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2005 Parliamentary elections in Iraq, the first since 1958

1995 Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections

1995 PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections

1995 Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections

1994 Austrian conservative Vice President wins elections/extreme right gets 18.5%

1994 Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections

1994 Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections

1993 Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of municipal elections in Rome

1993 Paraguay holds its 1st President and parliamentary elections in 50 years

1993 South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections

1992 Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round

1991 Nepalese Congress party wins general elections

1990 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists

1989 General Manuel Noriega's government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin

1989 1st free elections in U.S.S.R.; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins

1988 Benazir Bhutto wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years

1988 Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections

1987 Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections

1986 Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections

1985 Argentine President Alfonsins Radical Burgerunie wins elections

1985 Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India

1985 Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections

1985 Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru

1984 Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections

1984 Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%

1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections

1983 Turkey Turgut zals Moederland party wins elections

1983 Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections

1982 Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections

1982 Dutch social dem party wins elections, fascist enters Dutch parliament

1982 JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador

1981 Andreas Papandreous' PASOK wins Greek elections

1981 Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections

1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe

1980 Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections

1980 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India

1979 President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh

1978 Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections

1977 Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections

1977 Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years)

1977 Communists/socialists win French municipal elections

1977 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections

1976 Jamaica premier Manley wins elections

1976 Rene Levesque's "Parti Quebecois" wins elections in Quebec

1976 Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country

1976 Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand

1973 Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair

1973 National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections

1969 SPD wins West German Parliament elections

1969 Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections

1965 Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections

1965 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

1964 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections

1962 Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria

1962 India Congress Party wins elections

1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba

1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections

1958 CVP wins municipal elections in Belgium

1956 Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections

1955 Ali Sastroamidjojo's PNI wins elections in Indonesia

1955 Gaullists lose elections in France

1954 Labour Party wins British municipal elections

1953 Adenauers CDU wins elections in West Germany

1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections

1953 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP

1953 Malans National Party wins South African elections

1952 Greek general Papagos wins elections

1952 Liberal Party wins Japanese elections

1952 Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%)

1947 De Gaulles RPF wins French municipal elections

1946 Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)

1946 KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections

1937 Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections

1936 French People's Front wins elections

1936 Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins elections

1935 Provincial-National elections (Musserts NSB achieves 7.9%/44 chairs)

1924 Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections

1924 Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections

1922 Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win

1921 1st municipal elections for men and women in Belgium

1910 Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South Africa

1910 Angus Campbell, U.S., psychologist, Elections and Political Order

1909 Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections

1887 To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act

1871 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections


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