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| | New Zealand WIN Party - Freedom of Choice - fighting smoking ban in bars |
 | | The WIN Party executive members, who backed the decision to align with United Future for New Zealand Election '05, stand by that decision. | | | Having few resources, if the WIN Party had stood alone, we would not have reached the five percent threshold or secured an electorate seat required to gain representation in parliament, and following redistribution of the invalidated party votes WIN secured, some of those votes would have helped Labour, the Greens and the Progressives. | | | Well-established and/or resourced parties such as ACT, the Progressives, the Alliance and Destiny did not come anywhere near attracting five percent of the party vote, an outcome that was obvious to the WIN Party executive long before election day. |
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| | Left Party (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The party continues to win eastern voters by emphasizing political competence and refuses to be labelled as merely a "protest party," although certainly the party attracted millions of protest voters in the federal election, profiting from growing dissatisfaction with high unemployment and cutbacks in health insurance, unemployment benefits, and workers' rights. | | | Between 1990 and 2005 the party's PDS predecessor had been seen as the leftwing "party of the East", and whilst achieving minimal support in western Germany regularly won 15-25% of the vote in eastern Germany, entering coalition government (with the SPD) in two of eastern Germany's five states. | | | In the 2005 federal election the Left Party received 8.7% of the nationwide vote and won 54 seats in the German Bundestag. |
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| | Irish Republican Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The party went on to win a clear majority of seats in the 1918 general election : of the 73 seats in which Sinn Féin were elected, 25 were uncontested. | | | The party's founder and leader, Arthur Griffith, was campaigning for a dual monarchy with Britain, a return to the status quo of the Constitution of 1782, enacted by the Irish Parliament under Henry Grattan's Parliament. | | | Physical force Irish republicanism had a long history, from the Ribbonmen of the late 18th century to the 1798 and 1803 rebellions, the Young Irelander rebellion of 1848 and the Irish Republican Brotherhood of 1865. |
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| | 96a1411p.txt |
| | A Democrat or Republican voter might be opposed completely to the ideology of a minor party but yet discover after the primary that his or her vote has contributed to the fortunes of the minor party by nominating its candidate to run as a Democrat or Republican as well. | | | The Patriot Party alleges that this disparate treatment also violates the Party's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection of the laws because it violates a non-discrimination principle enunciated by the Supreme Court in Williams v. | | | What it overlooks is that a partisan major party voter may not want his or her vote used to help the minor party in that effort. |
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| | UK Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It did contest the election for the assembly however, in which the party managed to win five seats. | | | At the 2001 General Election McCartney lost his seat in the House of Commons to the Ulster Unionist Party. | | | The party opposed the April 1998 Belfast Agreement and campaigned against the establishment of a Northern Ireland Assembly, in which they were unsuccessful. |
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| | Eric Williams and the New Wave of politics were surging in; Gomes' party did not win a single seat in the 1956 elections. | | | Butler served on the Legislative Council from 1950-1961; he ran unsuccessfully for the Federal Elections in 1958 and again for the General Elections in 1961. | | | Butler, a price on his head, went into hiding, but eventually surrendered to the authorities; he was tried, convicted of sedition and sentenced to two years in prison. |
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| | Values Party |
| | Values Matter Most: How Democrats or Republicans or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life | | | Values Party policies included campaigns against nuclear power and armaments, advocating zero population and economic growth, abortion, drug and homosexual law reform. | | | The Values Party contested three elections but did not gain seats since the first past the post electoral system was in use at that time. |
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| | List of political parties in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Less significant parties include the Australian Greens, a left wing and environmentalist party; the Australian Democrats, a party of middle-class centrists; and the Family First Party, a party appealing to socially conservative Christians. | | | The third member is the Country Liberal Party, which is the sole representative of both parties in the Northern Territory. | | | The proportional representation system allows these parties to win seats in the Senate, but they have usually been unable to win seats in the House of Representatives (the Greens won a House seat at a 2002 by-election, but lost it in 2004). |
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| | Meartz_2.doc |
| | Each member is chosen, by the party, to serve a five year term in the House of Commons, for the people of a certain district or territory. | | | This position is currently held by the Labour Partys Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (Tony Blair). | | | It also means that larger parties are needed to win the majority in the legislature, though smaller parties are able to sneak in a seat, here and there, to get there views across and heard, by winning in a certain region on the regional or the state level. |
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| | The Irrawaddy On-line Edition |
| | After the arrest of Ne Wins family members in 2000, government spokesman Gen Kyaw Win said that Ne Wins grandsons expressed their displeasure with the ceasefire agreements forged between the military and ethnic groups, and with the political dialogue between the generals and Suu Kyis party. | | | Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner and leader of Burmas opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), has spend most of the last 15 years under military guard in her colonial-style home, and she is under house arrest today. | | | The military leaders didnt want Ne Win to have his day in court, but placed him under house arrest, where he died on Dec 5, 2002. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Democratic Party |
