The Front National, fresh from its high presidential election score in April, emerged as the third party in France in terms of vote-share.
FN president Marine Le Pen, who stood for election in the region, scored 34% of the vote, tripling the party's 2009 European election score.
In August 2001, the Howard government, then facing a difficult election, scored a noticeable bounce in the opinion polls after the Tampa affair.
Meanwhile, in Massachusetts Shannon O'Brien won the Democratic gubernatorial primary; she now faces the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney.See article: Year of the woman Persson in chargeSweden's ruling Social Democrats, led by the prime minister, Goran Persson, easily won a general election, scoring nearly 40% of the votes against 15% for the main right-wing party, the Moderates.
To argue otherwise betrays the very values that the West has promoted in Georgia.Throwing mudYet, although some post-election score-settling is perhaps inevitable, Mr Ivanishvili's camp is behaving as badly as he claims Mr Saakashvili did.
In 1969 Rocard stood as the PSU's candidate at the elections, scoring 3.6% of the vote.
In the August 2009 lower-house elections, scores of LDP candidates were soundly defeated, and the party was swept out of office.
A day after Afghan parliamentary elections, scores of accounts of local ballot stuffing as well as the suppression of voting like that in Nagahan are beginning to surface, especially from the troubled provinces in the south and east.
She won her third term in the Lok Sabha in the 2009 parliamentary elections, scoring a notable victory margin of 389,000 votes, and in December of that year was appointed leader of the BJP opposition in the house.
In 2005, when Labour last won a general election, they scored 20.6% in Eastleigh.
In the 1992 election Bill Clinton scored a coup by persuading a group of high-tech executives to endorse him.
