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- Paper_candidate abstract "In a representative democracy, the term paper candidate is often given to a candidate who stands for a political party in an electoral division where the party in question enjoys only low levels of support. Although the candidate has little chance of winning, a major party will normally make an effort to ensure it has its name on the ballot paper in every constituency. In two-party systems, a paper candidate may also be known as token opposition.Paper candidates may be local party members or members from neighbouring areas (in jurisdictions where this is allowed), or sometimes members from central office. The main purpose of fielding paper candidates is to maintain or improve the profile of a political party and, in two-party systems, to provide at least nominal opposition to a seemingly unassailable incumbent. Another potential use for paper candidacy is to allow a candidate who wants off the ballot of another race to do so by running for something else, a race they cannot possibly win (such as Rick Lazio, who lost a Republican primary for New York Governor in 2010 but still had a third-party ballot line; Lazio was nominated for a judicial seat in the Bronx that was so heavily Democratic that he could not have possibly won if he wanted to, and he did not). The paper candidates themselves typically do little or no campaigning and neither incur nor claim any expenses. There are circumstances where a paper candidate can win election, often when the opposing candidate is unexpectedly embroiled in scandal; for example, then-27-year-old American Chris Smith, who ran as a token opponent to New Jersey congressman Frank Thompson in 1978 and 1980, won the latter contest after Thompson was embroiled in the Abscam scandal.In Britain paper candidates are commonly fielded in different locations by all the major parties in both Local and National Elections.A dummy candidate is similar to a paper candidate in that both types do not intend to win their race; however, they differ in that a dummy candidate typically has an ulterior motive for being in the race, such as to dishonestly divert votes away from more legitimate candidates or to take advantage of benefits afforded political candidates. Another related concept is the stalking horse candidate, a junior or little-known politician who challenges an incumbent to test the support for a more serious challenge from someone else.".
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- Paper_candidate wikiPageWikiLink Frank_Thompson.
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- Paper_candidate wikiPageWikiLink New_Democratic_Party_of_Prince_Edward_Island.
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- Paper_candidate wikiPageWikiLink Quebec.
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- Paper_candidate wikiPageWikiLink Rick_Lazio.
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- Paper_candidate wikiPageWikiLink Tokenism.
- Paper_candidate wikiPageWikiLink United_Kingdom_general_election,_2015.
- Paper_candidate wikiPageWikiLinkText "Paper candidate".
- Paper_candidate wikiPageWikiLinkText "names appearing on the ballot paper".
- Paper_candidate wikiPageWikiLinkText "no-hope Labour candidate".
- Paper_candidate wikiPageWikiLinkText "paper candidate".
- Paper_candidate wikiPageWikiLinkText "sacrificial lamb candidate".
- Paper_candidate wikiPageWikiLinkText "sacrificial lamb".
- Paper_candidate wikiPageWikiLinkText "symbolic candidate".
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- Paper_candidate subject Category:Political_metaphors_referring_to_people.
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- Paper_candidate comment "In a representative democracy, the term paper candidate is often given to a candidate who stands for a political party in an electoral division where the party in question enjoys only low levels of support. Although the candidate has little chance of winning, a major party will normally make an effort to ensure it has its name on the ballot paper in every constituency.".
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