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...

failed to pass electoral threshold and lost all 41 seats. In the 2001 Polish parliamentary election, the ruling Solidarity Electoral Action-Freedom Union...

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

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...

and the member is the same across districts. In 2020, a 1 percent electoral threshold was set and the election campaign financing law was reformed in Albania...

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...

lower than their proportion of the national vote. In addition to the electoral threshold (the minimum percentage of the vote that a party must obtain to win...

since their official formation in 2007, failing to cross the 5% electoral threshold by just over one-tenth of a percentage point. The party was nonetheless...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

majority. The Free Democratic Party (FDP) failed to meet the 5% vote electoral threshold in what was their worst showing ever in a federal election, denying...

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

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

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

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

state of Schleswig-Holstein, where it enjoys an exemption from the electoral threshold of 5% thanks to a German-Danish treaty of 1955. A similar exemption...

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

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

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...

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...

constituencies through an open list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold; voters can rank up to three candidates on the party list they vote...

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...