On 26 September 2012, Abe defeated former Minister of Defense Shigeru Ishiba in a run-off vote to win the LDP presidential election.

During the federal election of 2004, she defeated former provincial Minister of Health Tony Clement in the newly created riding of Brampton West.

He defeated H. Sitaram Reddy, Minister of Revenue and Industries in the then Composite state of Madras with a majority of 45,000 votes.

He was elected MP for Enfield Southgate (UK Parliament constituency) in May 2005, defeating Minister of State for Education and Skills Stephen Twigg with a majority of 1,747 votes and a swing of 8.7%.

In the 2002 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly as the PCT candidate in Lekana constitency; he defeated Minister of Public Works Florent Ntsiba in the second round of voting, held in June 2002.

In May 2006 Veltroni was confirmed Mayor of Rome, easily defeating former Minister of Agriculture Gianni Alemanno, of National Alliance, obtaining an unprecedented 61.4% of the valid votes against the 37.1% achieved by his main opponent.

She won on the second ballot, defeating former Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja by 218 votes to 132.

Shapps stood again in the 2005 election and was elected as the Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield, defeating the Labour MP and Minister for Public Health, Melanie Johnson.

He was elected to parliament in the 1935 federal election as a Liberal MP from the Toronto riding of Trinity defeating Minister of Justice and former Toronto mayor George Reginald Geary.

On 28 June 2008, the Zimbabwe Times reported that Samuel Sandla Khumalo won the constituency of Mpopomo for MDC-Tsvangirai by soundly defeating Minister of Information Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, the ZANU-PF candidate.