In the last election, opposition parties contested just half the constituencies.
This did not get them very far, so this time the various opposition groups will stand in at least half the constituencies.
In the last election, in 2006, the opposition put up candidates in only about half the constituencies, winning just two parliamentary seats.
It is therefore disappointing that voters in more than half the constituencies did not have the opportunity to express their will at the ballot box and that turnout in most other constituencies was low," Warsi said.
A boycott by the Bangladesh Nationalist party, the main opposition in the poverty-stricken country of 150 million people, meant that results in more than half of the constituencies were decided before voting had even started.
More than half of the constituencies surveyed (96) are marginal seats so it is perhaps unsurprising to see many showing a different result in polling than at the last election.
The first came a few months after the election when she claimed the Conservatives had been robbed of an outright majority because of "electoral fraud" in half a dozen constituencies.
In 2010, researchers at De Montfort University found over half of the constituencies in the UK, including 94 marginal seats, would have a majority of voters over 55.
In the 2010 elections, more than half of its constituencies elected winners who did not win a majority of the vote and may well have lost if paired only against their top opponent.
A friend said: "We do expect a reshuffle soon, but half Hilary's constituency is under water.
