The party lost in its seat but managed to reduce the opponent's majority by 10,000 votes.
They may even reduce his majority to a plurality.
Despite reducing the incumbent's majority by over 5,568 votes, he was unsuccessful.
On one occasion I reduced our majority from 140 to 4.
These defections reduced the Irish government's majority of twelve by one quarter.
He narrowly lost to Beard again at the 2001 general election but reduced his majority to 1,475.
Labour gained nearly 4% of the popular vote, but lost three seats, reducing its majority to four.
These changes reduced Harris' notional majority from 7683 to 5525 votes, or 11.3%.
This reduced the government's majority to 211 out of 275 seats.
These results effectively reduced the government's majority by 1.