Sentences with phrase «parliamentary elections act»

The Electoral Commission performed a reallocation in keeping with the same procedures they used to allocate 72 MEPs and an extra Conservative MEP was allocated to the West Midlands constituency based on the 2009 vote and was enshrined in the European Union Act 2011 as an amendment of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002.

The European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 moved european elections in Great Britain from first past the post to a closed list, non-preferential PR system.

Not exact matches

Regarding parliamentary elections, single member plurality voting for most MPs developed from the various reform acts of the 19th and early 20th century, although oddities like the University MPs continued until 1950.

The FTPA is therefore best understood as an Act that restricts the prime minister's discretion to call early elections, not as an Act that fixes the parliamentary term.

Instead, it has acted with the sole purpose to maintain power and preserve the status quo after the parliamentary elections of 2018, regardless of the costs for relations with the EU.

An abstention by Labour would have prevented the PM from reaching a majority of two - thirds of all MPs, forcing her into the awkward position of taking the second path to an early election envisaged by the Act — a parliamentary vote of no confidence in her government.

As part of the requirements for the filing of nominations ahead of the 2016 elections, the EC has requested presidential and parliamentary aspirants to declare their assets, but the acting General Secretary of the NPP says there is no law that mandates that request.

1st Defendant is the Ghanaian constitutional body mandated under Article 45 of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana and the section 2 of the Electoral Commission Act, 1993 (Act 451) with the mandate of conducting all public elections including Presidential and Parliamentary elections inter alia.

Just a few years after his election, Williamson became David Cameron's parliamentary aide, acting as his eyes and ears among MPs.

It was the first nationwide referendum to be held for some thirty six years and was legislated for under the provisions of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 and the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 and is to date the first and only UK - wide referendum to be held on a domestic issue.

Any one of the aspiring leaders, or indeed Harriet Harman as acting leader, could have pressed for the referendum to include a further, better, option, perhaps that of STV; but none of them was prepared to do so, not least because going to the Parliamentary Labour party offering a system that would really end safe seats would reduce MP support in the leadership election itself.

Now make that three Labour ministers caught doing so just hours after the Labour Party launched its election manifesto telling us all how quickly and decisively the present Labour government had acted to clean up the parliamentary expenses scandal.

It did not slip into the Act during a late night parliamentary sitting or, like the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 which created the now to be abolished Serious Organsed Crime Agency, get nodded through in a parliamentary rush on the eve of a general election.