The UN said not enough was being done to save livesThe extreme-right Jobbik party shocked Hungary's ruling right-wing Fidesz party by winning a by-election.
In its first national election in June 1989, the party shocked the political establishment, winning more than 7 percent of the votes for delegates to the European Parliament.
Hours after his party shocked pollsters and commentators with a 331-seat return to government, the prime minister called in a line-up of familiar big-hitters to No 10.
An Eton-educated criminal barrister, he joined the party at its 1989 peak, when the party shocked the political mainstream (and itself) by coming third in the European election.
One year after a fledgling opposition party shocked the nation by winning nearly half the 120 seats in Parliament up for election, Mr. Mugabe's governing party is celebrating a series of victories.
Zhang Aihua did what he could to appease the outraged mob that burst into his private party, shocked as they were to witness tables strewn with rare Yangtze river fish and imported wine.
Mr. Lapid's new, centrist Yesh Atid party shocked the political establishment by winning 19 of Parliament's 120 seats, becoming Israel's second-largest faction and a crucial partner for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose relatively poor showing left him scrambling to form a stable coalition.
After the GOP's 2012 election loss, private sector groups responded quickly to offer new data and technology solutions to a party shocked by the sophistication of the Obama campaign.
The Republican party's shock victory has led to protests in some cities and on university campuses, and there have been allegations of racist and Islamophobic attacks.
The "Wide-Awakes," the party's shock troops of younger voters, 400,000 strong by one estimate, paraded in black oilcloth capes and red shirts after the fashion of the Paris revolutionaries of 1848.
