Editing Electoral threshold (section)

=== Memorable dramatic losses due to electoral threshold ===
* In the [[1990 German federal election]], the Western Greens did not meet the threshold, which was applied separately for former East and West Germany. The Greens could not take advantage of this, because the "[[Alliance 90]]" (which had absorbed the East German Greens) ran separately from "The Greens" in the West. Together, they would have narrowly passed the 5.0 percent threshold (West: 4.8%, East: 6.2%). The Western Greens returned to the Bundestag in 1994.
* Israel, [[1992 Israeli legislative election|1992]]. The extreme right-wing [[Tehiya]] (Revival) received 1.2 percent of the votes, which was below the threshold which it had itself voted to raise to 1.5 percent. It thus lost its three seats.
* In Bulgaria, the so-called "blue parties"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.weser-kurier.de/politik/prowestliche-parteien-sind-bulgariens-grosse-wahlverlierer-doc7e49jadmko08guyr1g6 |title=Prowestliche Parteien sind Bulgariens große Wahlverlierer |date=28 March 2017 |website=Weser-Kurier |access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref> or "urban right"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/30/bulgaria-election-all-you-need-to-know-about-countrys-fourth-vote-in-just-18-months |title= Bulgaria election: All you need to know about country's fourth vote in just 18 months Access to the comments |website=[[Euronews]] |date=2 October 2022|access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref> which include [[Union of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria)|SDS]], [[Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria|DSB]], [[Yes, Bulgaria!]], [[Bulgaria for Citizens Movement|DBG]], [[United People's Party (Bulgaria)|ENP]] and Blue Unity frequently get just above or below the electoral threshold depending on formation of [[electoral alliance]]s: In the [[2007 European Parliament election in Bulgaria|EP election 2007]], DSB (4.74%) and SDS (4.35%) were campaigning separately and both fell below the natural electoral of around 5 percent. In [[2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election]], DSB and SDS ran together as [[Blue Coalition]] gaining 6.76 percent. In [[2013 Bulgarian parliamentary election]], campaigning separately DGB received 3.25 percent, DSB 2.93 percent, SDS 1.37 percent and ENP 0.17 percent, thus all of them failed to cross the threshold this even led to a tie between the former opposition and the parties right of the centre. In the [[2014 European Parliament election in Bulgaria|EP election 2014]], SDS, DSB and DBG ran as [[Reformist Bloc]] gaining 6.45 percent and crossing the electoral threshold, while Blue Unity campaigned separately and did not cross the electoral threshold. In [[2017 Bulgarian parliamentary election]], SDS and DBG ran as Reformist Bloc gaining 3.06 percent, "Yes, Bulgaria!" received 2.88 percent, DSB 2.48 percent, thus all of them failed to cross the electoral threshold. In the [[2019 European Parliament election in Bulgaria|EP election 2019]], "Yes, Bulgaria!" and DBG ran together as [[Democratic Bulgaria]] and crossed the electoral threshold with 5.88 percent. In [[2021 Bulgarian general election|November 2021]], electoral alliance Democratic Bulgaria crossed electoral threshold with 6.28 percent.
* Slovakia, [[2010 Slovak parliamentary election|2010]]. Both the [[Party of the Hungarian Community]] which (including their predecessors) hold seats in parliament since the [[Velvet Revolution]] and the [[People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia]], which dominated in the 1990s, received 4.33 percent and thus failed to achieve the 5 percent threshold.
* Slovakia, [[2016 Slovak parliamentary election|2016]]. The [[Christian Democratic Movement]] achieved 4.94 percent missing only 0.06 percent votes to reach the threshold which meant the first absence of the party since the [[Velvet Revolution]] and the first democratic elections in [[1990 Slovak parliamentary election|1990]].
* Slovakia, [[2020 Slovak parliamentary election|2020]]. The coalition between [[Progressive Slovakia]] and [[TOGETHER – Civic Democracy|SPOLU]] won 6.96 percent of votes, falling only 0.04 percent short of the 7 percent threshold for coalitions. This was an unexpected defeat since the coalition had won seats in the [[2019 European Parliament election in Slovakia|2019 European election]] and won the [[2019 Slovak presidential election|2019 presidential election]] less than a year earlier. In addition, two other parties won fewer votes but were able to win seats due to the lower threshold for single parties (5%). This was also the first election since the [[Velvet Revolution]] in which no party of the Hungarian minority crossed the 5 percent threshold.
* Lithuania, [[2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election|2020]]. The [[Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance|LLRA–KŠS]] won only 4.80 percent of the party list votes.
* Madrid, Spain, [[2021 Madrilenian regional election|2021]]. Despite achieving 26 seats with 19.37 percent of the votes in the [[2019 Madrilenian regional election|previous election]], the liberal [[Ciudadanos]] party crashed down to just 3.54 percent in the 2021 [[snap election]] called by [[Isabel Díaz Ayuso]], failing to get close to the 5 percent threshold.
* Slovenia, [[2022 Slovenian parliamentary election|2022]]. [[Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia]] only achieved 0.62 percent of the vote. This was the first time when DeSUS did not reached the 4 percent since 1996 which was part of almost every coalition since its foundation.
* Germany, [[2022 Saarland state election]]. [[Alliance 90/The Greens]] fell 23 votes or 0.005 percent short of reaching representation. [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]] fell from 12.8 percent to below the electoral threshold with 2.6 percent in their only western stronghold. Total percentage of votes not represented was 22.3 percent.<ref>{{cite web |title=Results 2022 Saarland state election|url=https://wahlergebnis.saarland.de/LTW/|publisher=German State Statistical Officer}}{{in lang|de}}</ref>
* Israel, [[2022 Israeli legislative election]]. [[Meretz]] fell to 3.16 percent thus failed to cross the threshold for the first time.
* Germany, [[2025 German federal election|2025]]. Both the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]] (FDP) – part of the previous government coalition – and the [[Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance]] (BSW) – formed by a recent party split – fell just short of the threshold, with the FDP on 4.33% and BSW on 4.97%, just 0.03% short.