In fact, small fringe parties can grab disproportionate power under such circumstances.

I began to appreciate the disproportionate power that Consies could wield.

Rural areas of declining population controlled most state legislatures and had disproportionate power in the national House.

This disproportionate power of money to influence elections and policy is troubling in a democracy.

The term implies the group controls disproportionate social and financial power.

Spain has vowed to fight to retain complex voting rules that give it power disproportionate to its population.

New Scientist named it as one of the 147 "superconnected" companies "with disproportionate power over the global economy."

In the Japanese political system, however, disproportionate power is held by those who oppose any effort to apologize for the war.

The Tutsis constituted only 15 percent of the population but were thought to have disproportionate economic and political power.

Israel's system of proportional representation gives tiny parties disproportionate power.