The governing party lost its main coalition partner in a bitter defection.
Heading the list was Prime Minister Mario Monti, who was there even as his governing coalition lost crucial support that very day.
In May, India's governing party lost an election largely because the strong economic growth did not trickle down fast enough to the rural masses.
The uncertainty has already extracted a political price: the governing Labor party lost heavily in the Longbridge area in local elections on Thursday.
The Wednesday election was called after the former mayor, Oh Se-hoon, a member of the governing party, lost a referendum in August on the opposition's proposal of free lunches for all schoolchildren, and resigned.
Mr. Chen is the most senior Chinese Communist Party official to visit Taiwan since 1949, when the Kuomintang, Taiwan's governing party, lost the Chinese civil war and occupied Taiwan while in retreat.
Somewhere on the journey that led the Football Association to spend £757m on Wembley, £105m on St George's Park, £6m a year on Fabio Capello, and £528,000 a year on current chief executive Alex Horne, the game's governing body lost sight of what it was for.
Diefenbaker did not stand in the 1934 provincial election, in which the governing Conservatives lost every seat.
Ms Merkel insists that she ought to lead the next government: the governing coalition has lost and the CDU and CSU now form the biggest parliamentary group.
After the governing coalition lost the technical vote on Thursday, several government ministers accused Mr. Fini, another former neo-Fascist who dramatically split with Mr. Berlusconi last summer, of not being impartial and of closing voting before they had arrived.
