West Lancashire is still a two-party authority with 28 Conservative and 26 Labour councillors.
An old-established two-party system is giving way to a far more polarising class divide.
Were Conservative modernisers right to argue that two-party government makes difficult reforms easier to pull off?
Mr. Netanyahu's two-party bloc was forecast to have plunged to 31 seats from its current 42.
Japan has gone from a one- to a two-party state, and now to what?
The arrangement gives an edge to the larger parties and will likely result in a two-party system.
How does the Electoral College affect the political strength of the two-party system in the United States?
The College undergirds the two-party system with its state-by-state, winner-take-all approach, which, in turn, helps preserve national unity.
The two-party establishment still has the big guns, the big donors, and the broad electoral support necessary to survive.
The old two-party system is dead, says Spiros Makrigiannis, a shopkeeper in Anavra.
Still, the two-party panel on parliamentary matters ordered by President Shanker Dayal Sharma may bring some stability to the government.
We now have a two-party agreement to act as if the central economic challenge of our time has been resolved.
The balance of power in women's basketball, once a two-party system with Connecticut and Tennessee, had begun to shift recently.
The case for Americans Elect is a polarizing two-party system that stymies debate and chokes choice that quashes voter involvement.
But the Italian election results offer a glimmer of hope for more of a two-party system, at least for a while.
Although they tend to favor Republicans, the Tea Party has problems with both political parties and the two-party system in general.
If this election founds a system of vibrant two-party competition, Japan will have undergone a monumental change, no matter who wins.
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The two-party system was undreamt of by the founders of the Republic.
And while the Peronists are a single (albeit fractious) party accustomed to a single chief, the two-party Alliance has a collective leadership.
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Could the Front's rise even herald a new form of two-party politics?
The question that has plagued Liberals for more than half a century is how a third party can break open a two-party system.
The two-party system is a boon for America when it is seen as providing a voice for two parts of a unified whole.
The Radical party, the non-Peronist pole of a two-party system since 1945, has all but disappeared: its official candidate won just 2% of the vote.
Left out of the two-party system, libertarians must examine all issues.
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Despite the emergence of the centrist contender Francois Bayrou as a third force at the presidential election, the parliamentary vote largely confirmed the two-party system.
Some have argued the commission unfairly favors the current two-party system.
His party has dented the two-party system long dominated by the Pakistan Muslim League-N and the outgoing Pakistan People's Party and could steal votes from both.
But the internet, for all its leveling, is obviously not enough to shake the pillars of the status quo, or to break the entrenched two-party system.
If it works, he says, the two-party system that can usually be relied upon to reach some kind of compromise might once again be allowed to function.
"One of the justifications for this campaign is to preserve and expand the right of third parties and independent candidates to challenge the two-party duopoly system, " Nader said.
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