For the first time, elections were held for county and municipal officials on the same day as the national vote.
For the first time, elections to these bodies presented voters with a choice of candidates, including noncommunists, though the Communist Party continued to dominate the system.
She helped get out the vote in Austin for the first time this election.
Registered Republicans dipped below 30 percent of the state's electorate for the first time this election.
In August, for the first time, an election will be held for provincial governors.
The vote was the first time an election in France had been held under a state of emergency.
It was the first time an election in France had been held under a state of emergency.
A number of non-partisan groups in Austin, including the Workers Defense Project and the Texas Freedom Network, joined get out the vote efforts for the first time this election.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 172.79 points, or 1.35 percent, to 13,009.68, the first time since Election Day that the Dow closed above 13,000.
But even as the candidates, Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown, scrambled to distance themselves from the governor, they shared a stage with him on Tuesday for the first time this election cycle.
