The more
seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198
seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant
numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were
accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of
seats compared to at 198 out of 646
seats - 30.65 % of
seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14
seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater
number of
seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small
numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.
The concern expressed by states with large undocumented immigrant populations is that asking about citizenship will scare people off, forms won't get filled out and the count won't be
accurate, affecting federal funding and the
number of congressional
seats.
Not only was his overall outcome impressive, but he also called an amazingly
accurate number of Senate
seats, and (I think, but don't know) in the House.
and receiving a reply of «X», a perfectly
accurate answer based on the
number of place settings, was able to successfully sue when he discovered after the purchase that it was licenced to
seat «Y»; substantially less than «X».