But the main opposition movement, the Broad Front for Democracy, estimated more than 70% of voters had abstained.
The Senate's main opposition movement was bipartisan, led by Republican Rand Paul and Democrat Ron Wyden.
The MMD's main opposition, Michael Sata's Patriotic Front (PF), has in the past been very critical about Chinese labour conditions, and although the party has disputed media reports it is anti-Chinese, if elected, it is likely to shake up the way contracts are awarded.
The two main opposition parties on this front in 1969 were the Democratic Action Party (DAP) — the Malaysian successor to the PAP, widely seen as Chinese-based — and the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan), an ostensibly multiracial party led by former MCA stalwart, Lim Chong Eu, and other middle-class intellectuals like Tan Chee Khoon and Syed Hussein Alatas.
Meanwhile, the Alternative Front, the main opposition alliance, is falling apart.
On Wednesday the government banned demonstrations by Tanzania's main opposition party, the Civic United Front, and the police arrested its chairman, Ibrahim Lipumba.
Nebojša Medojević of the Democratic Front, the main opposition bloc, said: "Montenegro has been destroyed by corruption, crime and the dictatorship of one person".
Grievances include the loss of tax privileges in the 1990s that hit transit trading, and Tanzania's failure to join the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation, a club of Muslim countries that locals hoped would channel aid to Zanzibar.Islamist hotheads used to support Tanzania's main opposition party, the Civic United Front (CUF).
The strike was supported by the state's main opposition Communist coalition, the Left Front.
One, published on September 8th in the relentlessly pro-government Times of Zambia, gives the MMD the edge with 41% of the vote, against 36% for the Patriotic Front (PF), the main opposition party, led by Michael Sata.
