The SNP was the biggest single party in Aberdeenshire after last year's election, with 28 councillors.
Recent opinion polls all predict that no single party will get a clear majority.
No single party is going to make the tough choices involved on its own.
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It is the largest single party in parliament, but cannot form a coalition with a majority.
In last week's parliamentary elections, no single party won the minimum 61 seats needed to form a government.
What you have is a pretty diverse group of Californians all trying to align themselves with a single party.
No single party bridges the linguistic and geographic gulf between Belgium's two regions.
Sunday's election makes New Democracy the largest single party in the Greek parliament.
After all, Yadav is the president of Gujral's own party, the Janata Dal, the largest single party in the Front.
Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush continued and expanded this strategy of bringing all conservatives into a single party.
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No single party in Israel ever gets a parliamentary majority of more than 60 seats, so parties must rely on coalition-building.
In a world where issues tend to be complicated by multinational negotiations, it is easier to reach agreement through single party negotiations.
This followed his Mega Combination coalition's winning 23 out of the 51 seats in parliament in May, thereby becoming the largest single party.
The fact that no single party or coalition got anywhere near a clear majority would make forming a government, a parliamentary system, difficult under any circumstances.
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In a surge in support, Beppe Grillo's anti-austerity Five Star Movement attracted 25.54% of the vote, making it the most popular single party in the lower chamber.
He stressed no single party could resolve the current crisis alone and he was seeking a "political consensus" to ensure a "fair and transparent" system of pay and expenses.
This weekend in Italy, voters were so disgusted with their politicians that an upstart political movement led by a political comedian won the most votes of any single party.
In a surge in support, Beppe Grillo's anti-austerity Five Star Movement attracted more than a quarter of the vote, making it the most popular single party in the lower chamber.
No single party had a majority in the 56-member parliament but the three-party, centre-right coalition in power had 30 seats in total - one more than needed to pass the bailout.
Also, with the split in the NKP, no single party will have a working majority in the 299-seat National Assembly, and the coalition may find itself making deals in order to legislate bills.
Part of my Companies agenda for 2013 when I return from my military duty overseas is to get to know ever single party and homeowner on the shoreline adjacent to my company lease.
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TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- If you go to a single party in a fashionable part of Tokyo on any given day, you will see successful young professionals who love good food, wine and company.
They argue that too many votes are effectively wasted under the current system, with elections decided by a small number of voters in a handful of seats where no single party has a large majority.
Both Netanyahu's own experience and that of Sharon apparently led the premier to the conclusion that he must preside over a broad coalition in which no single party has the ability to destabilize his government.
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Because no single party won the majority of seats, the meetings held on May 7th instead addressed the more pressing question of how to form a government, leaving the union leaders out in the cold.
No other single party had fielded enough candidates to claim an overall majority, although Shropshire County Council had been through many years of no overall control before the Conservatives took power in the run up to it becoming a unitary authority.
It knows any change of government in Eritrea will have to come from within the ruling and single party, the People's Front for Democracy and Justice, and, given President Isaias's personal grip on the party and the government, this is highly unlikely.
And weaker identification with parties can be a plus: some of the worst-governed bits of Britain have suffered badly from a tribal instinct among voters that has stilted political competition and led a single party to think it had a monopoly on power.
It is being rumoured that Syriza may soon transform itself into a single party and extend membership to a far left group called Antarsia (which gained 1%) and the Louka Katseli group from Pasok which failed to gain seats, and the Eco-Greens, who polled below 3%.
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