We've also got to recognize that we don't win elections without a respectable portion of the minority vote.
In London that was partly because of the return of the minority ethnic vote to the party.
When a substantial minority votes on a smaller party line, elected officials get the message.
The later position often brought him into the newspapers as a lone dissenter or minority vote on board matters.
But Labour 'won' on a minority vote and governed for the next five years.
But he will also detail new taxes that could pose a severe political test for a president elected on a minority vote.
In 1981, Tom Kean received 11 percent of the minority vote.
In practice that meant ignoring the minority vote at home and seeking agreements with nearby countries.
There may of course also be a minority vote.
If the majority of the minority vote against establishment, it does not proceed.