In Seoul, against the odds, the progressive candidate won a landslide victory against both conservative incumbent and contender.
The contenders — incumbent President Uluru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga, a seasoned political operator, have faced off before.
The contenders: Incumbent president, possible Freemason, and designer of 160-foot vanity statues, Abdoulaye Wade, was expecting to sleepwalk his way to a third election victory.
Policy differences between the leading contenders - Labour incumbent Ken Livingstone and Conservative challenger Boris Johnson - lie more in emphasis than ideology.
In light of Mr. LeMieux's decision, Mr. Mack stands as the likely Republican contender to face incumbent Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat, in the general election.
Second, will the next president allow his powerful rivals enough of a stake in government to dissuade them from going back to war?The most likely presidential contender is the incumbent, Joseph Kabila.
Since the vote, there has been a tense runoff between Southern incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo and Northern contender Alassane Ouattara; a win by Ouattara; a reversal by the constitutional council; a refusal by either party to concede; and a breakout of violence that has yet to end.
Mr Klitschko is the first declared contender against the incumbent, Viktor Yanukovych.
The Republicans see Hawley, Missouri's attorney general, as a strong contender to unseat incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill, after Trump won the state by 18 points two years ago.
Iran's televised presidential debate Wednesday between incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and leading contender Mir Hussein Mousavi sparked a controversy when Ahmadinejad leveled corruption charges against a number of his critics, the Guardian reports.
So far, none of the presidential contenders (including the incumbent) seem to have found a politically palatable way to do either.
