1.   Hereditary peers were to be allowed to retain their seats, speak but not vote.

2.   Parties must obviously be allowed to retain excess seats, so the membership of the Bundestag has to be increased.

3.   The Giridih Lok Sabha seat was retained by the Jharkand Mukti Morcha.

4.   Previous elections had been partial, with senior parliamentarians simply retaining their seats.

5.   The presence in the constituency yesterday of Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd illustrates how deeply the Tories want to retain the seat.

6.   Both Pickens and Rainwater will retain seats on the board of the new company, she said.

7.   A former Liberal Party leader, Gordon Wilson, also retained his seat.

8.   But Gephardt said he would ask Democrats on the Appropriations Committee, which allocates federal funds, to step aside so that Forbes can retain his seat.

9.   But he may have more to say than anyone else about whether his colleague, Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., retains his seat next month.

10.   But there was no complaint from Cheney that the senator, who is also running amid considerable controversy to retain his seat, might be campaigning for two offices.