Sentences with phrase «electoral system no»

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.

Labour seat level estimates in most of the poll analyses I have carried out in the years leading up to the recent general election were quite stark, highlighting the fact that our PR - STV electoral system is proportional but only to a limited extent.

The lesson of the SDP's damp squib start is that Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system is very unforgiving for small parties.

It remains unclear how they intend to navigate Britain's «first past the post» electoral system.

The electoral system would destroy them.

Whilst that electoral system is far from ideal, Independent candidates surely should be by definition exactly that - independent individuals each fighting on their own ticket.

The 2015 general election once again underlined the multitude of problems with Britain's electoral system.

While the First Past the Post electoral system may be disproportionate and antiquated, Jamie Stanley of the None of the Above campaign argues that a more pressing matter is introducing a -LSB-...]

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.

Anyone who's ever run for elective office before knows that America's electoral system is riddled with booby traps, landmines and incomprehensible rules seemingly put in place to prohibit regular Americans from ever running.

Thanks to the anomalies of the electoral system, assuming the Lib Dems poll around 15 %, the Conservatives will need a 7 % lead over Labour to secure a majority, while Labour need muster only a 1 % margin.

Under our first - past - the - post electoral system... you can only win if you are a broad church political party, and for the Labour Party you have to take in everyone from the left to the centre - left.

«I believe that with concerted effort from all parties concerned, we will arrive there and Nigeria will be taken to the next level in our electoral system,» he said.

Britain's First Past the Post electoral system is thoroughly out of place for the society in which we now live.

But Britain's First Past the Post the electoral system does not just result in national inequities.

In this article, Carl Cullinane explains how, because of the UK's First Past The Post electoral system, some voters come to wield far more influence than others.

At present not every party is represented on every committee, when there may be only 12 members, and this would not change whether DPR Voting or any other electoral system is used to elect the lower House.

If you agree that we need a better electoral system, campaign for electoral reform.

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.

This country has got used to yet another of the distortions of the existing electoral system, by which one party or another forms the government on a minority of the vote.

«Certainly the Russians tried very hard to undermine our electoral system in many ways, and they will be that much more sophisticated by the next election,» she said.

Good government groups, many of which were represented at Wednesday's news conference, applauded Schneiderman's proposal to modernize the state electoral system.

Cameron is a passionate believer in the first - past - the - post electoral system.

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.

If the Labour party believes in «One Nation» it should put electoral reform into its agenda and find a «One Nation» electoral system to replace FPTP.

And, he added, our current electoral system is really about choosing a government, not representatives of the people.

In 2011, Wales votes to confer legislative powers upon said assembly elected by said electoral system.

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.

A simple PR alternative designed to replace the «First past the post» (FPTP) electoral system in the UK.

Beyond potentially undermining voters» faith in our electoral system, these claims distract from a very real issue: New York's voter registration system is badly in need of modernization.

What do we mean by democracy, what place do political parties have, and what is the purpose of an electoral system?

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.

When it comes to a General Election, regardless of the electoral system, go out and vote.

One important underlying cause is our electoral system.

I think in retrospect we have to accept that we got it wrong when we set up the assembly with a two - tier electoral system that has two kinds of AM, and it should now be changed.

What seems likely is that, with a fragmented opposition, the «First Past the Post» electoral system will have an even more malign influence on British politics than normal.

He also launched a sustained attack on the Tories, claiming that the Government is «gerrymandering the electoral system» by pursuing boundary reforms and reducing the number of parliamentary seats.

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.

These barriers, and the subsequent victory of Donald Trump, a historically unpopular president, have spurred renewed interest from New York's top elected officials in modernizing the state's electoral system.

Equally, while the electoral system means voters can give their 1st vote to a minor party without missing out on the Ken v Boris race, that doesn't mean they realise they can and minor parties may be being squeezed by the closeness of the race.

And yet he's the one has the most to gain from the electoral system he called a «miserable little compromise,» in most seats and whenever AV delivers another hung parliament.

Direct Party and Representative Voting is an electoral system intended to reform elections to the House of Commons

«It would not only be wrong, it would be an outrage to try to secure a change to the electoral system for tactical party advantage,» he added.

To repeat, that's according to a breakdown of local government results, which of course were conducted under the single transferable vote rather than first past the post electoral system.

Surely, it is perfectly intellectually credible to support a majoritarian electoral system: it just weights different things about democracy differently.

The electoral system and a continuing culture of tolerance means that it is almost impossible for an outright racist party to ever break out of a tiny minority of support in the UK.

Britain's current electoral system means voters in marginal seats are the ones which decide the election.

Given how the First Past The Post electoral system works, concentrated support can translate into huge gains in seats (the PCs came third in the popular vote — in fact, they almost came second — but a distant fifth by seat count, which is all that matters).

The rhetoric, which President Sarkozy also employed when he was first running four years ago, is partly a result of France's two - part electoral system, which forces candidates to appeal to voters on the extremes of their political wing in the first round before making a pitch for the centre in the second round run - off.

-- State funding of political parties — Moving to an electoral system of proportional representation — Reforming the party whip system in Parliament