Event class: candidate, party, election, president, presidential election, elections, elected, ran, votes, presidency

Events with high posterior probability

Cristian Moreno Panezo	In 2007 Moreno postulated his name again for the governorship of Cesar Department during the Colombian regional election in representation of the Partido Verde -- Opción Centro political party.
Coluche	It was there that he announced his candidacy for the French presidential elections in 1981.
Eduardo Verano de la Rosa	In the internal elections of 2003 to select the candidate for the Governorship of Atlántico Department, Verano ended in second place behind Fernando Borda, who was supported by Senator José Name, despite this Borda was defeated in the general elections.
Atiku Abubakar	On 25 November 2006 Abubakar announced that he would run for President ; he did not announce immediately which party he would represent, although he inaugurated a presidential campaign committee.
Rafael Cordero Santiago	In 1988, Cordero received the endorsement of then governor Rafael Hernández Colón for the office of Mayor of the city of Ponce and won the elections for the PPD by 1,617 votes against his opponent Helcías Bermúdez of the New Progressive Party that same year.
Arlette Laguiller	He has since lost his soft spot for Laguiller after she refused to back Jacques Chirac against Jean-Marie Le Pen in the 2002 presidential election and has stated that he wo n't sing this song again.
Amien Rais	In 2004 presidential election, Amien Rais and Siswono Yudohusodo - nominated by PAN, The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) and some small political parties - earned 15 % of the vote.
Alberto Andrade	In 2000, he stood against President Alberto Fujimori in the presidential elections, but received only 3.
Marjane Satrapi	Following the Iranian elections in June 2009, Marjane Satrapi and Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf appeared before Green Party members in the European Parliament to present a document allegedly received from a member of the Iranian electoral commission claiming that the reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi had actually won the election, and that the conservative incumbent Mahmoud Ahmedinejad had received only 12 % of the vote.
Nicolas Sarkozy	François Hollande, the Socialist Party candidate, received the most votes in the first round held on 22 April election, with Sarkozy coming second, meaning that both progressed to the second round of voting on 5 -- 6 May 2012.
Gustavo Petro	Years later he would become the presidential candidate of the Alternative Democratic Pole in the 2010 Colombian election, but lost at ranking fourth after the now President Juan Manuel Santos, Antanas Mockus and German Vargas Lleras respectively.
Ryutaro Hashimoto	In 2001, he was one of the main candidates in the running to replace Yoshirō Mori as prime minister, but he lost the primary election to the more popular Junichiro Koizumi.
Norbert Mao	He belongs to the Democratic Party and has publicly indicated his intention to contest the 2011 Ugandan presidential elections, either as the nominee of his party or if not nominated on the party ticket, as an independent.
Peter Kenilorea	Following fighting between the Malaita Eagle Force and the Isatabu Freedom Movement, Kenilorea was, along with Paul Tovua, co-chairman of the peace talks, and he became Chairman of the eight-member He was a candidate for the post of Governor-General in mid-June 2004, but he received only 8 of 41 votes in Parliament, placing second behind Nathaniel Waena, who received 27 votes.
Maggie Hassan	Hassan was also the first gubernatorial candidate in the 2012 elections to launch television advertisements.
Gus Bevona	After Andy Stern, the union's organizing director, announced in February 1996 that he would run against Cordtz in the union's first contested presidential election, Cordtz withdrew his candidacy and threw his support behind Stern, and Cordtz withdrew from the race shortly thereafter.
Alexander Wrabetz	With Wrabetz as their Chairman and top candidate, the Socialist Students achieved their best-ever result at the elections for the Austrian National Union of Students in 1983, when they received 26 % of the votes.
Frank Hsieh	As the DPP candidate for the 2006 Taipei Mayoral election, Hsieh lost the race to KMT candidate Hau Lung-pin by 166,216 votes (12.
Salvador Allende	Allende won the 1970 Chilean presidential election as leader of the Unidad Popular ('' Popular Unity'') coalition.
Pierre Mamboundou	On 19 July 2009, following President Bongo's death on 8 June, Mamboundou was designated as the candidate of the Alliance for Change and Restoration opposition coalition for the 30 August 2009 presidential election.
Gibson Sibanda	He stood as a candidate for the post of President of the Senate on August 25, 2008, and he was backed by both MDC factions, but was defeated by ZANU-PF candidate Edna Madzongwe, receiving 28 votes against 58 votes for Madzongwe.
Ollanta Humala	On May 24, 2006 Humala warned of possible voter fraud in the upcoming second round elections scheduled for June 4.
