The Socialists won seven seats to the island's constitutional convention, which convened between 1951 and 1952.

If the Socialists win the election, they too will have to bite the bullet.

Poking around, I found little disagreement about the reasons the Socialists had won.

The Socialists overwhelmingly won the following regional elections with great majorities.

The surveys showed that the Socialists, who once ran the city as a fief, won only 2 percent of the vote there.

In that race, the Socialists won 28 of the 60 seats; they had hoped to pick up at least half.

The Socialists won 125 seats, compared with 161 in the last election, in 1985.

The Socialists, who took a big lead after the first round of elections, have now won an outright parliamentary majority.

At each of the past three, it was universally, and correctly, assumed that the Socialists would win.

The Socialists, with 26% of the vote, win 38 seats.