1.   After Thursday, a new maxim ought to state that governments do not win elections, oppositions lose them.

2.   Bush won this election because, from the start, he went beyond the old conservative agenda.

3.   Chavez won the election easily.

4.   Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign!

5.   Davidson won the election by a whisker.

6.   For years the central axiom of modern campaigning has been that elections are won and lost on television.

7.   From the way things look at the moment, the Republicans are unlikely to win this election.

8.   If the Socialists win the election, they too will have to bite the bullet.

9.   In return for our consent, he swore he would give it up the day after he won the election.