the governing Liberals reduced to 5 seats from 38; the 1982 election resulted in the incumbent NDP lose 35 of their 44 seats and in 1991 the Conservatives were ousted with a 28-seat drop to 10 seats. Germany The use of an electoral threshold in German elections means that sometimes a major party can fail to win seats in the Bundestag or a state parliament, either because their vote share falls below 5% or because the number of directly-elected seats drops below 3. Post-war examples include: 1957 West German federal election: The All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights lost all 27 seats. 2002 German federal election: The Party of Democratic Socialism went from 36 seats to just 2 (both directly-elected). 2013 German federal election: The Free Democratic Party lost all 93 seats. New Zealand Until it moved to a proportional representation system in 1996, general elections in New Zealand were also prone to the possibility of wipeouts, though these in general involved the likelihood of third parties getting few or no seats rather than one of the two major parties being massively underrepresented. This former circumstance occurred most starkly in the 1981 general election, in which the Social Credit Party gained 20.6% of the vote yet gained only two seats in the 92-seat parliament. The 1935 general election did, however, see a major party wipeout, and led to the creation of a new major party. In the 1935 election, the Labour Party gained 46.1% of the vote to the United/Reform Coalition's 32.9%, but won 53 seats to the United/Reform's 19. As a result of this election the two coalition parties merged to form the National Party, which remains a major force in current New Zealand politics. Philippines In the Philippines, the House of Representatives (and its predecessors) are, for the most part, elected under first-past-the-post (FPTP) system; in 1998, parallel voting was instituted, where 20% of the seats are contested in a party-list system, with the 80% of the seats still being elected via FPTP. The Senate since 1941 has been elected under multiple non-transferable vote. From 1941 to 1951, voters can vote under general ticket, which can lead to wipeouts for any party that wins the election. In 1978, this was also the electoral system for the Interim Batasang Pambansa (parliament). 1938 Philippine legislative election: The Nacionalista Party won all 98 seats in the National Assembly. 1941