During the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, eventual winner David Cameron pledged to withdraw the Conservatives from the EPP-ED coalition, while opponent David Davis argued in a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph that the current ED arrangement allowed the Conservatives to maintain suitable distance from EPP while still having influence in the largest parliamentary grouping.

In single winner plurality voting, each voter is allowed to vote for only one candidate, and the winner of the election is whichever candidate represents a plurality of voters, that is, whoever received the largest number of votes.

The winner is the singer who beats the largest number of people.

The winner receives $ 500, 000, making it the largest cash prize for invention in the U. S.

* The city is a four-time " All-America City Award " winner and has one of the largest furniture manufacturing industries in the US.

The Labour Party was the largest winner of the election, gaining 19 seats ( from 23 to 42 ) and became the second largest party in the House of Representatives.

In 1830, architect Félix Duban, a former student and winner of the Grand Prix de Rome, began a transformation of the site by demolishing a few existing houses, moving back the convent's cloister on the right to produce a symmetrical courtyard, and designing the largest central building, the Palais des Études.

Pundits said Graham and Lord had fought the English language debate to a draw, while they viewed Graham as the winner of the French debate ; this was despite the fact that Lord was a francophone and that Graham's less than stellar command of French was viewed as one of his largest liabilities.

However, in 2002, a person resigned from the house and he won a seat by " kuriage " replacement, by which he took the seat because he had the largest number of votes after the winner.

The Christian Democratic Appeal was the surprising winner of the election, gaining 14 seats ( from 29 to 43 ) and becoming the largest party in the House of Representatives.

Two-time champion Besides being National elite, the Sport has a title Brazilian Series B 1990, Champion is North-Northeast, 1968, Two times champion of the Northeast in 1994 and 2000, three times champion Pernambuco Cup and 39 times Champion Pernambucano Championship, being the biggest winner of the competition in XX and XXI centuries, and largest foreign holder of state.

Teams take turns, and the one with the largest number of successful goals after a specified number of attempts is the winner.

The winner of the Big Bud Shootout is awarded a check for $ 50, 000 US, while the race itself has the largest purse of any NHRA sanctioned event at over $ 250, 000 US.

The margin of victory was the largest since Triple Crown winner Assault won by eight lengths in 1946.

In the 2010 general election the VVD became the largest party with 31 seats, making a liberal-led coalition a possibility for the first time since 1918, and the PVV won 15 seats, increasing their number of seats from 9 to 24, becoming the biggest winner of the 2010 elections.

A 1997 winner of the Alternative Miss Ireland competition, Shirley hosts a weekly bingo and drag show in Dublin's largest gay bar, The George.

Recent years have seen a reliance on weekend celebrity-hosted content and large cash prizes to entice listeners-the award of £ 110, 600 to Nicola Diss, the winner of the popular Magic Mystery Voices contest on 12 January 2006 was the largest cash prize given away on UK radio since 1999, a sum surpassed just a few months later by the prize collected by listener Dawn Muggleton in the Smooth Secret Song competition on London rival 102. 2 Smooth FM, scooping £ 118, 454 on 19 April 2006.

The winner receives, making it the largest monetary award given in Canada to an up-and-coming writer for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work-in-progress.

Led Nassau 1959 ( Shelby DNF Mechanical ), Porsche RSK 2 Liter winner ( Bonnier ), GT winner Porsche Carerra ( Cuevas ); 1960 1, 000 km Buenos Aires ( Gurney / Gregory DNF Mechanical and accident ); Argentine GP ( Gregory Behra-Porsche ); Havana GP for Sports Cars – 8 car entre, winning overall Moss Maserati, 2 Liter Gregory Porsche RSK, GT Corvette Jeffords, under 2 liter GT Cuevas Porsche Carerra ; Sebring 12 hour, largest team entry ever of 8 cars, 3 Mazeratis ( Gurney / Moss led 8 hours DNF Mechanical ), 2 Porsche Carerras ( under 2 liter GT winner and 2nd OA GT Sheppard / Dungan ), 2 Corvettes Jeffords / Weustoff / Gamble ( Gamble drove 12 hours solo – only one of two known to have done this – earned press notice as “ iron man Gamble ”).

