In a wafer thin vote, exactly 60 senators – the minimum number required – voted to invoke "cloture", the parliamentary measure that cuts off debate and expedites legislation.
Jackie Baillie only saved her seat of Dumbarton against the SNP with a wafer-thin 109 votes.
Although his majority is a wafer-thin 568 votes, the Tories have yet to select a candidate for the seat and know they will find it hard to regain from the energetic frontbencher - particularly without a council base.
The Parti Québécois lost the vote by a wafer-thin margin of 54,288 votes out of 4.7m cast.In this section The cold war All shook up Poking holes in the blanket More work, less stuff Really Bad Systems The rings cycle The economy, stupid A silent revival Britain's cheering gloom ReprintsBackers of independence are trying to forestall fiscal surprises.
Venezuelan security forces quelled protests on Monday as Nicolás Maduro - the handpicked heir of Hugo Chávez - was proclaimed president after a wafer-thin and fiercely disputed vote.
The last presidential election in 2003 was decided by a wafer-thin margin, around 80 votes at the time of counting, yet there was no violence.
After a bitterly contested vote to pick a new leader, the party's national executive this week confirmed the victory of Martine Aubry over Ségolène Royal, by a wafer-thin margin of 102 votes out of 134,800 cast by members.
The majority for staying in Canada in the latter vote was wafer-thin.
The fact his coalition was unable to secure outright victory in both houses of parliament, and only scraped a wafer-thin majority of the popular vote, raised questions about his ability to return the traditional left to power after five years out of office.
But the local elections brought its leader, Mariano Rajoy, his first country-wide victory: wafer-thin, with 35.6% of the vote against 34.9% for the Socialists, but still a win.
Its leader, Mariano Rajoy, registered his first country-wide victory at the local elections: wafer-thin, with 35.6% of the vote against 34.9% for the Socialists, but still a win.
