This election used a proportional system, with approximately 25% of the seats required to be filled by women.

Both potential coalitions fell far short of the 308 seats required for a majority in this Bundestag.

Even if Congress won all the undecided seats, it would still fall short of the 263 seats required for a majority in the lower house.

Preliminary results based on election night counts saw the country facing its first hung parliament since 1931, with no party gaining the 50 seats required for a majority.

The act of moving the seats, however, typically required 2 adults, and lifting them back into the van was a very awkward procedure.

The capacity fell short of the minimum 33,000 seats required by UEFA.

However, the party failed to win the four seats required for official party status in the British Columbia legislature.

In New York that means to houses with less than the 500 seats required to qualify for a Tony.

However no party won the 103 seats required for a majority on their own.

In the 2010 federal election, neither Labor nor the Liberal coalition secured the majority of seats required to form a Government in their own right.