Sentences with phrase «electoral alliances in»
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.
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The Combining All Our Strength alliance for civil society organisations, in which OurKingdom is a key player, this week held a high - level seminar on the prospects for change, involving electoral experts and Labour and Lib Dem MPs.
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.
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.
Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).
The problem is that Blunkett is a compulsive statist who really loves power without the constraints that regular coalitions or party alliances would introduce as a consequence of electoral reform with some element of PR — such as the proposals of the Hansard Society in 1976 or the AV + prosposals of the Jenkins Commission: http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/article.php?id=56
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 Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, founded as an electoral alliance of socialist parties in 2010, had 135 candidates and was the only other party to have more than 40 candidates.
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:
However, calls for a progressive alliance fail to comprehend the contrasting electoral scenarios in Labour - Conservative and Lib Dem - Conservative constituencies.
The political alliance of Shiite cleric Moqtada al - Sadr won the most seats in Iraq's parliamentary elections, according to complete results released by the electoral commission.
New red - green electoral alliances, a turn to ecosocialism and a deepening of the US International Socialist Organization's rethink on feminism were key features of the ISO's well - attended Socialism 2014 conference in Chicago.
So while Tim Farron would be delighted to receive tactical votes from Labour supporters in marginal seats, he wants nothing to do with any electoral pact or «progressive alliance» that formally associates his party with Corbyn.
Seductively simple as they appear, these figures however hide more complex realities of fragmentation, political alliances and the significant risk that electoral success in Lebanon carries.
It's not immediately clear whether the resignation will translate into an electoral opportunity for Democrats, who controlled the State Senate in 2009 and 2010, but have been relegated to minority status after Republican gains and the G.O.P.'s alliance with the I.D.C..
It could have important implications for the future of electoral reform in Britain and for the possibility of future LibLab alliances.
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.
Do you think an electoral alliance of African Americans, Orthodox Jews, Christian conservatives, and Republicans is possible in 2013?
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.
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.