Conceding defeat, McInnes's Ukip challenger, businessman John Bickley, said he would have won given a few more days.
If Gore had won, given his interests in climate change, green infrastructure, and the digital economy, he might well have returned to these ideas.
Had Beckham stayed on England might well have won, given the opposition's obvious distress in the first half whenever Owen took their defenders on for pace.
McConnell is running with everything said above and is an incumbent: 62 out of 63 candidates have won, given this situation, over the past 30 years.
In mitigation they would probably have won given the penalty they deserved when Gary Medel brought down Leighton Baines without making contact with the ball.
The second in that string of defeats came at the United Center in Chicago, to the Blackhawks – and it was one the Blues should have won, given they way they completely befuddled the Blackhawks for the first 20 minutes.
I am unsurprised that Assemble have won, given that one of the current Turner judges, Alistair Hudson, director of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima), views his museum as a service to the community, a facility rather than a place where big-shot artists have major shows.
"That will be a pity, as Warwickshire have been in command almost throughout and would surely have won given enough time but, with most teams having been even less fortunate with the weather this week, it's not too damaging.
Without Putin's decision to interfere in last year's presidential campaign on Trump's behalf, there's a good possibility he would not have won, given how few votes swung the outcome in the three critical Rust Belt states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Was it because the sales of Doniger's book were so meager that it didn't justify continuing the case they were contesting in court, a case they would almost certainly have won, given the generally liberal track record of India's higher courts?
