The electoral gains are only part of the brotherhood's accomplishment.

Establishing a successful fund-raising and media network will not ensure electoral gains.

The cable concluded that such allegations were being used for electoral gains.

The electoral gains strengthened the perception that the party would be able to come to power within the parliamentary framework.

The electoral gains of the postwar years would not last long.

"They will not let the mission be jeopardised for electoral or political gain," he added.

But correspondents say he has some way to go to turn popular support into electoral gains.

His interviewer, too, has experienced the broadcast equivalent of electoral gains in recent months.

The factors underlying the coalition's apparent electoral gains are various.

The Legion had won five seats in all, which was its first important electoral gain.