N-VA, the winner and now largest party of Flanders and Belgium, want to split BHV without concessions for French speakers.

It featured the largest prize pool in European History: $ 3 million, with $ 1 million going to the winner.

There are eight states in which the largest urban vote can be the balance of power in any close election.

Parties that gain more than 5 % of the second votes or win at least 3 direct mandates are allocated seats in the Bundestag in proportion to the number of votes it has received ( d ' Hondt method until 1987, largest remainder method until the 2005 election, now Sainte-Laguë method ).

Even after the 2009 general election, the CDU / CSU emerged as the largest party in Germany, yet both lost votes predominantly to the FDP.

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

The DPP became the largest party having reached a plurality in the Legislative Yuan for the first time in 2002 following the 2001 legislative election.

At 2009 European Parliament election held on the same day as the Local elections, which saw a reduction in the number seats from 13 to 12 for Ireland, the party won four seats, retaining the largest number of seats of an Irish party in the European Parliament.

It was the largest party in Dáil Éireann at every general election from the 1932 general election until the 2011 general election, when it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the Irish state, a loss described as " historic " in its proportions, where it saw its electoral support base diminished by 75 %, as a reaction to the intervention, and in the running of the Irish economy, of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in November 2010.

After the February 2011 election, it moved from being the largest party to the third-largest party in the 31st Dáil.

Cleveland's margin of victory was, at the time, the largest in a contested New York election, and the Democrats also picked up seats in both houses of the New York State Legislature.

Following the May 2012 legislative election where the New Democracy party became the largest party in the Hellenic Parliament, Samaras, leader of ND, was asked by Greek President Karolos Papoulias to try to form a government.

The transfer of power from Menzies to Holt in February 1966 was smooth and unproblematic, and at the federal election later that year the electorate overwhelmingly endorsed Holt, giving the Holt-McEwen Coalition government a 41-seat majority, the largest in Australian history at the time.

Megawati's PDI-P party had won the largest share of the vote ( 34 %) in the general election, while Golkar, the dominant party during the Soeharto era, came in second ( 22 %).

In a strong move, on 8 August 2005, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called for a snap election to the lower house, as threatened, after LDP stalwarts and opposition DPJ parliamentarians defeated his proposal for a large-scale reform and privatisation of Japan Post, which besides being Japan's state-owned postal monopoly is arguably the world's largest financial institution, with nearly 331 trillion yen of assets.

Ashcroft received 64 percent of the vote in the general election — the largest landslide for governor in Missouri history since the U. S. Civil War.

Though the election represented a victory for the center-right, personality conflicts and scandals within the two largest right of center parties – Latvian Way and the People's Party – prevented stable coalitions from forming.

* 1958 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.

The nationalist movement in Quebec, particularly after the election of the Parti Québécois in 1976, contributed to driving many businesses and English-speaking people out of Quebec to Ontario, and as a result Toronto surpassed Montreal as the largest city and economic centre of Canada.

In the 2002 French presidential election, the two contenders described by the media as having the possibility to win were Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin, who represented the largest two political parties in France at the time.

Rajiv Gandhi led the Congress to a major election victory in 1984 soon after, amassing the largest majority ever seen in the Indian Parliament, the Congress party winning 411 seats out of 542.

In Greece, in the general election on 17 June 2012, Coalition of the Radical Left ( Syriza ) won 26. 89 % of the votes and became the second largest party in parliament.

His broadcasting company Mediaset is the largest in the country and one of the biggest in Europe, Berlusconi never fulfilled his election promises to sell off his assets in the company to avoid a conflict of interest.

This " magic formula " has been repeatedly criticised: in the 1960s, for excluding leftist opposition parties ; in the 1980s, for excluding the emerging Green party ; and particularly after the 1999 election, by the People's Party, which had by then grown from being the fourth largest party on the National Council to being the largest.