Sentences with phrase «constituency seats»

It's our best chance of winning constituency seats next year.

Neither Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale nor deputy leader Alex Rowley had won constituency seats in the Scottish Parliament.

Other reports also indicated that Eric Osei Owusu, who placed a close second in the party's primaries to Hon. Joseph Appiah Boateng in November, 2015 has also filed his nomination to contest the Afram Plains south constituency seat on the Ticket of the ruling NDC in the December, 2016 elections but according to the National Organier who doubles as the campaign coordinator the party have only confirmed Oliver Kevor's candidature.

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State, Obong Paul Ekpo has denied allegations that he received N2 million bribe to endorse one of the aspirants to contest the Abak Federal Constituency seat in the 2019 general elections.

Presidential staffer, Clement Apaak clinched the Builsa South constituency seat in the Upper East Region from Alhassan Azong who entered parliament in 2008 and again in 2012 on the ticket of the PNC.

The first six Conservative candidates to be contesting constituency seats at next year's Scottish Parliament election have recently been selected.

Over recent days four more candidates have been selected to contest constituency seats at next year's Scottish Parliament elections.

Ten of the 14 Assembly local constituency seats have never changed party control, which may lead to complacency and inertia.

The Conservative party is leading in the polls for London Assembly Constituency seats so far.

Samia had earlier alleged that her Jomoro constituency seat was snatched from her by the ruling NDC with the bloated voters» register machinations.

The nationalists also took their first Glasgow constituency seats but failed to take other key targets.

Here, Juliet Swann looks at the history of Scottish Parliament elections in the region, and previews the individual constituency seats and the list candidates.

This was less than at any previous Scottish election, and was far lower than the 113 candidates that contested any one of the 59 Westminster constituency seats in 2010.

With all but two of the Scottish Parliament constituency seats announced Labour had lost 13 - and won just three.

The Conservative Party, still recovering from their wipeout in the 1997 UK general election across Scotland, failed to win a single constituency seat but did manage to win 18 seats through the Additional Member System.

The Etsako federal constituency seat became vacant when Mr Pius Odubu, became the running mate of the APC governorship candidate, Gov. Godwin Obaseki in the November, 2016 election.

When a party wins more constituency seats than it would be entitled to from its proportion of (party list) votes, overhang seats can occur.

The Ashaiman Constituency seat has since 1992 been occupied by the NDC, except in 2004, when the current MP, Alfred Agbesi lost the seat to the NPP's Enoch Teye.

ConHome is delighted that Nick Herbert has already promised fairer - sized constituency seats but the Conservatives need a bigger «democracy agenda».

Here are the main Conservative constituency seat targets for the 2021 Scottish Parliament election based on the results of the 2017 general election:

Ensure you don't miss the chance to vote in the Black member constituency seat elections for the National Executive.

The regional lists are considered to be of crucial importance to Labour because polls indicate the SNP could win almost all of the 73 constituency seats on offer in May.

The petitioner, who contested the 2015 House of Representatives seat on the ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, had sought to reverse the election victory of Gogo Bright Tamuno for the Okrika - Ogu - Bolo Federal Constituency seat.

The Assembly election uses a form of Additional Member System (AMS), with 14 local constituency seats (spanning two or three London boroughs) with winners elected by «first past the post» (or plurality rule) voting.

Kent Police have confirmed that they are looking into an allegation of electoral fraud in the Thanet South constituency seat.

A party can also be eligible for list seats if it wins at least three constituency seats in Germany, or at least one in New Zealand.

In short, a constituency seat is won by candidate who reached plurality of votes.

If polls showing the Nationalists sweeping all constituency seats are correct, Lamont could be facing a major battle.

The SNP won 63 of the 129 seats and took 44 per cent of the vote in the constituency seats and regions, which is a slight dip in SNP support and it lost its overall majority of seats.

Sandra White, an SNP MSP since 1999 took this constituency seat from Labour in 2011, increasing the SNP share of the vote by 14 %, with a lead of 882 votes.

In 1999, at the first elections to the Scottish Parliament, Labour took all the constituency seats across the Glasgow region.

In Wales, Labour came first, with 29 of the 60 seats and a 33 per cent vote share in the constituency seats and regions.

Which would be fine... except that the MP is also supposed to be a national legislator, either taking part in active government or holding government to account, usually many miles from the constituency seat.

The party had no constituency seats with just 5 left to declare - though it was set to pick up about 3 through proportional representiation.

Labour lost 9 % of the vote share and 13 constituency seats to the Tories and SNP, while Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson defied the odds to seize Edinburgh Central from the SNP.

Plaid Cymru say the plans are motivated by «self interest», and certainly Labour did win 70 % of the constituency seats in May with 42 % of the vote (60 % with 32 % of the vote in 2007).

The result for the constituency seat of Lambeth & Southwark in the London Assembly election has been declared.

The result for the constituency seat of West Central in the London Assembly election has been declared.

The result for the constituency seat of Havering and Redbridge in the London Assembly election has been declared.