The process of improperly increasing the membership of a local branch of a political party in order to ensure the preselection of a particular candidate.
the party is using a private investigator to probe allegations of branch stacking
Example sentencesExamples
- The party uses mass migration as an extrapolation of their ethnic branch stacking activities.
- These staffers should also be good for a few great branch stacking stories of their own.
- The sitting Labor MP has announced his retirement amidst recriminations over local Labor Party branch stacking.
- Nobody could. an absolute end to the factions, to branch stacking, to the entrenched corruption within the ALP system.
- And of course then you've got all that sinister branch stacking going on.
- The fact is that he lost to one of the worst examples of branch stacking that I have ever seen.
- There were accusations of breathtaking hypocrisy over the issue of branch stacking.
- Having more people involved would make branch stacking a less certain route to political office.
- The news that all 65 members have been suspended for alleged branch stacking is causing much merriment throughout rival parties.
- The Labor leader says there's no room in the party for branch stacking.