Sentences with phrase «govan parliamentary seat»

And that, first and foremost, means factions must acquire and holds as many parliamentary seats as possible.

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

With Macron having no significant, established political party behind him, we expect those parties whose candidates fell short in the first round of the presidential campaign to push hard for parliamentary seats in the June parliamentary elections in a bid to win influence.

In other words, although King obtained only a minority in the general election, he sometimes had a majority of parliamentary seats during the next four years.

That is what enabled Italy's Five Star movement, Spain's Podemos and even Greece's Syriza to organize and win parliamentary seats.

The final example is from 1921, when Mackenzie King's Liberals won 116 parliamentary seats — just two shy of a majority.

After losing his Glasgow - Govan parliamentary seat in the 1992 General Election, Scottish National Party politician Jim Sillars condemned Scotland as a country of «Ninety - Minute Patriots,» willing to support Scotland during a football match but unwilling to take the necessary steps to....

«I'm using this party office to support Sam Kwesi Fletcher to win the parliamentary seat so that he can continue the good work he has started, because when someone is doing something good you have to support him or her».

Manchester East 1906In the space of two months, Conservative Arthur Balfour not only lost his office as prime minister, he also lost his parliamentary seat.

Tatton 1997The parliamentary seat of Tatton was one of the safest Tory seats in the country.

The German election system is such that the final proportion of parliamentary seats must match the country wide proportions of party - preference votes.

Her husband became headmaster of the Leys School in Cambridge, where her foray into local politics was to begin, though she failed to be selected for a parliamentary seat in 1974.

According to him there are six parliamentary seats in the region being held by the NPP out of which five may swing to the ruling party.

So instead we see the Tories gaining in Dudley, whose parliamentary seats trended Tory last year.

When I explained that 12.6 % of the vote translated into just one parliamentary seat, my Chinese students seemed less than impressed with democracy

The party also wrestled close to 50 parliamentary seats to gain the most comfortable parliamentary majority since the second parliament of the Fourth Republic.

«Winning more parliamentary seats will ensure a smooth passage of bills by the president in future and implementing policies will not face challenges since he has the bigger representation».

Georgian Dream came out on top in both categories, producing an 85 - 65 split in parliamentary seats, smaller parties being eliminated.

-LRB-...) a united center - left opposition might get 8 % fewer parliamentary seats than Fidesz if both got an equal share of the votes.

An Upper East Regional Chairman aspirant of the New Patriotic Party, Filson Awankua, says his leadership will ensure the party increases its parliamentary seats in the region and create job opportunities for the citizenry.

Mr. Awankua, said the few [3] NPP parliamentary seats in the region was due to the poor leadership and disunity among the regional executives.

Could a parliamentary seat be next?

He said he's motivated to lead the party at the regional level in order to unite all of its members to collaborate to win at least six parliamentary seats in the region at the next general elections in 2020.

My attention has been drawn to a deliberate and vile propaganda circulating on social media to the effect that, I am building a «magnificent villa» in Damongo, in the Northern Region, as part of an alleged ambition «to annex» a Parliamentary seat.

She admits that holding on to the party's only parliamentary seat in Brighton Pavilion against Labour will be «a hard struggle» but is convinced Caroline Lucas can do it.

The Director of Election for the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) James Kwabena Bomfeh a.k.a Kabila has said Samia Nkrumah, a Flagbearer aspirant of the party should desist from continuing to accuse her political detractors of being behind her inability to retain the Jomoro Parliamentary seat.

Would people be comfortable with for example handing 10 - 20 % of parliamentary seats to those would can't read or do basic math.

Other staffers currently looking for safe parliamentary seats include Greg Beales, his pollster, and Torsten Henricson - Bell, his senior economics adviser.

The ruling NPP has instructed all metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives who intend to contest parliamentary seats in areas where there is a sitting MP to resign years before the primaries.

Following the inability of the Huudu Yahaya - led conflict resolution committee of the National Democratic Congress to effectively deal with grievances arising out of last year's parliamentary primaries, the governing party risk losing some parliamentary seats it won or lost to independent candidates in the 2012 elections, investigations by The aL - hAJJ have uncovered.

Nana Konadu, is the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Party (NDP), her son, has joined his father, who is the founder of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), as well as his eldest sister; Zenator Rawlings, who is vying for the Klottey Korle Parliamentary seat on the ticket of the NDC.

The MP's present action is said to be linked to the decision by the NDC vetting committee to disqualify his protégé and preferred choice for the parliamentary seat, Isaac Yibor, who contested the 2012 election as an independent candidate.

Even in places where leave was strongest, such as Yeovil and rural south Somerset, Grant says the party believes there are enough angry remain voters to take back parliamentary seats.

On these figures, the 325th MP, counting in from left or right, will represent Labour, but only just: a four - seat swing from Labour (or the SNP) to the Lib Dems, Conservatives or UKIP would give the median parliamentary seat to the Liberal Democrats.

Blogs do best when they cover subjects whose minutiae are ignored by the mainstream media, as was true on the right during the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, and more recently the coverage of selections for individual parliamentary seats.

This will create a single political entity with one dominant political objective — winning the Crawley Parliamentary seat for the Conservatives.

In actual fact there was no Lib Dem bludgeoning last night, as the party held its ground in its parliamentary seats and made some key gains too.

The petition comes in the wake of calls by the Klottey Korle constituency Chairman of the umbrella family, Alhaji Bashiru Nii Narh Alema, that the party risks losing the parliamentary seat in the upcoming elections, should Zanetor Rawlings be disqualified from contesting.

But the defeat of Mandelson by Livingstone in last year's NEC election, support for Livingstone for London mayor and black members» use of OMOV to try to select black candidates for inner city parliamentary seats showed that the individual membership can not be totally controlled by the leadership.

Its most well - known member was John Alderdice, who became leader of the party ahead of the 1987 general election, contested the Belfast East parliamentary seat and received 32 % of the vote, the highest percentage ever achieved by Alliance in an individual seat in a Westminster election.

Madam Tetteh lost her parliamentary seat by polling 25,664 of the total valid votes against the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) George Andah who had 28,867 of the votes.

In Mid-Devon the Tories moved into overall control, gaining four seats, while Solihull - an extremely close parliamentary seat between the two parties - was another Conservative gain.

If you can do any of get, say, a couple of million people to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the minimum wage; win parliamentary seats by running on this issue; or provide polling evidence showing majorities would repeal the race, gender discrimination laws, etc then I will withdraw the claim about this being a minority position.

It currently polls at 14 %, above Plaid Cymru, and while it's not set to win any parliamentary seats this time around, it could cream off a proportion of Labour votes, as well as woo some nationalist supporters.

I was selected to fight the Redditch parliamentary seat that I won in 1997 on an all - woman shortlist.

He also launched a sustained attack on the Tories, claiming that the Government is «gerrymandering the electoral system» by pursuing boundary reforms and reducing the number of parliamentary seats.

They face the real prospect that they could top the poll next month — and win not a single parliamentary seat next year.

It originally said that Thirsk and Malton was England's biggest parliamentary seat with 16,000 more voters than the average.

I didn't look at them until the last one — they were for his Conservative parliamentary seat campaign.

As we've seen in Scotland, when you separate assembly seats from parliamentary seats, it creates a great deal of confusion for voters, for parties and for the wider public.