Sentences with phrase «electoral divisions»

The purpose of this is to bring about a more equitable political distribution of seats than it is possible to achieve through a distribution based purely on electoral divisions.

They apply their predicted national changes in the share of the vote to county electoral division and ward level results (adjusting for boundary changes).

A party can win outright by being only marginally ahead of its competitors in most electoral divisions.

[1] 53 electoral divisions elected one county councillor each by first - past - the - post voting for a four - year term of office.

[1] All councillors were be elected from electoral divisions by first - past - the - post voting for a four - year term of office.

84 councillors were elected from single - member electoral divisions by first - past - the - post for a four - year term of office.

The government could easily amend the law to allow the population of each of the new electoral divisions to be closer to the provincial average, perhaps within plus or minus 10 percent or 5 percent deviation.

More broadly, the center - left / center - right electoral division that currently works to the Democrats» disadvantage is a relatively narrow one that leaves most particular elections up for grabs.

The Norwegian electoral system is based on the principles of direct election and proportional representation in multi-member electoral divisions.

[1] All 53 councillors were elected from electoral divisions which returned one county councillor each by first - past - the - post voting for a four - year term of office.

The House of Representatives currently consists of 150 members, elected by and representing single member districts, known as electoral divisions (commonly referred to as «electorates» or «seats»).

Striped electoral divisions have mixed representation.

This Act also allows the commission to recommend up to 4 large electoral divisions with a population that is as much as 50 percent below the average population of all the proposed electoral divisions.

Section 15 of the Act allows for the population of a proposed electoral division to be 25 percent above or 25 percent below the average population of all the proposed electoral divisions.

The Conservatives gained the electoral division of Worplesdon from the Liberal Democrats.

The Liberal Democrats gained the electoral division of Guildford North from Labour and the electoral division of Worplesdon from the Conservatives.

The Conservatives gained the electoral division of Worplesdon from the Social and Liberal Democrats.

The Liberal Democrats retained the electoral division of Ash which they had gained from the Conservatives in a by - election, in 1990.

The Liberal Democrats gained the electoral division of Guildford West from Labour and the electoral division Guildford East from the Conservatives.

The Conservatives gained two electoral divisions, Guildford East and Guildford South East, from the Liberal Democrats.

The Conservatives gained the electoral divisions of Guildford North and Guildford West from Labour.

The Conservatives regained the electoral division of Shalford from the United Kingdom Independence Party.

The Conservatives gained the electoral divisions of Guildford North and Guildford West from Labour, and gained the electoral division of Guildford South from the Liberals.

[1] The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2009.

Boundary changes to the electoral divisions will take effect at this election after a review of the county by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.

All 49 councillors of East Sussex County Council were elected from 44 electoral divisions, which return either one or two councillors each by first - past - the - post voting for a four - year term of office.

The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2009.

72 councillors were elected from 68 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first - past - the - post voting for a four - year term of office.

In total, 74 councillors were elected from 63 newly formed electoral divisions (53 single member divisions, nine 2 - member divisions and one 3 - member electoral division).

Elections were held in all electoral divisions across the present ceremonial county, excepting Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen which are unitary authorities in a similar way to Greater Manchester and most of Merseyside.

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.

In order to do so, area statistics provided by the Central Statistics Office for the 3,000 + electoral divisions in the state were accessed and area figures / statistics for each of the different electoral divisions located within the different local and European election constituencies were aggregated together to calculate the area of these electoral areas.

Boundary changes to the electoral divisions took effect at this election after a review of the county by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England increasing the number of seats on the council from 77 to 78.

Threading boundaries between and through centres of population on the pretext of ensuring fairness is also a great way to cheat for your own benefit — a practice known as gerrymandering, after a 19th - century governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, who created an electoral division whose shape reminded a local newspaper editor of a salamander.

Its principle is simple: each electoral division elects one representative, the candidate who gained the most votes.

Conversely, the electoral division you live in might be on a knife edge, giving disproportionate weight to the small number of votes that can tip the balance.

If a candidate or party is slightly ahead in a bare majority of electoral divisions but a long way behind in others, they can win even if a competitor gets more votes overall — as happened most notoriously in recent history in the US presidential election of 2000, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore.

Please find your MNA here (their e-mails are here too) and send them this letter (if you aren't sure what your electoral division is called, find it via postal code here).

Find your MNA here using your electoral division and send them the template letter below: