party membership card

plural party membership cards · alternative party-membership card

1. A membership card of a political party.

   The Speaker of the Saskatchewan legislature has cut up his party membership card and accused some members in Premier Scott Moe's caucus of intimidating him to the point that he fears the government House leader is packing a handgun.

   2024, Jeremy Simes, “'Enough is enough': Saskatchewan Speaker says he was repeatedly harassed, threatened”, in Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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   Voters turned their back on traditional parties and on politics in general—consequently, party membership has been declining rapidly. The proportion of the electorate who carries a party membership card has fallen from 9 percent in 1963 to 2.5 percent in 2002, narrowing the recruitment base substantially.

   2003, Monique Leijenaar, Kees Niemöller, “Netherlands: Political Careers between Central Party Dominance and New Pressures” (chapter 14), in The Political Class in Advanced Democracies: A Comparative Handbook, pages 259–277

   Synonyms: party card