Sentences with phrase «elected representation on»

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The move offended Lib Dems, who were relying on a strong presence in a Lords elected by proportional representation to maintain themselves after what is expected to be a bruising general election.

A committee will look into ways of creating a wholly or mainly elected upper chamber on the basis of proportional representation.

The only promise there was to «establish a committee to bring forward proposals for a wholly or mainly elected upper chamber on the basis of proportional representation».

On Saturday 10th March 2012, Slovakia joined the small but growing club of European countries that elected a majority government despite using a proportional representation system.

Friends of Dugdale have since pointed out that Rowley, when seeking election as the Scottish Party's deputy leader last year, promised that if he won he would not accept a protected place at the top of one of the lists from which a 56 of Holyrood's 129 MSPs are elected under a system of proportional representation only to go back on his word as soon as he won that particular race.

Also on the republican list of demands: abolition of the Privy Council; full proportional representation in elections for the House of Commons; decentralisation of power to local and community authorities; a voting age of 16; fixed - term parliaments; state funding of political parties; a ban on outside earnings for MPs; more powerful Commons select committees, with powers to confirm or block ministerial appointments; elected police chiefs and elected mayors in all the major cities.

Sturgeon requires the continuing support of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a system that's part first - past - the - post and part proportional representation.

In 1948, single transferable vote proportional representation on a state - by - state basis became the method for electing Senators to the Australian Senate.

When immigrant communities are undercounted, we lose out significantly on federal funding for our schools, roads, health care services, housing and as we did in the 2010 Census, we lose elected representation in congress.

http://www.grwpub.info/senate/ has a list of graphical representations of how the groups accumulated votes and were elected or eliminated (based on above - the - line group voting).

[227] However, on 2 June 2017, charges were brought under the Representation of the People Act 1983 against Craig Mackinlay, who was elected Conservative MP for South Thanet in 2015, his agent Nathan Gray, and a party activist, Marion Little.

At both, we insisted on local community and elected official representation.

Morgan managed to win enough seats to form a Labour - only administration (the election was held under proportional representation, and Labour won 30 of the 60 seats in the Assembly and the overall majority was achieved when Dafydd Elis - Thomas AM was elected Presiding Officer of the Assembly) and named his cabinet on 9 May.

It would then be for Members of the House who wished to serve on a particular Bill committee to make representations to the elected Committee of Selection, and the latter would be free to interview such applicants if they so wished.

His backing for electoral reform - which would mean scrapping the first - past - the - post system on which Westminster MPs are elected in favour of some form of proportional representation (PR)- came as John Denham, the skills secretary, also let it be known that he favours considering a number of «radical steps», including electoral reform.

A few years ago, the SCCDP passed a resolution on equal representation in elected office and the SCCDP's commitment to improving the status of women In Santa Clara County.

Last year, Santa Clara County Democratic Party (SCCDP) passed a resolution on Equal Representation in Elected Office and the SCCDP's Commitment to Improving the Status of Women in Santa Clara County.

The House of Councillors (Sangi - in) has 242 members, elected for a six - year term, 146 members in 47 single - and multi-seat constituencies (prefectures) by single non-transferable vote and 96 by proportional representation (by D'Hondt method) on the national level.

At five - year intervals, on the basis of the number of Members then enrolled in each Electorate as their primary Electorate, the Council shall reconsider the validity of the formula which determines the number of Council delegates to be elected by the Electorates [see (a) above] and, when necessary to insure equitable representation of the Members, shall change the formula and amend the relevant portion of this Section accordingly.

In the words of Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), Washington's elected, nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives, «[Republicans] used our denial of representation in the Senate, where vouchers would have been disposed of as a matter of senatorial courtesy, to force vouchers on the city.»

«This would close three of our middle schools on the north side and create a dual school system in which there is no elected school board representation.

The person whose residence complies with the requirements for geographical representation set forth in Article III, Section 2, and who receives the largest number of votes for each position on the Board of Directors shall be declared elected.

Specifically, under the amended bylaws, student representation will increase to two voting members; alumni - elected trustees will number between five and nine (depending on the size of the board at any given time); and each of the four permanent faculties, as well as the part - time faculty and the staff, will elect a non-voting observer to the board.

Drinker Biddle has elected seven new partners to its Managing Partners Committee, which serves as the firm's governing board, in a vote that brings representation of women on the committee to 50 percent.

Your renters liability insurance will step in and provide legal representation in civil cases and advocate on your behalf to minimize the judgment against you; and if there is a decision entered against you, will pay out up to the limits of the renters policy less your elected deductible.