Since 1989, when Mr Milosevic stripped Kosovo of its autonomy, ethnic Albanians have boycotted all Serbian and federal elections, giving seats away, in effect, to the Socialists.
Last year the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) won 9% of the vote in Saxony, giving it seats in a German state assembly for the first time since 1968.
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The Tories have won 36 seats giving them a majority on the council - which the party won from Labour in 2005.
The national share of the vote won then by the Conservatives was 36%, giving them 277 seats and restricting Labour, with 39%, to an overall majority of only three.
Since then, Yang has helped nix a takeover over from Microsoft, overseen the launch of a pair of efforts that have yet to counter Google's edge in search advertising and caved to Carl Icahn's threat of a proxy fight by giving up three seats on Yahoo's board to the corporate raider.
Last month, Mr Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai party lost two by-elections, giving the opposition enough seats to table censure motions against ministers.
Conservative councillor Peter Webb was elected in the Lytchett Matravers ward on 7 July, beating Lib Dem rival John Taylor, giving the Tories 12 seats compared with the Lib Dem's 10.
In September, voters then chose assembly members, giving 80 of the 130 seats to his Alianza Pais party.
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If the results of one recent poll were repeated on election day Smer-SD would win 81 of the 150 seats in parliament, giving it a healthy majority.
He and his two allied parties romped home with 87 of the parliament's 169 seats among them, giving him a comfortable majority over the outgoing centre-right coalition led by Kjell Magne Bondevik.
It also reserves 25% of parliamentary seats for army officers, giving them a veto over constitutional changes.
Kumaratunga could then also win a bigger share of the seats in parliamentary polls, giving her a more stable government.
In the 2010 mid-terms Democrats lost 63 House seats, six Senate seats, six governorships and a whopping 680 seats in state legislatures, giving Republicans bicameral legislative and executive control in 15 states and the biggest tally of state legislators since 1928.
In general, the Democrats' seats are at greater risk, giving the Republicans much greater opportunity to add to their existing margin.
The system is not proportional and in fact tends to exaggerate electoral swings, giving the winning party a bigger share of seats than it got in votes.
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The country's constitution reserves 25% of the seats in Parliament for the military, effectively giving it a veto over constitutional changes, which require a three-quarters majority in the legislature.
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They tend to offer intercontinental trips only once or twice a day, and they have more confidence they can sell seats to cash-paying customers rather than giving them away for miles.
In these elections, the number of directly elected seats will rise from 24 to 30, giving critics of Mr Tung and Beijing a chance to gain a majority in the hitherto overwhelmingly pro-government council.
Every two years one-third of the Senate and all 435 seats in the House are up for grabs, giving voters a real chance to shape the political landscape.
In these, the number of directly elected seats in the legislature will increase to half, giving Mr Tung's critics a chance of gaining a majority in the hitherto overwhelmingly pro-government council.
"It's extraordinary that we are giving the Tories such a fright in what is one of their safest seats, " he said.
Hard and hollow plastics are giving way to softer feeling and more elegant-looking surfaces, car seats are becoming increasingly supportive and comfortable and dashboards are being reconfigured in novel ways to accommodate an array of connectivity and infotainment features.
The airport is the hub for Korean Air, which has a new fleet of Airbus A380s, true lie-flat business class seats and a provocative global advertising campaign all of which are giving Asian service standard bearers like Singapore Airlines or Cathay Pacific a run for their money.
But the seats fell as they did in 2011, and although Labour have carefully concentrated on giving every impression of being a majority government when they're not, it means there are tricky times coming down the road when the big and complex pieces of legislation start to flow.
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