Wipeout (elections) - Elsewhere

Elsewhere

  • Philippine Senate election, 1955: With the 24-seat Senate of the Philippines elected via nationwide plurality-at-large voting (8 votes per voter) and on staggered elections, the Liberal Party's seven seats were lost when none of their candidates finished eighth place or higher, despite having 29% of the vote. After the election, the Nacionalista Party then had 21 seats, and two minor parties having 3 seats with one seat vacant.
  • In the 2000 Mongolian State Great Khural Election, the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party overturned a large majority for the Democratic Union, winning 72 out of the 76 seats contested.

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