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.
Is this the first election thy have come clean and admitted that they will not be the winning party?
Indeed, in a landslide, AV can exaggerate the swing to the winning party.
According to a leaked document, parliamentary elections were to be held in two rounds, giving the winning party total control.
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.
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 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.
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.
Despite winning the party's nomination, ex-judge Lee has been unable to rally all the NKP factions to his side.
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.
The left already looks as if it may embarrass him at the party conference in Blackpool, by winning seats on the party's National Executive Committee, at the expense of a slate of Blairites.
Follow-on by-elections earlier this year resulted in the main opposition party winning 43 of the 44 legislative seats they contested.
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.
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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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.
At the moment it's a one-sided game and it's clear that the ruling party is winning.
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.
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