Sentence examples for election threshold from inspiring English sources
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A minimum percentage of votes that a party needs to receive in order to obtain a parliamentary seat.
2015 AK loses parliamentary majority in elections, leftist HDP clears 10% election threshold.
Before winning 80 seats in June, the HDP's MPs stood as independent candidates since Turkey's election threshold of 10% only applies to political parties.
"The election threshold is not the only barrier that was overcome tonight in the elections, but also emotional and identity barriers have been breached.
Recent polls show the HDP hovering just above Turkey's 10% election threshold to enter parliament, one of the highest in the world.
In what looks like a blatant attempt to penalise minor parties, the authorities tried (but failed) to raise the election threshold to 8%, the highest in Europe.
Whether these parties will win enough votes to crawl over the 2% election threshold is critical to Ms Thorning-Schmidt's chances.
It introduces an energy factor in the CH-electing threshold and optimizes the election probability of CH.
Recent polls suggest both parties would fail to win 3% of the vote at a general election, the threshold for entering parliament.
South Carolina State Senator, 42nd Senatorial District, 1992 Primary election, August 25 , 1992Threshold > 50% Ford won the general election unopposed on November 3 , 1992
For the latter, Mr Gandhi should be offering new ideas on the funding of political parties, making leaders more accessible to voters, getting more transparency in policymaking, using the internet better in elections, introducing thresholds in assemblies to limit the fragmentation of national politics, and so on.
The shadow social care minister, who has warned her party that it must understand the scale of its defeat in May's general election, passed the threshold when she won the support of her shadow cabinet colleague Gloria De Piero.
