The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of votes that a candidate or political party requires before they become entitled...

In order to pass the electoral threshold, the party needed to receive a minimum of 5% of all second votes. Although the threshold was overruled for parties...

the national electoral threshold for a party to enter parliament was lowered from 10% to 7%. This was the first lowering of the threshold since it was...

proportionality is rarely achieved under PR systems. The use of electoral thresholds (in list PR or MMP), small districts with few seats in each (in STV...

and the start of the summer holidays. Prior to the election, the electoral threshold for a party to enter parliament was lowered from 10% to 7% by the...

the electoral threshold in Georgia are considered. In 1953 the federal state electoral threshold was replaced with a national electoral threshold, reducing...

not have an overriding threshold of the vote share required in order for a party to win an EP seat — unlike the 5% threshold in national elections. This...

proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency with an electoral threshold of 7%. If less than one-third of eligible voters participate in an...

Israel are based on nationwide proportional representation. The electoral threshold is currently set at 3.25%, with the number of seats a party receives...

electoral threshold was previously set at 1% from 1949 to 1992, then 1.5% from 1992 to 2003, and then 2% until March 2014 when the current threshold of...

NEOS was fourth with 10 seats. The Greens failed to meet the 4% electoral threshold and were ejected from parliament for the first time since entering...

electoral threshold to win seats under the closed list, proportional representation electoral system. Ten parties succeeded in crossing the threshold...

proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency. The electoral threshold for the election is 3.25%. Two parties can sign a surplus vote agreement...

fragmentation in the chamber. Even with no explicit electoral threshold, the natural electoral threshold causes some wasted votes and produces more disproportionality...

proportional representation in a single citywide constituency with an electoral threshold of 5%, and the Mayor of Budapest (who is elected directly). Each...

splitting from The Jewish Home in December 2018) had failed to pass the electoral threshold in the April 2019 election. Ahead of the September 2019 Israeli legislative...

the latter re-entering the Assembly after it failed to reach the electoral threshold in 2022. On 22 May 2023, the PP- and GERB-led alliances agreed to...

represented in parliament electoral committees which are registered as political parties must reach an electoral threshold of 5% and those registered...

the 2014 European Parliament election, Germany does not have a formal threshold of the vote share required in order for a party to win an EP seat. This...

lost its majority as the Greens collapsed and fell short of the 5% electoral threshold, losing all their seats. The Left also suffered major losses and...

they did not manage to pass the electoral threshold, the Yachad list was around 10,000 votes short of the threshold. Ahead of the first 2019 election...

first time and won 12% and fifteen seats. The Left fell below the 5% electoral threshold but retained its representation in the Landtag after winning two...

allocated using the d'Hondt method with an electoral threshold of 3 percent of all votes cast, although the threshold is waived for ethnic minority parties...

number of Knesset seats that an individual electoral bloc could receive if they exceeded the electoral threshold). Michaeli faced heavy criticism for her...

competing in its first national election, narrowly passed the 4% electoral threshold, despite opinion polling which indicated it would fall short. After...

D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of three percent of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—being...

one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 4 percent national electoral threshold. Following the elections, seats are allocated to the candidates of...

Political parties are subject to an electoral threshold of 7%. Smaller parties can avoid the electoral threshold by forming an alliance with bigger parties...

There are two thresholds in the New Zealand MMP system: Any party which receives 5% or more of the party vote (the electoral threshold) is entitled to...

party won 3.16% of the vote failing, for the first time, to pass the electoral threshold (3.25%) required to qualify for seats in the Knesset, while the Labor...