Following the election the formula of 15-10-5 was created (15 to Hariri's 14 March, 10 to the Hezbollah-led opposition and five to the president) allowing the president to be the pivot for any opposition boycott.
For the moment the Tories are too timid to upset New Labour's thrice election-winning formula of public service investment with an acceptance of the framework of market economics.
Those unresolved issues — a date for provincial elections, a formula for sharing oil revenues and the drawing of provincial boundaries — are "Damocles swords" threatening Iraq's future, he said.
Lord Mandelson became the most senior Labour figure to voice doubts about Ed Miliband's leadership when he spoke of the "dangers" of attempting to chart a new course away from the party's election-winning formula under Tony Blair.
Add in a few breakaway candidates for next year's presidential election, and the formula for Nicaragua's future becomes even more complicated.If, that is, the election does indeed take place as scheduled in November 2006.
Hence the ferocity with which the parties negotiated the final big item in the election law: the formula that will allocate the seats.The main parties agreed that some form of proportional representation was needed.
But nothing about this election follows any formula I'm aware of.
For example, an incumbent who has nine keys scored in his favor — as Mr. Obama has now — has about a 79 percent chance of winning re-election, given the formula's margin of error.
Mr Miliband, campaigning with shadow chancellor Ed Balls ahead of the May UK election, said the Barnett formula would be secure under Labour.
Instead, members of the bureaucracy administering the election use a proprietary formula to convert vote totals into close-but-not-quite-representative electoral vote equivalents, which are used to decide how electoral votes are apportioned.
