It's a professionally run electoral machine where orders come from the top down.

During the 1950s many activists had departed and the party became little more than a collection of personal electoral machines.

Like all successful electoral machines, New Labour was a construct, a coalition of different forces.

Until Election Day 2000, the national electoral machine seemed very much like a huge, slow-motion computer chip.

"What party structure means is not only an electoral machine to win elections," Mr. Wroblewski said.

Corporations were purged by agents given wide discretionary powers in an attempt to create a permanent royal electoral machine.

The 1958 result was helped by an alliance with Maurice Duplessis's formidable provincial electoral machine.

A more compelling argument is that the Republican Party is no longer a mean electoral machine, but an uneasy alliance of potentially competing groups.

It also developed an efficient electoral machine largely due to the advice and skills employed from former members of Fianna Fáil.

The opposition aggressively attacked Montague's personal life and political record, while the Conservative electoral machine had over 40 cars working the constituency on polling day.

Roblin played a crucial role in the 1911 federal election on reciprocity, by putting his electoral machine at the disposal of the federal Conservative Party.

Roblin's electoral machine won 28 seats, against 13 for the opposition Manitoba Liberal Party under new leader Edward Brown.

Priya Duryodhani thus gets Krishna's experienced Kaurava Party grassroots electoral machine.

Suharto then ordered his closest associate, Ali Murtopo, to transform Golkar and turn it into an electoral machine.

Days before he resigned for fraudulently concealing a loan from Geoff Robinson: New Labour has to be more than a ruthless electoral machine.

The RPR was conceived as an electoral machine against President Giscard d'Estaing.

Known to be a populist, he built a strong electoral machine, the Social Progressive Party (PSP), which dominated state politics until 1964.

During the audit, the opposition started claiming that the electoral machines recorded the sequence of the votes, while fingerprint scanners recorded the information of each voter.

In addition, 1901 saw the birth of the Republican radical socialist Party, the first modern political party conceived as an electoral machine of the Republican group.

Importantly, in view of Fothergill's later role in party organisation, Radical Action also wanted a radical overhaul of the party's electoral machine.

If the Labour Party were to build up an effective electoral machine, its leaders argued such controversial activities would have to be abandoned in the interests of widening popular support.

Roblin's electoral machine won a landslide thirty-two seats, while the opposition Manitoba Liberal Party under former premier Thomas Greenway won only eight.

In the 1958 federal election, Duplessis lent the UN's electoral machine to John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservatives, helping them to win the majority of ridings there.

It is an anti-bureaucratic organisation and is critical of 'Broad Left' alliances in the unions which, they argue, act as electoral machines for left wing leader trade union bureaucrats.

Wasn't the 1984 campaign a battle between Gary Hart, the advocate of "new ideas for a new generation," and Walter F. Mondale, the man with the big electoral machine?