But I don't think UKIP will have enough impact to break the two party system.
In recent days, Johnson has expressed hope that his vote total will alter the race enough to disrupt the two party system.
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But they sure come in handy if you want to sway the thinking of the growing majority of Americans who believe our two party system needs an overhaul.
Nominally, Japan's slow moving political realignment has produced a kind of two party system, with the long-entrenched Liberal Democratic Party pitted against the New Frontier Party, which is made up mainly of dissidents from the LDP and the religious-based Komei party.
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.
The question that has plagued Liberals for more than half a century is how a third party can break open a two-party system.
One of his main aims, which Mr Zeman seems to share, is to change the electoral system to encourage a broadly two-party system to emerge, rather than the present one in which small parties tend to hold the ring.
Although they tend to favor Republicans, the Tea Party has problems with both political parties and the two-party system in general.
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.
As outside-the-establishment movements like the tea party, Occupy Wall Street and Ron Paul followers are showing, the two-party system isn't big enough to absorb the concerns and passions of hundreds of thousands of grass-roots activists.
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The two-party system is a boon for America when it is seen as providing a voice for two parts of a unified whole.
On the theory that a united party of the right will then be matched by a united party of the left, France may therefore now be on the road to a two-party system familiar to voters in countries such as the United States, Britain, Australia, Spain or Germany.
An old-established two-party system is giving way to a far more polarising class divide.
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 old two-party system is dead, says Spiros Makrigiannis, a shopkeeper in Anavra.
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.
The two-party system was undreamt of by the founders of the Republic.
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.
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.
Worse, we are locked (due to the winner-take-all nature of our elections) into a two-party system, so that removes a lot of nuance from the equation and leads to inefficiencies.
It replaced a supposedly neutral caretaker government that, under Bangladesh's fraught two-party system, normally takes over for three months at the end of a government's five-year term to oversee fair elections.
Thus something resembling a two-party system may be emerging.
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