• A hung parliament is a term used in legislatures primarily under the Westminster system (typically employing majoritarian electoral systems) to describe...
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    votes and seats, but still fell 20 seats short. This resulted in a hung parliament where no party was able to command a majority in the House of Commons...
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  • Lords' power to delay and suggest redrafting of bills. Following the hung parliament in 2017, the government argued that the convention continued to apply...
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    election would cause a second consecutive hung parliament whose composition would be similar to the previous Parliament, which was in effect from the previous...
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    (INC) withdrew its support in November 1997. The result was another hung parliament, with no party or alliance able to muster a majority. However, Atal...
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  • Coalition government Hung parliament Majority government There were two minority governments during the life of 15th Canadian Parliament Despite surviving...
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    2019 United Kingdom general election (category General elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom)
    they won a plurality of MPs but not a majority, and the result was a hung parliament. They formed a minority government, with the Democratic Unionist Party...
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    the members of the eleventh Lok Sabha. The elections resulted in a hung parliament with no single party having a clear majority. The Bharatiya Janata...
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    election results in no single party having a majority, there is a hung parliament. In this case, the options for forming the Government are either a...
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    the country had seen since the 1996 elections that had resulted in a hung parliament. Although the Indian National Congress was able to increase its vote...
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