Event class: defeated, republican, vote, election, votes, ran, general election, re-election, defeating, democrat

Events with high posterior probability

Steny Hoyer	His second worst performance was his 1996 bid against Republican State Delegate John Morgan, when he won re-election with 57 % of the vote.
Julia Carson	Carson defeated Eric Dickerson in the 2006 elections 54 percent to 46 percent, a narrow 8-point margin in a year when most incumbent Democrats skated to victory.
Ben Chandler	Chandler was challenged by Republican nominee Andy Barr in the November 2010 election.
Mitt Romney	He won 68 percent of the vote at the May 1994 Massachusetts Republican Party convention ; businessman John Lakian finished a distant second, eliminating Jeghelian.
Kevin Van De Wege	In 2006, Van De Wege again challenged Buck, and this time won the election by more than 3,000 votes 53-47 percent.
Harry L. Maynard	Maynard was re-elected defeating Republican Floyd Hughes, winning 99.
Cyril Wecht	In 1982, he was the Democratic party's nominee to oppose freshman Senator John Heinz in bid for a second term ; Heinz won the election with 59 percent of the vote.
Mike Fitzpatrick	; 2006 Fitzpatrick faced Democrat Patrick Murphy in the November general election of 2006.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick	Her first serious opposition came during the 2008 primary -- the real contest in this district -- when she was challenged by both former State Representative Mary Waters and State Senator Martha Scott in the Democratic primary.
Jane L. Campbell	In November 2001, Campbell won the Cleveland mayoral election with 54 % of the vote, defeating former Clinton administration official and attorney Raymond Pierce, who received 46 % of votes.
Ron Barber	On June 12, 2012, he defeated Jesse Kelly, an Iraq War veteran, in a special election.
Cheryl Cox	Cox, a Republican, was elected mayor in November 2006 in a runoff vote against incumbent mayor Steve Padilla.
Bill Owens (Colorado politician)	Treasurer Owens was elected as the 40th Governor of Colorado in the 1998 governor's race, when he defeated Democratic opponent Gail Schoettler by only 8,300 votes (less than one percent of ballots cast).
Joseph B. Reynolds	Reynolds was elected to the Assembly in 1878, receiving 1,740 votes to 810 for Republican J. B. Nugent (the incumbent, Greenbacker J. Hayward Haight, was not running for re-election).
Ron Kind	He defeated former State Senator Dan Kapanke with 50 percent of the vote.
Joe Wilson (U.S. politician)	In the 2008 general election, he won 54 percent of the vote to Rob Miller's 46 percent, the closest race in the district in 20 years.
Endicott Peabody	In 1966 he ran for a seat in the United States Senate and lost by a wide margin to then-state Attorney General Edward Brooke.
Doc Hastings	; 2012 He won reelection against Democrat Mary Baechler with 66 % of the vote.
Brendan Byrne	Byrne defeated Anne Klein and Ralph DeRose in the 1973 Democratic primary to win the party's nomination for governor.
Bill Clinton	Monroe Schwarzlose of Kingsland in Cleveland County, polled 31 percent of the vote against Clinton in the Democratic gubernatorial primary of 1980.
John E. Sweeney	In 2002, he defeated Frank Stoppenbach, getting 73 percent of the vote.
Tom Rice	Rice defeated Jay Jordan, Randal Wallace, Dick Withington, James Mader, Chad Prosser, Katherine Jenerette, and Renee Culler in the Republican primary on June 12, 2012 to advance to a runoff.
Kelli Stargel	Stargel was elected without opposition in the general election, and was re-elected in 2008 against Democratic nominee Carol Castagnero.
Steve King	; 2006 In 2006, King won re-election to a third term, defeating Democrat Joyce Schulte, 59 % -36 %.
Melissa Noriega	On June 17, 2007, Noriega defeated Morales, garnering more than 55 percent of the vote.
Phillip D. Bissett	Bissett was the Republican nominee for County Executive in 2002, losing a close race to Janet S. Owens despite being outspent 6-to-1.
Guillaume de Ramel	De Ramel received 37,425 votes (47 %) in the primary, winning 27 of Rhode Island's 39 cities and towns.
Chaka Fattah	On November 5, 1991, Lucien Edward Blackwell won the election with a plurality of 39 % of the vote defeating Fattah (28 %), John F. White (28 %), and Nadine Smith-Bulford (5 %).
Ric Keller	In 2004 Keller won his third term with 60 % of the vote against Democratic challenger Stephen Murray.
Eliot Spitzer	In the Democratic primary held on September 12, 2006, Spitzer handily defeated Suozzi, securing his party's nomination with 81 percent of the vote.
Ed Koch	In 1981, he ran for re-election as mayor, running on both the Democratic and Republican Party lines ; in November he won, defeating his main opponent, Unity Party candidate Frank J. Barbaro, with 75 percent of the vote.
James L. Buckley	In 1970, he ran on the Conservative Party line for the U. S. Senate, facing a Democrat and the Republican incumbent Charles Goodell.
Steve Beshear	Beshear won re-election in 2011, defeating Republican David L. Williams and Independent Gatewood Galbraith.
