Questions tagged [parties]
Questions relating to political parties: groupings of individuals who act together to contest elections, and hold power in the government.
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In a democracy, can parties cooperate to defeat an undesirable candidate?
Hundreds of candidates pull out of French run-off in bid to foil far right
Brief summary: the French election had three parties, and all of them won roughly equal vote shares. Two of the parties hate ...
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Why do French parties keep changing their names?
Macron's party was
first founded in 2016 as En Marche!
renamed in 2017 as La République En Marche!
renamed in 2022 as Renaissance.
Union pour un mouvement populaire was renamed in 2015 as Les ...
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Need and significance of pre poll alliances
During the Indian elections in 2024, the alliance NDA got 292 seats. That is a clear-cut majority to form the government. Then why is there confusion about whether NDA will form the government or not? ...
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Why was the Workers Party of Britain not invited to the BBC Election Debate?
The BBC will have an Election Debate, and it just confirmed it is inviting 7 participants from 7 parties, two of which only had 1 MP in the recently dissolved parliament.
Is there a reason why the BBC ...
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How have other parties responded to the rise of MKP?
Both EFF and MK are breakaways from the ANC (African National Congress). EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) is Malema's party, whereas MK (Umkhonto we Sizwe Party) is Zuma's.
As a comparison, a party ...
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What power do minority parties have in state legislatures?
I live in a state where it is taken for granted that one party will be in the majority in the state legislature and the governor will always be a member of that party. The specific district I live in ...
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Why there is no political party or movement that implements Elon Musk ideas (e.g. about Universal High Income)? [closed]
Elon Musk spoke again https://www.ccn.com/news/technology/elon-musk-predicts-no-job-universal-high-income/ and about Universal High Income? This should not be confused with UBI.
My question - why ...
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Why has Alpine County in California become so Democratic in the last few presidential elections?
Based on this picture of the 2020 Presidential election, most Northern California counties outside the coast tend to be Republican leaning. However, Alpine County has voted Democratic since 2004 as ...
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Was Haider's party ever excluded from (or shunned by) European Parliament groups?
Related to the recent exclusion of the AfD from the ID group of the European Parliament due to exculpatory/apologist talk about the SS (by one AfD MEP--Krah), I'm curious if this is like a new bar ...
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Are US state political parties required to nominate the most popular candidates in their local primaries/caucases? [closed]
Do US state political parties have the freedom to arbitrarily decide which candidate ends up the nominee? Does that restriction/freedom hold at the national party level as well?
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Why do AAP do well in local election but not in general election of Delhi?
In the 2015 and 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections, the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) won 67 out of 70 and 62 out of 70 seats respectively. It is a landslide victory. However, during the same periods, ...
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In simple words, how does UK's Conservative party manage to retain dominance?
UK's Conservative party is one of two main parties and arguably dominant in the UK.
But I don't understand how did they manage to pull that off in the century XX with its urbanization. As one would ...
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Are millennials and generation Z more politically conscious than previous generations?
When I was growing up, my generation (gen X) was rather apathetic in our youth. Politics was the boring stuff done up there with little bearing on what's happening down here. It was the realm of ...
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Do some countries officially limit the number of parties that can contest elections, to a number >1?
Wikipedia says that:
The constitution of Somaliland only allows for the top three political parties to contest elections, to avoid the previous proliferation of clan-based parties in the 1960s.
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Why is the border the "bluest" part of Texas?
Maps such as this one show that some of the "bluest" counties in Texas are along the southern border (with Mexico).
The "border" is one of the most contentious wedge issues used by ...
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