At the moment, experts estimate that to take back the House by a bare minimum of seats, Democrats would need to win the national popular vote by at least six points.
SPL rules currently state that clubs must only use seated areas with a minimum of 6,000 seats per stadium.
They will be assured a minimum of five seats in Colombia's Senate and five seats in its lower house for two legislative terms starting in 2018.
But it's in his interests to call the bluff of the two main parties as they carry on trying desperately to assemble enough votes to win a working majority, some number – any number – greater than the absolute minimum of 323 seats (allowing for Sinn Fein not taking their seats).
The House of Representatives (the lower house) has 150 members elected from single-member electoral divisions, commonly known as "electorates" or "seats", allocated to states on the basis of population, with each original state guaranteed a minimum of five seats.
Two socialist backbenchers said they would henceforth sit as independents, reducing the party's parliamentary majority to a bare minimum of 151 seats in the 300-member chamber.
The formerly Democratic-dominated House delegation from Texas is now evenly divided, with 16 members of each party, and Republicans say they hope to end up with a minimum of 20 seats.
And no thought is being given to correcting the worst imbalance, created by the rule that each state gets a minimum of eight seats and a maximum of 70 in the lower house.
The opposition won at least a simple majority in the elections: a minimum of 99 seats out of 167, compared with 46 for the ruling party, with 22 still to be called.
Erdoğan campaigned to secure a minimum of 330 seats in the parliament, a three-fifths majority that would have enabled him to call a referendum on the constitution with a view to converting Turkey into a presidential rather than a parliamentary system.
