1.   If it occurs on a sufficiently large scale, either main party might still win an outright majority.

2.   If no party wins this number, the new Parliament will be hung.

3.   If there was a single lesson I took away from Salomon Brothers, it is that rarely do all parties win.

4.   The Labour party won the election, but it was a very near thing.

5.   They reasoned that, if neither main party won a commanding majority, both would have a stake in negotiating rather than fighting.

6.   Three minor parties won no seats at all.

7.   Opposition parties won about fifty-five per cent of the vote.

8.   She said her party had won a moral victory.

9.   His party won the majority of seats in parliamentary elections held in March.