1.   The Conservative Margin is expected to be reduced to one after two upcoming elections are held to fill vacated seats.

2.   If he had not insisted on playing it personally safe, another Democrat would easily have won his vacated Connecticut seat.

3.   But the resignation would have disrupted Japanese politics by forcing by-elections for the vacated seats.

4.   If Lieberman becomes vice president, Connecticut Gov. John Rowland would appoint a Republican to fill the vacated seat.

5.   Seif was charged with telling a campaign rally to prepare for a bloodbath during elections for a vacated seat.

6.   Byelections are held in the vacated seats.