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	Reform Party loses official party status
		Voters previously registered with the Reform Party had their registration changed to no party (but were at any time able to re-register with another recognized party.) 58 Johnson County voters were registered with the Reform Party at the time party status officially ended.
		The term "political party" shall mean a party which, at the last preceding general election, cast for its candidate for president of the United States or for governor, as the case may be, at least two percent of the total vote cast for all candidates for that office at that election.
		A political organization which is not a "political party" within the meaning of this section may nominate candidates and have the names of such candidates placed upon the official ballot by proceeding under chapters 44 and 45.
	www.johnson-county.com /auditor/voter/reform.htm (372 words)

	Official party status - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the House of Commons, a party must have at least 12 seats to be recognized as an official party.
		This rule means that the PC Party caucus in the senate does not qualify for official status in the senate.
		In 2001 Premier Gordon Campbell was criticized for his decision not to grant the B.C. NDP official party status; it was the only opposition party in the legislature, but it had won only two seats in the last election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Official_party_status (464 words)

	WVSOS - Elections - Political Parties Under West Virginia Law
		The term "minor party" is not actually used in the law, but is the common term used for groups of voters who achieve access for their candidates through nominating petitions.
		In the 2000 General Election, the Mountain Party gained official party status for the first time by winning 1.6% of the vote for Governor and continued their status after receiving 2.5% of the vote for Governor in 2004.
		The Libertarian Party, which had achieved official party status in the 1998 General Election, lost official status when its candidate received less than one percent of the vote in a five-way race for Governor.
	www.wvsos.com /elections/offices/parties.htm (373 words)

	Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Even though the Quebec Conservative Party dominated politics in that province for first thirty years of Confederation at both federal and provincial levels in the 20th the party was never able to be force in provincial politics and ultimately dissolved the Union Nationale in 1935.
		The steep decline in the party's support and the impact of the first past the post system used in Canada resulted in collapse of the Conservative parliamentary caucus: the went from being the majority party to only two seats in the House of which was not enough to maintain official party status.
		The two parties united to form new party called the Conservative Party of The union was ratified on December 5 and December 6 by both parties and the new Party was formally registered on December 8.
	www.freeglossary.com /Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada (2314 words)

	MGP Fight for Ballot Access - Transcript of the Maine Supreme Court of MAINE GREEN PARTY v SECRETARY OF STATE, Docket: ...
		A party which has qualified under subsection 1,2 and 3 to participate in a primary election must, in that same year, hold a state convention, as prescribed by [sections 321 and 322], in order to have the party designation of its candidates printed on the ballot in the general election of that year.
		A party which qualifies under subsection 1 to participate in a primary election must, in that same year, hold a state convention as prescribed by sections 321 and 322 in order to have the party designation of its candidates printed on the ballot in the general election of that year.
		A party which qualified under section 302 or 303 to participate in the last preceding primary and general elections is not qualified to participate in a subsequent primary election unless it meets the requirements of section 301.
	www.mainegreens.org /electoral/party/BallotAccess/fed97120.htm (2050 words)

	New Democratic Party Summary
		The influence of organized labour on the party is still reflected in the party's conventions as labour votes are scaled to 45% of the total number of ballots cast.
		The party was bitterly disappointed to see its two Saskatchewan incumbents defeated by the Conservatives, both in close races, perhaps due to the unpopularity of the NDP provincial government.
		However the party does not allow her to be part of the parliamentary caucus, as the NDP favours the abolition of the Senate.
	www.bookrags.com /New_Democratic_Party (3922 words)

	The U.S. Green Party: Challenges and Prospects
		Green parties have elected local and national representatives in Germany, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Portugal, Bulgaria, Rumania, East Germany and the former states of the Soviet Union, to the European Community Parliament, and in New Zealand and Australia.
		The worldwide rising of Green parties is seen as the political expression of a "new paradigm" of values appropriate for meeting the challenges of living on this planet in the 21st Century.
		The Hawaii Green Party, for example, in their first election in 1992, sought to target races where they had both activist groups within the district to draw support from, and whose incumbent officeholder was not very popular.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~irohter/USGreenPartyArticle.htm (4076 words)

	Conscious Choice: Green Party Growing in Illinois
		Official party status means that the Greens have the right this year to elect ward committeeman in those two districts, which cover more than a dozen wards in Chicago and the near west suburbs of Oak Park, North Riverside, Berwyn, Proviso and Lyons.
		Other local Green Party issues revolve around how to drum up campaign funding and select candidates in such a way that the party doesn’t compromise its principles, particularly since separation of government and corporate interests is one of the party’s primary concerns.
		The party is also pushing local municipalities such as Cook County to adhere to legislation already on the books that allows a hybrid ballot for primaries.
	www.consciouschoice.com /2004/cc1702/ilgreenparty1702.html (741 words)

