It seems likely that early rounds of voting influence behaviour of voters later on.
The frontrunner to replace Cameron dismissed suggestions that one candidate should be given a clear run if he or she receives overwhelming support from Tory MPs in the early rounds of voting.
Hockey was one of five sports under threat at the meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Tuesday, and was still involved after canoeing and taekwondo survived the early rounds of voting.
On the other, the International Olympic Committee has always been a primarily Western European organization, and support might now coalesce behind Paris, at least in the early rounds of voting.
As expected, Moscow, then New York and Madrid, were eliminated in the early rounds of voting and Paris and London were left to go head to head in the final round.
The secrecy of the conclave means we have no idea who has done well or badly in the early rounds of voting, the BBC's James Robbins in Rome says.
In the earlier round of voting, on 3 June, a third candidate prevented either Cochran or McDaniel securing the 50% threshold required to win the nomination outright.
An earlier round of voting on the local level selected the delegates who have gathered here and at other regional centers around Afghanistan, for the second and final phase of voting for the loya jirga.
"How can a ballpoint pen fight with a gun?" The opposition claims that Mr. Tsvangirai won a majority in the earlier round of voting, and that the government manipulated the count to force a runoff and ready its violent response.
Although the result was expected after an earlier round of voting last week, the rise of Macron's pro-Europe, pro-business party represented a watershed moment in modern French politics.
