First political event you remember

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Not sure... I remember the 1990 Australian election pretty clearly, then the 1991 Keating toppling of Hawke... as for US political events... 1992 election.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Watching the 1993 federal election.

[dead0man]

I remember seeing Reagan-Bush signs in 1980 and thinking the owner of the St.Louis Cardinals was running for VP.  I remember Reagan being shot and the SNL where Buckwheat was shot.

[RosettaStoned]

 Voting for Bob Dole in 1996.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Going to school the day after the 1984 election. I'm an old.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

The day when Bush was declared the victor of the 2000 election.

[ZuWo]

I remember the Zurich mayoral race of 1998 and that I did not like the centrist candidate because on a picture in the newspaper she wore a coat that I thought was a fur coat (like most children, I found that cruel). I also recall that the name "Lewinsky" appeared quite frequently in the press, which was roughly at the same time.

[Antonio the Sixth]

The 2002 Presidential election. Talk about a childhood traumatism....

[exopolitician]

I remember watching the Lewinski scandal going down, but I dont know if that counts. So I guess the 2000 recount.

[minionofmidas]

Frankfurt local election campaign posters, 1985. Also, some election night coverage on tv at a friend's of my parents that was probably the Hessian state elections of 1983 but might conceivably be the federal elections of earlier that year.

[Phony Moderate]

The first domestic event I can remember was the Conservative Party ousting IDS as leader.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I vaguely remember stuff about Florida.

I then voted in my school election in 2004; I voted for Kerry, who lost something like 400 to 135. Interestingly enough, Obama won 350-250 in the 2008 middle school mock election (the 2008 election was the first I seriously followed)

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

In American politics? 1996 New Hampshire Republican primary (I wasn't 8 yet). I remember coverage when Buchanan won and I remember his footage campaigning.

But, believe or not, the first U.S. President I remember was Bush Sr., probably because of Gulf War (I was 3, but I have some early flashbacks, like Gulf news on TV).

[AndrewTX]

88 election. My dad kept telling me that Dukakis looked like a "doof ball". I voted for Bush in a mock election in school.

[Hash]

France: 2002
US: Vagueish recollections of 2000, and far more memories of the 2004 GE
Canada: I think the PC-Alliance merger

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Poland: 1993 election, I believe.

[republicanism]

My (born in 1986) first memories of "political events" in a wider sense are from news coverage I watched with my parents. The burning oil springs in Iraq 1991 and some tough pictures from the Yugoslavian wars impressed me a lot and are fixed in my mind.

The first election I definitely remember was the 1994 federal election. My parents were very disappointed.
I watched election night coverage (that I always loved even as a little child, because of the colorful graphs) before 1994, but don't remember anything concrete.

[afleitch]

The resignation of Margaret Thatcher in 1990.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The resignation of Margaret Thatcher in 1990.

Probably this.

I say probably because I have some very vague recollections of things earlier, but they might be later creations. I also remember being confused about the fact that there was a war about golf, but don't know when this (the confusion) happened. The first really, really, really clear political memory (one that can be recalled as if it were yesterday, rather than through a vague fug) would be the death of John Smith.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The first "event" that I remember as in being able to follow would be the Gulf War.

[MaxQue]

I have a vague souvenir of a screen during 1995 referendum night and my parents being sad the day after.

After that, I remember 2000 election. I thought than Stockwell Day had a fun name and a cool logo and hoped he won, but my parents said me than he was a very bad person.

Good advice.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

The resignation of Margaret Thatcher in 1990.

Probably this.

Really?

I always thought you're 40-something.

[Yelnoc]

I remember my parents saying they were for McCain as they watched an television interview with him.  I remember Bush smiling and waving on TV like he had won something.  Whether it was the Primary or the General I don't know.  I do not have any memories of Al Gore or the election night.

[memphis]

I remember kids in my elementary school class saying that if Gore won he would kill all the babies in the country.

It's funny how kids take things literally. My mother was teaching at a mostly black school and one girl had heard that George Bush would send them back to the cotton fields and that she wasn't about to "go back." Not that a school aged girl in 2000 had ever picked cotton (or even her parents for that matter) but whatev...

[Insula Dei]

I vaguely remember the Belgian 1999 'Superelections' (i.e. federal, regional, and European elections on the same day), in that I remember knowing that Jean-Luc Dehaene was no longer prime minister, but that Verhofstadt now was the new one.

After that, my first 'real' memories are probably of the lewinsky thing (well, those would mostly be even before the Dehane-Verhofstadt switch) , and of the 2000 election. I distinctly remember Bush's DUI 'scandal', and that it made me hope Bush would win.

And then I recollect my family being at my grandmother's on the evening of the  2000 municipal elections and all the adults talking about the strong results of the Vlaams Blok in most of the surrounding municipalities. I remember being vaguely anxious about that.