Sentences with phrase «electoral system this year»

And while losers have dominated the state political scene for years, nothing compares to the slate that emerged in the top ranks of our electoral system this year.

Not exact matches

For Donald Trump, everything is about Donald Trump, including the electoral system that has held the United States together for nearly 240 years.

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.

This year, the red purse contains a # 5 coin, commemorating four generations of royalty, and a 50p coin commemorating the Representation of the People Act 1918, which reformed the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland, giving some women the right to vote for the first time.

It helps explains why in the UK, where support for a more proportional electoral system has hovered above 60 % for 30 years, 68 % voted in favour of keeping the First Past the Post system.

Under the UK single - past - the - post electoral system, the UKIP's rise may prove fatal for the Tories in next year's election.

Four years later the SNP went on to prove that it was possible for one party to win an overall majority under Holyrood's proportional electoral system.

In Westminster's current electoral system, AWS are the most — and arguably the only — effective way that women's representation has been boosted in recent years.

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.

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.

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.

Whether legislating for a five - year fixed - term parliament, or changing the voting registration system, or redrawing the electoral map, this is a government which has not stopped to think twice before meddling with the rules of the game.

The language in the Moreland Commission's report on legislative corruption is scathing, and validates what crusading journalists, watchdog groups and prosecutors have been saying for years: Albany is a place where laws are bought, and nothing will change until the «dysfunctional electoral and political systems» are reformed.

James Forsyth, the political editor of the Spectator, said that in a year or two Miliband ought to scrap Labour's complex leadership electoral system — which gives affiliated union members one - third of the vote — in favour of a one - member, one - vote arrangement.

While this research is specifically about the impact of the Independence Referendum on the British party system, and more generally part of a narrative to be published next year in the British Election Study book (to be published by Oxford University Press) about the role of political events and shocks in explaining electoral change, it is interesting to speculate about possible lessons for the EU referendum.

The Coalition Agreement committed the present government to four major pieces of constitutional and electoral reform: a referendum on the AV voting system, the equalisation of constituency sizes, an elected House of Lords and five - year fixed - term Parliaments.

That's even before you get started on the electoral system to be used (remember the ruckus that caused earlier this year?).

Utter rubbish, Labour did quite well in the Blair years under FPTP when they had an electable leader, now it has a poor leader the system will punish it, trying to introduce electoral reform will not help it sneak through the back door, indeed on present polling a Tory - UKIP deal would be just as likely as a Labour - LD - SNP - Green one!

He noted that the UN had, over the years, been providing critical support to the Commission in its effort to introduce and sustain reforms of the electoral system, through agencies such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

But on 5 May this year a record number of voters in England and Wales will be using a two — vote electoral system to choose the London Mayor and Police Commissioners across the country, many for the first time.

The gnats have been in government for 7 years... they're hardly insurgents, but they do look like they will become the beneficiaries of our ridiculous anti-democratic electoral system.

The rise of smaller parties like Ukip and the Greens — but their inability to gain decent representation in parliament despite surging support — could also be behind apparently increased dissatisfaction with the current electoral system, despite its retention at referendum four years ago.

In his 2012 State of the State address, after riding teacher union support to an electoral victory, Malloy said, «In today's [education] system, basically all you have to do is show up for four years.