The populist former mayor has a history of using marches to protest what he has considered fraudulent elections that did not go his way.

Fears of being overrun by immigrants from the East were widespread, and the populist mayor, Karl Lueger, exploited the rhetoric of virulent antisemitism for political effect.

Yet the city's populist mayor, John F. (Red Mike) Hylan, rebuked "grasping transportation monopolies" and defended the nickel fare as a birthright.

The vote in Brent East, the North London district once held by the city's populist current mayor, Ken Livingstone, was the first since the United States and Britain joined forces to invade Iraq six months ago.

Fenton was widely regarded as a populist mayor and a worthy political opponent.

His sole challenger was Mustafa Sarigul, the populist mayor of Sisli, one of Istanbul's wealthier districts, who had argued that the party needed fresh leadership for a strong challenge to Mr. Erdogan.

For months the political debate in Mexico has been dominated by an escalating war between the populist mayor of this giant capital city and President Vicente Fox.

Critics will speculate about John Pappas, Al Pacino's populist mayor, and whether he is a composite of Fiorello H. La Guardia, Edward I. Koch and Rudolph W. Giuliani.

Exit surveys early today gave Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, a former president and pro-market reformer, a razor-thin edge over Manfred Reyes Villa, a populist former mayor of the country's third-largest city, Cochabamba.

Maynard Edward "Jack" Sensenbrenner (September 18, 1902 - August 2, 1991) was an American politician of the Democratic party, who served as a populist mayor of Columbus, Ohio.