The only two countries in western Europe to have increased the number of party members in the past 30 years are Greece and Spain.
But a number of party members spoke out against the strategy, including former MP David Rendel, who said there was a "growing consensus" the approach was not working.
If Mr Trimble wins the support of his party council, he will still need the support of party members in the Northern Ireland assembly if his government is to work.
If they vote as promised, Mr Davis needs just one more to guarantee that he will be one of the two candidates going forward to the ballot of party members.
More damaging still to the Tory cause was the squashing of any hope that last summer's ballot of party members, in which they voted overwhelmingly to stay out of the euro for at least two parliaments, would silence the pro-euro Tories in Parliament.
They are powerful members of the party - governors, members of Congress, various party officials - who can make their own choices.
Once again he stood against the mainstream, by facing down the majority of Green Party members who opposed the participation of German forces in the Kosovo campaign.
He also acknowledged some of his party members were "eccentrics" but said he preferred that to a "bland lot of ghastly people whose names I don't even know".
He remains the public face of UKIP - still in demand from political discussion programmes and probably the only member of the party most members of the public would recognise - but he is no longer its leader.
Henceforth, it will fall to a vote of Conservative Party members in the country.
Any leadership challenger must also have the support of 200 party members, spread across at least 20 constituency associations.
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That sort of analysis persuaded 42% of voters that the polls were biased against Mitt Romney, with fully 84% of Tea Party members suspecting intentional skewing.
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As the race progressed superdelegates, made up of prominent party members who are free to vote their preference at the party convention, became the most important votes in the nomination process.
Voting against the declaration were the regional members of parliament from the Spanish prime minister's conservative Popular Party and most of the regional members from the Socialist party, which is the main opposition party at the national level.
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And what about the rest of the board members who were party to the alleged deception of both members and employees of the exchange?
Besides members of Mr Chaudhry's Fiji Labour Party, prominent members of the family of the late president, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, have taken important portfolios.
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No sooner had Mr Nujaifi been elected than dozens of members of his party, Iraqiya, walked out in protest against the continued barring of a clutch of its members from office on the ground that they had been connected to Saddam Hussein's Baath party.
Within the coalition government a large group of the Fine Gael party members, the party with the most seats, have vowed to oppose any liberalizing of abortion, even if the European panel recommends it.
Liaqat Baloch, secretary general of Pakistan's most popular Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, said members of his party were strongly considering boycotting the elections.
As a mayoral candidate, Barkat has assembled a candidates list for his party comprised of members of the Likud, the Gil Pensioners Party, the Green Party and Labor.
Another seven of his 27 party members are known to be hostile to the latest deal.
Elsewhere, voters will decide the fate of individual candidates, but not the overall number of members any party has.
During the interview, Mr Cameron was also asked about his previous description of UK Independence Party members as "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists".
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The former energy secretary, 40, was named Labour leader on Saturday having won the ballot of MPs, party members and trade unionists by just 1%.
Labour MPs and MEPs, party members and members of affiliate organisations are all balloted individually and the results from the separate categories each make up a third of the final result.
Their prime tactic is to crisscross the country urging voters to oust Democrats from office and purge the Republican Party of members deemed "RINOs, " or "Republicans in Name Only, " considered not conservative enough.
She quit the paternal United Party in 1959, frustrated that it was so wobbly against apartheid, to join a Progressive Party of 12 members that was wiped out in an election two years later.
This is not because her True Path Party is in good shape: more than a tenth of its members of parliament have left the party since last June, when it formed a coalition government with Mr Erbakan's Welfare Party.
And ever since then, that's been sort of the mental template - and actually operational template too - for members of the press, for prosecutors and for members of the opposition party to whoever is in office at the time, to find ways to have the real-time reality show drama of high-stakes hearings where you have witnesses under pressure, senators and representatives grandstanding in various ways.
The evening before, during the Mehndi party in which the bride and members of her party are adorned with henna designs (an impermanent skin ink) on their hands and feet, David wore a traditional Indian suit.
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