That means that Democrats could attain a majority of Senate seats in November, and yet not necessarily win control of the body.
The Green Party seemed to score something of a coup earlier this year when it attained a "majority" on the officially nonpartisan Seattle City Council.
Analysts said it remained unclear whether Mr. Berisha's party would have to form a coalition with other parties to attain a majority in the 140-seat Parliament. 140-seat Parliament
Under the Constitution, a government can be formed at any time along the way, as soon as President Vaclav Klaus nominates a prime minister whom he believes can attain a majority in Parliament.
"We anticipate that we will be able to attain a majority with our alliance partners, but all calls will be taken by [the] party after final results are announced," he told a press conference in Delhi.
Although the election results indicated that Livni's Kadima had secured one Knesset seat more than Netanyahu's Likud, neither party had attained a majority, and the narrow margin of the results made it unclear which party leader would ultimately be invited to form a governing coalition.
The pressure of the opposition, however, at last forced the king to yield, and the 1840 parliament, in which the liberal opposition had attained a majority, forced through the "departmental reform," which meant that the ministers actually became the heads of their own ministries.
The rules allow a certain amount of time for a newly public company to appoint an independent audit committee chairman, form a fully independent audit committee and, finally, attain a majority independent board.
Although the Nazi Party never attained a majority in any free election, it gained power when Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933 and destroyed German democracy in less than six months.
As Labor had attained a majority of the popular vote for a long period, and because malapportionment had been largely ended, the political scientists Neal Blewett and Dean Jaensch said "a Dunstan decade seems assured".
