Sentences with phrase «electoral area where»

(Killiney - Shankill was the only other six - seat electoral area where Labour won two seats despite taking just 18.6 % of the vote there, helped by good vote management between their two candidates and some degree of luck with the vote transfers).

Not exact matches

The first is the redrawing of Highwood's boundaries where new electoral lines have transformed the riding from a large rural land base to a small, dense area of people that more closely resembles an urban riding.

Many prisoners are homeless and / or not on the electoral register and because of over-crowding they are transfered from prison to prison on a regular basis often far from their the area where their home is.

It is the expectation of Bayelsans that this time around election materials will get to the various units across the council area as against the botched December exercise where materials and electoral officials were hijacked by political thugs.

The electorate of any constituency was to be as close as possible to a country - specific electoral quota to reduce malapportionment; where rigid adherence to the «as far as practicable» guidelines would mean a large disparity between electorates, the commissions were expressly empowered to form seats which combine parts of two (and where major disparity still remains, more) local government areas.

Now we have a clear - cut situation where independence is being rejected across most of Scotland's 32 electoral areas.

The best result at the constituency, or electoral area, level for Labour in the 2014 Local Elections came in Athy, where Labour won 27.0 % of the first preference votes and took two of the six seats in that electoral area.

While in terms of electoral races in different constituencies, Nigel Farage's party impacts both the Conservatives and Labour, one area where it damages the Tories more is on trustworthiness on key issues and the electoral implications of this.

The two, Kwame Adom Boakye and George Appiah Kubi, the Research and Elections Officer and Deputy Constituency Organizer of the NPP, are said to have been behind the disappearance in the Kokobra electoral area, where the party's polling station registration exercise was on - going on Tuesday.

Justice Bwala said that the panel has searched through the electoral act and did not find any where the returning officer is empowered to cancel the result of an election and therefore upheld the reversal of the cancellation of the election in the three council areas.

Just to add to the problems, many of the Lib Dem MPs who developed a strong local presence in these areas have now either retired from electoral politics or are at an age where another election run seems unlikely.

Adding that irregularities were also witnessed in Northern Taraba, particularly in Lau and Yoro, where Manzo comes from, Abubakar insisted that thousands of troops deployed to some areas as well as electoral officers were heavily compromised.

Some MPs are concerned that his radical stance of facing down corporations and taking on Tory cuts will have little resonance in areas where Labour is facing a tough electoral challenge from Ukip; but asked if the party should tailor its message for different audiences, Corbyn said: «No: you've got to give fundamentally the same message, of the injustice of economic austerity, and the way in which local government is being punished».

«The Green Party is now the third major party in statewide elections, but it will be the second major party in the cities and rural areas because we will provide electoral competition to incumbents where little now exists,» Hawkins said.

In cases where an electoral division fell within two different local election constituencies and in the absence of further information, a rough estimate / judgement call had to be made as to which proportion of that electoral division's territory / area was located within these different constituencies.

The release mentioned a number areas in the country the embassy had identified as hotspots where violence or electoral trouble may occur with little or no danger warning.

Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu who welcomed the development, outlined capacity building for the Commission's staff and political parties, voter education and sensitization, inclusiveness — particularly for women, youths and persons living with disabilities — and electoral conflict mitigation as areas where the Commission would need support.

He pointed to his early successes where he won a «pupil premium» to pump money into schools in disadvantaged areas, a referendum on electoral reform - which he lost - and an increase in the tax - free allowance to # 10,000.