The Tokyo election forced Mr Aso's hand.
And he lost a primary and a lopsided general election, forcing him out after 24 years.
Only once did Osborne break the vow of silence on tax – when the prospect of a snap election forced him to.
When asked this week why that edition never materialized, Mr. Daly said that the 2010 election forced the city's hand, because "it's a bad idea to put something out before election season".
The website - set up, presumably, before predictions of a "digital election" forced every would-be MP to reveal their lunch details in under 140 characters (no redactions allowed) – is a one-tracked attack on the Conservative leader.
Tatyana Sergina, 27, a bank employee who was wrapped in a down jacket, said her goal was to keep Mr. Putin from winning in the March election, forcing him into a runoff with "a strong opponent".
Mr Kuchma, by contrast, saw his own party win only 12% of the vote in Ukraine's recent general election, forcing him to assemble a parliamentary block from disparate clans and individuals.
Lithuania's populist new Labour Party came top in a general election, forcing the outgoing centre-left coalition into talks with conservative and liberal parties about a left-right alliance excluding Labour.
New chancellor Christian Kern, brought in after the SPÖ's disastrous performance in the first round of the presidential election forced Werner Faymann's resignation, has given many liberals hope that social democracy can regain its dynamism.
This provoked Cook into seeking selection as the Labour candidate, and he narrowly won the seat, by then known as Stockton North, in the 1983 election, forcing Rodgers into third place.
