His People's Party lost a swing seat this week after failing to win enough overseas votes.
Its fenced back yard with well-tended grass has a brown painted picnic table, swing love seat and lounging chairs.
To lose, on a 43-point swing, a Senate seat that has been in Democratic hands since 1953 takes some doing, even in the teeth of the worst recession since the 1930s (see article).
But in 1997, the seat reflected the nationwide swing against the Tories.
The Lib Dems held the Eastleigh seat, despite a large swing to UKIP.
The SNP lost the seat despite managing a small net swing (0.5%) from Labour.
He soon lost his board seat as well after taking a swing at Meitec's new second-in- command.
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It would now take a swing of 7.5% for Labour to regain the seat.
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.
He won in Newbury in 1993 on a swing of 28% and has bucked the usual trend by retaining his seat in two subsequent elections.
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Indeed, the enormous swing in Hamilton South brought the SNP within barely 600 votes of taking Labour's sixth safest seat in Scotland.
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