His first test as leader was the general election in 1992, with the SNP having high hopes of making an electoral breakthrough.

When prospects of German unification became more realistic, the Republicans started to see political success, and the year 1989 marked the party's electoral breakthrough.

Strong local coalitions are considered a pre-requisite to higher-level electoral breakthroughs.

Inuit Ataqatigiit made a major electoral breakthrough in the 2009 Greenlandic parliamentary election.

APK failed to make any electoral breakthrough, and gradually the party declined.

Although widely regarded as a capable leader, he was unable to achieve a major electoral breakthrough for his party.

Paulley was known as an old-style labour politician, and could not appeal to the broader constituency base that the party needed for an electoral breakthrough.

Having gone from the verge of a major electoral breakthrough to the point of stagnation, the party held its first leadership election.

He has been associated with the first electoral breakthrough of the National Front, in Dreux in 1983.