In the 1970s it became a fully-fledged political party, and since then it has fielded candidates in elections to Westminster and the European Parliament, as well as local government in Cornwall.

The Alberta Alliance continued to grow following the federal party's merger, and the provincial party fielded a full slate of candidates for the 2004 provincial election, on November 22, 2004, and won one seat in the Legislature.

The first Green Party in North America, was formed in British Columbia, Canada on February 4, 1983, registering as both a provincial society and a political party shortly before the 1983 provincial election in which it fielded four candidates and received 0. 19 % of the vote under the leadership of Adriane Carr.

In the 1986 provincial election, the party won 0. 23 % of the vote and fielded nine candidates.

In 1832, the party fielded William Wirt as its presidential candidate.

K. S. Venkatakrishna Reddiar was elected President and the party fielded candidates in 55 constituencies in the 1957 state assembly elections, to emerge as the second largest party in Madras state with 13 seats in the legislative assembly.

The minimum number of signatures for a presidential candidate fielded by a political party with no parliamentary representation is 100, 000, down from 2 million before amendmends to the law.

Due to the needs of the state parties to collect signatures, the party fielded several different vice presidential nominees, including Chicago activist Peggy Terry, activist Rodolfo " Corky " Gonzales, radical economist Doug Dowd, and Judith Mage, who had been nominated at the national convention.

In the 2000 federal election, the party fielded 111 candidates, up from 78 in 1997.

The party fielded Presidential tickets three times — in the elections of 1876, 1880, and 1884, before fading away.

The party fielded twelve candidates in the June 2009 local elections.

The party fielded Malachy Steenson in the Dublin Central by-election on the same date.

In the 1981 general election the party fielded 7 candidates, with Noël Browne elected for Dublin North – Central.

In the 2008 election the Alliance fielded candidates in all major New Zealand centres, contesting 15 electorate seats and running a party list of 30 candidates under the co-leaders Kay Murray and Andrew McKenzie.

Founded in 1963, the party fielded humorous candidates in many ridings with a satirical platform.

The party had fielded a number of new, high-profile candidates, including Justin Keating, Conor Cruise O ' Brien, David Thornley, and Noël Browne.

The party fielded a candidate in the 3 March 2011 local by-election for the Walkden North ward for Salford City Council.

The party fielded a candidate, Kent based Steve Uncles, in the Welsh Assembly constituency of Monmouth, in line with their view that Monmouthshire should be returned to English governance.

The party fielded 101 candidates in the local elections in England, including district council elections, mayoral contests and elections to the Greater London Assembly.

At the 2005 General Election the party fielded one candidate, in Sittingbourne and Sheppey, who managed to poll more votes than the Veritas candidate.

It has not fielded a candidate for governor in 2006 or 2010, making it impossible for the party to gain automatic ballot access until at least the 2014 election.

The party fielded eight candidates for the March 3, 2008 Alberta general election.

The apex of the party was in the 1912 election when it fielded 17 candidates, winning two seats in the legislature, and 11 % of the popular vote.

Registered Democrats in New York City this year have the opportunity to elect their party's candidates for Mayor and other municipal posts and the men who will run their party organization.

The electoral procedure prevented the ready identification of party affiliation, but all vitally interested parties, including the government itself, were busily engaged in determining the party identifications of all successful candidates the month following the elections.

If it failed on occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was due to a lingering remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican party.

The SACP and COSATU have not contested any election in South Africa, but field candidates through the ANC, hold senior positions in the ANC, and influence party policy and dialogue.

Bundestag ballot: constituency vote on left, party list ( showing top five list candidates ) vote on right

If a party has gained more direct mandates in a Land than it is entitled to according to the results of the second vote, it does not forfeit these mandates because all directly elected candidates are guaranteed a seat in the Bundestag.

From the outside, Lloyd George called for the party to abandon the government completely in defence of free trade, but only a few MPs and candidates followed.

In some areas, the Militant tendency were held to be systematically targeting weak local party branches in safe seat areas in order to have their own candidates selected, and thus become MPs.

Eddie Milne at Blyth ( Northumberland ) and Dick Taverne in Lincoln were both victims of such intrigues during the 1970s, but in both cases there was enough of a local outcry by party members – and the electorate – for them to fight and win their seats as independent candidates against the official Labour candidates.

In 1976, candidates supported by BJU faculty and alumni captured the local Republican party with unfortunate short-term political consequences, but by 1980 the religious right and the " country club " Republicans had joined forces.

Ruddock claims that DS19 released distorted information regarding her political party affiliations to the media and Conservative Party candidates.

Hoping to achieve a compromise with the state's party bosses, Hughes rejected the option of a direct primary in which voters could choose between declared candidates and instead proposed a complicated system of nominations by party committees.

On 19 March, a constitutional referendum was voted on and passed reforming the laws surrounding the power and election of the presidency, limiting the presidency to two four-year terms, providing judicial supervision of elections, requiring the president to appoint a deputy, calling for a commission to draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election, and providing easier access to presidential elections by candidates ( 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature ).

Infighting within the party and a shortage of qualified candidates, however, played against Gerry, and the Federalists scored points by complaining vocally about the partisan nature of the reforms.

The party ran candidates in all 43 constituencies, and had candidates elected in every constituency except Dublin North – West.

In the first post-independence election, held under a parliamentary system, neither party was able to win a majority ; the leaders subsequently agreed against a two-party system and ran with a single list of candidates.

Soon after concluding that Gabon had an insufficient number of people for a two-party system, the two party leaders agreed on a single list of candidates.

Soon after concluding that Gabon had an insufficient number of people for a two-party system, the two party leaders agreed on a single list of candidates.

As the November 1985 election approached, the PLH could not settle on a presidential candidate and interpreted election law as permitting multiple candidates from any one party.

Green Party candidates have been elected to all levels of representation ; local, Dáil and European Parliament, and in 2007 the party gained its first representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Northern Ireland party having become a region of the Irish party in the previous year.