Sentences with phrase «current electoral support»
The BBC has told the Greens that, to qualify for PPBs, a party has to have «substantial levels of past and current electoral support» and that the BBC's view is that the Greens don't meet this criteria.
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Minor parties can qualify for free time based on their level of electoral support at the last election and if they are contesting more than 10 % of seats at the current election.
In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20 % of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70 % opposed and about 10 % undecided).
Whereas in the beginning the Liberals did not deem a referendum necessary, their current position is that they «will abandon their plans to overhaul Canada's electoral system if they don't have widespread public support.»
The rise of smaller parties like Ukip and the Greens — but their inability to gain decent representation in parliament despite surging support — could also be behind apparently increased dissatisfaction with the current electoral system, despite its retention at referendum four years ago.
The Liberals are very alive to the fact the population of Canada will not very likely support a change of the current electoral system to either ranked balloting or proportional representation.