Manfred Reyes Villa	In 2002 Reyes Villa led the polls (with circa 41 %) during the initial months of the presidential race, but lost votes and ended up in third place.
Fid?le Moungar	At the Sovereign National Conference (CNS), a reconciliation conference representing most Chadian factions that was first convened on January 15, 1993, Moungar was elected as transitional Prime Minister on April 6, 1993, receiving 444 votes against the 334 received by Adoum Helbongo.
Lim Hwee Hua	Lim contested the 2011 general election in Aljunied GRC, but her team (led by George Yeo) was defeated by the team fielded by the Workers' Party (WP) led by its Secretary-General Low Thia Khiang.
Enric Llaudet	Success in this operation was prompted Llaudet won the confidence of partners in 1965 unanimously re-elected him as president, beating at the polls to Josep Maria Vendrell by 164 votes to 35.
Badri Patarkatsishvili	He contested the 2008 Georgian presidential election and came third with 7.
Jack Lang (French politician)	Lang was narrowly defeated on the second round of voting in the election on 17 June 2012, winning 49.
Mariano Rajoy	In the General Elections of 22 June 1986, he obtained a seat in the Congress of Deputies as the head of the AP's list for Pontevedra, although he resigned in November to take up the post of vice-president of the Xunta of Galicia following the resignation of Xosé Luis Barreiro and the rest of the ministers.
Michel Rocard	In the run up to the presidential elections in 2007, Rocard called for an alliance between the Socialists and the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF) party of François Bayrou in an effort to defeat Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) candidate Nicolas Sarkozy.
Heinrich Held	Held ran in the first round of the 1925 German presidential elections and achieved 3.
Felipe Harboe	On March 13, 2009, Harboe was appointed by his party to take the vacant seat of former Deputy Carolina Tohá, who was chosen one day earlier by President Michelle Bachelet as Minister Secretary General of Government, in the District 22 of Santiago Centro, the same seat that he was campaigning for, and for which he is expected to run in the next Parliamentary Elections.
Patrick McCartan	He contested the 1945 Presidential election as an Independent candidate and secured 20 % of the vote.
Marie Fran?ois Sadi Carnot	When the Daniel Wilson scandals occasioned the downfall of Jules Grévy in December 1887, Carnot's reputation for integrity made him a candidate for the presidency, and he obtained the support of Georges Clemenceau and many others, so that he was elected by 616 votes out of 827.
Gilbert Teodoro	On May 11, 2010, a day after the elections were held, Teodoro gracefully conceded defeat to the leading Presidential candidate, Senator Noynoy Aquino of the Liberal Party.
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom	The October 2008 Maldivian presidential election was the first presidential election Maumoon Abdul Gayoom allowed to be contested.
Jerry Ekandjo	At SWAPO's 2012 party congress, Ekandjo stood as a candidate for SWAPO Vice-President, but he was defeated by Hage Geingob in the vote held on 2 December 2012.
Slaven Letica	The HSP nevertheless used Letica again as their candidate in the Croatian presidential election, 2005.
Yeidckol Polevnsky Gurwitz	In the 2006 general election she supported the presidential campaign of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and was elected to the Senate, representing the state of México for the PRD.
Jos? Yulo	He was the presidential candidate of the Liberal Party in the 1957 presidential elections, eventually losing to incumbent President Carlos P. Garcia.
Rodolphe Thomas	In the 2002 legislative election, he defeated the Socialist incumbent in the Calvados' 2nd constituency as a Union for French Democracy (UDF) candidate.
Dimitris Avramopoulos	After the election of Antonis Samaras in the `` New Democracy'' party Presidency he was appointed President of the Organizing Committee of the 8th Party Congress held in Athens in June 2010.
Georges Sarre	However, ahead of the 2007 presidential election and 2007 legislative election in which the MRC supported Royal's candidacy in return for the Socialist Party's endorsement of Sarre's candidacy in the Creuse's 2nd constituency in the June legislative election.
Joachim Yhombi-Opango	Sassou Nguesso announced Yhombi-Opango's release when the former was sworn in for a second term as President on November 10, 1984, citing'' the interest of national unity and peace''.
John Karefa-Smart	He stood as the UNPP candidate in the 1996 presidential election, but he was defeated in the second round election runoff by the SLPP candidate Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.
Leonel Brizola	The 1994 presidential elections were a huge failure for Brizola, who scored fifth place on an election in which Cardoso was elected in the first round by an absolute majority.
