Sentence examples for the election threshold from inspiring English sources
"The election threshold is not the only barrier that was overcome tonight in the elections, but also emotional and identity barriers have been breached.
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.
After the election threshold for representation in the Knesset was raised in 2014, the Arab parties and the multiethnic Hadash party ran on a single list in 2015 (as the Joint List) and became the third largest group in the Knesset.
The election threshold is simply the number of votes that guarantees victory.
If a candidate has more votes than the election threshold, they win, with any extra votes spilling over to help their next choices.
The rally was organized by trade unions and several leftist political parties, among them the HDP, which has it's roots in the Kurdish political movement and which passed the election threshold of 10percentt in the general elections last June, robbing the ruling AKP of its majority in Parliament.
Whether these parties will win enough votes to crawl over the 2% election threshold is critical to Ms Thorning-Schmidt's chances.
Recent polls show the HDP hovering just above Turkey's 10% election threshold to enter parliament, one of the highest in the world.
The standard d'Hondt formula is applied to the vote, with a five-percent election threshold.
The main reason for the AKP's loss of power in June was the unexpected vote for the leftist, pro-Kurdish People's Democratic party (HDP), which entered parliament for the first time by surmounting Turkey's unusually high election threshold of 10%.
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.
