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...

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...

higher electoral threshold. Higher electoral thresholds may prevent some candidates from being elected. Even with no explicit electoral threshold, the natural...

Consequences of Electoral Laws. The district magnitude affects the ease or difficulty to be elected, as the effective threshold, or de facto threshold, decreases...

seat) in order to qualify for seat distribution, meaning there is an electoral threshold of 0.67%. Voters have the option to cast a preferential vote. The...

Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) narrowly failed to meet the 5% electoral threshold to gain parliamentary representation. Both of these parties are present...

Scotland. (They are discussed below.) List PR systems usually set an electoral threshold, the minimum percentage of the vote that a party must obtain to win...

nationwide constituency, mostly by proportional representation. The electoral threshold is set at 5%, although this is raised to 10% for coalitions of two...

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

is never achieved under PR systems, except by chance. The use of electoral thresholds that are intended to limit the representation of small, often extreme...

d'Hondt electoral system is a variant of the d'Hondt method with an electoral threshold for parties. Votes for parties below the electoral threshold are transferred...

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

thus elects a representative of that group. In 2020, a 1 percent electoral threshold was set and the election campaign financing law was reformed in Albania...

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

party-list proportional representation in 87 electoral districts, by the D'Hondt method, with an electoral threshold of 7% (except for independent candidates)...

seat allocation decided by the d'Hondt method with a national 2% electoral threshold. A further three members of the Twa ethnic group are appointed, and...

political crisis affecting the country. Eight parties passed the electoral threshold to win representation in the National Assembly, while Velichie came...

by 55.8% of voters. The third on 14 October was on reducing the electoral threshold from 18% to 8%, and was approved by 67.9% of voters. Dieter Nohlen...

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...

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...

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...

enjoy, although this can be somewhat mitigated by a large enough electoral threshold. FPP supporters argue that FPP generally reduces this possibility...

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...

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

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...

current electoral system for electing Members of Parliament to the Grand National Assembly has a 7% election threshold. A brief summary of the electoral systems...

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...

540,209 votes, reaching 2.29% of the total, thus missing on the 5% electoral threshold and winning zero seats in the Prague City Assembly. Filip Turek,...

percent and crossing the electoral threshold, while Blue Unity campaigned separately and did not cross the electoral threshold. In 2017 Bulgarian parliamentary...