On 29 December, Mr Odinga was narrowly ahead with just 21 constituencies left to be counted.
Will either of those constituencies leave their grievances at home come November?
The Liberal Democrats had taken 62 seats and nearly 23% of the national vote share by mid-day, with only a handful of constituencies left to report.
Their majority was secured when Geoffrey Clifton-Brown held The Cotswolds to clinch the 326 seats needed to win with a handful of constituencies left to declare.
Again, McAllion is likely to be elected in the first past the post constituency, leaving Sewell well placed to sneak in on the list.
All the while "moderate unions", once the bulwark against the constituency left, were falling to the left.
The HHS regulations were a last minute, hastily executed, unconstitutionally vague, attempt by Bush to repay his only loyal constituency left, the religious right wing.
■ 20-25 seats in Scotland, a major rout, with total or almost total defeat in constituencies, and leaving Labour barely ahead of the Conservatives in Scotland.
In some constituencies, hard left activists have gone after Labour councillors.
Whilst Major and Blair, Brown and Cameron fought for the middle ground, those solid Labour constituencies were left to rot and fester with fewer and fewer people voting and a cycle of deprivation trapping generations into a ghetto of social stasis.