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu	He ran for president in 1963, forming the'' Union del Pueblo Argentino'' (UDELPA, Union of the Argentine People), with the slogan :'' Vote UDELPA and HE wo n't return'' ('' Vote UDELPA y no vuelve''), referring to Perón.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso	In 1985, he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of São Paulo against former President Jânio Quadros.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	He won the 2002 presidential election with an electoral vote of 922,884, surpassing 107,366 votes won by Lakshmi Sahgal.
Henrique Capriles Radonski	In the Venezuelan regional elections, 2008 Capriles was elected Governor of Miranda state, defeating Diosdado Cabello.
Jos? Guadalupe Cervantes Corona	He endorsed gubernatorial candidate Amalia García of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in the 2004 Zacatecan election.
Musalia Mudavadi	On 1 September 2007, the ODM elected Odinga as its presidential candidate ; Mudavadi took second place with 391 votes, far short of Odinga's 2,656 votes.
Nicolas Sarkozy	Ségolène Royal was Sarkozy's final opponent during the second (last) round of the 2007 presidential election.
Antonio Trillanes IV	Trillanes was proclaimed senator-elect on May 20, 2013 by the Commission on Elections with an official tally of 14,127,722 votes.
Jaros?aw Kalinowski	He contested the Polish presidential election as the PSL candidate in 2000 (5.
Joe Lingad	He was coaxed out of retirement by the opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr., who urged him to run for Pampanga governor in the January 1980 local elections as a candidate of the anti-Marcos opposition.
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali	In early August 2012, Prime Minister Ali officially announced his intention to present himself as a presidential candidate in Somalia's upcoming 2012 elections.
Gwanda Chakuamba	In February 1994, the MCP announced that Banda was to be the party's presidential candidate in the forthcoming general election ; Chakuamba was the vice-president ial candidate.
Jim Nwobodo	Towards the end of his Senate term, he temporarily transferred to the United Nigeria People's Party (UNPP), running as a Presidential Candidate in the 2003 General elections.
Garry Davis	; Political candidacy Davis ran for mayor in Washington D. C. in 1986 as the candidate of the'' World Citizen Party'' receiving 585 votes.
Sanoussi Jackou	Jackou and the PNA-Aloumat chose to participate in the October 2009 parliamentary election, which was boycotted by the major opposition parties.
Rosalba Ciarlini	In 2006 she was elected senator for Rio Grande do Norte after a hard race against then-Senator Fernando Bezerra, with a margin of 0.
Max Simeoni	He later tried unsuccessfully to be a candidate for the 1995 French presidential election.
Tsai Ing-wen	Tsai resigned as chairperson of the DPP after losing her 2012 presidential election bid to incumbent Ma Ying-jeou.
Alfredo Lim	Lim resigned as head of Joseph Estrada's Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) in August 2008, following a PMP's executive committee resolution removing him as president of the party.
Milorad Dodik	In October 2010, Dodik narrowly won the RS presidential election already on the first round, thus becoming the 8th president of the republic.
S?gol?ne Royal	The first woman in France to be nominated by a major party, she was the Socialist candidate in the 2007 French presidential election but lost to Nicolas Sarkozy on 6 May 2007.
Mar?a San Gil	In the regional elections of 2005 she was a candidate for Basque regional president or lehendakari, but lost out to the nationalist candidate Juan Jose Ibarretxe of the EAJ-PNV.
Pl?nio Salgado	Still driven by the ambition of becoming president, Salgado ran for presidency under his new party in 1955, but finished last, obtaining just 8 % of the votes (around 714,000 votes).
Marisol Espinoza	In the 2011 presidential election Espinoza was Ollanta Humala's running mate as candidate for First Vice President of Peru on the Peru Wins ticket.
Chinwoke Mbadinuju	Mbadinuju claimed that he was excluded from the governorship contest in 2003 despite winning the PDP primaries because Uba and President Olusegun Obasanjo opposed his candidature.
Peter Chin Fah Kui	After contesting for the Sarawak United Peoples' Party (SUPP) presidential election on 11 December 2011, Chin has won unopposed after his challenger Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh boycotted the election process for their new Central Committee.
Miss Dominique	She backed French conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy during his campaign for the 2007 presidential elections and was among the singers who sang to celebrate his victory over Ségolène Royal the night of his election.
Ant?nio Ferreira Gomes	Gomes was widely sympathetic to General Humberto Delgado, the Democratic Opposition candidate of the 1958 presidential elections, who was also a Catholic, and a former supporter of the Estado Novo.
Mostafa Kavakebian	On 25 January 2013, Kavakebian was nominated as a candidate for the presidential elections which took place in June 2013 by his party.
Lim Hwee Hua	At the 2006 general election, Lim contested in Aljunied GRC and was elected along with George Yeo, Cynthia Phua, Yeo Guat Kwang and Zainul Abidin Bin Mohamed Rasheed.