Lisa Murkowski	Murkowski faced the most difficult election of her career in the August 24, 2010, Republican Party primary election against Joe Miller, a former U. S. magistrate judge supported by former Governor Sarah Palin.
Dan Benishek	On November 2, 2010, in the general election, Dan Benishek defeated Democratic nominee State Representative Gary McDowell, Independent Glenn Wilson, Libertarian Keith Shelton, Green Ellis Boal, and UST Patrick Lambert.
Chellie Pingree	; 2010 In 2010, Pingree ran for reelection, and won, defeating Republican challenger Dean Scontras by a 57-43 margin.
Tony Goolsby	Though unopposed for re-nomination in the 2008 Republican primary, Goolsby was unseated in the general election by the Democrat Carol Kent, 21,675 (53 percent) to 19,210 (47 percent).
Robert C. Smith	Smith ran for re-election in 2002 but lost the Republican primary to Congressman John E. Sununu, who won the general election.
Richard Hudson (U.S. politician)	He won the Republican primary runoff on July 17, 2012, with 64 % of the vote against opponent Scott Keadle and faced Democratic incumbent Larry Kissell in November.
Kathy Sheehan	On September 10, 2013, she defeated Corey Ellis in the Democratic primary for mayor of Albany.
Nickie Antonio	Antonio won a landslide victory reelection to a second term in 2012, by obtaining 75,86 % of the vote over Republican John Zappalla.
Michael F. Doyle	Doyle faced Republican nominee Hans Lessmann in the general election.
Lynne Serpe	She ran again for the same office in 2013 on the Green Party line and again finished second, defeating the Republican candidate and two other independent challengers.
B. L. Shaw	In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 21, 1995, Shaw defeated the politically unknown Democratic candidate, Jeff Rogers, 9,096 votes (66 percent) to 4,759 (34 percent).
Ric Keller	Keller readily won the 2002 Congressional election against Democrat Eddie Diaz, winning with 65 % of the vote.
Tim Holden	; 1994 Holden won re-election to a second term by defeating Republican nominee Fred Levering 57 % -43 %.
Robert J. Bentley	In the June 1, 2010 primary race, Bentley surprised political analysts by finishing second ahead of Tim James to reach a runoff election with Bradley Byrne.
Roy Barnes	Barnes won the 2010 Democratic Primary on July 20, 2010, so faced off against Republican Nathan Deal and Libertarian John Monds.
Benigno Fitial	He defeated independent candidate Heinz Hofschneider and incumbent Republican Governor Juan N. Babauta during the 2005 gubarnatorial election with 28.
George Voinovich	In 1994, Voinovich was re-elected to the governorship, defeating Democrat Robert L. Burch Jr. in a massive landslide.
Ed Perlmutter	Perlmutter defeated Republican nominee Ryan Frazier and Libertarian nominee Buck Bailey on November 2, 2010.
Curt Weldon	In 2000, he was re-elected with 65 % of the vote even though Democratic Presidential candidate Al Gore won Delaware County with 54 % of the vote.
Heather Mizeur	In 2010, Mizeur and fellow incumbent Delegates Sheila Hixson and Tom Hucker defeated three primary challengers by a wide margin and then won unopposed in the general election.
Kevin V. Ryan	Judge In 1998, Ryan was re-elected, winning by the highest percentage in any of the five contested judicial races.
Michael Fitzgerald (Iowa politician)	In 2002, he beat Matthew Whitaker by 55 % to 43 %, with Libertarian Party candidate Tim Hird taking 2 %.
Loretta Sanchez	Sanchez was challenged by Republican nominee Van Tran and Independent candidate Ceci Iglesias.
John F. Schwegmann	Blossman defeated John F. Schwegmann again in 2002, 104,963 votes (68 percent) to 49,643 ballots (32 percent).
Carl Sciortino	; 2012 election On November 6, 2012, Sciortino was re-elected, receiving 84 % of the vote and defeating Republican challenger David Rajczewski.
Tim Holden	; 2008 In 2008, he faced Republican Toni Gilhooley, a retired Pennsylvania State Trooper and 25-year veteran of the force, whom he defeated with 64 % of the vote (one percent less than the previous election).
Jason Chaffetz	Chaffetz faced Democrat Bennion Spencer in the 2008 general election, along with Jim Noorlander of the Constitution Party.
Joe Donnelly	On November 7, 2006, Donnelly defeated Chocola 54 % -46 %, a difference of 15,145 votes.
Diane Farrell	On November 7, 2006, incumbent Representative Christopher Shays defeated Diane Farrell by a margin of approximately 3 %.
Jim Poolman	He was re-elected in 2004, when he received 64 % of the vote against challenger Terry Barnes.
David Wu	He faced his most difficult reelection test in 2010, defeating Republican challenger Rob Cornilles with 54 % of the vote.
Walter Dee Huddleston	Huddleston was reelected in 1978 with 61 percent of the vote over the former Republican state Representative Louie R. Guenthner, Jr., of Louisville.
Lamar S. Smith	; 2008 He only faced one candidate, Libertarian nominee James Arthur Strohm, and defeated him with 80 % of the vote.
