Secondly, the first-past-the-post system exaggerates the advantage of the winning party, particularly at the expense of third parties.
Is this the first election thy have come clean and admitted that they will not be the winning party?
Indeed, in a landslide, AV can exaggerate the swing to the winning party.
According to a leaked document, parliamentary elections were to be held in two rounds, giving the winning party total control.
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.
The winning party has already started informal talks with the country's socialist party to form a new government, with a cross-party coalition likely to be formed by Wednesday.
With the help of a bonus given to the winning party, the pro-Berlusconi camp has a 98-seat majority in the 630-member lower chamber, with all but a few thousand votes counted.
The winning party will have not only a strong hand in Montenegro, but because its parliament appoints half the members of the upper house of the federal parliament a strong say in who runs Yugoslavia as well.
The winning party was that of Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno, and staunch critic of the regime that succeeded him, which was led first by President Suharto and then by his chosen successor, President B.
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In our system the winning party is the party that does better than anticipated, or, to put it another way, the party that causes the most embarrassment to commentators who insist on covering political campaigns by predicting results that everyone's going to know on election night anyway.
But a Tory supporter of the bill, Jane Ellison, says the policy is winning the party new support.
So if Mr Buchanan (campaign slogan: Go Pat Go) decides to do just that, and leave the Republican Party, he stands a good chance of winning the Reform Party nomination, faute de mieux.
The left already looks as if it may embarrass him at the party conference in Blackpool, by winning seats on the party's National Executive Committee, at the expense of a slate of Blairites.
He had worked his way up the local party machine before narrowly winning the leadership of the Socialist Party against its grandees at a congress in 2000.
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It is not the first time the heir apparent of India's powerful Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has spoken about his disinclination to become the prime minister in the event of his party winning the general elections.
Follow-on by-elections earlier this year resulted in the main opposition party winning 43 of the 44 legislative seats they contested.
Mr Kingston and Mr Lewis split endorsements from tea-party groups, with Mr Kingston garnering support from the Tea Party Patriots and Mr Lewis winning the endorsement of the Tea Party Express and, in the best revolutionary tradition, the contempt of the other group.
Their best hope may be to stop the ruling party winning a huge majority, which might just weaken Dr Mahathir's popularity and encourage party officials to challenge him.
The LDP lost its majority for the first time since the 1960s, while the DPJ became the majority party, winning 54 of the assembly's 127 seats.
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In the last general election, in 1995, Welfare was the biggest party, winning 21% of the vote.
Despite winning the party's nomination, ex-judge Lee has been unable to rally all the NKP factions to his side.
Most opinion polls show the party winning little if any more support than it did in the 1994 election, when it took 36.4% of the vote.
The former Massachusetts governor still struggles in winning over the very conservative core of the Republican Party, and faces challenges in winning over GOP voters of lesser means.
He spent the last year in opposition - when I, as leader of the Labour Party in London, was fighting and winning the election against the Conservatives - on plotting inside the Labour Party to remove me, denying in public that he was doing so, just as he denied that he would stand against Frank Dobson.
The party led by Mr Meciar emerged as the largest party in the new Slovakian parliament, winning 19.5% of the votes, but was unable to form a coalition.
Analysts say the party's stand to stick by the commonly agreed agenda followed by the BJP at the centre for the Uttar Pradesh elections may help retain its allies, but it may also make winning the election for the party far tougher.
At the moment it's a one-sided game and it's clear that the ruling party is winning.
That does not mean, however, that the tea party is winning the war even if it has lost a few battles.
After losing to eventual champion Kentucky in last year's Final Four, Louisville complemented its returning stars with a fresh shipment of talent and is here only to cut down the nets, a party favor the Cardinals declined after winning last month's Big East tournament and last week's Midwest region.
Republicans lost seats in the GOP-controlled House, failed to capitalize on a once-promising shot at winning the Senate majority and the party's presidential nominee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, failed to unseat Obama.
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