Secondly, the first-past-the-post system exaggerates the advantage of the winning party, particularly at the expense of third parties.
Under the so-called "Salisbury Convention", peers do not vote against commitments set out in a winning party's manifesto.
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.
So many of these debates in Washington end up being portrayed as which party is winning, which party is losing.
But a Tory supporter of the bill, Jane Ellison, says the policy is winning the party new support.
Ann Lucas ousted John Mutton after winning a party leadership election by 25 votes to 18 on Friday.
In 2004 an odd presidential candidate, Howard Dean, came out of nowhere and had a shot at winning his party's nomination.
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.
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.
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.
There is a choice in this election: the two main candidates are not clones, and thoughtful Mr John Anderson, with no prospect of winning and no party to run congress if he did, is no real escape from the poverty of choice.
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.
"McCarthy is riding again, " declares Glenda Jackson, Oscar-winning actress turned Labour Party member of parliament.
In the last general election, in 1995, Welfare was the biggest party, winning 21% of the vote.
That does not mean, however, that the tea party is winning the war even if it has lost a few battles.
They were from the ruling People's Democratic Party, winning polls in 2007 in Bayelsa, Cross River, Kogi, Adamawa and Sokoto and vote re-runs in 2008.
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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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.
And the new proportional representation system would give Tory rebels a better chance of winning seats as an independent party.
After winning numerous elections since his party first swept to power in 2002, Erdogan appears to have a popular mandate under Turkey's constitution, which was written by a military junta in the 1980s.
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.
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.
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.
In his first party conference speech after winning power, Tony Blair gave an example of the kind of voter that New Labour had to win over: a middle-class man polishing his Ford Sierra.
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