Editing Political realignment (section)

===Asia===
* [[1977 Indian general election]] - [[Janata Party]] victory, defeating the [[Indian National Congress]]
** The left-wing [[Indian National Congress]], which had led the country to independence from the United Kingdom in 1947 and had won every general election since the first post-independence election in 1952, lost power to the [[Janata Party]] led by [[Morarji Desai]], after the immensely unpopular imposition of [[The Emergency (India)|The Emergency]] by [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Indira Gandhi]] in 1975. Both Indira Gandhi and her son [[Sanjay Gandhi|Sanjay]] lost their seats.
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* [[2014 Indian general election]] - [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] victory, defeating the [[Indian National Congress]]
** The Congress party suffered a major decline on both the national and state level, with the BJP occupying the dominant position Congress used to have since.<ref>{{Cite web |title=How the Indian National Congress Lost India |url=https://thediplomat.com/2017/04/how-the-indian-national-congress-lost-india/ }}</ref> Congress was defeated by the BJP again in the [[2019 Indian general election|2019]] and [[2024 Indian general election|2024]] elections. Until 2019, Congress had never been out of power for two consecutive terms.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Decoding Congress failure in the 2019 general election |newspaper=Business Standard India |date=9 June 2019 |url=https://wap.business-standard.com/article-amp/news-ians/decoding-congress-failure-in-the-2019-general-election-comment-119060900163_1.html }}</ref>
* [[1977 Israeli legislative election]]
** [[Likud]] defeated the [[Alignment (political party)|Alignment]], led by the [[Israel Labor Party]], allowing Likud to lead a government for the first time ever. For the first 29 years of Israel's independence, politics had been dominated by the left-wing parties Labor and its predecessor, [[Mapai]]. The leadership of the right, especially Menachem Begin, were considered by the Left to be beyond the pale, and as Ben Gurion had said in the early years of the State, he would enter coalitions with any parties, except the communists and Begin. Prior to this election a hypothetical bloc of right-wing and religious parties would rarely ever approach the threshold of a majority government; however since 1977, a combination of these two blocs have made up the majority of Israel's electorate since then with exceptions of a few elections but no longer running far behind in comparison to pre-1977. Due to corruption in the Labor Party, many former Labor voters defected to the new [[Democratic Movement for Change]], which won 15 seats and finished in third place, behind the Likud with 46 seats and Alignment (Labor plus Mapam) with 32 seats. The DMC collapsed within three years, allowing Labor to rebound at the next election. Labor and Likud dominated Israeli politics until 2003 when Labor went into sudden decline due to a backlash against the failed [[Oslo Accords]] and the outbreak of the [[Second Intifada]].
* [[2000 Taiwanese presidential election]] — [[Chen Shui-bian]]
** Though more popular and consistently ranked higher in the polls, [[James Soong]] failed to gain the ruling [[Kuomintang]]'s (KMT) nomination over incumbent Vice President [[Lien Chan]]. As a result, he announced his candidacy as an independent candidate, and was consequently expelled from the party. The split in the KMT vote resulted in a victory for [[Chen Shui-bian]] of the [[Democratic Progressive Party]], even though he won only 39% of the popular vote. After the election, Soong founded the [[People First Party (Republic of China)|People First Party]], which attracted members from the KMT and the pro-unification [[New Party (Republic of China)|New Party]], which was by that time beginning to fade. Angry from the defeat, the KMT expelled chairman [[Lee Teng-hui]], who was president until 2000 and was widely suspected of causing the KMT split so that Chen would win. Lee then founded the pro-independence [[Taiwan Solidarity Union]]. The impact of these events changed the political landscape of Taiwan. Not only did the KMT lose the presidency for the first time in half a century, but its policies swung away from Lee's influence and it began intra-party reform. The two newly founded parties became far more viable than other minor parties in the past, and the multi-party nature of Taiwan's politics was confirmed by the [[2001 ROC legislative election|legislative elections of 2001]]. The KMT would not return to power until 2008 under the leadership of [[Ma Ying-jeou]].
* [[2002 Turkish general election]] — [[Justice and Development Party (Turkey)|Justice and Development Party]] victory
** This election was notable in that every party in the previous [[Grand National Assembly of Turkey]] was ejected from Parliament, as none of them crossed the 10% threshold. This not only included the governing coalition of the [[Democratic Left Party (Turkey)|Democratic Left Party]], [[Motherland Party (Turkey)|Motherland Party]] and [[Nationalist Movement Party]], but the largest opposition party, the [[True Path Party]]. The AKP, which formed the government following this election, has dominated Turkish politics ever since.
* [[2006 Palestinian legislative election]] ([[Palestinian National Authority]]) — [[Hamas]] victory; [[Ismail Haniyeh]] [[Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority|Prime Minister]]
** In January 2006 the militant [[Hamas]] organisation, classified as a terrorist group by the United States government and other groups, won a landslide victory over the ruling [[Fatah]] party which had been in power under the leadership of former PLO chairman [[Yasser Arafat]]. The [[George W. Bush administration|Bush Administration]], the [[Quartet on the Middle East|Quartet]], and [[Israel]] all threatened to cut off foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority if Hamas refused to abandon terrorist tactics and recognise the right of the State of Israel to exist. This concession, though discussed in Hamas circles, did not come about soon enough to prevent a serious breakdown in services under Hamas government, and Western (especially American) support of Fatah paramilitaries eventually led to the breakout of the [[Fatah–Hamas conflict]] (termed a "Palestinian Civil War" by some) in December 2006. The Hamas government was suspended by PA President [[Mahmoud Abbas]], a member of Fatah, after some weeks of fighting, and installed a caretaker government under the leadership of [[Salam Fayyad]].