Paul E. Patton	In 1989 he was re-elected for a third term as judge/executive, receiving over 70 percent of the vote in a three-way Democratic primary and subsequently winning the general election by nearly a three-to-one margin.
Daniel Vovak	On September 12, 2006, Vovak was a Republican candidate on the primary ballot in Maryland, receiving 4,063 votes and placing fourth among ten candidates as he lost to Michael Steele.
Harry Lee (sheriff)	In 1987, Lee faced a strong re-election challenge from Republican Art Lentini, later a state senator, and he was forced into a general election, but he managed to win by 54-46 percent.
John Culberson	Culberson was challenged by Democratic nominee James Cargas, an energy lawyer for the City of Houston, Green party nominee Lance Findley, and Libertarian nominee Drew Parks.
Lewis A. Fidler	In 2009, Fidler faced only token opposition from a Republican candidate whom he defeated with 79.
Bill Gunter	He then faced the Republican nominee Paula Hawkins, who had been the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor (as the running mate of Jack Eckerd) in the 1978 gubernatorial election.
Fred Grandy	In 1994, he entered the Republican primary race for Governor of Iowa against incumbent Terry Branstad ; he lost the election by 4 percentage points.
Patrick Rose	In 2008, Rose defeated Republican challenger Matt Young by a large margin of 59.
Barbara Boxer	After facing no primary opposition in the 2004 election, Boxer defeated GOP candidate Bill Jones, the sitting California Secretary of State, by a margin of 20 percentage points.
Charlie Dent	; 2010 Dent won a re-election against Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan with 54 % of the vote, the smallest percent of the vote he received in his four elections.
Simon Salinas	After winning the Democratoc primary, he won an expensive, hard-fought general election against Republican Jeff Denham, who went on to be elected state Senator in 2002.
Bill Barrett	This was the closest a Democrat has come to winning the 3rd since Smith won her first race in 1974 by only 737 votes.
David Yassky	In the Democratic primary held on September 15, 2009, Yassky was the runner-up with 107,474 votes, or approximately 30 % of the votes cast.
Jeff Fortenberry	; 2012 He drew two opponents in the Republican primary again, but won with 86 % of the vote.
Gina Raimondo	Raimondo defeated her Republican opponent, Kernan King, by a wide margin of 62 percent to 38 percent.
Richard Raymond (Texas politician)	Raymond was unopposed in both the Democratic primary and the general election of 2010.
Robert Aderholt	Aderholt was reelected in the November election where he beat State representative Daniel Boman, the Democratic nominee.
Fred Thiele	; 2010 He won re-election for the first time as a member of the Independence Party, defeating Republican nominee Richard A. Blumenthal 59 % -41 %.
Ra?l Grijalva	In 2008, he defeated Republican challenger Joseph Sweeney.
Jeanne Shaheen	Shaheen ran for the United States Senate in 2002, but was narrowly defeated by Republican challenger John E. Sununu.
Ric Keller	In 2006, Keller won the Republican primary with 72 % of the vote, defeating businesswoman Elizabeth Doran.
George Cromwell Scott	In 1914 Scott was renominated by the Republicans for a second full term, but was upset in the general election by Democrat Thomas J. Steele.
William R. Keating	After winning the Democratic nomination, Keating faced incumbent DA Jeffrey A. Locke in the November 1998 general election.
Dave Treen	3 percent was cast for minor candidates, one of whom was Robert M. Ross, who had also been Treen's Republican primary rival in 1971.
Eliot Spitzer	In the 1998 election, Spitzer defeated incumbent Republican Dennis Vacco by a slim margin to become New York State Attorney General.
Steve King	; 2004 King won re-election to a second term, defeating Democrat Joyce Schulte, 63 % -37 %.
Goli Ameri	In 2004, Ameri handily defeated moderate, small businessman Tim Phillips and conservative, software executive Jason Meshell by a 2-1 margin each to become the Oregon Republican Party's nominee for, in a challenge to three-term incumbent Democrat David Wu.
Jim Holt (Arkansas politician)	In 2006, Holt was the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor and was defeated by Democrat Bill Halter 57-42 percent.
William Swain Lee	In 2004, Lee again sought the Republican nomination, this time winning the state party's endorsement, and easily winning the Republican primary.
Mark DeSaulnier	DeSaulnier won a decisive victory in the 2006 general election against Republican Arne Simonsen and Libertarian Cory Nott with 66 % of all votes cast.
Carole Keeton Strayhorn	Reelected in 2002, she led the statewide Republican ticket in terms of raw votes.
Elizabeth Dole	In the 2008 election, Dole lost by a wider-than-expected margin, taking 44 percent of the vote to Hagan's 53 percent -- the widest margin for a Senate race in North Carolina in 30 years, and the largest margin of defeat for an incumbent Senator in the 2008 cycle.
David H. Bieter	He was reelected in 2007 with 64 percent of the vote, defeating city councilman Jim Tibbs.
Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy	At the West Virginia Democratic State Convention held in Parkersburg on June 6, 1900, Flournoy competed for the party's nomination against Lewis N. Tavenner of Wood County, John H. Holt of Cabell County, and Virgil G. Lewis of Jackson County.