Sentences with phrase «electoral system as»

On May 17, 2005, British Columbians were asked to answer yes or no the following question: «Should British Columbia change to the BC - STV electoral system as recommended by the Citizens» Assembly on Electoral Reform?»

Taking into account the well - known pro-Labour bias in the electoral system as well as prediction uncertainty, the method suggested then that the Tories would have a 64 % chance of being the largest party in parliament.

• Elections to be held on a regional basis, using partial open lists, in a similar electoral system as for European parliamentary elections.

I have sympathy with that, but Greens don't believe in lots of the electoral system as it exists but we engage with it.

Still, the government maintains, provinces, territories and other countries with similar electoral systems as well as their courts have found residency limits are «reasonable and justified.»

Not exact matches

The different level of popular support that these parties have in each country, and the particular characteristics of each electoral system, makes it difficult to predict whether nationalist parties will become more prominent fixtures in European politics as the economic crisis plays out.

Find articles on current and past elections in Canada, as well as on the nature and issues of Canada's electoral and political party systems.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

The main one is that USA has what's known as «First Past The Post» electoral system (which is an academic way of saying, you can only vote for one candidate and whichever candidate gets most votes, wins).

By the time he goes to the country again he needs House of Lords reform set in stone and civil liberties reinstalled, with AV acting as the electoral system used to judge his achievements.

To address why Wandsworth is described as a key target, it's necessary to summarise the electoral system for UK national elections, as well as local elections in England and Wales.

They claim boundary changes was introduced as a quid pro quo for the May 2011 referendum on electoral reform, in which the public rejected the alternative vote system by a ratio of two votes to one.

England could truly start to look like a four - party electoral system today, as much of the country goes to the polls in local elections.

Whether or not electoral systems behave as political scientist think they «should» depends largely on the dynamics of protest voting.

Multiple chambers elected by different electoral systems at different times in the electoral cycle would provide such safeguards, as I have outlined before.

The right - wing media is constantly trying to depict the current system as favouring Labour because the electoral arithmetic implies that the Tories need about 4 % more votes to gain a parliamentary majority than does Labour.

Open preferential voting is a hybrid electoral system which allows voters to either express a rank ordering of individual candidates in the same manner as STV, or to select a list of candidates chosen by a political party, much like a closed list proportional representation system.

But the 2015 elections have shown that we can do it if all critical stakeholders agree to work together to consolidate a number of electoral tools that we have developed such as the use of the card reader in the designed election management system with the key seven principal business areas.

Myth that current electoral system is traditional is just that; coalitions were the norm until FPTP gave one party dominance as an option.

Indeed, I am not only worried but I'm also very concerned over the setback to our electoral system, and speaking generally in the best tradition of our legal profession, not being specific on matters before any court, the implication of some of the tribunals outcome intended to shoot down the use of the card reader as some of my fellow lawyers involved in petition matters are determined to achieve is worrisome.

Both of these options have costs but as students of electoral systems have known since Kenneth Arrow's famous theorem, no electoral system is perfect.

On the Labour side this is reflected in viewing the Lib Dems and other parties as irrelevant while in other parties its replicated in fantastical dreaming about replacing Labour (unlikely in our electoral system).

My preferred option is actually, after we get a change in the electoral system, for a new party to form out of elements of both the Lib Dems and liberal Labour, with some of the Greens as well.

I agree that we must move to a more representative electoral system, as I have argued before: http://tinyurl.com/lv9tqv.

Actually, I can answer it concretely as a factor of the electoral system.

The table below details the electoral systems used in New Jersey for state legislative and state executive offices as of July 2017.

In the case of electoral reform, they were humiliated at the ballot box, as the alternative vote system was rejected by 67.9 % to 32.1 %.

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

This system is sometimes referred to as a jungle primary or majority electoral system.

In this form, the plurality principle can be problematic and ambiguous given the disproportionality of the UK's first - past - the - post electoral system, as a result of which the party with the largest number of seats may be different from the party which wins most votes.

Blair's project is to dismantle the Labour Party as a party based on the unions, to destroy the elements of democracy which exist within the party and to transform the British political party system, through electoral reform, to make possible a long - term governmental alliance with the Liberal Democrats and, if possible, the Heseltine - Clarke wing of the Tory Party.

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.

But to see him being used as a pawn in Avella's devious political manipulation of the electoral system speaks volumes about his character.

What defeated the SDP was not so much Thatcherism as the first - past - the - post electoral system.

As it currently stands, the electoral system really only has room for two parties — as the Lib Dems, Greens and UKIP know to their cosAs it currently stands, the electoral system really only has room for two parties — as the Lib Dems, Greens and UKIP know to their cosas the Lib Dems, Greens and UKIP know to their cost.

For the interest of readers who feel they want to catch up on the complexities of electoral reform options, this was the report of the «Independent Commission on the Voting System» — the so - called Jenkins Commission — as published in 1998: http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm40/4090/contents.htm

Many of these other electoral systems are already in use in the UK, as the table below illustrates.

The party is in favour of reform of traditional British institutions such as the Church of England, a change in the electoral system from first - past - the - post to proportional representation, and drug decriminalisation.

The table below details the electoral systems used in Maryland for state legislative and state executive offices as of July 2017.

Our FPTP electoral system acts as a barrier to such a break out on the left but it hasn't prevented one on the right as we see with UKIP.

Cameron is seen as ready to trade the security of his Downing Street tenure for changes to the electoral system that will make it harder for the Conservative Party to ever govern alone again.

Unfortunately, Gordon Brown's miserable announcement on electoral reform (a referendum on the non-proportional AV system, after the next election, which presumably will be canned as soon as the Tories take office) had served to puncture everyone's enthusiasm, and apparently fill the room with a mixture of disappointment and fury.

The table below details the electoral systems used in Wyoming for state legislative and state executive offices as of July 2017.

A: There is a real anomaly in the way Scottish MPs vote on English matters - but it is only one of countless anomalies in our electoral system, and they all need to be addressed together as part of a new constitutional settlement.

Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, the Labour leader said the comparison with the Kinnock era was misleading as the electoral system then was different to the one under which he was elected last year.

Serving as Director - General of the Electoral Institute of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), he was at the forefront advocating for free, fair, credible and participatory electoral system through research, capacity building for the staff of the Commission, and engagement of vigorous voter education activities.

Although the Irish electoral system is classified as a proportional electoral system, the proportion of seats won by parties will not measure up exactly to their actual share of the first preference votes, mainly because geography has a very significant impact here.

More distinctive is the reiteration of Plaid's long - standing support for the use of Single Transferable Vote (STV), an electoral system that it wants to see used for electing the second chamber as well as («when applicable») in all other elections.

In theory this could be interpreted to support an argument that a parliamentary party ought to have the power to elect their party leader directly, and indeed, at least historically, parliamentary system parties» leadership electoral procedures usually called for the party's legislative caucus to fill a leadership vacancy by electing a new leader directly by and from amongst themselves, and for the whole succession process to be completed within as short a time frame as practical.

«Instead of being treated as unfortunate yet unavoidable road kill from the Top Two, we should be seen as canaries in the coal mine, warning of the deeply unrepresentative and undemocratic nature of our electoral system.»