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A '''Codominant-Party System''' is when the same several, usually two, parties dominate politics for a long time. It can be seen as a weaker, informal version of the two-party system, however, the systems they operate in are still nominally democratic and either party can be replaced, but it is usually very hard as the result of a still primarily first-past-the-post voting system, where high amounts of tactical voting due to it being a plurality-based system will result in most people only voting for one of the two parties (otherwise known as Duverger's law). Examples include the UK [[File:Con-t.png]] [[Conservatism|Conservative]]/[[File:UKLab.png]] [[Social Democracy|Labour]] [[Third Way|Party]], the Australian [[File:LiberalParty.png]] [[Conservative Liberalism|Liberal]]/[[File:ALP.png]] [[Social Democracy|Labor]] [[Third Way|Party]] (in the Senate), the New Zealand [[File:LabourNZ-icon.png]] [[Social Democracy|Labour]]/[[File:NationalNZ-icon.png]] [[Liberal Conservatism|National Party]], the South Korean [[File:PeoplePowerParty.png]] [[National Conservatism|People Power Party]]/[[File:DemocraticPartyKorea.png]] [[Big Tent Liberalism|Democratic Party of Korea]], the Taiwanese [[File:DPP-Taiwan.png]] [[National Liberalism|Democratic Progressive Party]]/[[File:RevRightKMT.png]] [[Tridemism|Kuomintang]], and the Spanish [[File:PSOE.png]] [[Social Democracy|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]]/[[File:SpaPP.png]] [[Conservatism|People's Party]].