Sentences with phrase «minor party support»

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Also, one could argue that Duverger's Law also applies on the parliament level in such countries, because usually every minor party feels more aligned with one of the two major parties and will support them over the other.

Cuomo does not support an end to the fusion ballot system of allowing a candidate to run on multiple ballot lines, but the Wilson - Pakula repeal would greatly reduce the clout of the state's minor parties that can influence the platforms and policies of the Democratic and Republican parties.

So every party can poll its full support everywhere - including supporters of minor parties, and supporters of large parties (eg Tories in the north - east, Labour in south - west) where they are weakest.

The Tory victory looks like evidence of how little the public is now willing to tolerate compromise of any sort: the message that hit home hardest during the campaign was the threat of constitutional chaos if a minority Labour government had tried to cling to power with the support of the SNP and a host of other minor parties.

The arbitrary thresholds your refer to are a problem, because they will have a distorting effect on the election result, especially if a large number of voters support minor parties, and therefore have their votes discarded when the final count is done.

Most notoriously, it discriminates viciously against minor parties with modest but nationwide support.

Dadey acknowledged, however, that Republicans in an overwhelmingly Democratic state like New York need support from minor party lines, like Conservative.

If Labour goes ahead with its plan to argue for more time and oppose the government motion, and if three dozen Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers join forces, then, with the support of at least some of the minor parties, a government defeat or a pyrrhic win is far from impossible.

Generally speaking most minor parties are fringe groups that support radical platforms.

But that would not allow the Demopublican parties to steal votes that were meant to support the minor parties!

The minor parties often gain influence by leveraging their endorsement for ideological support or patronage, according to Robert J. Spitzer, a professor at SUNY Cortland who has written about the state's third parties.

If he fends off the challenge from Nixon, Cuomo could become the first Democratic nominee for governor to run without the Working Families Party's support since the minor party line was created in Party's support since the minor party line was created in party line was created in 1998.

They also question the need for the minor party lines when the candidates they are supporting are already on the ballot.

Minor party activists are working very hard to influence state legislators in at least four states, to either support bills for easier ballot access, or to oppose bills that make it worse.

The survey, conducted after the video release but before the debate, showed Clinton with 46 percent support among likely voters in a four - way matchup including two minor party candidates, compared with 35 percent for Trump.

Rather it seems to be the «others» who are gaining support — though at around 8 % their total is still very low compared to the 18 % minor parties got at the last mayoral election, albeit, that was probably partially to do with the election falling on the same day as the European elections and the consequential boost for UKIP.

In practice, for the government's majority to fall much below 50, both Conservative and Liberal Democrats need to rebel in decent numbers, with the support of the Labour frontbench and the minor parties.

As seen with the Lib - Lab pact, once policy objectives have been met, it can be difficult to retain the support of minor parties.

It is this bandwagon effect that helps explain why support for the government increased by ten points over the course of the campaign, rather than going to minor parties — as has been the case elsewhere.

Attaining the support of the Senate can be more difficult as government usually lacks an absolute majority because the Senate's representation is based on overall proportion of votes and often includes minor parties.

In exchange for confidence - and - supply support, a minor party would expect some influence over government policy, which is usually announced in a Queen's speech at the opening of parliament.

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.

Minor parties, too, often function as lines on a ballot meant to confuse a voter into believing they're supporting an issue.

Because Obama won in the first round of voting, we don't see the depth of support for the minor party candidates.

This gives the false impression that the minor party candidates had far less support than they really did.

Are you supporting Carl Paladino, with whom you hope to share a minor party line, or Rick Lazio?»

Given the two main parties have only seen minor changes to their level of support this week, the projected share of seats in the new parliament remains the same as last week:

The problem is, when they are compared to election results, polls that prompt for minor parties invariably overestimate their support.

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It's unlikely that Rudy Giuliani or Mike Bloomberg would have ever have become mayor without minor - party support.

«Goodwin's book is both a good example of how detailed investigation of a minor party can reveal much new about the sources of its support and motivations of its members, and also an extremely useful background guide for anyone wanting to fight elections successfully against the BNP.»

Bland references to declining support for the major parties tend to obscure just how difficult it is for minor parties to win lower house seats, especially if their electoral support is evenly spread over a wide range of districts.

AV will end the scandal of safe seats for life; it will make candidates for elections work harder; it is a change supported by Benjamin Zephaniah (in urban areas) and Tony Robinson (in rural areas); it will end the expenses scandal; it will help minor parties to flourish; it is, by definition, fair, not least because it will lead to MPs who are supported by at least 50 % of their electorate.

It is the first time the minor party has endorsed Zeldin, who ran without its support in two previous elections.

Cuomo hasn't said much — if anything — this election cycle to encourage voters to support him on the Indy line (currently Row E), even though it's the second time in four years the minor party has endorsed him for governor.

It does become a problem if it is an indication of soft support for Labour, if the government become less unpopular once they have a better economy behind them, if minor parties establish themselves as alternative recipients of anti-government votes or if during an election campaign it becomes more of a choice between two alternatives, rather than a judgement on the incumbent.

In the parliamentary election held under the same system, fewer voters supported minor parties and the total percentage of disenfranchised voters fell to about 12 %.

Instead, she supported Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham law professor, who lost to Cuomo in a contentious floor fight for the important minor party endorsement in May.

Instead, the shifts we find among Britain's growing minority communities are the same as those found in the wider electorate in England and Wales: incremental Conservative and Labour advance, a collapse in Liberal Democrat voting, and a surge in support for minor party entrants.

Among the unions still aligned with the minor but influential third party are the Communications Workers of America and the state Nurse's Association, which are supporting Sanders, and SEIU 32BJ and the state teachers union, which are with Clinton.

For non-party members to run in a minor or even major party primary or general election if not challenged, the signature requirements can be raised from 5 % to 10 % to demonstrate support at the party level.

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YouGov were close behind, but got the balance of support amongst the smaller parties wrong, overestimating the level of support for the Greens — this is perhaps the result of switching to including all the minor parties in their question prompt for their last few polls.

It will be interesting to see what happens with the «other» vote — it is probably partially down to increased publicity for minor parties (especially the BNP) around the local elections, which will almost certainly fade with time, but it may also be down to people abandoning the Labour party but not being prepared to support one of the main three parties.

This may be to do with interviewer effect, with respondents being more willing to admit supporting a minor party in an online poll than to a human interviewer, or may be something to do with sampling.

For the past few months, voting intention support for minor parties has averaged 14 %, far more than in any General Election in British history.

The organization intended to coordinate action and provide mutual support among the various minor parties for efforts he believed would, in his view, liberalize ballot access laws through state legislatures as well as through the courts.

COFOE meets annually with support from various minor parties.

This would allow minor parties with strong but thinly spread support (Lib Dem, Ukip, Green) to gain a much more representative share of seats by gaining regional MPs.

This is the lowest score our daily polling has given to the Conservatives since the General Election (although we have recorded a higher Labour lead in the meantime, on days when there was lower support for the Liberal Democrats or minor parties).