21.   All the other legislative seats already have been won by members of the Lavalas Platform, the three-party coalition that Aristide endorses.

22.   At stake is a legislative seat left empty by the death of an opposition lawmaker.

23.   Beijing ordered Gao and two other dissidents last month not to run for local legislative seats but the three have vowed to defy the order.

24.   But he has not agreed to relinquish his legislative seat.

25.   By-election for legislative seat shows clan rivalries, shifting alliances.

26.   Cherepkov, who had been ousted as mayor in December in a decree by President Boris Yeltsin, also won a legislative seat in the elections.

27.   Cherepkov had been ousted as mayor in December in a decree by President Boris Yeltsin, but he won a legislative seat in elections earlier this month.

28.   Democrats who lost legislative seats with the handover say new election rules favor pro-business and pro-China parties.

29.   Democrats who lost their legislative seats with the handover rallied repeatedly outside the legislative building.

30.   Election results for four legislative seats on Wednesday confirmed the overwhelming victory for partisans of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.