election threshold

Any election threshold at the national level must not exceed five percent.

On the voting for political parties there was 7-percent Election threshold.

There is no hard and fast election threshold to get a seat in Parliament.

The election threshold for a party to enter the parliament is four per cent.

Polls suggested the party could have difficulties crossing the 7% election threshold.

A party must cross the election threshold (5% of the total vote) to get any seats in parliament.

An election threshold for the entire election district was unconstitutional.

Election thresholds are often implemented with the intention of bringing stability to the political system.

At the legislative elections in 2004 the party won 5.8% of the popular vote but failed to obtain any seat due to the election threshold.

There is also a 4% election threshold to gain levelling seats in Parliament.

Israel requires a party to meet an election threshold of 2% to be allocated a Knesset seat.

Smaller parties often form pre-election coalitions to make sure they get past the election threshold.

This is partially offset by levelling seats, but only for parties above the election threshold.

The election threshold to send a member to the Hamburg Parliament is 5%.

Election thresholds can sometimes seriously affect the relation between the percentage of the popular vote and seat distribution.

Discrepancies result from excess mandates and the election threshold.

There is an election threshold of 5%.

In order to overcome the election threshold, the party needed to receive a minimum of 5% of all second votes.

A party must achieve more than 4% of the total votes - the election threshold - to be entitled to levelling seats.

In the 2010 general election, the party for the first time ever passed the 4% election threshold and entered the Riksdag.

Elections are via a closed list modified Hare quota system with a 2% election threshold.

As a national minority, it is not required to pass the election threshold of 5% as standard political parties in Poland are.

However, only parties with more than 4% of the votes on a national basis - the election threshold - are entitled to levelling seats.

In order to have the particular powers pertaining to this important political status, they would have had to exceed the election threshold.

The standard d'Hondt formula is applied to the vote, with a five-percent election threshold.