41.  Both candidates received an equal number of votes.

42.  Both parties knew before the election that vote-counting would be done by machines that are liable to reject many votes.

43.  Bush got a significant boost in the final days before the recess from two votes in the House of Representatives.

44.  But after the vote on Mr Craxi, parliamentary leaders agreed to take all such Decisions by a show of hands.

45.  But anti-Tory feeling in a recession-battered area has polarised the Labour vote to his disadvantage.

46.  But in times of tight elections these unsung regions become political hubs, and their votes are coveted prizes.

47.  But neither is a vote he wishes to cast.