He said first-past-the-post delivered strong, single-party government, was easy to understand and had a "strong constituency link".
With the passing of the Gandhis, India in the 1990s shifted from single-party rule to coalition politics.
Fall short, and the era in which majority single-party governments were the Canadian norm will unarguably have ended.
The minister told MPs that producing a Budget within a coalition was different to producing one as a single-party government.
That has largely gone since Mr Erdogan's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) Party shot to single-party rule in 2002.
Most of the oil-bearing countries are at best fragile democracies emerging from long periods of autocratic postcolonial single-party or military rule.
In short, stable majorities are harder to establish (a coalition even runs Britain, where the first-past-the-post system is designed for single-party government).
The NDP, for instance, has its roots in Nasser's single-party socialist state, but its current leaders are business moguls, lawyers and local strongmen.
Tony Blair has rejected criticism of Labour's Euro election campaign, accusing the Tories of becoming a single-issue party.
New leader Nigel Farage wants to broaden UKIP from a single-issue party to occupy ground vacated David Cameron's Conservatives on issues such as immigration, taxation and education.
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And while the Peronists are a single (albeit fractious) party accustomed to a single chief, the two-party Alliance has a collective leadership.
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The Greens, often seen as a single-issue environmentalist party, wanted to go beyond this agenda to "entirely reshape the British economy", she added.
This latest result makes it harder to dismiss as a single-issue, protest party.
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Above all, Mr Hague has made the mistake this week of pinning his own stature as party leader on his ability to impose a single clear Euro-policy on the Conservative Party.
Fears that the next election might have a similar outcome led Preston Manning, Reform's leader, to launch a crusade aimed at creating a single right-of-centre party at the federal level, to be called the United Alternative.
No single party had a majority in the 56-member parliament but the three-party, centre-right coalition in power had 30 seats in total - one more than needed to pass the bailout.
My greatest achievements include getting eleven people into a Gianni Versace show at the Paris Ritz on a single ticket (and to the after-party too).
He called for a cross-party campaign for the single currency.
And the anti-EU party won by a single vote in Lincoln Hartsholme, following a recount.
What is an interesting single-malt scotch to bring to a tasting party?
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TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- If you go to a single party in a fashionable part of Tokyo on any given day, you will see successful young professionals who love good food, wine and company.
Mr Baker, who chairs the influential cross-party environment group, refused to single out specific groups for criticism.
In 2006, the lower-key Knapman retired, to be replaced by Nigel Farage, a confident media performer, who pledged to make UKIP a "truly representative party", ending its image as a single-issue pressure group.
Also, with the split in the NKP, no single party will have a working majority in the 299-seat National Assembly, and the coalition may find itself making deals in order to legislate bills.
Either way it looks like both the UUP and the SDLP will take the single ministries on offer - power it seems is a drug neither party can give up, even if being being bit part players in the executive will make it harder for them to pose as a viable opposition in the future.
Given that player acquisition costs are one of the single biggest expenses a soccer club faces, teaming up with third-party owners appears to be a no-brainer.
Since then, aside from one Austrian bodybuilder, the Republican Party has not elected a single individual to any state-wide office or held a majority in either house of the legislature.
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Eddie Murphy actually managed to score a hit with his 1985 single How Could It Be--the Rick James-produced song Party All the Time peaked at number two on the Billboard charts.
And maybe - just maybe - you don't agree with this party on every single issue.
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