Mr. López was elected Lehendakari of the Basque Country on a 39-35 vote and was sworn in two days later at the Gernika House of Assemblies.

She was elected on a 40-to-38 vote, receiving all 39 Democratic votes plus her own.

A month later, she then lost the position when the new council convened on November 24, 2009, and elected Roderick Royal as council president on a 5-4 vote, thus automatically making Royal the acting Mayor.

The First and deputy First Ministers were initially elected on a cross-community vote, although this was changed in 2006 and they are now appointed as leaders of the largest and second largest Assembly 'bloc' (understood to mean 'Unionist', 'Nationalist' and 'Other').

Feinstein was elected President of the Board of Supervisors on a 6-5 vote, with Moscone's supporters backing Lau.

The Minister of Justice is now the only Northern Ireland Executive Minister elected on a cross-community vote.

For the last 15 years, Somalilanders have established peace in their country, and without much help from outside have built a democratic state with a two House legislature, an executive headed by a President elected on a national vote, and a Judiciary.

He was elected with the assistance of preferences on a primary vote of 5%, becoming the party's second representative in state parliament's upper house.

On this occasion, there was only one candidate and, given that he received more than 168 votes, he got more than the qualified majority and is therefore elected on a single vote.

Elected at the 2001 federal election on a primary vote of 4.36 percent with One Nation and micro-party preferences, she failed to gain re-election at the 2007 federal election, despite an increase in the Green primary vote to 8.43 percent, due to insufficient preferences.