Sentences with phrase «cent of the public vote»

It received 7 seats and 10.5 per cent of the public vote.

Richard Barnbrook has won a seat on the Greater London Assembly after the British national party earned more than five per cent of the public vote.

Not exact matches

On legislative votes, the PCs and Wildrose voted together 90.2 per cent of the time, and on money votes — matters concerning the expenditure of public funds — they voted together 95.8 per cent of the time, the study found.

When the school lunch program was institutionalized across the country in 1946, Congress voted 9 cents for every child in the country eating school lunch, according to Victoria Leonard, director of Children «s Nutrition for the Center for Science and Public Interest, a Washington - based consumer activist group.

The British Social Attitudes Survey published earlier this year revealed that only 55 per cent of the public believed there was a democratic duty to vote.

For example Labour currently wins large proportions of votes from non-whites (around 10 per cent of the electorate), public sector trade unionists (another 10 per cent of the electorate) and working age people whose main income is via the welfare system (another 10 per cent of the electorate).

Private polling that showed 88 per cent of the electorate want a public vote on the Lisbon treaty have been criticised for sampling too small a number of people.

«57 per cent of the public agree with the principle that «the number of seats a party gets should broadly reflect its proportion of the total votes cast»

The senior salaries review body (SSRB) recommends MPs vote for a pay rise of 2.56 per cent, noting that they are underpaid compared to people in comparable positions in the private and public sector.

The House of Commons was due to vote later today on a motion which would have increased the percentage of an MP's pensionable salary paid through the public purse from 26.8 per cent to 28.7 per cent.

It will also make a strike unlawful in essential public services - health, education, fire and transport - unless 40 per cent of those entitled to vote support taking action.

Despite widespread public support from Quebec's legal community and a mid-strike vote in which they rejected the government's final offer by a whopping 97 per cent, the striking lawyers emptied their $ 4 - million strike fund, took out an $ 8 - million loan (which is currently being repaid through an increase in union dues to three per cent from 0.75 per cent of members» salaries) and dropped strike pay to zero from the 60 per cent of members» weekly salaries paid at the start of the strike.