71.   It takes a majority in each constituency to win, with a second-round runoff if no candidate wins one in the first round.

72.   It was the first time a Democratic candidate had ever won the presidency without winning Texas.

73.   Its candidate won a closely watched race in Iwate Prefecture in the north, while another New Frontier candidate picked up the governorship of Mie Prefecture in western Japan.

74.   Last Sunday, pro-government candidates won a larger-than-expected majority of parliamentary seats in a first round of elections in the central province of Mount Lebanon.

75.   Likewise, virtually no candidate can win the presidency without winning Missouri, perhaps the purest bellwether state in the country.

76.   Local polls indicate that the other candidates may win a smaller share of the Latino vote.

77.   Lewis, McKinney and Walker are black, and no black candidate has won a high-profile statewide election in Georgia, Black said.

78.   Many of these races were won by candidates from parties that failed to qualify for the proportionate seats.

79.   Most PRI presidential candidates would have won without election day hanky-panky.

80.   No deceased candidate had ever won election to the U.S. Senate, although three House members were elected posthumously.