Yet they will probably allow some elements of the party to find a place in the new party realignment now taking shape.

Maull began his career as a Federalist, and joined the Whig Party with the party realignment of the 1830s.

But if the party realignment now under way gives voice to this new urban constituency, both Japan and its partners could benefit.

(due to the many party realignments in the 1990s only where changed from LDP to opposition or vice versa)

Indeed, the trend hardly portends a major party realignment.

As a result of the party realignments of the 1990s, several two-member districts were represented by two Councillors from the same party before the 2001 election.

Unlike the South, these areas have been strongly Republican since before the party realignments of the 1960s.

A party realignment is what happens when the balance of power between a country's political parties changes greatly.

They said there is "a party realignment in slow motion, not the big bang it may have been at earlier historic moments."

Despite the party realignment, there is little serious policy debate among officials.