If the party of Adenauer and Erhart, with 45 per cent of the vote, approaches the party of Willy Brandt, which won 36 per cent, the result would be a stiffening of the old resolve.

The party that won used to say something about a New Frontier.

When his district was redrawn by the Whigs, that party had won the past two gubernatorial elections, in addition to gaining control of the legislature.

Though his party won the governor's race and control of the legislature, Johnson still had to overcome considerable opposition from the conservatives in both parties.

In the 2006 general election, the final election to which the party participated with its own list, AN won 12. 3 % of the vote, securing 71 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 41 in the Senate.

After the fall of the communism in 1990, the former communist party changed to Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) and won the first post-communist elections for the new constitution in 1990 with a small majority.

He won the majority of 120 seats in the parliament and agreed partnership with the party of the Muslim minorities-Movement for Rights and Freedoms in opposition against the two previously governing parties-the Socialist Party and the Democratic Forces.

The Bulgarian Socialist Party won the parliamentary elections in 2005 with 82 out of the 240 seats, thus it didn't get the majority of the seats, with Simeon's movement being the second party.

On the parliamentary elections in 2009 the newly established personalistic party of Boyko Borisov-Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria ( GERB ) won the elections, securing 116 seats out of 240, which enabled it to form a cabinet alone.

Detail of the Land list seats won by each party in 2009

After six years in opposition, Disraeli and the Conservative Party won the election of 1874, giving the party its first absolute majority in the House of Commons since the 1840s.

In the 1885 general election this party won the balance of power in the House of Commons, and demanded Irish Home Rule as the price of support for a continued Gladstone ministry.

On the other hand, Martov's supporters won the vote concerning the question of party membership.

Déby ’ s MPS party won 63 of 125 seats in the January 1997 legislative elections.

The opposition party, the Movement for Democracy ( MpD ), won the legislative elections, and formed the government.

Bozizé won on the second run-off round on 8 May 2005, defeating Martin Ziguélé, who ran on the ticket of the MLPC, the former ruling party.

In late 2003, new parliamentary elections were held and a reformed HDZ party won under leadership of Ivo Sanader, who became prime minister.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

In the resulting February 1990 elections, Violeta Chamorro and her party the UNO won an upset victory of 55 % to 41 % over Daniel Ortega, even though polls leading up to the election had clearly indicated an FSLN victory.

Although Scottish Labour won more seats than any other party, they did not have a majority in Parliament to allow them to form an Executive without the help of a smaller party.

Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the Democratic Left ( ID ) party won the presidency in 1988, running in the runoff election against Abdalá Bucaram of the PRE.

Out of 309, the Muslim League only won 10 seats, whereas the communist party had 4 seats of the ten contested.

The tense diplomatic relations between East and West Pakistan reached a climax in 1970 when the Awami League, the largest East Pakistani political party, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, ( Mujib ), won a landslide victory in the national elections in East Pakistan.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

Particularly when based upon a single dominant party, governments may respond to such a situation by claiming a monopoly of understanding about the national interest.

In order to eliminate one of the problems of the reign of Elizabeth, the single party and its destabilizing consequences, the Liberal Party was allowed to incorporate and participate in National Politics, and the ' turnism ' or alternanation was to become the new system.

Majority governments based on a single party are typically even more stable, as long as their majority can be maintained.

In Ireland, coalition governments are quite common with a single party not having ruled since 1977.

In Germany, the coalitions rarely consist of more than two parties ( where CDU and CSU, two non-competing parties which always form a single caucus, are in this regard considered a single party ).

A single, more powerful party can shape the policies of the coalition disproportionately.

In 1940, all Japanese parties were merged into a single fascist party.

A single issue political party, the Valley Party, contested the 1990 local Greenwich Borough Council elections on a ticket of reopening the stadium, capturing 11 % of the vote, aiding the club's return.

" Poll " is an archaic legal term referring to documents with straight edges ; these distinguished a deed binding only one person from one affecting more than a single person ( an " indenture ", so named during the time when such agreements would be written out repeatedly on a single sheet, then the copies separated by being irregularly torn or cut, i. e. " indented ", so that each party had a document with corresponding tears, to discourage forgery ).

A paradoxical effect of this autonomy was that Guineans could choose among several political parties while metropolitan Spaniards were under a single party regime.

The popular party carried the day: France would have a single, unicameral assembly.

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.

Some of the characteristics of a presidential system ( i. e., a strong dominant political figure with an executive answerable to them, not the legislature ) can also be found among absolute monarchies, parliamentary monarchies and single party ( e. g. Communist ) regimes, but in most cases of dictatorship, their stated constitutional models are applied in name only and not in political theory or practice.

:: Example 4 ( single party republic ): Section 2, Article 81 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China states:

Though " president " and various monarchic titles are most commonly used for heads of state, in some nationalistic regimes ( usually republics ), the leader adopts, formally or de facto, a unique style simply meaning " leader " in the national language, such as Nazi Germany's single party chief and head of state and government, Adolf Hitler Führer ( see that article for equivalents ).

Coalitions are formed by the political parties, in case no single party gains a simple majority in the lower house.

Some third party hard disks for IBM PCs were sold as kits including a controller card and replacement power supply, and some were integrated with their controller into a single expansion card, commonly called a " Hard Card ".

After his dismissal as Mayor of Cologne, Adenauer devoted himself to building a new political party, the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), which he hoped would embrace both Protestants and Roman Catholics in a single party.

The two VNQDD parties merged into a single organization, the Canton branch removed the word " revolutionary " from the party name.