| | Neither was enough, however, and party leaders never found the means to attract enough new voters or to convert enough Republicans to win national power in the generation after the Civil War. | | | These defections cost the party a large part of its northern support and enhanced the power of the southern wing within party councils in the late 1850s. | | | In the 1830s, under presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, the Democratic Party developed the characteristics it retained until the end of the century. |
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| | EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Party Jockeying Obscures Stakes in Turkish Elections |
| | Parties in Ankara are channeling their energies into preventing nationally known politicians from running, in light of a law that requires a party to win 10 percent of a vote to gain seats in Parliament. | | | The supreme election board ruled on September 20 that the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Recep Tayyip Erdogan, could not run because a court had convicted him of inciting religious and ethnic hatred in 1998. | | | Former Foreign Minister Ismail Cem’s young party, the New Turkey Party (YTP), already favors lowering the threshold. |
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| | Jamaica Goes to the Polls |
| | The prime minister, PJ Patterson, of the Jamaica Labour party, is seeking to become the first leader to win three consecutive terms in this former British colony. | | | The prime minister, PJ Patterson, of the Jamaica Labour party, is seeking to become the first leader to win three consecutive terms in this former British... | | | Both parties are trying to win a majority of the 60 parliamentary seats that will determine political control for the next five years. |
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| | Definition of Party of Democratic Socialism |
| | The party continues to win voters by emphasizing political competence, but also profits from growing dissatisfaction with high unemployment and cutbacks in health insurance and unemployment benefits. | | | Christa Wolf and human rights attorney Gregor Gysi rose to leadership, and by the end of 1989 the last hardline members of the party's Central Committee had resigned. | | | Gysi's resignation in 2000 after losing a policy debate with party leftists soon spelled trouble for the PDS. |
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| | Why Independence is Necessary |
| | Soon after shifting from a western regional party to a "national" party as Reform became more concerned with becoming the government, they realized this idea could not be made popular in Ontario, which had all the seats they needed to win the government. | | | For these reasons in its early states, the Reform Party wanted a "Triple E Senate", that is "equal" from each province, "elected" in each province and "effective" legislatively. | | | Canada has only the Prime Minister, elected in one province, and who picks his cabinet and runs the Parliament as if it were the House of Representatives. |
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| | Handbook of Texas Online: WHIG PARTY |
| | When the northern wing of the party refused to bury the slavery issue, the nature of the Texas Whigs' unionism and their belief in the legality and necessity of slavery compelled them to abandon their party. | | | The end of the party did not destroy the impulses that had compelled its members to be Whigs. | | | Texas Whigs had supported Millard Fillmore in the national convention and were disappointed when Winfield Scott received the nomination. |
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| | The Epoch Times :: Liberal Uri Party Takes Majority in South Korea's Parliamentary Elections |
| | Members of the Uri Party cheer at party headquarters in Seoul Thursday, after South Korean news organizations predicted the party might win as many as 180 seats in the 299-seat legislature. | | | South Korea's pro-government Uri Party campaign chief Kim Keun-Tae (R) shakes hands with another of his party's candidates after winning the parliamentary elections in Seoul, South Korea. | | | Uri Party Chairman Chung Dong-young says the vote is a historic event. |
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| | Parties must win five percent of votes to win seats in the Duma from the 50 percent of seats reserved for party lists. | | | FATHERLAND-ALL RUSSIA - Left-leaning centrist coalition, which is leading in opinion polls, made up of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's Fatherland Party and the All-Russia bloc led by former Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov. | | | The party's list was thrown out by the Central Electoral Commission which said many candidates had failed to declare their assets. |
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| | The Rise of the King's Party |
| | The Millat Party is contesting elections on a small number of seats from the Punjab with an electoral adjustment with the PML-Q and are unlikely to win more than half a dozen seats. | | | ormer President Farooq Leghari's Millat Party is a beneficiary of state patronage. | | | In the 1993 elections, the party lost all the urban seats for the National Assembly. |
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| | Utah History To Go - David S. Monson |
| | Proving to the state Republican party that he could win statewide elections consistently, Monson ran for the Second Congressional District in 1984. | | | Larry Lunt, state Republican party chair, confirmed a day after the November general election that early in 1986 Monson had been considered a weak candidate by party officials. | | | Following the defeat of the Republican candidate for the congressional seat, however, Monson said, "The power of incumbency is strong, almost unbeatable, and nobody seemed to consider that. |
