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Noun: election threshold
  1. The minimum share of the vote which a political party requires to secure any representation.
    "The Free Democratic Party got only 4.8% of the votes so did not meet the 5% election threshold and did not win any directly elected seats."

Type of: lower limit, minimum

Encyclopedia: Election threshold

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