Sentences with phrase «electoral regions»

However, the members did little to organise their electoral regions and there was no coordination at the state level.

National Assembly for Wales constituencies and electoral regions were first used for the 1999 elections.

The region is geographically the largest of the five electoral regions in Wales, being larger in area than the other four regions combined.

The others are the East Kilbride, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, Rutherglen and the Uddingston and Bellshill constituencies, all in other electoral regions.

One council area, the South Lanarkshire council area, was divided between three different electoral regions.

Various council areas are divided between two Holyrood electoral regions.

For Westminster election purposes, however, there are no electoral regions, and constituency boundary changes became effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

It is also one of eight constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region that elects four additional members (along with eight constituency members), to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election, when the Assembly for Wales was created.

Democratic Audit — Scotland asked Scottish political and elections experts to preview the contests north of the border by electoral region.

North Wales is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of nine constituencies.

Other parts of these preserved counties were within the Mid and West Wales electoral region.

Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the South Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Also, it is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

It was also one of nine constituencies in the North Wales electoral region, which elected four additional members, in addition to nine constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Order 2013 provides for the designated Returning Officer for each electoral region to be the council official responsible for elections in each of the following Westminster constituencies: Kettering for the East Midlands, Chelmsford for the Eastern region, Lewisham, Deptford for the London region, Sunderland Central for the North East region, Manchester Central for the North West region, Falkirk for Scotland, Southampton, Test for the South East region, Poole for the South West region, Preseli Pembrokeshire for Wales, Birmingham Ladywood for the West Midlands region, Leeds Central for the Yorkshire and Humber region, and Belfast South for the Northern Ireland Region.

The constituency falls within the electoral region of South Wales Central, whose four current AMs are Conservatives: Andrew R. T. Davies and David Melding; Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood; and Liberal Democrat Eluned Parrott.

Other parts of Powys, Clwyd and Gwynedd were within the North Wales electoral region.

The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election, when the National Assembly for Wales was created.

Mid and West Wales is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of eight constituencies.

Glasgow Govan is in the Glasgow electoral region.

All four are within the Central Scotland electoral region.

Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow electoral region between 2011 - 2016.

Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the South Wales East electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

It is one of nine constituencies in the Lothian electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Meirionnydd Nant Conwy was partly a Gwynedd constituency and partly a Clwyd constituency, partly within the preserved county of Gwynedd and partly within the preserved county of Clwyd, and one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region.

The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen.

[56] All three constituencies are within the North East Scotland electoral region: Shona Robison (SNP) is the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Dundee East constituency; [58] Joe Fitzpatrick (SNP) is the current MSP for the Dundee West constituency [59] and Graeme Dey (SNP) is the current MSP for the Angus South constituency.

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This allowed MAN1 to focus efforts and funding on the truly undecided voters in key regions of the electoral map that would ultimately decide the race.

The Abacus study also asked those who voted in the 2015 Canadian General Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral systems.

Newly floor - crossed Wildrose Alliance MLA Rob Anderson received 62 % of the vote as a PC candidate in 2008, but past elections show a more diverse electoral history in the region.

On politics, we think the trickiest votes for the region happened last year (France, Germany, the Netherlands), and while Italy faces fresh elections in March 2018, a new electoral law reduces the risk of extreme outcomes.

A majority (153) of the targeted electoral districts — Prince George (20), Kamloops (16), Fraser - Nicola (1), Chilliwack and Hope (27), Abbotsford (31), Surrey (20), Burnaby (28), and Vancouver (12)-- are regions and cities along the pipeline's route.ii

The Central Region «Unity Walk» is the third edition which is aimed at bringing together over hundred thousand sympathisers of the National Democratic Congress in the region after its electoral defeat in the 2016 general eleRegion «Unity Walk» is the third edition which is aimed at bringing together over hundred thousand sympathisers of the National Democratic Congress in the region after its electoral defeat in the 2016 general eleregion after its electoral defeat in the 2016 general election.

Noting that, when you look at the electoral fortunes you don't need a soothsayer to tell you, the Volta region is indeed the world Bank of the NDC.

The Assembly member for the Bantama electoral area in the Ashanti region, Kwame Ofori, has revealed that gang rape is normal among the youth in the community.

According to its supporters, one of the primary virtues of the electoral college is that winning candidates must obtainconcurrent majorities from around the country to win, rather than appeal to clusters of voters whose votes could be aggregated across states and regions but nevertheless might not represent all strata of society.

I do not know how bad is it in the UK but here, we have some electoral district that are protected to guaranty that a region will not loose it's political power.

Geography will have a very significant impact here, while first past the post electoral systems, such as the one used in the United Kingdom, will always act to the advantage of the largest parties and will significantly disadvantage the smaller parties, unless their votes are strongly clustered in a specific geographical region — e.g. Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

We the Heads of the following international observer missions present in Kenya: African Union (AU), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Commonwealth, East African Community (EAC), European Union (EU), International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), National Democratic Institute (NDI) and The Carter Center (TCC); Following our discussion of our observations and the recent events in Kenya, remind all stakeholders that the electoral process is ongoing.

Creating more regions, he contended, will lead to electoral demarcation, which may lead to more constituencies and that «more constituencies will probably lead to more districts, etc..»

While in Ashanti Region, Mr. Awuku made known that he would work closely with all the party's organizers and the grassroots members, who are very important, regarding the party's electoral fortunes.

Educating the gathering on electoral issues, the Ashanti Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mr. Serebour Quaicoo, urged the youth in the Ashanti Region not to be passive about issues regarding the 2016 general elections but do their best to fully participate and let their voices be positively heard.

Also, the organization works to professionalize the system by helping ECOWAS carry out various actions to improve electoral governance in the region through programs targeted at strengthening the legal and institutional framework for organizing elections.

Previous electoral results suggest the party that wins majority of parliamentary seats in the Region, subsequently wins the national elections.

The mischief embarked upon by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to discredit the Electoral Commission (EC), has backfired in the party's stronghold of Ashanti Region, with many people disenfranchised from voting in the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections by the Supreme Court decision in the Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako case, against the electoral body.

The NDC Member of Parliament for Yunyoo constituency in the Northern Region, Joseph Bipoba Naabu in a recent interview, accused former president John Mahama of being responsible for the party's historic electoral defeat.

This has epitomized the ruling government's grip on the region as its electoral world bank in successive elections.

The inspirational National Youth Organiser who was instrumental in the party's 2016 electoral victory is expected to spend some seven days convincing delegates in the northern regions on why his bid for the National Organiser be granted.