Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center-left candidate gained an unofficial 48% of the votes cast in Peru's April 14 election, a better than 2-to-1 lead over Lima's Marxist mayor, Alfonso Barrantes Lingan. But Garcia needed an outright majority to win, and the two rivals faced the prospect of a runoff election...
...three finalists for a Brown award for contributions to higher education finished third in a runoff election March 22, said Kiran Sidhu one of the two Brown seniors who organized the award competition...
Moses could not explain why the President of Yale defeated the President of Harvard in the runoff election...
Duarte not only returned, he returned to run for President again, this time against Roberto d'Aubuisson, a cashiered army major with a brutish past and some unlovely friends. The whispered threats resumed, but Duarte persevered through a March election and May runoff to capture 54% of the vote. The U.S. proclaimed Duarte's victory proof of El Salvador's progress toward democracy, but the new President cautioned against great expectations. "Are we going to arrive at perfection?" he asked. "It is a satisfying thought, but I think not. We are human...
Political appetite came upon him slowly, then faster. His demands began with a first "litmus test"-that runoff primaries, South and North, be abolished because such contests gave blacks less of a chance of winning than they would have had in a free-for-all involving divided whites. In June he demanded that the rules of the Democratic Party established as recently as 1982 be discarded to give him a share of delegates proportionate to the number of those who had voted for him; the Democrats compromised, setting up at his insistence a "fairness" commission to supervise, patrol and probably...