In a by-election where there is only one seat up for grabs, it effectively becomes an "alternative vote" contest.
Moreover, the Democrats are only one seat away from taking over the Senate.
His Party of Democratic Patriots won only one seat on the constituent assembly, but he led efforts to unite several leftist parties in October.
The Democrats currently control the Senate by only one seat, and only because a former Republican senator, James Jeffords, became an independent last year.
Having managed to win only one seat in Quebec at the 2008 election, this year the NDP won 59 (of a total of 75) in the French-speaking province.
Before the last election, only one Sussex seat had ever had a Labour MP.
He contested the 2001 elections but did not do well - his party only won one seat in parliament.
The Lib Dems won over half the vote in both Sheffield and Liverpool despite winning only one parliamentary seat in the two cities last year.
National City gets only one board seat in the deal and its chief executive, Peter Raskind, becomes vice chairman of PNC, though it wasn't clear how long term his role would be.
They have two passports, but one ticket as they only take up one seat on the aeroplane.
But the new Polynesian-led government obtained only a one-seat majority in the 57-member assembly.
Kumaratunga's People's Alliance (PA) has only a one-seat majority in the unicameral house.
The Welsh Lib Dems may only have lost one seat in the Welsh Assembly elections but their share of the vote slumped.
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Democrats only had to defend one open seat, in Iowa, where Democratic Secretary of State Chet Culver beat Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Nussle.
As expected the 35-year-old former international centre will take over from Michael Bradley who has moved into the Connacht hot seat after only one season.
The Lib Dems lost one seat, leaving the party with one, while Labour gained their only seat on the council.
However, infighting between Mohammed Sarwar and Mike Watson, the two rival candidates for the Labour nomination, as well as an energetic local campaign by the SNP, resulted in the seat being the only one in Scotland to see a swing away from Labour in the midst of a UK-wide Labour landslide.
Among the 12 Democratic-controlled seats up, only one was seriously contested, the Louisiana seat held by Sen.
The Tories failed to secure a single Westminster seat in 1997, and hold only one today.
You have more leg room, and should you wish to leave, the front row is the only one that lets you sneak out easily from any seat.
Control of Congress may change hands, but that is only because it is so finely poised: the Republicans are a mere nine seats ahead in the House and one seat behind in the Senate.
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