Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little. In the first round of balloting on May 4, Waldheim, with 49.7%, fell short of an absolute majority by only 16,500 votes. His Socialist opponent, former Health and Environment Minister Kurt Steyrer, received 43.7%. Two minor candidates who got the remaining votes are not participating in the runoff...
...Austria, as the country's presidential campaign winds to an end, even the furor over Conservative Candidate Kurt Waldheim's wartime Nazi links has been overshadowed by the question of atomic power. Socialist Kurt Streyer, who faces Waldheim in a runoff June 8, stresses his commitment in new posters that proclaim, NO SECOND CHERNOBYL. Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary-General, says he will use his diplomatic experience to get an international agreement on early and complete warning in case of atomic power accidents...
...polls, neither candidate was able to claim a majority. Waldheim won 49.6% of the votes; Steyrer had 43.7%. Two minor candidates got a total of 6.7%. In the absence of a clear-cut victor, the two front runners will now return to the campaign trail to contest a runoff election, which will be held on June...
...fall of the right-wing dictatorship in 1974, Portuguese voters last week went to the polls, this time to vote for a new President. When the ballots were counted, however, none of the five candidates had won more than 50%, and so the two top contenders will face a runoff on Feb. 16. The choice is between men of sharply differing political views. One is Diogo Freitas do Amaral, 44, a law professor, a onetime leader of the Christian Democratic Party and now the standard-bearer of his country's right wing. His opponent is Mario Soares, 61, a three...
...stepped from his bulletproof Mercedes-Benz, cheering well-wishers mobbed President-elect Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo outside the headquarters of his Christian Democratic Party at Guatemala City's Camino Real Hotel. Cerezo, a 42-year-old lawyer, had just been declared the victor in a runoff election for the Guatemalan presidency. The second round of balloting came after national elections last month failed to produce a candidate with a majority. This time Cerezo captured 68% of the vote, soundly defeating his opponent, Newspaper Owner Jorge Carpio Nicolle, 53, of the center-right National Center Union Party. Even Christian Democratic Party leaders...