Sentences with phrase «electorate mps»

So for example, if Red Party earns 10 electorate seats, but only 5 % of the party vote, they will be represented in parliament by 10 electorate MPs, and parliament will have 105 members.

They will be represented in parliament by 10 electorate MPs and 2 list MPs.

Dark Red Party wins 10 electorate seats, and 0 % of the party vote, and so is represented by 10 electorate MPs.

Not exact matches

MPs from around Australia flew into Barnaby Joyce's electorate during last year's by - election campaign — on the taxpayer dollar.

MPs frequently counter that their mandate derives not from party members but from the electorate, for whom they claim to speak.

«Whether successful or not, all MPs would need to declare their hand — and the electorate would take note,» he pressed.

It is caught between a leader who is unpopular among the party's MPs and the broader electorate, but hugely popular with the large influx of members and supporters that joined the party in 2015 to back his leadership bid.

Light Red Party wins 0 electorate seats, and 10 % of the party vote, and so is represented by 10 list MPs.

With speculation at various points that the Government would struggle to get the Bill through as it wished - with MPs wanting to change the referendum date, impose those thresholds or be less prescriptive about the electorate quotas of the new constituencies - the whips will doubtless be quietly pleased about it attaining a majority of 57.

His experience outside parliament, however, could be an advantage with an electorate that has grown sceptical of MPs who have only ever been part of the «Westminster bubble».

The equalisation of the electorates of parliamentary constituencies favours the Conservative party collectively, but is opposed by many individual Tory MPs who face losing their seats.

Many MPs have been elected by well under 50 percent of their electorate, let alone Police Commissioners or MEPs.

MPs realise - correctly - such a move would be considered distasteful and untrustworthy by the electorate, who usually respond badly to political parties when they begin to eat themselves alive.

With fewer MPs, standing for office on the basis of open primary contests, those in our legislature would have to carefully balance their loyalty to their electorates, with their loyalty to the party machine in Westminster.

Whether MPs across the parties like it or not, on May 7th the United Kingdom's political and discerning electorate voted for a new type of politics — coalition politics.

However, he said the party's MPs - some of whom are markedly more centrist than their leader - represent a much larger section of the electorate.

Stating that during Brexit talks it would be more important than ever to have elected MPs who were asking the right questions to ensure a good deal for Britain, Mr Blair added: «This requires the electorate in every constituency to know where the candidates stand; and the mobilisation of the thousands in each constituency to make it clear that for them this issue counts when it comes to their vote.

A similar argument is that serving MPs are elected under mandate from the manifesto that was put before the electorate.

The decline of the two - party system has been happening for years - in 1951, 97 per cent of the electorate voted either Labour or Conservative; in the last election, that was below 70 per cent - but the MPs» expenses scandal has put the final boot into politics as we've known it.

Two v. brief points: The constant clamour for reform as the silver bullet that will cure the frustration of the electorate mischievously shifts blame from individual MPs and toward a narrative of establishment as culprit.

The AV voting would be simply unnecessary, and the frustration much less acute, if those elected MPs returned by the electorate simply kept to those commitments and promises upon which they were elected.

I also think Labour needs to stop being so afraid of its members; the MPs are arguably more distanced from the electorate than members are, both in terms of their pay, and their attitudes.

Kennedy and board member and former Labour MP Tony Wright argued for the necessity of annual reporting, for transparency purposes and enabling the electorate to see MPs as «modern professionals.»

In terms of numbers, there are 142 women MPs compared to 126 in 2005, equivalent to 22 per cent of the total, so not exactly a refl ection of the electorate.

He argues that both the electorate and MPs must take responsibility to improve the relationship between them - the former should take more of an interest, but the latter should also take more trouble to listen to public concerns.

Although DPR Voting is a Proportional Representation (PR) system, it maintains the system of single member constituencies, the method by which MPs are elected, and the relationship between the MP and their electorate.

«The Labour and Lib Dem MPs in Tory target seats who will avoid the electorate's verdict at the general election Main Countdown to the Salisbury selection meeting»

Following the election, The Daily Telegraph detailed changes to Wikipedia pages made from computers with IP addresses inside Parliament raising suspicion that «MPs or their political parties deliberately hid information from the public online to make candidates appear more electable to voters» and a deliberate attempt to hide embarrassing information from the electorate.

Where is the evidence that these MPs will become more diligent, more conscientious, more in touch with their electorate through the introduction of AV?

On the other hand, if the invocation of Article 50 does require legislation, we should ask under what circumstances, and by what arguments, MPs can overturn the directly expressed views of the electorate without severely damaging the democratic legitimacy of Parliament itself.

In the actual 2015 seats, Conservative MPs in England and Wales represented rather larger constituencies (in terms of the electorate) than did Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs.

AV will end the scandal of safe seats for life; it will make candidates for elections work harder; it is a change supported by Benjamin Zephaniah (in urban areas) and Tony Robinson (in rural areas); it will end the expenses scandal; it will help minor parties to flourish; it is, by definition, fair, not least because it will lead to MPs who are supported by at least 50 % of their electorate.

Unlike in previous Parliaments, few Scottish MPs will be subject to whips of pan-British parties and, instead, they will be whipped by a Scottish party that is to the left of parties that around 95 % of the English electorate will have voted for.

Following the very real, visceral anger from the public over MPs expenses, all party leaders delivered messages to their electorate promising to restore their trust.

«If liberal Conservative MPs allow ourselves to be drummed out of the Conservative Party, whether by heeding the calls for a new Party or by accepting that our views no longer have a place within our Party, then that would send a terrible signal, not only to the electorate but also to the tens of thousands of Tory members, councillors, donors and supporters who share our views and want us to lead the charge in putting forward a mainstream agenda which appeals to the centre - ground of British politics and, in particular, to younger and future voters.»

For a discontented electorate, convinced in large part that the country is being run for some faceless «other» — whether it's the fat - cat capitalists, the immigrant hordes, or the greedy MPs themselves — the story of inequality is an easy one to swallow.

And underlined that there is currently no - one on the right of the Tory party who can credibly appeal to Conservative MPs, Tory activists and the electorate at large.

The electorate, horrified by what they view as gross abuses of the system by some MPs at the taxpayer's expense, has fuelled the feeling of disconnection between voters and politicians at Westminster.

First, he fought and won a testing leadership election, offering his alternative vision for the future of the Party to a sophisticated electorate of Conservative MPs, taking on serious heavyweight alternatives in Michael Heseltine and Douglas Hurd.

Labour MPs almost certainly represent bigger electorates than Tory MPs.

The final section of the electorate college is the MPs.

If the Commons is reduced to 600 MPs, then the average electorate would be 78,100.

The «safe seat» mentality must at least be an aspect of the accusation that MPs became careless in their expenses claims and dismissive of their electorate.

It also shows the sheer contempt that most Labour MPs hold not just to the democratic expression of the Referendum but that they actually despise their own core electorate.

The world knows it, his MPs know it, the electorate knows it.

Labour's biggest problem is that the botched reforms of Ed Miliband and the dumb stupidity of some Labour MPs allowing Corbyn to stand as leader have resulted in a party membership far to the left of the electorate.

However their actions are described, many Conservative and Liberal Democratic MPs are placing themselves at odds with the electorate when demanding an end to control orders and a reduction in the time a suspect may be questioned without charge.

This could provide a clue as to why so many MPs, Conservatives especially, are able to be markedly more sceptical on climate change than the electorate — if voters are not telling them it is an issue they care about, they may be more likely to follow their own inclinations or be swayed by lobbyists.