A GOP `` task force ' committee will seek to find out how its party may win support from the ethnic and minority groups in cities.

After a ballot of members and the passing of a motion at the 1987 Portsmouth conference, the party merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats, although a minority left to form a continuing SDP led by David Owen.

Soon, however, the terminology changed to " Bolsheviks " and " Mensheviks ", from the Russian " bolshinstvo " ( majority ) and " menshinstvo " ( minority ), based on the fact that Lenin believed that most of the party stood behind him.

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

The FDP describes itself as the pro-European party, although the minority national liberal faction is soft eurosceptic.

How Gerrymandering can influence electoral results on a Voting system # Nonproportional and semiproportional methods | non-proportional system. Example for a state with 3 equally sized districts, 15 voters and 2 parties: Plum ( squares ) and Orange ( circles ). In ( a ), creating 3 mixed-type districts yields a 3 – 0 win to Plum — a disproportional result considering the state-wide 9: 6 Plum majority. In ( b ), Orange wins the urban district while Plum wins the rural districts — the 2-1 result reflects the state-wide vote ratio. In ( c ), gerrymandering techniques ensure a 2-1 win to the state-wide minority Orange party.

As the 1991 elections gave no political party a majority, the INC formed a minority government under Prime Minister P. V.

This party continuously held power from 1955 through 1993, when it was replaced by a new minority government.

Although formally organised party politics plays no role in the States of Jersey assembly, members often vote together in two main blocs – a minority of members, holding broadly progressive views and critical of the Council of Ministers versus a majority of members, of conservative ideology, who support the Council of Ministers.

The Kuomintang considers all minorities to be members of the Chinese Nation, Chiang Kai-shek, the Kuomintang party leader, considered all the minority peoples of China, including the Hui, as descedants of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor and semi mythical founder of the Chinese nation.

Over the next years, the Khmer Rouge killed many intellectuals, city-dwellers, minority people, and many of their own party members and soldiers who were suspected of being traitors.

* Umkhonto we Sizwe – Xhosa, for the " spear of the nation " was originally the military wing of the African National Congress ( a multiracial, center-left political party ) which fought against the white minority led Apartheid regime in South Africa.

The 32 first minority ( FM ) seats are assigned to the first runner-up per party and the Federal District.

National leader John Key formed a minority government, negotiating agreements with the ACT party, the United Future party and the Māori Party.

The party aimed to hold the balance of power in the state " as an independent conservative party " ready to negotiate with the Liberals or Labor to form a minority government.

By early 1990, the PDS was no longer a Marxist-Leninist party, though neo-marxist and communist minority factions continue to exist.

Though a minority of WASG members opposed the merger of the two parties scheduled for June 2007, the new party – The Left – was on Germany's political stage before the federal elections.

Should the prime minister's party achieve a minority while an opposition party wins a plurality — i. e., more seats than any other party but less than a majority — the prime minister can attempt to maintain the confidence of the House by forming a coalition with other minority parties.

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

There are three minority languages in East Africa which use clicks: Sandawe and Hadza of Tanzania, as well as Dahalo, an endangered South Cushitic language of Kenya which has clicks in only a few dozen words.

* Arabs form a small but historically important minority ethnic group in Kenya.

Examples include India (" cleft " between its Hindu majority and large Muslim minority ), Ukraine (" cleft " between its Eastern Rite Catholic-dominated western section and its Orthodox-dominated east ), France ( cleft between Sub-Saharan African, in the case of French Guiana ; and the West ), Benin, Chad, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Togo ( all cleft between Islam and Sub-Saharan Africa ), Guyana and Suriname ( cleft between Hindu and Sub-Saharan African ), China ( cleft between Sinic, Buddhist, in the case of Tibet ; and the West, in the case of Hong Kong and Macau ), and the Philippines ( cleft between Islam, in the case of Mindanao ; Sinic, and the West ).

Just before the elections of 1999, DSP formed an interim minority government with the support of DYP and ANAP ; and the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan was captured in Kenya under the Ecevit rule.

* The Abolition of the pretension of a white minority to dominate a black majority in Kenya, Rhodesia and South Africa.

Most responses have also praised the role played by John Githongo in bringing the scandal to light though a minority opinion has criticised him for holding a ' neo-colonial ' attitude, and not remaining in Kenya.

African Americans make up the single largest racial minority in the United States.

However, in reality the southern Africans have always been in a minority within the African elephant range states.

Fezzan has remained a kind of North African outback, its oases peopled largely by minority ethnic groups.

Homosexuals began to draw comparisons between their newly recognized minority status and that of African Americans.

The majority of its population was African, but it was dominated by a strong minority of white Portuguese origin.

The modern mining, farming, and industrial sectors of the economy, controlled by the white minority, have affected traditional African society without transforming it.

The minority white population is primarily of South African, British, and German descent, with a few Portuguese.

During the late 19th century and early 20th century, Italian Americans were the second minority group ( next to African Americans ) most likely to be lynched.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was created following the end of minority rule and the apartheid system, reported in 1997 that five former members of the South African security forces who had admitted to killing Biko were applying for amnesty.

Many minority groups, particularly African American, Native American, and foreign-born women, resented the law and the welfare workers who visited their homes and intruded into their family's lives.

The conflict between mutants and normal humans is often compared to real-world conflicts experienced by minority groups in America such as African Americans, Jews, Communists, the LGBT community, etc.

Zanzibar is mostly populated by African people of Swahili origin, but there is also a minority population of Asians, originally from India and Arab countries.

A Legislative Council was established, of which five members were elected by the small European minority ( only 4, 000 people ), but none by the African population.

In 2009, an independent study by Duke University into alleged racism found " no evidence that the ( assisted outpatient treatment ) Program is disproportionately selecting African Americans for court orders, nor is there evidence of a disproportionate effect on other minority populations.

The modern population of Anguilla is largely of African descent, with a minority having European ( mainly English ) ancestry.

Wilson refused to grant independence to the white minority government headed by Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith which showed little inclination to extend political influence to the native African population, let alone to grant majority rule.

It does not necessarily represent the French inside France, but rather the minority within France that has its own origins and African connection.

Cornelius had the support of St. Cyprian, St. Dionysius, and most African and Eastern bishops while Novatian had the support of a minority of clergy and laymen in Rome who did not acknowledge Cornelius as pope.

In the United States, Americans with disabilities constitute the third-largest minority ( after persons of Hispanic origin and African Americans ); all three of those minority groups number in the 30-some millions in America.