How to Use minor party in a Sentence

minor party

noun
  • But the current system based on the raw vote has almost erased the names of minor parties come November.
    — John Myers, latimes.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Several of its candidates lead in the first round, in which major and minor parties all appear on the ballot.
    — Michael Kazin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2013
  • The wild card in this race is whether there will be a strong third candidate running either from a minor party or as an independent.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2021
  • Democrats for 24%, and 17% were from independents or those in a minor party.
    — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Thereafter, one of the two major parties has gone on to form a coalition government with minor parties of differing hues.
    — K. V. Turley, National Review, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The remainder is made up of independent and minor party voters.
    — Steven Lemongello, orlandosentinel.com, 7 July 2020
  • Kennedy's strategy of linking with minor parties has encountered both challenges and success.
    — Will McDuffie, ABC News, 5 May 2024
  • Maha Kamel and her sister, both under 30, voted for a candidate on a minor party list.
    — Philip Issa, Fox News, 13 May 2018
  • The Green Party is not currently recognized as a minor party in Ohio.
    — Jackie Borchardt, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Labor was holding 65 seats, with independents and minor parties claiming six.
    — Trevor Marshallsea, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
  • Twenty percent have no party preference, and the remaining 5% are scattered among minor parties.
    — East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The deputy prime minister, Winston Peters, who is the leader of a minor party, is acting prime minister in her absence.
    — New York Times, 23 June 2018
  • Five coalition senators in November crossed the floor to back a minor party’s bill against vaccine mandates, which was unsuccessful.
    — Stuart Condie, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2022
  • On its face, the oath ensures that minor party supporters don’t get a say in which Democrat or Republican faces off against their preferred candidate.
    — Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2019
  • There is just one Democrat and one Republican on the ballot (along with some minor party candidates), and Democrats have spent a good amount of money on the race.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 31 May 2021
  • The remaining third are registered as independents or with a minor party — a group that tends to favor Democratic candidates.
    — Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Enforcing the rule also would be a major headache for TV stations as all legally qualified candidates on minor party tickets could ask for airtime.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But a group of minor party lawmakers worked with the minority to elect a speaker, delivering the chamber to Democrats, according to Pew.
    — Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024
  • With the support of the Greens’ 11 senators, the government only needs the backing of two unaligned or minor party senators to get the reforms through the upper chamber.
    — Rod McGuirk, ajc, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The Michigan Secretary of State office previously said minor party candidates can't withdraw from the race.
    — April Rubin, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024
  • In one, a coalition of the right, including Forza Italia, the Northern League and a couple of minor parties, reaches the key 40% threshold and can form a new government.
    — Mario Calvo-Platero, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Structurally, the law is unfair for Libertarians, Greens, other minor parties, and all NPA voters.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Following changes in the Town Charter that reduced the term lengths from four to two years, the Secretary of State considered those positions as new, erasing minor party incumbencies.
    — courant.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Jenkins joins three other Democratic candidates who have already filed in the race, which has also drawn five GOP challengers and four minor party candidates and independents.
    — Steven Lemongello, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
  • All minor parties will be keenly aware that after negotiations, their power tends to wane along with their poll ratings, as happened to the Socialist Left and Center after 2005.
    — James Dennison, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The election pits a loose grouping of Fretilin and a minor party against a formal alliance of three parties led by Gusmao’s party, which together voted against Fretilin’s policy program and budget, resulting in the new election.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2018
  • In 2018, Lamont and Oz Griebel, a minor party candidate on the ballot, debated once without Stefanowski.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The commission also disqualified the candidate for opposition party ACT-Wazalendo, leaving only minor parties to take on Hassan.
    — Reuters 10 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Some fears exist among the British right that Reform’s success could still be squashed by an alliance of Labour, the Green Party, the Lib Dems, and a confederation of minor parties if a pact is not struck with the Conservatives, assuring a unified right-wing bloc.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The agreement now requires ratification by parliament and is expected to pass after the opposition New Zealand Labour Party backed it, despite resistance from coalition partner and populist minor party New Zealand First.
    — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026

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