The riding was ultimately carried by the BQ in their electoral sweep of the province.

Vice President Bush's electoral sweep on Tuesday had little effect on state legislative races, where the Democrats blunted a five-year-old Republican drive to end Democratic dominance in the legislatures.

After the 2009 electoral sweep, expectations ran high.

For now, curiosities abound in the role reversal of the two parties since the Republican electoral sweep last fall.

Diefenbaker's 1958 electoral sweep had left Pearson with only forty-nine Liberal m.p.'s- the smallest parliamentary representation his party ever had.

Mr. Ashley, 65 years old, lost his Congressional seat in the Republican electoral sweep in 1980.

The law that requires the new rules passed both houses of Congress almost unanimously in the 104th Congress, the first to be controlled by Republicans after their electoral sweep four years ago.

The possibility of such electoral sweep had led to accusations of the Islamists', dominant also in the constitutional assembly, desire to monopolize Egypt's politics.

But after the Republican electoral sweep last fall, the White House forsook deeper deficit reduction in favor of new tax cuts for families with children and deductions for education.

In the 1958 electoral sweep by the Progressive Conservatives under John Diefenbaker, Stuart lost his seat to Caldwell Stewart.