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| | Centre Party -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | It was the first party of imperial Germany to cut across class and state lines, but because it represented the Roman Catholics, who were concentrated in southern and western Germany, it was unable to win a parliamentary majority. | | | The party was held together by opposition to Communism, though it contained members with left-of-center opinions and southern landowners... | | | Although the Centre Party remained relatively moderate in its stance during the polarization of German politics in the early 1930s, the party's deputies voted in favour of the Enabling Act of March 1933, which allowed Chancellor Adolf Hitler to assume dictatorial powers in Germany. |
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| | News Updates from June 2000 to the present |
| | The Justice Party scraped through with a razor-thin majority, but Mahathir and his allies attributed the win to what they called opposition strong-arm tactics and playing on racial mistrust between the Malay Muslim majority and ethnic Chinese minority. | | | The Justice Party was formed after Mahathir fired the popular Anwar as his deputy in 1998 and is led by his wife, Azizah Ismail. | | | The Justice Party and PAS spearheaded a fiercely fought campaign to unseat Mahathir's ruling coalition in the by-election in Lunas, a district in Kedah, Mahathir's home province. |
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| | CBC - Newfoundland and Labrador Votes 2003 |
| | The rebirth of the party began after the release of the report of royal commission on renewing the province's place in Canada. | | | Political watchers say it's too early to predict whether the party will win over voters. | | | The movement is the revival of a party that was born in the early 1970s. |
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| | Center Party -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! |
| | It was the first party of imperial Germany to cut across class and state lines, but because it represented the Roman Catholics, who were concentrated in southern and western Germany, it was unable to win a parliamentary majority. | | | The party was held together by opposition to Communism, though it contained members with left-of-center opinions and southern landowners... | | | It was the first party of imperial Germany to cut across class and state lines, but because it represented the Roman Catholics, who were concentrated in southern Germany, it never won a parliamentary majority. |
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| | Politics1: Presidency 2000 - The Reform Party Candidates |
| | He's was back in 2000 as a Reform Party Presidential hopeful until he realized by May 2000 that he could not win the nomination against Pat Buchanan -- and me made an unsuccessful run at the Reform convention for the VP nomination. | | | As the highest ranking Reform Party officeholder in the nation until he bolted from the party in February 2000, Ventura was repeatedly the focus of Presidential draft efforts. | | | Unlike Reform frontrunner Pat Buchanan, Anderson is an unapologetic globalist and free trader (he even serves as President of the World Federalist Association). |
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| | Turkey True Path Party - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System |
| | The inability of either the Justice Party or the CHP to win parliamentary majorities and the refusal of both Demirel and Ecevit to cooperate politically necessitated the formation of numerous coalition and minority-party governments. | | | It was a continuation of the Justice Party, and its leader from 1987 until 1993 was Demirel. | | | In the 1961 parliamentary elections that led to the restoration of civilian government, the Justice Party won the second largest number of seats and thus established itself as the principal competitor of the CHP, which had won a plurality of seats. |
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| | Political Parties in the Legislature |
| | system, a majority win by a given political party also gives the party control of the executive branch of government: the head of the winning party becomes the Prime Minister (chief executive), with party members being appointed to the cabinet. | | | Party discipline is particularly important in parliamentary systems because deviation from the party line could bring down the government and result in the legislature being dissolved. | | | Parties in presidential systems are sometimes less structured, and failure to vote with one’s party does not threaten to bring down the government (though it might damage or even ruin one's political career). |
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| | Spectator, The: It's too soon for Mr Hague, but not for the Tory party |
| | One of the many infuriating aspects of dealing with the Tory party over the past five years was talking to MPs who blithely assumed that they could go on attacking their own government until the very eve of the election, and still win. | | | The Tory party now has the task of reworking the Thatcherite themes of freedom, opportunity and Britain in fresh language, to enthuse its own supporters and win back the striving, self-help middle classes without frightening off that large section of the electorate who instinctively look to the state for help. | | | From the outset, it was almost certain that William Hague would become the leader of the Tory party. |
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| | President John Agyekum Kufuor's ruling New Patriotic Party can take nothing for granted ahead of the 7 December elections, although his party is favoured to win the presidency and a parliamentary majority. | | | Despite the governing New Patriotic Party's mixed record on the economy, it remains a narrow favourite to win both the presidency and a parliamentary majority. | | | Opposition politicians brim with confidence after the 7 December elections gave the New Patriotic Party 99 seats in the 200-seat parliament against 92 for the incumbent National Democratic Congress. |
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| | Party Politics Vol. 1, Issue 3, p. 369 |
| | Our scheme rested on the assumption that electoral rules have a significant impact on party organization,whose primary goal in democracies is to win elections. | | | At the same time, even in defeat, the Socialists were able to show that they had not lost their appeal as a secondary party, while the Communists continued to demonstrate the ability of the marginal party to survive. | | | At the same time the Gaullist party,which had undergone a period of decline, was restored to the position of dominance it had not enjoyed since the late 1960s. |
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