1.   Three minor parties won no seats at all.

2.   Minor parties of National Front.

3.   The BSP formed an electoral alliance with several minor parties, including the nationalist Fatherland Party of Labour.

4.   As long as Giuliani was the presumptive Republican nominee, the race had both minor parties in turmoil.

5.   At the same time, the number of those who decline to state a registration preference or register with minor parties is clearly on the rise.

6.   A fund, available to all parties, was created to equalize access to the media and allow more campaigning by minor parties.

7.   But no one really knows how the new system will work, except that it will hurt the two minor parties in the ruling coalition.

8.   But she said she would not vote for the Socialists, either, and was still searching for a minor party that she found acceptable, she said.

9.   But that will inevitably be complicated by the competing needs of the minor parties, looking to win the votes needed to assure their existence.

10.   Direct elections would also tend to provide fertile ground for minor parties, which currently find it hard to break through into national politics.