Timeline for Jumping political party OK after being elected by people into a party?
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| Mar 14, 2017 at 4:29 | comment | added | ohwilleke♦ | Even if it is a party-list election, the whole idea of having a parliament with actual human beings is that the members of a party have shared responsibility to determine individually which votes represent their party - otherwise we'd just have one representative per party and give them an unequal number of voters. | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 1:26 | comment | added | indigochild | What about party-list elections, where people do vote for a party? Or hybrid systems where people can choose a party or a candidate? I would also say that this answer is focused on US politics, while the question is tagged as comparative politics. | |
| Mar 12, 2017 at 5:00 | comment | added | sabbahillel | Similarly, Senator Arlen Spector switched parties (Republican to Democrat) on April 28, 2009 when he realized that he would lose the Republican primary for the 2010 election. and lost the Democratic primary as well. | |
| Mar 12, 2017 at 4:37 | comment | added | Bobson | @Narasimham - If you want to ask a different question about what consequences, if any, can or should apply to someone who campaigns as one party but then changes their affiliation immediately after winning, I encourage you to do so. But you asked about changing affiliation more generally, which is not the same thing. | |
| Mar 12, 2017 at 1:21 | history | edited | ohwilleke♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2017 at 22:27 | vote | accept | Narasimham | ||
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| Mar 11, 2017 at 22:23 | comment | added | Narasimham | Thanks for detailed answer. The way unbridled freedom can be availed in this regard not just for mid-term but.. it appears someday it should not be surprising a fresh elect is sworn into a party across the fence, making mockery of the system. It is appalling to me that no constitutional law exists against such a practice | |
| Mar 11, 2017 at 22:08 | history | answered | ohwilleke♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |