1.   The polls were predicting that Labour would win a landslide victory.

2.   And national polls cannot predict an election in an individual district.

3.   As Brazilians prepare to vote on Sunday, polls predict that President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, highly acclaimed for putting inflation under control, will handily win re-election.

4.   As many as one-third of Democratic voters, most of whom voted for President Bill Clinton, are considering voting for Bush, polls grimly predict.

5.   His plurality was greater than any other in any previous multi-candidate race to run through Iowa, although his margin over Forbes was narrower than polls had predicted.

6.   His poll predicted that Achtenberg would trail in third place.

7.   If, as polls predict, his coalition wins the election, he has said he intends to call a referendum on independence for the summer.

8.   In the end, the race was not as close as the polls had predicted.

9.   Major newspaper polls had unanimously predicted the LDP would win a parliamentary majority.

10.   Morales said his margin of defeat also was half of what public opinion polls had predicted.