Sentences with phrase «of electoral alliance»

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.

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:

«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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

«While our «first past the post» electoral system remains and distorts our politics» Compass should build an alliance of all progressive parties to reform both Westminster and the electorial system that denies the British people their democratic rights.

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.

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.

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 could have important implications for the future of electoral reform in Britain and for the possibility of future LibLab alliances.

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?

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