'electoral breakthrough' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the success of a political candidate or party in gaining a larger number of votes or seats in an election than in previous elections. For example: "The candidate's electoral breakthrough demonstrates a shift in public opinion on the issue."
Never mind how historic an electoral breakthrough this is.
So, no great surprise about the result from Clacton (Ukip's electoral breakthrough, 10 October).
On 3 May, the BNP made its widely anticipated electoral breakthrough - winning three seats in Burnley.
But does it presage a bigger electoral breakthrough, the beginning of the end of the 50-50 natItn?It might.
And as each result was declared, it became clear that the BNP's attempt to mobilise an electoral breakthrough had failed.
It is no surprise in these circumstances to see an electoral breakthrough for the BNP, a fascist party in Britain.
In such a world, both parties would have to look for major bipartisan breakthroughs in the legislative arena, because the path to electoral breakthroughs would be temporarily closed.
Austria, Hungary, Denmark, Poland, Macedonia and others have seen electoral breakthroughs for nationalists in the past five years, while in Britain, Ukip has been held back only by a winner-takes-all electoral system.
UKIP was founded in 1993, and made the most striking of its previous electoral breakthroughs — and then only with scattered successes — in elections to the European Parliament, where Mr. Farage, whose second wife is German, first made his mark.
Although it governed as a junior partner with Fine Gael in 1973 77 and 1981 87 (except for a period in 1982, when Fianna Fáil was in office), it made no electoral breakthroughs until 1990, when Mary Robinson, candidate of the Labour Party and the Workers Partyy, won the 1990 presidential election and became the first woman president of Ireland.
Several leading German media have been barred from the Koblenz meeting, which is being organised by the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF), the smallest group in the European Parliament, in a year when the parties are hoping for electoral breakthroughs.
