It might be a formal electoral alliance, a federation or a cluster of groups with their own traits standing under a single leader with a single prospectus.

The electoral alliance won 8.4% of the popular vote and 20 out of 240 seats.

Some uses of this system have fostered the creation of an electoral alliance between political parties or groups as opposed to a coalition.

A party or electoral alliance must pass the election threshold of 2% of the overall vote to be allocated a seat.

After this relatively successful election, the parties formed an electoral alliance for the 2005 federal elections.