Election Events

1900 Oct 1 Winston Churchill Is Elected To The House Of Commons
Churchill from the beginning invariably addressed national rather than local issues. Oldham (for which he sat in 1900-06) was an important cotton-spinning centre whose electorate favoured...
1929
to 1930
Adolf Hitler, Nazis come to power through the Great Depression
When the stock market collapsed on Wall Street on Tuesday, October 29, 1929, it sent financial markets worldwide into a tailspin with disastrous effects. The German economy was especia...
1932 Adolf Hitler runs for president of Germany
In February 1932, President Hindenburg reluctantly agreed to run again and announced his candidacy for re-election. Hitler decided to oppose him and run for the presidency himself. "Fr...
1970 Ronald Reagan Wins Reelection for Governor of California
Reagan wins re-election as governor, beating the leader of the California Assembly, Democrat Jesse Unruh. He calls welfare the biggest single outlay of public funds at the federal, sta...
1980 Jul 17 Ronald Reagan Becomes the Republican Candidate for the 1980 Presidential Election
Ronald Reagan, the 33rd Governor of California, announced his candidacy for President of the United States in New York City on November 13, 1979. On July 17, 1980, he became the nominee o...
1980 Nov 4 Reagan Wins the 1980 US Presidential Election
After receiving the Republican nomination, Reagan selected one of his primary opponents, George H.W. Bush, to be his running mate. His showing in the October televised debate boosted his ...
1984 Nov 4 Ronald Reagan Wins the 1984 Presidential Election
Reagan accepted the Republican nomination in Dallas, Texas, on a wave of positive feeling. He proclaimed that it was "morning again in America," in reference to the recovering economy and...
1999 May 17 Ehud Barak is elected Israeli Prime Minister
This was only the second election for Prime Minister in Israel, the 1996 vote having been an extremely tight contest between Binyamin Netanyahu and Shimon Peres. The vote was held at a...
2001 Feb 6 Ariel Sharon elected Prime Minister of Israel
Elections for Prime Minister were held in Israel on 6 February 2001 following the resignation of the incumbent, Labour's Ehud Barak. Barak stood for re-election against Likud's Ariel Shar...
2008 Nov 4 Obama elected President of United States
Obama beats McCain and is elected US President. To the very end, Mr. McCain’s campaign was eclipsed by an opponent who was nothing short of a phenomenon, drawing huge crowds epitomiz...
2009 Jun 14 Protests in Iran Turn Violent Following Election Fraud Allegations
By June 14 the protests had grown considerably and had become more violent. Burning buses and trash cans and parked cars blocked streets and highways in Tehran and routes leading into the...
2009 Jun 15 Reformist Candidate Mousavi Makes Public Appearance in Tehran Amid Continuing Violent Protests
Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi is not optimistic about his appeal to a legislative body for the cancellation of last week's election result, his website said o...
2009 Jun 16 Protesters Rally in Streets of Tehran as University Professors Resign in Response to State Violence
A sit-in by students from the Tehran University in protest to the brutal suppression of fellow students, in particular during the recent dormitory raid, continues in the university mosque...
2009 Jun 17 Iranian Soccer Players Wear Protest Colors During Game in Seoul
The players wore the colour adopted by the opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in an apparent show of support. He challenging the presidential election last week, in ...
2009 Jun 17 Reform Candidate Mousavi Stages Silent Protest in Tehran Against Alleged Election Fraud
A peaceful, nearly silent rally by supporters of failed presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi has begun at Tehran's Hafte Tir Square. Protesters were heading toward the University...
2009 Jun 18 Protests of Iranian Election Irregularities Intensify in Paris
Several dozen journalists and the press watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) staged a protest rally outside the Iranian embassy in Paris on Thursday to demand an end to media restrict...
2009 Jun 18 Slain Protesters are Mourned as Demonstrations Against Voting Irregularities Continue in Tehran
More than 100,000 people have attended a "day of mourning" rally in Tehran to remember eight people killed while opposing Iran's election result. The rally was called by presidential c...
2009 Jun 24 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Declares Iranian Election Result Final as Protests Continue
Hundreds of protesters clashed with waves of riot police and paramilitary militia in Tehran on Wednesday, witnesses said, as Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisted that t...
2010 Dec 7 Elizabeth Edwards Dies
"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces – my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me th..." —Elizabeth Edwards