How to Use minor party in a Sentence

minor party

noun
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  • But the current system based on the raw vote has almost erased the names of minor parties come November.
    — John Myers, latimes.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Democrats for 24%, and 17% were from independents or those in a minor party.
    — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Several of its candidates lead in the first round, in which major and minor parties all appear on the ballot.
    — Michael Kazin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2013
  • In one, a coalition of the right, including Forza Italia, the Northern League and a couple of minor parties, reaches the key 40% threshold and can form a new government.
    — Mario Calvo-Platero, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
  • There is just one Democrat and one Republican on the ballot (along with some minor party candidates), and Democrats have spent a good amount of money on the race.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 31 May 2021
  • The Green Party is not currently recognized as a minor party in Ohio.
    — Jackie Borchardt, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The wild card in this race is whether there will be a strong third candidate running either from a minor party or as an independent.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2021
  • Thereafter, one of the two major parties has gone on to form a coalition government with minor parties of differing hues.
    — K. V. Turley, National Review, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Now, a commission created by Mr. Cuomo and state leaders has voted to raise the threshold for minor parties to make the ballot.
    — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Maha Kamel and her sister, both under 30, voted for a candidate on a minor party list.
    — Philip Issa, Fox News, 13 May 2018
  • With the support of the Greens’ 11 senators, the government only needs the backing of two unaligned or minor party senators to get the reforms through the upper chamber.
    — Rod McGuirk, ajc, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The deputy prime minister, Winston Peters, who is the leader of a minor party, is acting prime minister in her absence.
    — New York Times, 23 June 2018
  • The remainder is made up of independent and minor party voters.
    — Steven Lemongello, orlandosentinel.com, 7 July 2020
  • On its face, the oath ensures that minor party supporters don’t get a say in which Democrat or Republican faces off against their preferred candidate.
    — Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Five coalition senators in November crossed the floor to back a minor party’s bill against vaccine mandates, which was unsuccessful.
    — Stuart Condie, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2022
  • All of the parties already had chosen their candidates, and the only practical result was to eliminate from the general election a few minor parties that got less than 1.5 percent of the overall votes.
    — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Following changes in the Town Charter that reduced the term lengths from four to two years, the Secretary of State considered those positions as new, erasing minor party incumbencies.
    — courant.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Kennedy's strategy of linking with minor parties has encountered both challenges and success.
    — Will McDuffie, ABC News, 5 May 2024
  • Twenty percent have no party preference, and the remaining 5% are scattered among minor parties.
    — East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • All minor parties will be keenly aware that after negotiations, their power tends to wane along with their poll ratings, as happened to the Socialist Left and Center after 2005.
    — James Dennison, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The deadline for all independent candidates and/or minor parties is Sept. 26 at 5 p.m.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 8 July 2023
  • Labor was holding 65 seats, with independents and minor parties claiming six.
    — Trevor Marshallsea, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
  • The remaining third are registered as independents or with a minor party — a group that tends to favor Democratic candidates.
    — Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • In 2018, Lamont and Oz Griebel, a minor party candidate on the ballot, debated once without Stefanowski.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The election pits a loose grouping of Fretilin and a minor party against a formal alliance of three parties led by Gusmao’s party, which together voted against Fretilin’s policy program and budget, resulting in the new election.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2018
  • Magleby said news of Trump’s taxes may encourage some former McMullin voters to support Biden, a minor party candidate or simply not vote.
    — Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Thanks to a redistribution of electoral boundaries, a series of outsider minor parties are threatening to break the stranglehold of Australia's two major parties.
    — Royce Kurmelovs, CNN, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The deadline for all independent candidates and/or minor parties is August 4 at 5 p.m.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 18 May 2020
  • This was replaced after the war by two major parties and one minor party (the Free Democrats) that all operated within a democratic and pro-Western, anti-Communist consensus.
    — Christopher R. Browning, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
  • In addition, there are several primaries that are open to all voters, regardless of whether they’re registered as Democrats, Republicans, no party affiliation or in minor parties.
    — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024

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