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minor parties change election results by pulling votes from major party candidates?
Minor parties change election results by pulling votes from major party candidates.
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Major and minor political parties nominate candidates for president and vice president every four years during the presidential election cycle.
Minor parties take votes away from the candidates of other parties.
Minor parties take votes away from the candidates of other parties.
One effect of minor parties is that they can sometimes be good at shifting the focus of the American people from one subject to another. Another effect is that a minor party can draw votes from one of the major candidates. This can sometimes have an influence on the outcome of an election.
minor, or third, parties appear from time to time. although no third-party candidate has ever been elected president, minor parties do affect election outcomes. they take votes from major parties and they call attention to certain issues.
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They take votes away from major parties candidates.
They take votes away from major parties candidates.
Even though it may seem like minor parties don't have much of an effect on politics and elections, minor parties can actually make enough difference to change an election. Minor parties rarely win elections but are actually necessary to politics. The small amount of people that vote for minor parties could potentially cost enough for a major party to lose an election to the other major party. For example: If an election is 50/50 between Democratic and the Republican parties and 10 percent of the Democrats decide to vote for a minor party it would cost the Democrats the election. Hope this makes sense! Good luck!