Benefiting from an electoral backlash in 1890 against Republicans for their support of the McKinley Tariff, Bowman's election was a rare nineteenth century Democratic win in traditionally Republican southwestern Iowa.

By the 1860s in many districts restrictions on practicing law were minimal, and judges were too fearful of a popular electoral backlash to raise them significantly, resulting in a glut of under-qualified lawyers in the city's courts.

Time notes that she may have trouble in her historically Republican district if there is an electoral backlash to spending by the Obama Administration because of her short history of voting along party lines.

More important, they assert that the public no longer cares about the continuing scandal investigations, and that there may even be an electoral backlash against Republicans who continue to push for more.

Indeed, a number of Republicans who voted for impeachment come from districts that are safely enough Republican to make an electoral backlash in 2000 seem unlikely.

The poll tax had the additional impact of weakening poor white voters who might sympathize with the Populist Party, though this was downplayed by proponents of the poll tax for fear of an electoral backlash against them.

Peel had been held by the Labor Party since the seat's inception and was generally considered a safe Labor seat, but concerns about an electoral backlash over Marlborough's conduct led the party to look for a candidate without a political background.

An electoral backlash against his deep-rooted conservatism came during the 1924 legislative elections, where Progressives regained control of the California State Legislature, beginning a legislative bulwark against more proposed cuts to the state government and increased corporate influence.

Suffering a setback in 1929, they reasserted themselves in the 1931 election during an electoral backlash against the Labour Party that resulted in the creation of the National Government.

Finally, voters put Democrats in control of both the House and Senate, throwing Republicans out after only a single biennium in power - a move considered to be electoral backlash in response to Republican overreach.