Meanings of potential kingmaker in English

He secured eight seats for his Yisrael Beitenu party, making him a potential kingmaker.

Former planning minister Ramazan Bashardost is a distant third but could be a potential kingmaker.

He was seen as a potential kingmaker.

Former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has emerged as potential kingmaker and favors a unity government with Gantz's and Netanyahu's parties.

I feel slightly confused to now be reading that Gavin Williamson is widely seen as a " potential kingmaker".

But even after his stunning success in the Israeli election, and as potential kingmaker in coalition negotiations, he is a novice.

A party formed in New Caledonia just two months ago has become the potential kingmaker after the weekend election of a new Congress.

The general election will be held in six months and one potential kingmaker, Winston Peters, is rejecting an early challenge from the Prime Minister.

Any run-off would turn distant third-place candidate Antonio Saca, who was president from 2004 until 2009, into a potential kingmaker.

In an Andalucía election in December, Vox won 12 seats in the 109-seat regional parliament, outstripping forecasts and making it a potential kingmaker.

That places Katter and centrist Nick Xenaphon as potential kingmakers with team members in both houses.

One day its MPs are the potential kingmakers, the next the wreckers of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal.