11.   For decades, Democrats knew winning the party nomination meant winning South Florida.

12.   In Rhode Island, Myrth York relied on a LEAP organization to take the party nomination from an incumbent governor.

13.   Meanwhile, the liberal actor Warren Beatty has been making noises about seeking the party nomination as a way of pressuring the Democrats to move leftward.

14.   More than half the members of Parliament who ran for re-election were defeated, and many others failed to win party nominations to run again.

15.   North won the party nomination after a bruising fight with James Miller, a former budget director in the Reagan administration.

16.   Otherwise, Ventura said, he would endorse someone else, anyone but Pat Buchanan, the Republican-turned-Reform candidate who is seeking the party nomination.

17.   The Democratic National Convention in August could become the first party presidential nomination in more than two decades overshadowed by street protests.

18.   The other three won their party nominations but lost their bids for election.

19.   The total available delegates in the contests puts both Al Gore and George W. Bush in position to win enough delegates to clench their party nominations.