Some KKE voters were saying they would switch votes to Syriza in a second election.
It received a boost when New Democracy proved victorious in a second Greek election, mitigating the risk of a disorderly Greek exit from the Euro.
She hit the headlines in 2011 when she unexpectedly came second in a by-election in the neighbouring Labour stronghold of Barnsley.
If no candidate wins a simple majority in the first round, a second election round is held between the two leading candidates.
The claims come at a sensitive time for President Sarkozy as he seeks re-election in a second-round vote.
If he manages to win this year, it is likely to be by less than that, which would make him the first President in a hundred and twenty-four years to win a second term by a smaller margin than in his initial election.
He was then elected to the seat in 2008 and won re-election in 2012 to a second term.
Mehdi Karroubi, a reformist cleric who ran in the recent election, was narrowly beaten to second place in a first round of voting because of a suspiciously heavy tilt to Mr Ahmadinejad in outlying provinces.
Unfortunately, a congressional by-election season in the second term of a presidency confronting widespread public misunderstanding of, and fatigue with, a global war is far from the best of circumstances.
Although unpopular, he is seeking a second term in an election due in May.
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For President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who is seeking a second term in an election on October 4th, the timing could hardly have been worse.
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But after a second general election in 1974, the Tories had lost three out of the four elections he had taken them into.
In most of the constituencies they might hope to gain in a future election, they are second to the Tories, and rely on picking up Labour votes to win.
Upsetting to many Indonesians is the image now spread around the world of a country in turmoil - when it has just come peacefully through a second democratic election, and has been maintaining economic growth despite the world downturn.
The president of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia appears to have won a second term after exit polls gave him a majority in yesterday's election.
Backed by local factory bosses, he won a second term by election in 1995.
Turkey's generals found this out when voters returned the AK for a second term in the July 2007 general election with a thumping 47% of the vote soon after the top brass threatened a coup.
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Mr Hughes gained even more media attention after becoming the party's home affairs spokesman in 1999, having come second to Charles Kennedy in the Liberal Democrat leadership election on a platform of greater autonomy from Labour.
In the 2007 election it scraped in a distant second, with 21% to AK's 47%.
Parmjit Gill Singh's victory in the Leicester South by-election was the second rising Lib Dem star to inflict a damaging defeat on Labour in a once safe seat and push the Tories into the third place.
The presidential election in Cyprus will go to a second round on 24 February after frontrunner Nicos Anastasiades fell short of the 50% needed for an outright majority.
After the South Carolina voters approved an amendment to the state constitution allowing him to run for a second term in 1980, Riley won re-election with 70 percent of the vote.
He sounded not like a man who had won his second state in a row, but who had clinched the right to fight the general election for his party.
Little wonder, then, that Mr Cameron decided not to bet on a second election, as Harold Wilson did in 1974.
Mr Swinney said the SNP, which is seeking a second term in government after next May's Holyrood election, had worked hard to support families and businesses during the recession, with measures including a council tax freeze and bonus scheme for small firms.
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He cannot make a choice that pleases everyone and, if a hung parliament leads to a quick second election (as it did in 1974), his party may be squeezed as voters throw their weight behind one of the other parties for the sake of stable government.
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If they triumph, a new general election will be held in December, in which Mr Morales would be able to run for a second term.
Kim Beazley, in his second stint, was preparing to lead Labor into a general election due in late 2007.
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