The Liberals and latterly Lib Dems have been the big gainers, as the traditional recipients of the protest vote - at least before 2010: 20 seats gained and none lost.
It is an iron rule of politics that gainers bag the gains and the losers react," says Tony Travers.
As markets move higher after Friday's reasonable US jobs figures, as well as positive Chinese trade data over the weekend, one of the biggest gainers in Cairn Energy.
Only schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils will be net gainers as a result of the pupil premium.
Among the gainers BHP Billiton is 13.5p better at £20.68 after the mining group beat full year guidance for iron ore production by 4%.
"You can never get away from the reality that at a time when there is no extra money any new formula leading to any new distribution of resources means there will be losers and gainers.
Anti-immigrationists seize on the fact that a native Californian family typically pays around $1,200 more in state and local taxes than it receives in benefits, whereas immigrants on average are net gainers.
The gainers may bide their time or, in other words, hoard their winnings.In times of economic crisis this may be both rational and likely.
The gainers include department stores, health care and defence (see chart), along with heavy machinery, air freight and industrial metals.
And the hope that gainers from climate change will outweigh losers looks vain: the damage from higher temperatures and erratic rainfall will be too big.In this section Succumb and deliver Seasonally adjusted Fossilised policy ReprintsIn its forecast IFPRI started with the "A2 scenario" of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
They are smarting at having been shut out of the Contact Group, and will be the surest net gainers from a pooling of international clout.
