Sentences with phrase «winning electoral coalition»

Indeed, the 48 % has the makings of a winning electoral coalition.

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Last time the ruling UMNO - led Barisan Nasional coalition received a minority of the popular vote, only winning a majority of the seats thanks to some creatively drawn electoral boundaries.

For state D, with its 4 votes in the electoral college, there are two ways of deciding the coalitions that will not see it win:

Define a coalition as winning if the total number of electoral votes of the state in that coalition is 270 or more (let's ignore at first that two small states make things more complicated by allowing a mixed elector group).

Not because they share a gender or even an ideology but because the Scottish Tory leader has experience of building an electoral coalition based not on economic outlook but on being on the winning side of a referendum and attempting to convert that into a lasting electoral coalition.

I look at the particular challenges for Labour in reconnecting to disillusioned liberal - left voters as part of the task of rebuilding the broad electoral coalition which won it three election victories.

The most right - wing Labour government in history destroyed an electoral coalition that had seen Labour win 13.5 million votes in 1997 but lose five million votes whilst in power — overwhelmingly under Tony Blair's leadership.

It is difficult for one Party to win an absolute majority to form a government, and electoral victory goes to the party that can best manage its coalitions.

When Democrats last won an electoral majority in 2012, the IDC entered into a coalition with Republicans and blocked them from exercising it.

A coalition of political parties is a group of people with a set of shared goals that present a list of candidates and a electoral program to try to win a set of given elected positions.

David Cameron last night won strong support from his newly elected MPs for his offer to the Liberal Democrats to form the first coalition since the second world war with a referendum on electoral reform.

Building a reach unparalleled in British politics, bring together an electoral coalition that saw safe Tory seats tumble, leafy Labour marginals strengthen, and winning the 18 - 24 demographic in Scotland away from the SNP and the dead end of nationalist politics.

Coalitions, minority governments, electoral reform haggling — if none of the parties win a clear majority on Thursday, it's back to the tactics of elections past