presidential election in June, and abroad,for its controversial nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

More than seven months after the election, Norm Coleman came before reporters at his home in St.Paul,Minnesota to concede defeat.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

A recent public opinion survey put Palin at the top of the list of Republican presidential hopefuls for the 2012 election.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

Shortly after the Iraqi parliament approved the new election law, President Barack Obama went before reporters at the White House.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

To win the election on Sunday, one of the candidates must secure at least 50 percent of the vote.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

However,these parties will still require a substantial swing if they are to win power at the next election.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Two policemen were injured by an election-day bomb blast in the town of Naceria, Two other bombs were defused at the scene.

VOA: standard.2009.04.10

But there are already small incremental signs of change at the White House and the Democratic Party headquarters following the Massachusetts election.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

Mr.Brown's appearance at the inquiry was not expected to take place until after a general election, which must take place by June.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

But it sounded like a campaign speech as Gordon Brown, at the very start, vowed a fight to win next year's election.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Steven Fielding, professor of Political History at Britain's Nottingham University, says these televised debates may prove crucial to the outcome of the election.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

The Election Complaints Commission has ordered a recount involving at least 10 percent of voting stations nationwide.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Jacek Kucharczyk, of the Warsaw-based Institute of Public Affairs, says the crash at Smolensk did more than just change the date of the election.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

(RECORDING) The Abdullah campaign has complained for weeks that supporters of the president rigged the election, even at polling booths where Mr.Karzai had strong support.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Many of the most serious complaints allege supporters of President Karzai rigged the results at polling stations on Election Day in three provinces strongholds of the incumbent.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

His trip comes at a critical time with the results of the country's presidential election still uncertain and worries a disputed outcome, due to allegations of widespread ballot box stuffing, could spark further civil violence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

And we'll have to see how this unfolds." Clinton declined to say whether the Obama administration will formally recognize Mr.Ahmadinejad's re-election, saying U.S.officials are going to "take this a day at a time" and carefully assess what happens.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

The ethnic Uzbek leader, who was a candidate in the country's 2004 election, is widely reported to be at least partly responsible for the alleged massacre of some 2,000 Taliban prisoners after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and a cover-up of the deaths.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

Major rifts within the opposition have been cited as the biggest factor likely to thwart efforts by their leader Anwar Ibrahim to win control of government at the next election,due by 2013, although some analysts say a poll could be held as early as next year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

"I do appeal to the candidates and to their campaigns and also to the voters to demonstrate the patience and calm that is required for the ECC to carry out its work in order to make sure that when we look back at the entire election process that we can say that it had the credibility that is required,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.24