Sentences with phrase «cent of the seats»

The remaining 63 per cent of seats are distributed using the proportional largest remainder method.

In the UK general election in 2005, the ruling Labour party won 55 per cent of the seats on just 35 per cent of the total votes.

However, if he claims to be a democrat, he can not defend a system which, in Scotland, in 2003 for example, gave his party 41 per cent of the seats in local councils on 32.6 per cent of the votes.

The electoral system allocates 37 per cent of seats using a first - past - the - post method.

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Cambridge Analytica's website mentions a 2010 case study for elections in Bihar where its client JD - U won 90 per cent of seats targeted by the firm.

· Tamworth (Staffordshire)- Conservatives won 90 per cent of seats on 49.5 per cent of the vote.

That means that the parties whose seat shares exceed their vote shares (the Conservatives, Labour, the SNP, the DUP, and — fractionally — Sinn Féin and the SDLP) collectively hold 24 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons more than they would if they were represented in exact proportion to their votes — that is, about 156 seats more.

In 2005, 35 per cent of the vote got Labour 55 per cent of the seats, while only three per cent less in the vote for the Tories got them just 30 per cent.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) won 30 per cent of the vote, but only 15 per cent of the seats, in Scotland in October 1974.

In 1994 the Conservatives» net losses amounted to 10 per cent of the seats up for election that year.

Labour secured 29 % of the south east vote but got just ten per cent of seats, while Conservatives won 34 % of the north east vote but got just nine per cent of seats.

Finally, for Sainte - Laguë, the 2015 election comes out in clear first place in terms of disproportionality: it beats even the election of 1983, when the SDP — Liberal Alliance secured 3.5 per cent of the seats on 25.4 per cent of the votes while Labour won 32.2 per cent of the seats on 27.6 per cent of the votes.

So far, the Tories and Liberal Democrats have chosen non-white candidates in about 5 per cent of seats.

So A has a power index of 3 ÷ 5, or 0.6, or 60 per cent — more than the 50 per cent of the seats it holds — and B and C are each «worth» just 20 per cent.