There were 16 constituencies where the number of rejected ballots exceeded the winning candidate's majority.
So whichever candidate the AK Party has put forward would be the winning candidate, theoretically speaking.
To avoid a run-off ballot, the winning candidate had previously to secure 45% of the vote.
They're competing against one another for a fee that comes with placing the winning candidate, she explains.
Communicating the end of a political campaign is tricky for any non-winning candidate.
It is assumed that Mujica will be the winning candidate in the run-off.
State votes are converted into Electoral College votes, and generally, the state's winning candidate gets all the state's electoral votes.
There was a big swing to Labour, and the winning candidate - himself a former Lib Dem - was Mike Hannon.
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With political skill, the winning candidate can also pull off something of the same trick when it comes to reuniting the country.
The winning candidate must get more than 50% of the total votes cast and at least 25% of votes in half of the 47 counties.
By analyzing the language in each speech, I created a model that predicted whether a speech came from a winning candidate or a losing one.
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Speaking after the result the winning candidate said he hoped to make sure "we spend every penny of every public pound better" and improve police visibility.
It is the ultimate swing state, a place where voters have managed to side with the winning candidate in every presidential election over the last half-century.
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South Wales Police Federation congratulated Mr Michael, but said the low turnout meant the winning candidate had "no mandate for their views and no popular support for their position".
In the pervasive quid pro quo of Mexican politics, her union and its political offshoots often received benefits, in terms of funding and political appointments, from backing the winning candidate.
Back then, six in 10 saw Obama's inauguration as a celebration by all Americans of democracy in action, with just 39% saying it was a political celebration by the supporters of the winning candidate.
Not only did Missouri's voters pick the winning candidate in all but one 20th-century presidential election (the exception was 1956), but they did so by margins that were within a point or two of the national margin.
Mr Penn's strategy may have worked if the Democrats allocated all the delegates in each state to the winner (just as the electoral-college vote is awarded to the winning candidate in the general election in almost every state).
Presidents are also strongest where there is a perception among voters that the president has a mandate to push through major change, usually after the winning candidate in the presidential election has achieved a landslide victory (Lyndon Johnson after 1964).
At least since 1960, the electoral votes held by the winning vice presidential candidate's home state have not decided an election.
At the same time as setting his own candidate on a winning course, Mr Rove led a team analysing the weakness of Mr Bush's opponents.
And even in Peru and Mexico, the socialist candidate came very close to winning.
Some 30 years after Ronald Reagan assembled his winning coalition, the task of any candidate who wants to unite conservatives remains largely the same: Run on a message that brings together economic libertarians, defense hawks and social conservatives.
Throughout the presidential campaign, Moussavi labored hard to portray his proposals on social policy and foreign affairs as an extension of the Islamic system in order to disarm conservative critics, even denying that he is a mainstream reformist candidate in the hope of winning the support of reformers and moderate conservatives.
Uncertainty abounds over the makeup of Congress as well, and either presidential candidate could face high hurdles to winning support for his agenda.
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"There is only one candidate who has a chance of winning the Republican nomination who can make this the central issue that will be a winning issue for us to win the presidency back, and that is Rick Santorum, " said the former Pennsylvania senator.
New types of candidate, with hybrid agendas, are winning elections on the strength of them.
The ruling Democratic Party of President Boris Tadic hopes candidate status might boost its chances of winning the general election it may call early next year.
They are not intending to field candidates in every race, but just those where a sufficiently high profile local candidate has a sufficiently decent chance of winning.
Mr Humala will be a candidate next year, though his chance of winning this time is smaller.
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