Sentences with phrase «covered by this constituency»

The area covered by this constituency is larger than that covered by number of the smaller European states / principalities, including Andorra, Malta and Liechenstein, and is almost as large as that covered by the state of Luxembourg.

Not exact matches

By broadening their campaign to cover a larger number of constituencies, Ukip enjoys an exponential increase in its potential voters.

Prior to the 1918 election the county had been covered, nominally, by the county constituencies of Northern Monmouthshire, Southern Monmouthshire, and Western Monmouthshire, and the Monmouth Boroughs borough constituency.

He was a crook who curried favor by spreading other people's money around his backyard [literally in the case of his pool cover], presided over ribbon - cuttings that oft times included unveiling something with his name on it - all in the name of serving his constituency.

The Dublin Central constituency area could fit almost 400 times (378.2 times to be exact) into the area / territory covered by the Mayo constituency.

The Labour North region is covered by two European Parliamentary Constituencies, the North East and North West.

This week's diary is written by Gareth McKeever, who was selected in July 2008 for Westmorland and Lonsdale, a beautiful constituency covering much of the Lake District.

Prior to the 2005 general election, the city area was covered by six constituencies, with one straddling a boundary with another council area.

It is hard, given the lack of accurate tally figures for those contests, to work out accurately what party support levels at the 2009 European Elections would have been in the areas now covered by the North and South constituencies.

Confusion broke out on Tuesday morning at Chorkor in Accra, when a group of young men led by the Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Ablekuma South Constituency, chased out journalists who were to cover a press confab by a stalwart of the party, Mr. Ato Quarshie.

Subsequently, Steve Webb was elected for the new Thornbury and Yate constituency which covers most of the ground originally covered by Northavon.

The rest of the Renfrewshire area is covered by the Paisley North, Paisley South and Glasgow Govan constituencies.

We made a point of trying to get away from the campaign to cover the choice: the 6 and 10 did a series on big issues, from airports to defence spending to social care, that weren't getting much play in the campaign; Newsnight interrogated the future of the NHS; Andrew Neil's series of Daily Politics debates analysed policy, department by department over two weeks; and, online, from Reality Check to constituency profiles, we scrutinised the detail.

In terms of the European Election constituencies, there is a notable difference between the amount of territory covered by the very smallest constituency, Dublin, and the other two, more rural constituencies, in terms of population but especially in terms of geographical area / territory.

To put this into context, the constituency area is larger than the territories covered by five European Union states, namely Belgium, Slovenia, Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta.

The South constituency, with an area of 31,975.0 km2, is not as large as the Midlands, North and West constituency but it too encompasses a territory that is larger than the territories covered by any of the aforementioned five smaller European Union countries.

The South constituency covers 45.6 % of the state territory, while the area covered by the Dublin constituency (920.7 km2) just accounts for 1.3 % of the state territory.

The area covered by each of these four largest local election constituencies is more than twice that of the area covered by the Dublin local election constituency.

It covers almost all of the former constituency of Glasgow Rutherglen and most of the former constituency of Hamilton South, and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first - past - the - post system of election.

The rest of the council area is covered by the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale constituency, the East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow and the Lanark and Hamilton East constituency.