There is nothing more unnerving than planning a party only to be unsure about who is actually coming.
The Labour Party only does well when it is active, strong and united.
He contested the 2001 elections but did not do well - his party only won one seat in parliament.
This would, by definition, deepen splits in a fractious and demoralised party only just beginning a debate about its own future.
New Labour's ideological accommodations with free-market economics were tolerated by many in the party only because it was a winning creed.
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Yet the polls, until late last year, had been giving Mr Aznar and his party only the slenderest of leads over their Socialist rivals.
His party only won 62 out of 135 seats in the legislature, and so had to rely on the occasional support of other parties to govern.
It is worth remembering that the UKIP leader has made optimistic claims before and yet his party only has a handful of councillors and not one MP.
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Wilson disregarded the note but the split between Benn and Healey continued - Benn's challenge to Healey's deputy leadership of the Labour Party only just failed in 1981.
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"The Democratic Party is the only party in the country that's talking about their concerns, and trying to do something about them, " Gephardt said.
Because your party is the only party in Germany which has the courage to state loud and clear that countries which cannot pay their debts should leave the euro.
In my view the Green Party is the ONLY party that has a thoughtful coherent platfrom, given that the Reform Party, old people clinging to the past and risk averse in the extreme, declined to adopt the platform I put forward.
The market as a whole had positive returns in 71.8% of the calendar years back to 1926, meaning the positive return percentage differences for each party represent only 1 or 2 years out of the decades each party has controlled the lower house of Congress.
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His party has only a handful of seats in Congress, and he himself no executive office.
The counter argument is that the third-party investors only get their money back when the player is sold.
The party is only standing in eight seats, and strongly disagrees with UKIP on almost everything, except HS2.
So even a landslide win for one party would only influence, not determine, the actions of the Parliament.
The party won only 13% of the vote, down a quarter on its share in the general election.
Although he won the presidency, his party took only 11 of the 83 seats in the Bosnian-Serb area's parliament.
Mr Nour's secular, liberal Al Ghad (Tomorrow) party had only recently been legalised.
In December's congressional elections, the Christian Democratic party took only 23% of the vote, as against 27% in 1993.
It is quite a leap forward for a party which only has three district councillors and a couple of county councillors across the East.
His party has only recently eased a bit further ahead of the Socialists in the opinion polls: but the gap is still only 4%.
His New Democracy party controls only 151 of the 300 seats in parliament and trails Pasok by four or five points in the opinion polls.
And the Labour Party needed only about a two or three-point lead in votes in order to get a majority, the Tories needed about 11.
Lula and his party not only stood for social reform but claimed, from their experience in local administration, a monopoly on clean government in Brazil.
Martinelli, of the Democratic Change party, rivals her in the polls but comes from a very small party with only 3 seats in the National Assembly.
Mr Wilders's party is only one of many anti-immigrant and anti-Islam groups that are gaining ground in northern European countries previously known for their liberal social attitudes.
The soundly defeated Mr Nkomo (whose party won only 20 parliamentary seats to Mr Mugabe's 57) said they should have fought the election as the Patriotic Front.
But the appetite for compromise has grown blunter since the assembly elections last spring in which the party won only 28 seats, half of those obtained by unionists.
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