The election result is historic in being the worst result for the Social Democrats ever (34,6 percent) in a general election with universal suffrage (introduced in 1921) and the best result for the Moderates since 1928.
At the time of the general election, 1.7m people were supposed to be claiming universal credit.
This system, known as universal manhood suffrage, was first used in the 1918 general election.
Universal benefits for pensioners will once again be protected if the Conservatives win May's general election, David Cameron has said.
In the following year the Malawi Congress Party under Hastings Kamuzu Banda and the United National Independence Party (UNIP) under Kenneth Kaunda won the first universal suffrage elections in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, respectively, and led them into independence as Malawi and Zambia.
Before his arrest in April, he publicly supported a petition asking for universal direct elections to the UAE's consultative federal council, whose members are only partly elected, and for the body to be given legislative power.
It was the end of an era, with only four of 17 seats going to the Bird family's Antigua Labour Party (ALP), which, but for a short break in the 1970s, had been in power since the first universal suffrage elections in 1951.
The president is elected on the basis of universal adult suffrage; election to the National Assembly, which is conducted simultaneously, is also largely decided on this basis, although a small proportion of National Assembly members are nominated by the president.
The demonstrators called for universal suffrage in elections for Mr. Tung's successor in 2007 and for the elections for the Legislature in 2008.
Beijing has promised universal suffrage for elections for the chief executive in 2017 and for the legislature by 2020.
