The Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, called Brighton Kemptown his 'prestige' seat when Dennis Hobden won it in 1964 after no fewer than seven recounts, an electoral record.

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R. defeated the Republican, Alf Landon, yet again breaking a record in the electoral college: 523 to 8.

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Peter Lilley, who heads the Tory policy review, has been studying the record of other parties after major electoral defeats.

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But Mrs Gandhi also needs various left-wing parties, some of which are Congress's electoral enemies and all of which reject its record of tepid economic liberalisation.

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Lacking charisma or a record of delivering better public services, he has built his electoral strategy on delivering better security for war-weary Iraqis.

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For the record, history teachers, Shea is not a fan of the electoral college.

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Mr Bain has a long track record as a senior civil servant and Northern Ireland's former chief electoral officer.

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The electoral commission said it had taken the step after its website was hacked to falsely record a landslide for 74-year-old Mr Sata.

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It has a patchy record of suspending or forcing the withdrawal of members that grossly violate its ideals of electoral democracy and racial equality.

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With each voter also receiving a ballot paper for the local government elections and a record number of candidates standing for councils, the election is posing huge demands on electoral staff, who also face a host of other logistical challenges.

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