	Eye Weekly - Editorial - 09.09.99
		One changed the definition of an official political party, all but turning Canada into an oligarchy of major parties, and the other prevented the publication of opinion polls in the three days before a vote.
		According to the 1993 Act, official party status required fielding at least 50 candidates in a general election.
		The main carrier of the fight against the law has been the Communist Party of Canada, whose tiny war chest of $1,113 was seized by the government under the changed rules.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.09.99/news/editorial.php (589 words)

	Welcome of the ACLU of Alaska
		However, the issues related to prevailing party status, attorney fees, and whether the plaintiffs can be considered public interest litigants, are still waiting to be decided by the superior court.
		State, a case in which the Green Party is challenging the state’s method of determining whether or not political organizations have enough support among the voters to be considered official political parties and receive the benefits associated with that designation.
		The Green Party was subsequently stripped of its official party status.
	www.akclu.org /InTheCourts/InTheCourts.htm (1051 words)

	Alaska Newsletter: Political Party Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On November 3, the Green Party lost its status as a recognized political party because it received 2.92 percent of the votes cast for governor.
		Qualifying as a recognized political party as a result of last month’s election is the Republican Moderate Party, whose candidate for governor received 6.15 percent of the vote although only 515 people officially belong to the party.
		The Libertarian and Reform Parties have limited official party status, meaning they currently exist only for the purpose of selecting candidates for electors for president and vice president of the United States.
	www.gov.state.ak.us /ltgov/elections/news/ptyupdat.htm (225 words)

	Loss of official party status a 'terrible' blow for NDP \| The Record.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		That's not to say the party should jettison its traditional championship of the disenfranchised and the disadvantaged, Williams said.
		Piatkowski and Farnan agreed that no party in power has seen fit to change the system that got it elected, including the NDP in the 1980s, which is "very regrettable," Farnan said.
		Both Hardy and Sylvia Broad, the Ontario NDP president, said recouping lost funding for research that goes with losing official party status would be among the issues that will be hashed out when party executives meet in the coming weeks as part of an NDP rebuilding process.
	www.therecord.com /ontario_votes/ontario_votes_0310047259.html (787 words)

	Ryan positive on retaining official party status (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		THE National Party was clinging to official party status last night, as it looked to defy doomsday predictions by winning one or two extra seats, including Mildura.
		Last night the party was polling strongly in its seven lower house seats.
		Last night party leader Peter Ryan was thrilled by the early results, saying it was a "terrific victory for country Victoria".
	www.theage.com.au /handheld/articles/2006/11/25/1164341454687.html (533 words)

	Ballot Access and Candidate Qualifications
		The Code of Iowa defines a "political party" as a party which, at the last preceding general election, won at least two percent of the total vote for president or governor.
		The Green Party and Reform Party have earned and then later lost party status in recent years.
		Signatures equaling 2% of the total vote for the candidate's party in the last general election in at least half of the counties in the district.
	www.johnson-county.com /auditor/voter/qual.htm (1469 words)

	FIRST NATIONS PARTY TO SEEK OFFICIAL STATUS
		The First Nations party of Saskatchewan is planning to apply for official provincial party status on Wednesday.
		Cross, who noted in his new release that he resides in Regina Elphinstone himself and might be interested in the nomination, also believes the First Nations Party has an obligation to an estimated 200 residents of the riding that signed his petition for party status.
		But supporters of his new party take the approach that First Nations people must become more active in provincial politics because of issues like the coalition government’s decision in the March budget to extend the provincial sales tax to off-reserve purchases made by status Indians.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/newspaperarticles/2000-08-26-2.html (480 words)

	State Press Release
		Green was the Green Party nominee for Lt. Governor seven years ago when she and Al Lewis polled 53,000 votes statewide to qualify the party for automatic ballot status.
		The Green Party is committed to ecology, nonviolence, grassroots democracy, and social and economic justice.
		State party contact information, when provided with candidate releases, does not imply state party endorsement of the opinions expressed nor of the candidate (prior to gaining formal nomination by the party).
	www.gp.org /press/states/ny_2005_11_29.shtml (747 words)

	Artículo
		Green parties in the region operate in the political periphery and their record reads like a list of failures, winning them criticisms from non-governmental environmental groups.
		The Mexican party, thanks to the decision to join Fox's Alliance for Change, now holds 15 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (out of 500), and five in the Senate (of 128), compared to just seven and four, respectively, in the outgoing legislature.
		The green party was founded on the central pillar of ''love'' and has consistently been out of the loop in the debates non-governmental environmental groups fight to put on the public agenda.
	www.tierramerica.net /2000/0820/article.html (1248 words)

	Libertarian Party of Canada - News - Maintaining Official Party Status (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This spring, the Libertarian Party of Canada managed to regain official federal party status.
		This allows the party name to appear on the ballot, and allows the party to issue tax receipts for donations.
		As a result of recent changes to the Elections Act, Elections Canada now requires all federally registered political parties, in order to preserve official party status, to provide to Elections Canada the names, addresses, and declarations of at least 250 electors who are members of the party.
	www.libertarian.ca /english/news/ec-status.html (381 words)

