Examples of party voting in the following topics:
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- Some people are motivated to vote because they identify very strongly with one party.
- Oftentimes, people vote according to what party they identify with.
- People who identify with a political party either declare their allegiance by joining the party or show their support through regular party-line voting at the polls.
- Social, economic, ethnic, and racial groups also become aligned with particular parties, and then vote according to that party identification.
- Parties count on coalition members to vote for them consistently in elections.
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- Party identification is typically determined by the political party that an individual most commonly supports (by voting or other means).
- They register as a member of the particular party when registered to vote.
- They show a strong tendency to vote for candidates in their preferred party in most elections.
- In the case of voting for president, since the 1970s, party identification on voting behavior has been increasing significantly.
- Strong party identifiers voted overwhelmingly for their party's nominee in the general election.
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- Party identification is usually determined by which political party the individual most commonly supports, through voting or other means.
- They register as a member of the particular party when registered to vote.
- They show a strong tendency to vote for candidates in their preferred party in most elections.
- According to the scale, a weak party supporter should normally vote with the party, but many times this is not the case.
- In the case of voting for president, since the 1970s, party identification on voting behavior has been increasing significantly.
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- Third-party candidates exert influence by focusing the election on particular issues and taking votes away from major candidates.
- During the 2000 election, Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader took votes away from Democrat Al Gore, a situation that some people felt contributed to the victory of Republican George W.
- For example, segregationist American Independent Party candidate George Wallace gained 13.5% of the popular vote in the 1968 election.
- Although it is unlikely that a third party candidate will ever garner a plurality of the vote, they can influence the election by taking votes away from a major party candidate.
- Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate, is accused of "stealing" votes away from Al Gore, a Democrat, in the 2000 election.
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- The terms "red state" (Republican-voting) and "blue state" (Democratic-voting) were standardized during the 2000 US presidential election.
- During the 2000 US presidential election, the term "red states" was coined to mean those states whose residents primarily vote for the Republican Party and "blue states" as those states whose residents primarily vote for the Democratic Party .
- The association of states with colors to indicate their party voting preferences was not a new phenomenon prior to the 2000 presidential election.
- The Republican and Democratic Parties within a given state may have platforms that depart from national party platforms.
- Such a situation can lead a state to favor one party in state and local elections and another party in presidential elections.
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- In countries with a simple plurality voting system, there tends to be few parties elected (often only two in any given jurisdiction).
- In countries that have a proportional representation voting system, as exists throughout Europe, or to a greater extent ranked voting systems, such as in Australia or Ireland, three or more parties are often elected to parliament in significant proportions, and thus may have more access to public office.
- In single-party systems, one political party is legally allowed to hold effective power.
- Typically in countries with less of an established democratic tradition, it is possible the dominant party will remain in power by using patronage and sometimes through voting fraud.
- One right wing coalition party and one left wing coalition party is the most common ideological breakdown in such a system, but in two-party states political parties are traditionally parties that are ideologically broad and inclusive.
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- A two-party system is a system in which two major political parties dominate voting in nearly all elections at every level of government and the majority of elected offices are members of one of the two major parties.
- In the U.S., forty-eight states have a standard winner-takes-all electoral system for amassing presidential votes in the Electoral College system.
- The winner–takes–all principle applies in presidential elections, thus if a presidential candidate gets the most votes in any particular state, all of the electoral votes from that state are awarded to the candidate.
- In all but Maine and Nebraska, the presidential candidate must win a plurality of votes to wins all of the electoral votes; this practice is called the unit rule.
- Second, voters learn, over time, not to vote for candidates outside of one of the two large parties since their votes for third party candidates are usually ineffectual.
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- A voting system contains rules for valid voting, and how votes are counted and aggregated to yield a final result.
- Proportional representation means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received .
- For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular party then roughly 30% of seats will be won by that party.
- PR systems tend to produce a proliferation of political parties, while single member districts encourage a two-party system.
- Seats won by each party in the 2005 German federal election, an example of a proportional voting system.
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- Currently, the two major American parties are the Democratic and Republican parties, although the top two parties change over time.
- A third party is any party that supports a candidate for election other than the two major political parties; at the current moment, a third party would be any party other than the Democratic and Republican parties.
- Though third parties represent a very small fraction of Americans participating in politics, they do influence elections by drawing votes away from either of the two main parties.
- The three main third parties are the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, and the Constitution Party .
- Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate, is accused of "stealing" votes away from Al Gore, a Democrat, in the 2000 election.
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- The modern political party system in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
- Statehood Party has served as a strong third party behind the Democratic Party and Republican Party.
- It also does not give a person any particular rights or obligations within the party, other than possibly allowing that person to vote in that party's primary elections.
- A party committee may choose to endorse one or another of those seeking the nomination, but in the end the choice is up to those who choose to vote in the primary.
- A party cannot prevent a person who disagrees with the majority of positions of the party or actively works against the party's aims from claiming party membership , so long as the voters who choose to vote in the primary elections elect that person.