In 1973, Gaullists and their allies retained an absolute majority in the second ballot of the French general election.
Coalition talks collapsed after 10 days in May, leading to the second ballot.
As well as an agonisingly close contest of opinion, the second ballot will be an unusually stiff test of the voters' dedication.
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Mr Manning has flung himself into trying to win on the second ballot, noting that only 59% of the 202, 000 registered members cast votes in the first round.
They were widely tipped to win the International Rugby Board vote but they controversially lost out to New Zealand in the second round of the secret ballot.
Japan were widely tipped to win the International Rugby Board vote but they controversially lost out to New Zealand in the second round of the secret ballot.
While Morris (66.7%) is quickly approaching the required 75% for election with two years of eligibility remaining, Bagwell has made a quantum leap to 56% of the vote after only his second year on the ballot.
The first scrutineer unfolds the ballot, notes the name on a piece of paper, and passes the ballot to the second scrutineer.
Voters do have the option of casting a second ballot, for a specific candidate from the list of their chosen party.
"I think that it's wide open, and I think right now the real question is whether or not Mike Duncan can take it on the first ballot or get past the second, " Anuzis told CNN.
Speaking earlier on Monday, Mr Livingstone urged other Labour members to stay within the party, while he promised to cast his second preference in the mayoral ballot for Frank Dobson, Labour's official candidate.
If there is no clear outright winner in the ballot, second and third preference votes will be counted.
While fellow Labour MP, Tom Pendry, who came second in the ballot, is backing measures to help carers and disabled children.
Even assuming that Mr Davis can be ousted, Mr Schwarzenegger has a fight on his hands to win the second, beauty-contest, part of the ballot.
She has won second place in the ballot, so the bill is at least assured a proper reading in January next year.
Le Pen said she had cast a blank ballot in the second round, and observers expected many of her supporters to follow suit.
On the subject of a referendum, Lord Wallace made clear that "a single question was the preferred position of the UK government", rather than a second question on further devolution being included on the ballot paper.
The top vote-getter on the 2013 ballot was longtime Houston Astros second baseman Craig Biggio, who racked up more than 3, 000 hits in a two-decade career.
If a second ballot must be taken immediately, the first bundle of ballots and any private notes are burned with the second.
If the voter's first choice does not need the ballot, either because he can be elected without it or because he has too few votes to get in with it, the ballot is transferred to the voter's second choice, and so on.
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Only one of four voters in the nation's second-most populous city were projected to cast a ballot, possibly a historic low in a city known to shrug at local politics.
In other areas of England and Wales, Thursday's ballot papers asked voters to select a first and second choice for the post, using the supplementary vote system.
John Kelly, director of Second Thoughts, a Massachusetts-based organization of disability activists who oppose the assisted-suicide ballot petition, said assisted suicide brings up big problems.
Last week the Green Party candidate Ms Berry urged her backers to put Mr Livingstone as their second choice on their ballot paper.
The elections marked only the second time since 1934 that a president's party did not lose House seats in a midterm ballot -- the first time for a Republican president since 1902.
They claim this principle of "equal votes" would be threatened by a move to AV - where second preference votes given to the candidate with the least support are re-distributed after the initial ballot if no-one gains over 50% of first preference votes.
The Republican Party built on its majority in the House of Representatives, marking only the second time since 1934 that a sitting president's party didn't lose House seats in a midterm ballot -- the first time for a Republican president since 1902.
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