The Communist Party and the small Humanist Party failed to gain any seats in the 1998 elections.

After the general elections, President General Yahya Khan attempted to negotiate with both Pakistan Peoples Party and Awami League to share power in the central government but talks were failed when President Yahya Khan authorized an armed operation ( codename Searchlight ) to attack the Awami League.

The right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami had completely failed in the elections.

The change in leadership failed to revive the FDP's fortunes and in the next series of state elections the party lost all its seats in Bremen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin.

LDP domination lasted until the Diet Lower House elections on 18 July 1993, in which the LDP failed to win a majority.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ) reported that the elections failed to comply with commitments to free and fair elections and hence were invalid.

The OSCE found that while the elections failed to comply with commitments to free and fair elections, there were improvements over the 2000 elections, notably the use of indelible ink, transparent ballot boxes, and generally good access by election observers.

With the full backing of the United States, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ) reported that the elections failed to comply with commitments to free and fair elections and hence were invalid.

In the concurrent elections, the PRI came within 11 seats of losing the majority of Chamber of Deputies, and opposition parties captured 4 of the 64 Senate seats-the first time that the PRI had failed to hold every seat in the Senate.

Ultimately Netanyahu failed to hold the government together, and early elections for both Prime Minister and the Knesset were called in 1999.

Both attempts ( in 1948 and 1968 ) failed, but not by much — in both cases a shift in the result of two close states would have forced the respective elections into the House.

In 2008, a series of studies conducted by the Center for Competitive Politics, an organization whose mission is to " oppose so-called reformers ’ efforts to limit campaign contributions taxpayer funded political campaigns " found that the programs in Maine, Arizona, and New Jersey had failed to accomplish their stated goals, including electing more women, reducing government spending, reducing special interest influence on elections, bringing more diverse backgrounds into the legislature, or meeting most other stated objectives, including increasing competition or voter participation.

Following parliamentary elections in 2003, the seats were allocated as follows ( the United People's Party failed to meet the 5 % threshold ):

However, on 21 April 2012, after failed negotiations with the Party for Freedom on renewed budget cuts, the government became unstable and Mark Rutte deemed it likely that new elections would be held in 2012.

In the last 23 Presidential elections the Republican candidate only lost once, when Barry Goldwater, in 1964, failed to win a single county in the state.

On 3 November 1993, Arkan and his followers founded the Party of Serbian Unity, and he became its president, but the party lost parliamentary elections and failed to win seats despite an energetic promotional campaign.

In 1989 the Communists failed to mobilize support in Poland, and Solidarity swept the general elections.

In the 2001 general elections, the Freedom Union received only 3. 1 % and thus failed to cross the 5 % threshold required to gain entry to Parliament.

The FN failed to hold on to Le Pen's support for the 2002 legislative elections, in which it got 11. 3 % of the vote.

However, it ended subsequent to the legislative elections that followed Chirac's decisive defeat of Jospin ( who failed even to make it through to the runoff ) in the 2002 presidential election.

Den Uyl's Labour Party won the 1973 elections in alliance with the progressive liberal Democrats 66 and radical Christian Political Party of Radicals, but failed to achieve a majority in parliament.

Any free elections that were to be held in Poland would have to produce a government in which Moscow had complete confidence, and all pressure from the West for free voting by anti-Soviet elements in Poland would be met by restrictions on voting by these elements.

Coldcut also collaborated with video mashup artist TV Sheriff and NomIg., to produce two audiovisual pieces " World of Evil " ( 2004 ) and " Revolution ' 08 " ( 2008 ), both composed of footage from the United States presidential elections of the respective years.

Negotiations with the Government of Guyana brokered by the Jamaican Prime Minister in 2000 did not produce an agreement but the countries agreed to restart talks after Guyanese national elections in 2001.

Quadrennial national elections typically produce only marginal changes in party representation.

Yet the delegates were worried that each elector would only favor his own state's favorite son candidate, resulting in deadlocked elections that would produce no winners.

The reformers, led by former Yugoslav President Vojislav Koštunica, have been unable to gain control of the Serbian presidency because three successive presidential elections have failed to produce the required 50 % turnout.

In several countries before elections, candidates commission ghostwriters to produce autobiographies for them so as to gain visibility and exposure.

The reformers, led by former Yugoslav President Vojislav Koštunica, have been unable to gain control of the Serbian presidency because three successive presidential elections have failed to produce the required 50 % turnout.

In the U. S. presidential elections, the selection of delegates has been increasingly shifted earlier in the process to produce a presumptive nominee as early as possible, even in the presence of many strong candidates.

If the third ballot also fails to produce the required majority, Parliament shall be dissolved within ten days of the vote and elections for a new Parliament shall be called.

The Commission has a statutory duty to produce reports on the administration of certain elections ( for example UK Parliamentary General Elections ) and may be asked to report on other types of election ( such as local government elections ).

For the remainder of the New Order, Golkar won absolute majorities at every elections, while the parliament did not produce a single law on its own initiative, its role being reduced to passing laws proposed by the government.

The January 1975 elections failed to produce a stable party majority, and fresh elections in April 1976 produced the same result.

During its rule, the government did not hold elections or produce a new constitution to replace the one that had been suspended.

Phillips defended the two-party format on the grounds that competition can produce excellence and questioned how competitive general elections would be " dangerous " because white voters had for years been divided in contentious Democratic primary runoff elections.

Note that the use of the phrase generally assumes that the returns were the product of a legitimate election ; show elections to fraudulent legislatures regularly produce incredibly strong majorities for the ruling party ( s ).

The direct election of the Prime Minister was abandoned after the 2001 election, because it failed to produce more stable governments ( the 2001 elections were held less than 2 years after the previous one ).

Qornet Shehwan member ( and now parliamentarian ) Samir Frangieh said on March 16, 2005 that parliamentary elections must precede presidential ones, because the current parliament ( elected in 2000 and allegedly gerrymandered to produce a pro-Syrian majority ), would be likely to elect another pro-Syrian President to succeed Émile Lahoud, whom the opposition considers to be a Syrian puppet.

Chamoun led the National Liberal Party in its boycott of the last three parliamentary elections ( 1992, 1996, and 2000 ), which he claimed were gerrymandered and rigged to produce a pro-Syrian majority.

Some scholars of electoral systems argue that the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota should be used for elections under the Single Transferable Vote ( STV ) system, instead of the Droop quota, because in certain circumstances it is possible for the Droop quota to produce a seemingly undemocratic result.

On the basis of this evidence, after the voting was over, Sokwanele went on to produce a report that detailed the hour by hour events on polling day into how they allege the government comprehensively rigged the elections.