0 someone who supports a particular idea, group, or person:
2 a person who gives encouragement and approval to someone or something:
Table 2 presents the data on the changing attitudes of supporters of the parties that remained in the coalition toward those parties which left.
The canvass allows parties to identify their supporters, their opponents, and also undecided voters, who might be swayed in an election.
A productive next step also might identify other critical behaviours that are influenced by people's status as supporters or opponents of those in power.
Conservative parties make it less likely that their supporters would rely on the military to advance their interests.
By 1898, even the most vocal supporters of the bill conceded that the bill's impact would be mostly symbolic.
Second, neither supporters nor critics of the constitution thought the district would foster attachment to the national government.
The topic prompted divergent individual responses rather than a convergent collective endeavor, even among the supporters of the interests of natural science.
Increasingly, social scientists are drawing our attention to the instrumental motives of the supporters of social insurance.
