Sentences with phrase «existing electoral system»

To state the obvious, Labour must win power under the existing electoral system before it can change it.

The pragmatic caveat concerns the danger that, under the existing electoral system, switching to the Liberal Democrats in Labour - Conservative marginal constituencies might let in an anti-reform Tory party.

This country has got used to yet another of the distortions of the existing electoral system, by which one party or another forms the government on a minority of the vote.

The existing electoral system, though confirmed in a vote in 2011, is struggling to give adequate expression to the range of party support in the nations of the UK.

Not exact matches

The United States electoral system provides an incentive for only two parties to exist (see this question).

I have sympathy with that, but Greens don't believe in lots of the electoral system as it exists but we engage with it.

Far from putting proportional representation on the agenda, the Tories are now in a position to push through reform of electoral boundaries under the existing first - past - the - post system to make it fairer (i.e. better for them).

This would give (existing and new) parties an important role in candidate selection, albeit with the specifics of this depending on the electoral system put in place.

Data from British Election Study panel surveys shows that the main problem UKIP has faced in translating its success from European Parliament elections to general elections has been retaining voters, whether because some UKIP voters only vote UKIP at European Parliament elections in protest and the return to their «normal» party for general elections or because the nature of the British electoral system incentivises voters to cast their vote for one of the existing main parties rather than a new entrant.

Blair's project is to dismantle the Labour Party as a party based on the unions, to destroy the elements of democracy which exist within the party and to transform the British political party system, through electoral reform, to make possible a long - term governmental alliance with the Liberal Democrats and, if possible, the Heseltine - Clarke wing of the Tory Party.

He acknowledged electoral changes were not a panacea for disengagement, but said the existing system was not helping.

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.