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If any parties offer fewer candidates than they are allowed to offer, then lower-ranked parties that otherwise would not be allowed to offer even one candidate would be allowed to offer one candidate each. This provision discourages a popular party from forcing the voters in that party to elect a candidate who would lose against a more popular candidate from the same party.
If a party splits into two parties in an attempt to offer more candidates, both parties are likely to lose popularity because fewer voters will rank each one at the top of their ballot.
When a party rises in popularity and earns an additional place on the ballot, that is offset by another party losing a position on the ballot.
During a previous election, ballots must ask the voters to rank the political parties. The advance results enable candidates and parties to know how many candidates that party can offer in each contest in the upcoming election cycle.
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