Prior to the 2010 general election, a general election had not caused a hung Parliament since February 1974, when Labour narrowly failed to win an overall majority at the polls.
A General Election allows voters to decide the next Government.
Winston Churchill Won!
The outcome of the 1796 presidential election was controversial because it resulted in the first contested election in American history. The Federalist candidate John Adams narrowly defeated the Democratic-Republican candidate Thomas Jefferson, but Adams's vice president was Jefferson's political rival, Thomas Pinckney. This created tension and a sense of political instability, as the president and vice president were from opposing parties.
The most important outcome was the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln.
The government could change on the outcome of an election.
The UNIVAC I was used by the Census Bureau to predict the outcome of the 1952 presidential election.
exit polling
The question of the annexation of Texas was no doubt the issue that most influenced the election outcome of 1844.
the national league for democracy won 80 percent of the seats, but the military government refused to reconize the election
Richard Nixon's tolerance of communism
One of the things that played a role in the outcome of the 1896 election was that factory owners telling workers not to return to work if Bryan won. Another thing that affected the election was that republicans spent $16 million on election efforts while the democratic party only spent $1 million.
The televised debates between Kennedy and Nixon may have tipped the election to Kennedy.