He was the first President of France to be elected by a direct popular vote.

The Slovak head of state is the president (currently Andrej Kiska), elected by direct popular vote for a five year term.

Kerry won 59.03 million votes, or 48.3 percent of the popular vote Bush won 62.04 million votes, or 50.7 percent of the popular vote.

The president is elected by popular vote every five years.

Members of the National Assembly are elected by popular vote for 5 year terms.

The presidential candidate of this alliance, Afonso Dhlakama, won 31.7 of the popular vote.

The head of state is the Federal President ( Bundespräsident ), who is directly elected by popular vote.

Representative democracy is a form of democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives as opposed to a direct democracy, a form of democracy in which people vote on policy initiatives directly.

Although he had fewer supporters among the governing class, he was able to get the popular vote.

The final result was a victory for Cleveland by wide margins in both the popular and electoral votes, and it was Cleveland's third consecutive popular vote plurality.

The president is the head of state and is elected by popular vote for a 5 year term.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 29.12 of the vote.

He lost the popular vote to Democrat Samuel J. Tilden but he won an intensely disputed electoral college vote after a Congressional commission awarded him twenty contested electoral votes.

Introduction of same sex marriage laws has varied by jurisdiction, being variously accomplished through a legislative change to marriage laws, a court ruling based on constitutional guarantees of equality, or by direct popular vote (via a ballot initiative or a referendum).

Still, it was there where 82 years before, a black woman took office after being elected through popular vote.

The Regent or mayor and members of representatives are elected by popular vote for a term of 5 years.

Members of both houses are elected to serve four year terms two months before the president, also by popular vote.

Nero was more popular with the general public as the grandson of Germanicus and the direct descendant of Augustus.

The President is elected by popular vote every seven years, and appoints the Prime Minister and all other members of Cabinet.

Reagan received 50.7 of the popular vote while Carter took 41 , and Independent John B. Anderson (a liberal Republican) received 6.7 .

Uribe was elected President of Colombia in the first round of 26 May 2002 elections with 53 of the popular vote.

We should not make the Assembly of the Republic a big jackpot, where the popular vote is seen as a lottery house.

Some state judges and cabinet officers are appointed by the governors of the respective states, while others are elected by popular vote.

In December 2007, United Russia won 64.24 of the popular vote in their run for State Duma according to election preliminary results.

Opinions inside the organization were split among the supporters of abstentionism, those who wanted to allow the workers to choose whether or not to vote, or those directly advocating a vote for the Popular Front.

After him came also, by direct vote, respectively Braulino Reis de Matos, Francisco Correa, Adolpho David, Joaquin Tenorio Cavalcante and Moacir Rodrigues do Carmo.

And the ruling elite opens a number of parliamentary seats to a popular vote, only to be shocked by a landslide opposition win.

Though its share of the popular vote fell just below the 5 threshold required to enter the Bundestag, the party performed surprisingly well.

All but two of the Lok Sabha's 545 members are directly elected by popular vote they represent individual constituencies via five year terms.

On 12 June 1991, Yeltsin won 57 of the popular vote in the democratic presidential elections for the Russian republic, defeating Gorbachev's preferred candidate, Nikolai Ryzhkov who got just 16 of the vote, and four other candidates.

The president is elected by popular vote for a single six year term, during which he or she appoints and presides over the cabinet.

The unicameral East Timorese parliament is the National Parliament or Parlamento Nacional , whose members are elected by popular vote to a five year term.

All based in principles of self organization, free accessibility, non discrimination, and practices of direct democracy and consensus through weekly Popular Assemblies.

Government The head of state of East Timor is the President of the Republic, who is elected by popular vote for a five year term.

Politics The Seychelles president, who is head of state and head of government, is elected by popular vote for a five year term of office.

At the legislative elections of the same date, the party won 62.0 of the popular vote and 160 of 250 seats in the national assembly.

They vote with these chemical votes, the vote gets counted, and then everybody responds to the vote.

After the federal election of 1932, the Nazis were the largest party in the Reichstag, holding 230 seats with 37.4 per cent of the popular vote.

In 1956, Eisenhower faced Adlai Stevenson again and won by an even larger landslide, with 457 of 531 electoral votes and 57.6 of the popular vote.

He was elected the tenth President of Austria ( Bundespräsident ) in 1992 (on 56.9 of the popular vote) and was re elected to the position in 1998.

All members entitled to vote will have one vote , in line with the one person , one vote principle .

The president is elected by popular vote to serve four year terms and is limited to a maximum of two such terms (increased from one in 2005).

A presidential candidate must obtain an outright majority of the popular vote in either a first or second round of voting in order to be elected president.

While the popular vote total was close, with Cleveland winning by just one quarter of a percent, the electoral votes gave Cleveland a majority of 219 182.

Republican victory in that state, where Cleveland lost by just 2,348 votes, was sufficient to propel Harrison to victory, despite his loss of the nationwide popular vote.