Under the so-called "Salisbury Convention", peers do not vote against commitments set out in a winning party's manifesto.
Ann Lucas ousted John Mutton after winning a party leadership election by 25 votes to 18 on Friday.
With the help of a bonus given to the winning party, the pro-Berlusconi camp has a 98-seat majority in the 630-member lower chamber, with all but a few thousand votes counted.
So if Mr Buchanan (campaign slogan: Go Pat Go) decides to do just that, and leave the Republican Party, he stands a good chance of winning the Reform Party nomination, faute de mieux.
Their best hope may be to stop the ruling party winning a huge majority, which might just weaken Dr Mahathir's popularity and encourage party officials to challenge him.
In 2004 an odd presidential candidate, Howard Dean, came out of nowhere and had a shot at winning his party's nomination.
The system is not proportional and in fact tends to exaggerate electoral swings, giving the winning party a bigger share of seats than it got in votes.
James Purnell's surprise resignation as work and pensions secretary on Thursday came with a call for Mr Brown to "stand aside to give our party a fighting chance of winning".
Iraq was supposed to be a winning issue for the Democratic Party.
The Iranian-born Mofaz, who is a former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, became chairman of Kadima in March when he defeated Tzipi Livni in a party leadership contest, winning 62% of the votes to Livni's 38%.
He thinks the Democrats as a party boosted their chances of winning in 2008 on election night in 2006.
He had worked his way up the local party machine before narrowly winning the leadership of the Socialist Party against its grandees at a congress in 2000.
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That party activists think this is a winning formula does not, of course, make it so.
"We need to concentrate on a unified party that's capable of winning the White House, " he said.
And the new proportional representation system would give Tory rebels a better chance of winning seats as an independent party.
New Labour's ideological accommodations with free-market economics were tolerated by many in the party only because it was a winning creed.
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Not having Stevens in the Senate next year would give Democrats an edge in winning coveted seats in a chamber where neither party has a majority.
The winning party will have not only a strong hand in Montenegro, but because its parliament appoints half the members of the upper house of the federal parliament a strong say in who runs Yugoslavia as well.
After losing to eventual champion Kentucky in last year's Final Four, Louisville complemented its returning stars with a fresh shipment of talent and is here only to cut down the nets, a party favor the Cardinals declined after winning last month's Big East tournament and last week's Midwest region.
But such a delay would give Mr Aristide's party, riding on his captivating personality, a better chance of winning control of parliament.
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The winning party has already started informal talks with the country's socialist party to form a new government, with a cross-party coalition likely to be formed by Wednesday.
Mr Blair might be allowed another year, perhaps even 18 months, but anything more, suggested Mr Brown's supporters, would be self-indulgent and jeopardise the party's chances of winning a fourth election victory.
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In the last state assembly elections a little over a year ago, her party swept to power winning 206 of the 403 seats and more importantly, had leads in 55 of the state's 80 parliamentary constituencies.
Indeed, in a landslide, AV can exaggerate the swing to the winning party.
In winning, Mahathir crushed a Malay-Muslim-based multiracial party, Bersekutu, wh ose leader is well known.
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Mr Leterme was nominated to form a government after his party came ahead in the poll, winning 30 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament, ending eight years in opposition.
Republicans lost seats in the GOP-controlled House, failed to capitalize on a once-promising shot at winning the Senate majority and the party's presidential nominee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, failed to unseat Obama.
But he has done surprisingly well on the hustings, winning a parliamentary seat in 1995 for his secular, leftish party in the central Anatolian city of Kayseri, a bastion of religious and nationalist conservatism, and doubling his share of the vote last year.
Kibaki, a government minister from 1965 until winning power as head of the Party of National Unity in elections five years ago, also enjoys the support of Kenyatta's successor, Daniel Arap Moi, a member of the Kalenjin tribe who ruled Kenya for 24 years from 1978 to 2002.
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