	Families Party wants piece of the action
		Party boosters say they’re trying to increase the presence of minor parties in a state heavily dominated by the two major parties.
		The Working Families Party is also behind Question 2 on the Nov. 7 ballot that, if passed, would allow major party candidates to be endorsed by more than one party in Massachusetts elections.
		Neither the state Democratic nor Republican parties are taking a position on ballot Question 2 or the Working Families Party’s effort to become a player in state politics.
	ledger.southofboston.com /articles/2006/10/12/news/news13.txt (676 words)

	Another Choice For South Carolina
		To obtain official party status in South Carolina requires a petition with at least 10,000 valid signatures of registered voters, sorted by county.
		In practice, parties such as WFP may occasionally run candidates of their own for minor offices but mainly concentrate on negotiating deals with Democrats and Republicans to put them on their line.
		The momentum of growing official union support that had sparked the launching of the Labor Party in 1996 began to slow after a couple of years as national unions came to focus on declining membership numbers in the new global economy.
	www.kclabor.org /another_choice_for_south_carolina.htm (2915 words)

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		The Veterans Party filed a Declaration of Intent to form a Party by Petition on February 9, 2004.
		In order to gain official party status to participate in the June 13, 2006 Primary Election, the Veterans Party was required to file petitions in the office of the Secretary of State before 5 p.m.
		Unenrolled — status of a person who chooses not to enroll in a party or status of a person who has enrolled in a party which is no longer authorized; designated on voting lists as “U”.
	www.state.me.us /sos/cec/elec/temp/veterans-party.doc (279 words)

	Ex-Silo.org
		The Humanist Party had been incorporated in Quebec in 1984 and was active in recruiting on the campus of McGill University.
		The Orange Party was granted official party status on September 22, 1986 then, in an abrupt turn of face, Desroches dissolved the party only seven days later, on September 29, 1986.
		It begs the question "Why did she establish the party?" Speaking through Roger Gingras in the October 1, 1986 edition of the McGill Daily, Desroches blamed the fate of her Orange Party on the plight of small parties in general who are ostensibly unfairly treated by the political process.
	www.ex-silo.org (1433 words)

	Mississauga.com
		Under the leadership of general secretary George Hewison (1988-’91), the leadership of the CPC and a segment of its general membership began to abandon Marxism-Leninism as the basis of the Party's revolutionary perspective, and ultimately moved to liquidate the Party itself, seeking to replace it with a left, social democratic entity.
		Since most of the old party's assets were now the property of the Hewison-led Cecil Ross Society, the CPC convention decided to launch a new newspaper, the People's Voice, to replace the old Canadian Tribune.
		The new party, with only a few hundred members, was much smaller than the old one and had lost a number of assets, including the party's headquarters at 24 Cecil St. in Toronto.
	www.mississauga.com /mi/elections/ridings/miguelfigueroa (588 words)

	Prostitutes Form Political Party: Sex workers have the right to speak too, party members say
		The Parti Populaire des Putes, which means popular party of prostitutes, will advocate for the decriminalization of sex work.
		One of the fledgling party's main causes is a failed pilot project that was intended to revolutionize the relationship between prostitutes, outreach workers and residents in a downtown Montreal neighbourhood.
		She adds that one of the party's biggest hurdles is overcoming the public's impression of prostitutes.
	www.walnet.org /csis/news/montreal_2000/citizen-000703.html (405 words)

	WVSOS - Elections - General Election Voter Registration Comparison 1976-2000
		The Libertarian Party* became an official party on the West Virginia ballot by getting at least 1% of the vote in the 1996 election.
		The official party status was lost in 2000 when 1% of the vote was not attained.
		The Mountain Party became an official party** on the West Virginia ballot by getting at least 1% of the vote in the 2000 election.
	www.wvsos.com /elections/history/registration/genVRhistory.htm (90 words)

	FIRST NATIONS PARTY GRANTED OFFICIAL STATUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The First Nations Party of Saskatchewan has been granted official party status by the province’s chief electoral officer, Jan Baker.
		The party recently announced it had gathered 2,500 signatures in support- a prerequisite for any party to get official status in Saskatchewan.
		Founder Brendan Cross has said the party will enter a candidate in the byelection in Regina Elphinstone, for which a date has not been set.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/newspaperarticles/2000-09-07-1.html (96 words)

	Crack and Cheese Party Status
		2007 party planning is a long time away, but if you'd like to be involved then sign up on our chat board, using this link.
		The official date for the 'Con kickoff is Friday, February 23, 2007.
		All six years' worth of party designs will be available on T-shirts in the huckster's room.
	www.crackandcheese.com /status.php (195 words)

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