Secondly, the first-past-the-post system exaggerates the advantage of the winning party, particularly at the expense of third parties.
Indeed, in a landslide, AV can exaggerate the swing to the winning party.
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.
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.
The winning party was that of Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno, and staunch critic of the regime that succeeded him, which was led first by President Suharto and then by his chosen successor, President B.
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In our system the winning party is the party that does better than anticipated, or, to put it another way, the party that causes the most embarrassment to commentators who insist on covering political campaigns by predicting results that everyone's going to know on election night anyway.
But a Tory supporter of the bill, Jane Ellison, says the policy is winning the party new support.
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.
It is not the first time the heir apparent of India's powerful Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has spoken about his disinclination to become the prime minister in the event of his party winning the general elections.
Mr Kingston and Mr Lewis split endorsements from tea-party groups, with Mr Kingston garnering support from the Tea Party Patriots and Mr Lewis winning the endorsement of the Tea Party Express and, in the best revolutionary tradition, the contempt of the other group.
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.
The LDP lost its majority for the first time since the 1960s, while the DPJ became the majority party, winning 54 of the assembly's 127 seats.
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In the last general election, in 1995, Welfare was the biggest party, winning 21% of the vote.
Most opinion polls show the party winning little if any more support than it did in the 1994 election, when it took 36.4% of the vote.
The former Massachusetts governor still struggles in winning over the very conservative core of the Republican Party, and faces challenges in winning over GOP voters of lesser means.
He spent the last year in opposition - when I, as leader of the Labour Party in London, was fighting and winning the election against the Conservatives - on plotting inside the Labour Party to remove me, denying in public that he was doing so, just as he denied that he would stand against Frank Dobson.
The party led by Mr Meciar emerged as the largest party in the new Slovakian parliament, winning 19.5% of the votes, but was unable to form a coalition.
That does not mean, however, that the tea party is winning the war even if it has lost a few battles.
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.
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.
Sam Abrams, a political scientist at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, cannot see any Republican being capable both of winning the nomination of the party in its current mood and appealing to Jewish voters.
The extremist right-leaning NPD group won 6% of the vote, winning seats and reopening the door to criticism from most party leaders for its anti-immigrant stance, among other ideals.
Equally those who want change, should they lose such a vote, would be expected by the majority of the Parliamentary Labour Party to devote all of their efforts to winning the election.
And second, it steals some thunder from the Scottish National Party, which is threatening to prevent Labour winning power in the Edinburgh assembly, and for which land reform has long been a cherished goal.
Mr Clegg opened his speech to cheers by celebrating the Lib Dems' winning of the Eastleigh by-election, which saw the party hold on to the Hampshire seat with a reduced share of the vote compared with the 2010 general election.
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.
Although they are now united in condemning the hopelessness (in both senses of the word) of Michael Howard's election campaign and although the more perceptive among them understand how little the party's plight has been changed by winning back a few seats, there is no agreement on what to do about it.
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.
In winning the seat Mr Gill became the party's 55th MP - and its first from an ethnic minority.
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