Sentences with phrase «electoral alliance»

To do that we need to think carefully about locally - driven electoral alliances to beat Conservative candidates.

Distinct from the process of electoral alliances in that the political parties remain separately listed on the ballot, the practice of electoral fusion in jurisdictions where it exists allows minor parties to influence election results and policy by offering to endorse or nominate a major party's candidate.

The possibility of combination of party lists for elections existed in the Dutch electoral system between 1973 and June 2017 as a weak form of electoral alliance between two parties.

I don't support that at all being someone who has always argued for a realignment of the Left but we can not discount the strong possibility that we are witnessing a longer term realignment of the centre right through electoral alliances.

As in Scotland when pro-independence Labour voters switched to the SNP because of Labour's support for Cameron rendering Scottish Labour a pointless electoral alliance that can never be elected again.

Now the UUP are in formal electoral alliance, one presumes their votes could be guaranteed, so Cameron would probably turn his attention again to the DUP, Plaid Cymru and the SNP.

The story of how attempts at cooperation broke down and were then sullenly repaired offer an object lesson to progressives on the challenges of trying to formalise a cross-party electoral alliance.

«That consequent upon this agreement, the PDP through Chief Tony Anenih contributed N100 million to the SDP / PDP electoral alliance project through Chief Olu Falae.

On 2 September, the Areios Pagos refused to include the title of DIKKI in the Syriza electoral alliance, claiming that the internal procedures followed by DIKKI were flawed.

To contest the 2014 European election, PASOK founded the Olive Tree electoral alliance on 7 March 2014.

Owen Paterson, Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary and the engine behind the new electoral alliance, issued this statement:

In the late - nineteenth and early - twentieth centuries, Liberal and Socialist parties combined forces in an electoral alliance in order to counter the potent nationalist appeal employed by Rhodes and his followers.

Odinga's chance of overcoming this electoral alliance depends in part on forming alliances with political and business groups concerned about Kenya's international reputation if the Jubilee Alliance were to win.

Drawing the parallel between Brexit and Cecil Rhodes once more, he claims that in the early twentieth Labour and the Liberals «combined forces in an electoral alliance in order to counter the potent nationalist appeal employed by Rhodes and his followers».

The challenge ahead for Corbyn's project will be to construct the electoral alliance between the «haves» and «have nots» that is required to win greater numbers of marginal seats, enter government, and deliver policies like progressive redistribution and public investment.

«The SDP as well as many Nigerians were aware that the PDP had a fundraising event prior to the election where billions of naira was donated,» insisting that the PDP, which had ruled Nigeria for 16 years was capable of funding their part of the electoral alliance.

«The SDP NEC meeting debated the electoral alliance proposal thoroughly and finally gave overwhelming approval for the electoral alliance with PDP,» the party said.

Yesterday shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson and UUP leader Sir Reg Empey wrote this article in the Belfast News Letter emphasising the benefits to the people of Nothern Ireland of the electoral alliance between the Conservatives and UUP:

[64] In England and Wales around January 2004 the SWP began an involvement in Respect — The Unity Coalition, [65] an electoral alliance with a single Member of Parliament, the ex-Labour MP George Galloway, and a small number of councillors.

Labour should be building an electoral alliance that draws in liberal minded and ethnic minority voters — not repelling them.

On occasion, an electoral alliance may be formed by parties with very different policy goals, which agree to pool resources in order to stop a particular candidate or party from gaining power.

Unlike a coalition formed after an election, the partners in an electoral alliance usually do not run candidates against one another but encourage their supporters to vote for candidates from the other members of the alliance.

An electoral alliance may take the form of a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc.

Do you think an electoral alliance of African Americans, Orthodox Jews, Christian conservatives, and Republicans is possible in 2013?

An electoral alliance survives to this day between the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party, which fields Labour Co-operative candidates in general elections in several constituencies, and in some local council elections.

France's historically pro-nuclear Socialist Party is negotiating an electoral alliance with the country's green party, Europe Ecologie, which has campaigned to completely exit nuclear energy.