Although mid-term elections are traditionally expected to favour opposition parties, Labour is playing down expectations of making significant gains with sources keen to stress the local authority elections are mainly being staged in Conservative heartlands.
Generally, higher turnout is expected to favour Remain.
However, postal votes are expected to favour Mirabella.
A second round is not expected to favour 63-year-old Moreno, say analysts.
Natural selection might be expected to favour the progeny of men who enjoy bringing them up.
The long straights are expected to favour Ferrari's straight-line speed and they did look ominously quick.
Opposition leaders and pollsters told me before-hand that a high turn-out was expected to favour Mr Chávez.
Spatial heterogeneity is an inherent property of any living environment and is expected to favour biodiversity due to a broader niche space.
Results from Nigeria's two biggest cities, Lagos and Kano, both expected to favour 72-year-old Buhari, had not yet been announced.
New Democracy squeaked an election win in 2012, but the vote this weekend is expected to favour the anti-austerity leftists of Syriza.
One is the widespread use of technology, which might be expected to favour those workers who are able to exploit it.
