And the new Left Party would struggle to cross the 5% threshold for seats in parliament.
After announcing he was seeking a split in the SSP, Sheridan went onto set up a new left-wing party, Solidarity.
The new left party, by contrast, won just 4.9 percent support in the West - compared also to 25 percent in the East.
The biggest influence on the election, though, will be neither Ms Merkel's campaign gaffes nor Mr Stoiber's antics, but the performance of the new Left Party.
Nor are the social politics of the New Left enough.
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And it would boost more extreme parties, notably the Left Party, which aspires to join a new left-wing coalition at the election after this one (the SPD insists it will not work with the Left Party this time).
The trouble is that Mr Blackburn, who is a professor of sociology at the University of Essex and the New School University in New York, and for many years edited the New Left Review, is not very keen on capitalism.
This failure to adapt to new circumstances left a scar on the young man's mind.
New York (CNN) -- A midnight car crash in New York left two expectant parents dead.
The new Tory left is, if anything, even further removed from its antecedents in previous decades.
New traffic lights and a new dedicated left hand turn slip lane on the Longman Roundabout.
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If there's no New Orleans left the - and I'm just kidding, Lord.
If there's no New Orleans left, then we'll talk about moving somewhere else.
Today, however, the New American Left really cares about only one thing: power.
What does a new, left-right coalition led by Enrico Letta mean for those in search of a little energy relief?
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Steven Galton, of the No Southampton Biomass campaign, said the new deadline left local people "in limbo" because it gave no specific date.
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Short of knocking down the million unsold new homes left after the property bubble burst, that will not pick up for many years.
The new structure left employees disoriented about some key processes.
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The marriage came to light when the man complained to a local official after his new wife left him, saying the girl's family had taken her back and he'd been ripped off.
As I suspected, that last-minute horse-trading in those closing hours before Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith sat cheerfully in front of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and signed the new CBA left us with parts of the agreement we are still sifting through.
No Tales attendee could have left New Orleans knowing everything about mixology, but all should have left with a desire to continue their education on their own and bring new experiences and ideas with them to share next year.
After being served with a grand jury subpoena to appear in New Jersey, Wei left Miami for New York en route to China.
The talk show queen spent much of 2012 splitting her time between Montecito, California, her new home base since she left Chicago, and New Orleans, where she shot a film called "The Butler" opposite Forest Whitaker, due out this year.
So the first election under the new constitution has left its two big ideas at loggerheads.
His estranged wife left New Jersey and took their two children back to Uzbekistan.
Ms. Rojas-Suarez points to Peru's new center-left president, Ollanta Humala, as support for the second model.
After attending public and private schools in the city, she left New York after 10th grade.
In 1990, one of the world's biggest companies, Exxon Mobil, left New York City for Dallas.
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