An absolute majority for one party is unprecedented under the partly proportional electoral system New Zealand has used since 1996.
Thanks partly to electoral reform, and partly to the growth of the DPJ, it is much harder for the LDP to win elections than it used to be.
His liberal take on issues such as defence and immigration was partly his electoral undoing; and he does not have the mandate to challenge Mr Cameron's probable refusal to change Tory policy on those issues.Mr Cameron's predicament is not much less fraught, though.
Partly because the electoral process is still playing out in places like Egypt and Yemen, and partly because it hasn't even begun in places like Libya and Syria.
Price rises were partly blamed for electoral setbacks for his Congress party, which leads the national coalition government, and lost power a day earlier in two state elections.Responding to the domestic pressures, Mr Chidambaram produced a budget whose central theme was curbing price rises.
This is partly a question of electoral maths.
Although Mr Gandhi and others are talking about the challenge, not everyone is, partly due to the electoral system's skew towards the countryside.
In the June elections, the party lost the overall majority it had held since 2002, partly because of the electoral success of the HDP.
It was the first time the party lost a majority since it came to power in 2002, partly because of the electoral victory garnered by the HDP.
However, although they hold regular elections, in 2014 they were ranked by Freedom House as only "partly free" because of "electoral fraud and structural obstacles designed to block the opposition from winning power.
