The delegate from the Indiana Territory was elected at large in a territory-wide election.
The region-wide election, however, provoked a civil war.
The interest in a certain state-wide election was morbid in a way.
The last time any party secured a majority of the popular vote in a UK-wide election was 1931.
It was also the first time in more than a century that a party other than Labour or Conservatives won the most votes in a UK-wide election.
His party came top with 27.5 per cent of the vote – the first time a party other than Labour or the Conservatives have won a nation-wide election in over 100 years.
The point, explains a Eurocrat, "is to try to convince them that the European Parliament isn't just boring .In theory, this is a Euro-wide election campaign, with common manifestos put out by the main pan-European political groups.
In what was interpreted as a rejection of his government's policies, the opposition Socialist Party made sweeping gains in both a regional French election in March and a European-wide election early this month.
Backstory Roland Burris, a veteran Chicago politician, became the first African-American to win an Illinois state-wide election in 1978 and became attorney-general from 1991 to 1995.
To those who claim that there is no European demos to underpin such democracy, he argues that a Europe-wide election will itself create one.This is the sort of thing that Larry Siedentop, a former Oxford academic, warns against under the heading of "faux democracy".
Jeb Bush, a Florida Republican with softer positions on immigration than Rubio — he has supported tuition breaks for the children of illegal immigrants, for example — won nearly two-thirds of the Hispanic vote in his last state-wide election, including fifty-five per cent of the Puerto Rican vote.
