8.37pm: Good news off the election beat and track: UK airspace will begin to reopen from 10pm tonight.
Farron, a former party president who was one of the eight Lib Dems to retain their seats in May's general election, beat the MP for North Norfolk, Norman Lamb, by 4,500 votes out of a total of 34,000.
"The treasurer has no special powers in a deregulated financial market to ensure full flow-through, but the treasurer before the election beat his chest and said that he would call the banks in and make sure they didn't pass on increased compliance costs," Bowen said.
Barack Obama won America's presidential election, beating John McCain by 52% to 46%.
Blatter won that election, beating US Soccer's choice for president, Prince Ali bin Al Hussein.
François Hollande, the Socialist candidate, won France's presidential election, beating Nicolas Sarkozy, the centre-right incumbent, by 51.6% to 48.4%.
On January 20th, Edgar Lungu, Zambia's defence minister, scraped to victory in the country's presidential election, beating the opposition's candidate by less than 2% of the vote.
See articleDilma does itDilma Rousseff, the chosen successor of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, won the run-off in Brazil's presidential election, beating José Serra by 56% to 44%.
On Monday, Mohamed Morsi, a Brotherhood leader, said he had won Egypt's first competitive presidential election, beating Ahmed Shafik, Mr. Mubarak's last prime minister, with 52 percent of the vote.
The city was chosen as the 2012 host in a close 2005 International Olympic Committee (IOC) election, beating runner-up Paris (the heavy favourite, which also was attempting to become the first three-time host) by four votes.
"The ward where we've done best is in fact the most socially divided," he says, pointing out that in the ward in question, Abbey, the Greens won last year's county council election, beating the Liberal Democrats into fourth place.
