Opposition party candidate wins out as Bangkok governor
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The opposition Democratic party candidate, Apirak Kosayodhin, was unofficially set to be the next Bangkok governor with a landslide victory in the vote finished in the wee hours Monday morning.
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Taiwan's ruling party scored a surprise victory in a tight mayoral race in one of the island's two major cities against a backdrop of accusations and counter-accusations, but the opposition demanded recount.
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TAIPEI, Jan. 12 -- The opposition Nationalist party scored an overwhelming victory in Taiwan's legislative elections Saturday in a repudiation of President Chen Shui-bian's confrontational drive to push this self-ruled island along the road toward formal independence.
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A leading opposition candidate won his party's nomination Saturday for this year's presidential election, the first time an incumbent president has faced a credible challenge in Kenya.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has won a landslide general election victory,  exit polls say.
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Â¡Â¡BEJIJING, Dec. 14 -- Romanian opposition candidate Traian Basescu has won the presidential election after overcoming current Prime Minister Adrian Nastase in the tightest of contests.
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Thailand's parliament elected pugnacious right-winger Samak Sundaravej prime minister on Monday as the country returns to representative, civilian government after a bloodless September 2006 coup.
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BOTSWANA&#39;S ruling party had won a majority of seats in parliamentary elections, handing President Festus Mogae a second and final term in office, election officials said today.
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Opposition parties in Pakistan have taken big leads in the election, admits the party allied to President Musharraf.
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Thai lawmakers choose Samak Sundaravej, ally of ousted leader Thaksin Shinawatra, as the new prime minister.
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Deval Patrick, a business executive and former assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Clinton administration, has been declared by the Associated Press  as the winner of TuesdayÃ¢ÂÂs Democratic primary for governor of Massachusetts.
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The leader of the main Thai opposition steps down, following a landslide win for PM Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Georgiaâs pro-Western president narrowly won re-election, according to official results released Sunday, but the main opposition candidate contested the outcome.
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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra claimed victory in Sunday's elections in what appeared to be a massive mandate for a second term, propelled by strong support from Thailand's rural poor and his adroit handling of the tsunami disaster.
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Pollution and overcrowding top the agenda as the Thai capital, Bangkok, votes for a new governor.
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BANGKOK, Dec. 23 -- Loyalists of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra won nearly half the seats in Thailand's parliamentary elections Sunday in a striking rebuke to the generals who forced the billionaire populist from power in 2006.
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Thailand's parliament on Monday chose a combative, right-wing politician and close ally of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra as the country's new prime minister