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in a British
by-election
in
1981
, John Desmond Lewis ran for office under the name
Tarquin Fin-tim-lim-bim-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olè-Biscuitbarrel
, drawing inspiration from a
Monty Python
skit about silly elections?
the
Irish
politician the
O'Gorman Mahon
commanded a
Chilean
fleet, fought thirteen
duels
, and won a
by-election
aged 87?
John S. Treen
, the choice of the
Republican
leadership, lost the 1989
special election
which sent
David Duke
to the
Louisiana House of Representatives
?
Bill Boaks
, a retired
Royal Navy
Lieutenant Commander, won only 5 votes (a record low in a
British
Parliamentary election) in a
1982
by-election
?
Alexander Korzhakov
contends that his political adversaries wanted to kill his main rival in the 1997 parliamentary
by-election
in
Tula
in order to deem it invalid?
Queensland MP
Peter Wellington
held the
balance of power
for four months, until a
by-election
allowed the
Australian Labor Party
to form a
majority government
?
Facts on topics related to By-election
Referendum
people's veto
is a type of a
referendum
that allows citizens to
repeal
an existing law?
in the
June 2005 Swiss referendum
,
Switzerland
became the first country in
Europe
to hold a
referendum
on increased rights for
same-sex couples
?
in the wake of voter anger at tax increases enacted by
Governor
James Florio
,
New Jersey Assembly
member
Thomas P. Foy
supported allowing voters to remove legislators from office by
referendum
?
it was feared the broadcast of the
Italian
1974 Eurovision
song
Si
, meaning
yes
would influence a
referendum
on
divorce
?
the
Danish land laws referendum of 1963
is the only
referendum
in the history of
Denmark
to have been held by a minority of
parliament
?
the
Goa Opinion Poll
was the only
referendum
to have been held in
Independent India
?
the
Ludlow Amendment
was a proposed amendment to the
United States Constitution
requiring a
national referendum
for
declaration of war
?
Secret ballot
Edwin D. Hill
was the first president of the
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
to be elected by
secret ballot
?
Election
Clarence Lightner
was the first
African-American
elected
mayor
of any
metropolitan
Southern United States
city
?
Kaka Joginder Singh
(alias
Dharti Pakad
) contested and lost over 300
elections
in his 36 year
political
career?
Nicolás Zúñiga y Miranda
considered himself the
President of Mexico
for two decades, despite losing in each of the ten
elections
he entered?
preselection
is the process by which a
candidate
is selected, usually by a
political party
, to contest an
election
for political office, an example being the
United States presidential primary
?
William Cowper Alexander
lost the 1856
election
for the
Governor of New Jersey
by less than 3,000 votes?
after
Frank W. Towey, Jr.
lost his
House of Representatives
re-
election
bid, he became assistant to the
U.S. Attorney General
?
after being declared defeated,
Henry Overstolz
successfully contested the mayoral
election
and unseated
James Britton
to become the twenty-fourth
mayor
of
St. Louis, Missouri
?
the
Karnataka
politician
Hotte Paksha Rangaswamy
is the
world record
holder for number of
elections
contested?
Electoral fraud
booth capturing
is a kind of
electoral fraud
that is seen mainly in
India
, where armed gangs belonging to
political parties
try to "capture" a polling booth and indulge in bogus voting?
at the
1895 United Kingdom General Election
,
Tankerville Chamberlayne
's election as a
Member of Parliament
was declared void because of
electoral fraud
?
despite sending 8000
ARVN
soldiers from out of district to
stuff ballot boxes
,
South Vietnam
's President
Ngo Dinh Diem
could not prevent his candidate from losing to
Phan Quang Dan
in a 1959 legislative election by a ratio of 6-1?
the
Moldavian
intellectual
Gheorghe Asachi
(
pictured
) opposed his country's union with
Wallachia
and endorsed the pro-
separatist
electoral fraud
of June 1857?
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