The prime minister has faced a backlash from some Conservative councillors who lost their seats in the election.
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Two cabinet members, Kevin Parkinson in the Greater Heanor division and Charles Jones in Linton, both lost their seats.
Nigel Carter and Jane Burton from the independent group the Devizes Guardians both lost their seats to the Conservatives.
So far five cabinet ministers from the ruling party have lost their seats to the opposition in the elections.
The outgoing prime minister, Lester Bird, and his brother, the agriculture minister, Vere Bird junior, both lost their seats.
Overall, 21 incumbents lost their seats, among them several prominent Sunni Islamists.
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It passed, but the constituents of moderate Democrats punished them: 63 lost their seats in 2010 and Republicans took control of the House.
The deputies revolt centered on the sweetener added to the package continued perks and privileges until 1995 for those who lost their seats.
Solidarity contested its first parliamentary election the year after its inception, but both Mr Sheridan and Ms Byrne lost their seats and the party failed to win any others.
Many of those who lost their seats will feel that the distancing policy didn't do a great deal to help them when it came to crosses on ballot papers.
Against that, say optimists, is the fact that 60% of the parliamentarians are new (23 cabinet ministers lost their seats in the election, mostly because they were seen as lazy or crooked, or both).
Some senators who were most on the fence about that vote have either lost their seats, like former Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, or have announced they won't seek re-election in 2012, like Sen.
In the introduction to the Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham, party president Tim Farron praises what he calls the "bravery" of councillors who lost their seats and have still made the trip to the annual conference.
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They lost a quarter of their 42 seats, leaving them with 31 out of 120.
The Conservatives held on to two of their seats but lost three.
Although they lost just one of their six seats, two of the remaining five quickly became embroiled in a controversy about their election so arcane that even seasoned hacks struggled to add a 'gate' suffix to it.
The Lib Dems have lost almost half their councillors whose seats were up for grabs but the Conservatives, who already controlled more councils than all the other parties put together, have increased their number of councillors and gained control of two councils.
The Conservatives currently hold 51 seats, having lost three to their main opposition since the 2009 election.
It would mean that they were recapturing barely a third of the seats they lost in 1995, their annus horribilis.
She noted that after they lost the battle the children headed back down to their premium seats, suggesting they already led charmed lives.
He was commenting in his constituency in Oxfordshire, where the Conservatives lost control of the county council, but retained more seats than their opponents.
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The prime minister and one of his deputies lost elections in their constituencies and got into parliament only because there are special seats which the parties fill through nomination.
Their most serious limitation, however, is that elections are lost and won in marginal seats, and the national mood is not a good guide to what happens there.
Republicans essentially held their numbers in the House, and in practical terms, the GOP actually lost zero seats in the Senate, since the Senate GOP is more conservative than it was before the election.
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Though Fianna Fail's vote went up by just 0.2%, clever tactical voting produced a sharp rise in seats, while the tactically dimmer Progressive Democrats held their vote but halved their seats (though a resentful recount is going on over a Dublin seat lost to a Green).
Their vote was on average 2% lower than four years ago, and they lost 123 seats.
Nevertheless, psephologists say they do have to up their game if they want to win some of those target marginal seats they have lost to Labour and the Liberal Democrats, like Harrow West and Solihull.
The Republicans in the House that month had lost five seats, a surprising setback considering they had expected to gain a dozen or more (their campaign chairman said 20 or more).
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