Opinion polls show the Conservatives and Labor neck and neck with smaller parties likely to hold the balance of power. Ben Geoghegan reports.

民调显示保守党和工党不分上下，而较小的政党可能会处于举足轻重的地位。本·盖根报道。

Its issue was in the hands of the Senate where the Democrats and the Populists held the balance of power under the requirement of the two-thirds vote for ratification.

它的问题掌握在参议院手中，民主党和民粹主义者在三分之二投票批准的要求下保持权力平衡。

This was particularly necessary as British parliamentary politics in the early 1910s was balanced on a knife-edge, with the Ulster Unionists and the Irish Parliamentary Party often holding the balance of power between the Liberals and the Conservatives.

这一点尤其必要， 因为 1910 年代初期的英国议会政治处于刀锋上，阿尔斯特统一党和爱尔兰议会党经常在自由党和保守党之间保持权力平衡。