Democrats doing poorly may lead to a result in which national politics are affected".
Labour was expecting a result in which the Tories scored only 270 to 290 seats.
He refused to accept a preliminary result in which he trailed by 2.5%.
But even a more benign result, in which the dollar remains under pressure but does not collapse in value, could still leave Wall Street on edge.
Perhaps they got too embroiled in the sledging aspect and lost discipline as a result, in which case they need telling their fortunes.
The present electoral system had produced a result in which, until recently, the incompatibles had clung to each other like shipwrecked enemies on a storm-tossed raft.
The eventual result, in which Cameron was able to form a government with an overall majority of 12 seats, proved the biggest shock since the 1992 election.
The decision followed a four-day North American media campaign to overturn the original result in which the Russian pair Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze took gold.
Further testing for tuberculosis is often required in individuals given BCG vaccination in order to distinguish between a false-positive test result, in which an individual is not infected with tuberculosis, and a positive test result, in which an individual is infected with tuberculosis.
Equally complicated would be an election result in which no major political bloc obtained a clear majority, with perhaps as many as three large blocs -- Gaullists, Socialists and Le Pen followers -- sharing Parliament.
Ian Holloway may always be remembered for his treatise on the importance of getting a result, in which he used the analogy of pulling a dodgy bird in a nightclub.
