But as agencies work to allocate scarce resources, some constituencies with little political clout say they are having trouble being heard.
Twenty per cent of MPs around the world say they spent forty hours or more a week doing constituency work, and parliamentarians across the globe say the lack of resources for constituency work is the biggest barrier to them doing their job.
That enables the party to confidently concentrate resources in such constituencies in the intervening months.
Being locally embedded means that they can identify complex challenges, innovate contextual solutions, and serve as credible, trusted resources for their constituencies.
By-elections give small parties like UKIP an useful podium: concentrating their resources on one constituency, they can overcome some of the disadvantages that they face in national elections.Today marks the end of Mr Huhne's political career.
By manipulating electoral districts, starving opposition constituencies of resources and relentlessly attacking and suing opponents, the party has frightened off most potential opposition candidates.
Columbia University is committed to ensuring equal access to information, programs and activities through its technologies, web pages, services and resources for all its constituencies, including people with disabilities.
Collaborative activities will improve the quality of collections and services offered to campus constituencies, redirect resources to emerging needs, make each institution more competitive in securing government and foundation support, and generate additional revenues.
If the factional balance is not maintained, the defeated faction would likely use its political resources and socio-economic constituencies to undermine the legitimacy of the political system, which in turn would threaten the stability of the country at large.
But none have Mr. Arafat's combination of international standing, broad constituency, financial resources and the raw power of guns.