Chim Pui-chung	In 2005, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Hong Kong Chief Executive election, receiving only 21 nominations from the Election Committee, less than the minimum requirement of 100.
Mauricio Macri	In February 2007 Macri announced that he would run once again for the mayoral elections of the City of Buenos Aires in the 2007, heading the PRO slate with Gabriela Michetti as his running mate.
Sergey Mikhaylovich Darkin	On May 27, 2001, in the first round of the governorship elections, Darkin received the largest number of votes cast (24 %) ; under the electoral law this was insufficient, however, for him to be elected without a second round of voting.
Raila Odinga	Following the presidential election held on 27 December, the Electoral Commission in declared Kibaki the winner on 30 December 2007, placing him ahead of Odinga by about 232,000 votes.
Eugene V. Debs	Debs, along with Elliott, were the first federal office candidates for the fledgling Socialist party, running (unsuccessfully) for US president and Congress in 1900.
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow	, </gallery> Article 60 of the Turkmen Constitution stipulated that the acting president'' may not stand for election to the Presidency'', which would have barred Berdimuhamedow from running in the 2007 presidential elections.
Mamadou Tandja	Tandja ran for President in the elections of 1993, taking first place in the first round in February with 34.
Amara Essy	Essy was initially a candidate for the post of Chairman of the Commission at the AU's July 2003 summit in Maputo, but he withdrew prior to the vote, leaving Alpha Oumar Konaré, the former President of Mali, as the only candidate.
Ji?? Dienstbier Jr.	Dienstbier Jr. became the official candidate of the Czech Social Democratic Party in the first direct presidential elections in the Czech Republic, held in January 2013.
Roxana Miranda	Miranda was a candidate for mayor of San Bernardo in 2008, as an independent, but lost the election, by only getting 3,558 votes (4.
Gabriel Oba-Apounou	Ossébi prevailed in the second round, In February 2008 he was elected as President of the departmental coordination of the Rally of the Presidential Majority (RMP) -- the coalition supporting Sassou Nguesso -- in Brazzaville.
Donald Tusk	Tusk was the party's official candidate for the 2005 presidential election.
Rosalba Ciarlini	In state elections in Rio Grande do Norte in 2010, she was elected governor in the first round with 52.
Viktor Gerashchenko	He considered becoming an opposition candidate in the 2008 Russian Presidential election.
Mar Roxas	Other signs include the sprouting of Mar Roxas for president spots in cyberspace ; and his colleagues endorsing him as the party's standard bearer -- Senator Benigno'' Noynoy'' Aquino III declaring him Liberal Party's candidate for 2010, Liberal Party's chair emeritus Jovito Salonga introducing him as'' the next president of the Philippine republic'' and former Liberal Party Chairman Franklin Drilon saying that Roxas is the party's standard bearer in the 2010 elections.
Viktor Yushchenko	95 % Yushchenko failed to secure a run-off spot during the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election ; gaining 5.
Mustapha Ben Jafar	Ben Jafar was the secretary-general of the MDS in 1992, and ran for the top MDS office, but lost to Mohamed Moadda, and resigned from the party because it seemed to have cooperated with the ruling party so much (receiving a government subsidy and accommodations) and achieved so little.
Fernando Espinoza (politician)	In the elections for the national executive held on October 28, 2007, he declared himself again as candidate for the city mayor, winning the election with over 50 % of the votes.
Ahn Cheol-soo	On November 23, 2012 at 8:20 pm KST, Ahn announced that he would step down from presidential candidacy after Moon Jae-in and he failed to reach an agreement on unifying the candidate against Saenuri's Park Geun-hye.
Alicia Kirchner	Kirchner was touted as a likely Front for Victory candidate to be governor of Santa Cruz in the 2007 elections, with fellow minister Julio de Vido as the other possible candidate mentioned.
Peretz Bernstein	Bernstein also stood as a candidate in the Knesset's election for president in 1952, but withdrew after the second round of voting, having come a distant second to eventual winner Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.
Valent?n Paniagua	He declined this in order to participate in the 2006 election, as Frente de Centro's presidential candidate in an unsuccessful campaign, in which he came in fifth place, receiving 5.
Gonzalo Aguirre	In the 1984 elections, which put an end to de facto rule, he was selected as vice-presidential running mate of Alberto Zumaran, the candidate of the majority faction of his party, Por la Patria.
Masoud Barzani	In July 2009, in the first direct election for the presidency of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Masoud Barzani was reelected as president by a popular ballot, receiving 69.