The new party and the Liberals quickly formed an alliance, which for a while polled as high as 50 % in the opinion polls and appeared capable of winning the next general election.

Even when the impact of the Great Depression led to an enormous surge in support for the Nazis across Germany, Berlin resisted the party ’ s appeal more than any other part of Germany: at its peak in 1932, the Nazi Party polled 28 % in Berlin to the combined left ’ s 55 %.

Roberto Madrazo, the presidential candidate, polled only 22. 3 percent of the vote, and the party ended up with only 121 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, a loss of more than half of what the party had obtained in 2003, and 38 Senate seats, a loss of 22.

With such declared policies as balancing the federal budget, a firm pro-choice stance on abortion, expansion of the war on drugs, ending outsourcing of jobs, opposition to gun control, belief in protectionism on trade, advocating the Environmental Protection Agency and enacting electronic direct democracy via " electronic town halls ," he became a potential candidate and soon polled roughly even with the two major party candidates.

In 1912, for example, Eugene Debs ( a founding member of the IWW ) polled 6 % of the popular vote as the Socialist Party presidential candidate — a significant portion of the popular vote considering that this was 8 years before the adoption of universal suffrage in the U. S. Some political scientists would, in part, attribute the lack of an American labour party to the single member plurality electoral system, which tends to favour a two-party system.

The party polled 5. 7 % and won 20 parliamentary seats.

In the period 1972-1974 the party lost a dramatic number of members ( from 6000 to 300 ) and polled very poorly in the provincial elections of 1974.

It remains the NDP's worst result in a federal election since its formation and the only election where the party polled less than one million votes.

Gilles Duceppe won a 1990 by-election, and throughout the period leading up to the election, the Bloc polled as the most popular party in Quebec.

The Communist party began to win positions in trade unions such as the Miners Federation and the Waterside Workers Federation, although its parliamentary candidates nearly always polled poorly at elections.

A deed poll is one executed in one part, by one party, having the edge polled or cut even, and includes simple grants and appointments.

* Oklahoma: A party is defined either as a group that polled 10 % for the office at the top of the ticket in the last election ( i. e., president or governor ), or that submits a petition signed by voters equal to 5 % of the last vote cast for the office at the top of the ticket.

In its first electoral test, the party polled very poorly in the 2001 General Election and in local elections held on the same day, winning no Westminster or council seats.

The party polled what was at the time the lowest vote since their inception in 1977.

Although, Awolowo failed to win the 1979 and 1983 presidential elections of the Second Republic, he polled the second highest number of votes and his polices of free education and health were carried out throughout all the states controlled by his party, the Unity Party of Nigeria.

It received 26 percent of the vote, well short of the 32 percent polled by the Fiji Labour Party, but helped by preference deals with other ethnic Fijian-dominated parties as well as the Indo-Fijian-led National Federation Party, it became the largest party in Parliament, with 32 out of 71 seats.

The party also polled strongly in Eunos GRC again, losing to the PAP's team by 47. 6 % of the votes to 52. 4 %.

The party also polled strongly in the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency, losing to the PAP's team with 43. 9 % of the vote to 56. 1 %.

The remainder are filled from party lists, with parties often needing to have polled a certain amount, typically a small percentage, in order to achieve representation, as is common in many proportional systems.

Both Barkley and Clements stressed party unity during the campaign, and although Cooper polled much better than the Republican presidential ticket, he ultimately lost to Chapman in the general election by 24, 480 votes.

The best result was in the Banff & Buchan constituency, where the party polled 2, 007 votes ( 7. 7 %).

In the 2001 election, the party polled the highest percentage of votes ( 17. 3 %) among the parties standing, and two of its three candidates won seats.

The lawyer didn't know him very well although he saw him occasionally at some dinner party -- Thayer, like himself, Madden reflected, was the extra man so prized by hostesses -- and found him easy enough to talk to.

If the Southerners were sufficiently aroused, they could very well cut the Kennedy legislative program to ribbons from their vantage point of committee chairmanships, leaving Sam Rayburn leading a truncated, unworkable party.

`` In the hard life of politics it is well known that no platform nor any program advanced by either major American party has any purpose beyond expressing emotion ''.

The party, including Lincoln, favored economic modernization in banking, protective tariffs to fund internal improvements including railroads, and espoused urbanization as well.

He kept close tabs on all phases of the military effort, consulted with governors, and selected generals based on their past success ( as well as their state and party ).

Neither the Democratic or the newly formed Whig party was then well organized in that part of Tennessee.

With the party split, Whig nominee Zachary Taylor was easily victorious, and carried Tennessee as well.

In the aftermath of the debate Bentinck resigned the leadership and feuded with Stanley, leader in the Lords and overall leader, who had opposed the measure and directed the party whips — in the Commons — to oppose the measure as well.

Democratic, Democratic Labour, and Radical were all mentioned as possible names for the new party, as well as New Labour ( which future Labour leader Tony Blair would use to promote the Labour Party more than a decade later ) but eventually Social Democratic was settled on because the ' Gang of Four ' consciously wanted to mould the philosophy and ideology of the new party on the Social Democracy practised on mainland Europe.

These included former Communist Party of Great Britain member Sue Slipman as well as Conservative party members including Adair Turner, Anna Soubry and Tom Hayhoe.

Since becoming an institution of the state, aside from official commitment to communism and Marxism-Leninism, the party also has de facto unrecognized factions including consumerist and neoliberal figures including business people on the right who effectively support capitalism, as well as factions on the left that oppose the right in the party, and other factions.

Twelve voting delegates were seated at the 1st National Congress in 1921, as well as at the 2nd ( in 1922 ), when they represented 195 party members.

Among those perks were shopping at well-stocked stores, access to foreign merchandise, preference in obtaining housing, access to dachas and holiday resorts, being allowed to travel abroad, sending their children to prestigious universities, and obtaining prestigious jobs ( as well as party membership itself ) for their children.

Every corporation, whether financial or union, as well as every division of the administration, were set up as branches of the party, the CEOs, Union leaders, and division directors being sworn-in as section presidents of the party.

In selecting a Chief Justice Eisenhower looked for an experienced jurist who could appeal to liberals in the party as well as law-and-order conservatives, noting privately that Warren " represents the kind of political, economic, and social thinking that I believe we need on the Supreme Court ....

The first members of the party drew heavily from the ranks of family members and defense lawyers of political prisoners as well as intellectuals and artists who had spent time abroad.

" DPP Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen followed with a public statement on behalf of the party: " In regard to Chen and his wife's decision to withdraw from the party and his desire to shoulder responsibility for his actions as well as to undergo an investigation by the party's anti-corruption committee, we respect his decision and accept it.

David's portrait of Lavoisier, who was a chemist and physicist as well as an active member of the Jacobin party, was banned by the authorities for such reasons.

These jobs were typically filled under the spoils system, but Cleveland announced that he would not fire any Republican who was doing his job well, and would not appoint anyone solely on the basis of party service.

Sullivan had one installed as well, and on 13 May 1883, at a party to celebrate the composer's 41st birthday, the guests, including the Prince of Wales ( later Edward VII ), heard a direct relay of parts of Iolanthe from the Savoy.

In practice, this provides a reasonable guarantee that one is communicating with precisely the web site that one intended to communicate with ( as opposed to an impostor ), as well as ensuring that the contents of communications between the user and site cannot be read or forged by any third party.