Sentence examples for split in parties from inspiring English sources
In 2008, Hisham Abdel-Rahman, a software engineer from Calgary, saw that while progressive voters cast roughly eight million votes in the election, the split in parties meant that almost five million of them returned no MP at all, while the Conservatives, with just 5.8 million votes, returned 166 MPs, giving them a parliamentary majority.
There is a definite north-south split in party loyalties.
Although "older generations of veterans remain solidly Republican," "among the youngest service members and veterans … there is an even split in party identification with 36 percent identifying themselves as Democrats and 41 percent as Republicans".
In the 2010 election Conservatives won 31% of the vote in the north and 47% in the south; Labour won 17% of the vote in the south but 38% in the north.Combining one of the most centralised systems of government with one of the starkest regional splits in party support makes England an oddity.
But the options that are being trailed at the moment reveal a very real split in the parties' visions for universities.
The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader could trigger an SDP-style split in the party, one of the party's biggest donors has said.
Although Taft was Roosevelt's friend and hand-picked successor, he sided with the party's conservatives and worsened the split in the party.
Connally was leaning towards the right of the Democratic party, and there was a huge split in the party with the other half being bed by liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough.
But provided the disease is mostly brought under control in the coming weeks, few see this as the crisis that will lead to a popular revolt against party rule, or to a deep split in the party itself.
9. There's a split in the party between the pluralists and the loyalists If Labour loses the election, will the party start forming alliances with other progressives, such as the Liberal Democrats and the Greens?
He and Mr Capriles were two of the founders of the centre-right Justice First (PJ) party in 2000, and were allies until Mr López left in 2007 after a split in the party.
