Common examples are the American presidential elections in 1948 and 1996 (Mitofsky 1998), the election of the British House of Commons 1992 (Lynn/Jowell 1996: 22), the French presidential election in 2002 (Durand et al. 2004), the Italian parliamentary election 2006 (Callegaro/Gasperoni 2008) and the 2005 Bundestag election (Groß 2010: 9).