The Socialists' poor score reflects a failure in most constituencies to join up with the Greens and other parties of the left.
Many in the party are still aggrieved over their failure to win constituencies such as Westminster North (Joanne Cash) and Hammersmith (Shaun Bailey) – seats they felt were there for the taking.
Consequently, even though the party may be helped by the Tories' failure to redraw the constituency boundaries, Labour is at present unlikely to win more than 300 seats.
Odinga's NASA party has already begun sowing doubt over the election's legitimacy, complaining that their representatives witnessed pre-marked ballots being handed out, and pointing to a "massive failure" of voting equipment in constituencies along the Kenyan coast.
Beyond the celebrity-intellectual buzz his turn to politics received abroad, Ignatieff's failure to connect with his constituency emerged early on.
Each of the agencies had strong political constituencies and there were enough high-profile failures between the two that consolidating activity in a single entity seemed wrongheaded to some.
They are truly independent independents, ferocious about the political mainstream's failure to deliver for their rural constituencies and impatient for a time when they could join forces to exert some real political muscle.
Some members of Eagle's constituency party had already expressed unhappiness with her failure to back Corbyn, and had threatened a vote of no confidence in her.
Should Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan win in November, a constituency that has for years fulminated against the failure of Republicans to live up to their own principles could soon have a close — and powerful — friend in the White House.
If there is a failure of elections in a number of constituencies, it may not be possible to get enough lawmakers to legally open parliament.
