Sentences with phrase «electorate numbers»

As things currently stand, new reviews will commence in 2016 using updated electorate numbers.

The initial proposals are very much as expected — we've known the broad strokes of the review since the rules were set in 2011 and the electorate numbers were released in the spring.

This is not a case of the aborted review from the last Parliament being implemented, it's a brand new review based on updated electorate numbers.

Not exact matches

But the narrative that the electorate is pushing elected officials towards trade - skeptical policies doesn't actually jive with poll numbers, which show that a majority of Americans think that increased trade is good for the economy.

However, such esoteric hipster knowledge (esoteric, if only because it played on inside knowledge that was common knowledge and what everyone knew merely 15 years ago or so) comes across as mere pandering to an electorate of Gen Xers who in their indecisiveness are at best a vote on the margins — at least in terms of their actual numbers.

Jewish voters represent just a couple percent of the national electorate, but their numbers are bigger in swing states such as Florida and Pennsylvania.

Regular church attenders made up more of the religious electorate overall (49 percent, compared to 42 percent in 2012), likely mitigating his lower numbers among this group.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

Numbering close to 30 million, Catholic voters constitute approximately 28 percent of the electorate.

«It won't be a bombshell if very large numbers of the electorate simply don't bother to vote.

Second, the populist Five Star movement is comparatively strong, due to the fact it receives a large number of protest votes from an electorate disenchanted by establishment politics.

It would be rash to say that an elected Lords will definitely have an equally high number of candidates, but multimember constituencies with large electorates tend to have high numbers of candidates.

The Conservatives tend to pile up large majorities in safe seats and because the planned redistribution of seats did not take place after the 2010 election, Labour has a number of seats with below average electorates, making the vote - to - seat ratio work all the more in its favour.

A narrow majority of votes were cast in favour of change, but this had no effect due to a requirement that the number voting «Yes» had to exceed 40 % of the total electorate.

I have lost count of the number of publications I have felt obliged to write to in connection with the utterly erroneous claim that the Australian electorate is «forced to vote» (TP, February).

In the campaign the candidates specifically targeted sectors of the electorate based on a number of subjective criteria: this makes it very likely that the polls merely represents the candidates» marketing campaign strategy and not some deeper truth.

If less seats earned through electorates, than the number of seats earned by the party vote, then the difference is made up of list seats.

That failure is probably the principal reason why the electorate has remained as reluctant, as it was in May 2010, to vote for the Conservative Party in sufficient numbers for it to secure an overall majority at Westminster.

After years of Blair and Brown, most of the leading figures in the Labour Party who might be strong candidates — David Miliband being the most obvious example — are too Blairite / Brownite to appeal to an electorate that backed Corbyn in such overwhelming numbers.

Private polling that showed 88 per cent of the electorate want a public vote on the Lisbon treaty have been criticised for sampling too small a number of people.

The electorate gave the Conservative party by far the largest number of seats and share of the poll.

As we have explained elsewhere, the degree of competition in the system for the election of committee chairs and members is limited by a number of factors that inhibit the potentially transformative effect of the 2010 reforms — including the absence of frontbenchers from candidacy and electorate, the fact that candidates from opposing parties can not compete against one another, and the large number of uncontested chairs.

Clegg certainly produced a coherent speech and set out a clear and distinctive position on a number of issues, but whether his words will help the party's appeal with the wider electorate very much is more questionable.

Signed by a number of business leaders, the letter said the electorate «voted for change and a chance to have their say».

Before then, a number of so - called «Men - of - God» had made similar noises, even if they couched theirs in threats to the Ghanaian electorate.

It could be a routine hold for Labour in a constituency they have dominated forever, proving that rumours of the party's demise have been greatly exaggerated; it could be the route to Westminster for Paul Nuttall (for whom this is the fifth attempt to get into the Commons — still short of Nigel Farage's number), heralding the beginning of a big Ukip surge into working - class Labour heartlands; it could end up with a very close three -(or even four -, depending on Liberal Democrat performance) way race that shows the new divides in the electorate in the wake of the Brexit referendum.

Senior members of the party want Mr Cameron to announce a number of new policy proposals in the new year as a way of taking the electorate's focus away from the economy, over which he has appeared weak when compared to Gordon Brown in recent polls.

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.

During his time in Number 10, Blair is accused of presiding over a wave of immigration from eastern European countries - without being entirely straight with the electorate about its likely magnitude.

«Less than 0.5 % of the total electorate in this contest have been deemed ineligible to vote, and the Labour Party received less than half the number of ballot re-issue requests than last year.

To conclude, despite all the numbers and analysis, this is not about chopping the electorate up into tiny segments.

Dr. Benjamin explained to us how polling a limited number of representative would - be voters — usually about 1,000 — could project how the electorate might vote.

«We wouldn't have joined issues with the former governor but because of the aspersions cast on the community blessed with the highest number of electorate in Itesiwaju Local Government area of the state.

While less well off than other outer Melbourne electorates, Calwell still contains significant numbers of young home buyers who reacted badly to Labor's handling of the economy in 1990, and to the Liberal Party's campaign on interest rates in 2004.

On election night, the BBC calculates percentage turnout by dividing the number of valid votes cast for all candidates by the number of people eligible to vote (known as the electorate)

President Mahama who is currently on a 5 - day campaign tour of the region expected to tour a number of constituencies in the region with his «Changing Lives and Transforming Ghana» agenda to woo the electorates to renew his mandate for the second term.

The changes are a result of redistributions — a process the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) uses to ensure that each electorate has a relatively even number of voters.

This is the one area of policy where, curiously, I see the Cameroons veering away from the electorate, taking huge risks on prison capacity, sentencing policy and police numbers.

Given the perceived volatility of the electorate, another eight incumbents could be defeated in November, conceivably bringing the number of retiring Assembly Members to 27.

Good people who work community much better from the electorate that they they have in and a number of all.

parliament has set us strict rules on reducing the number of constituencies and bringing greater equality of electorate size between the new constituencies — these new rules mean that there is likely to be a large degree of change across the country.

And over five years, sufficient numbers of union members are expected to join the party to tip the electorate for the leadership election towards the unions with 50 % or more of the franchise expected to be drawn from union ranks — a considerable improvement on the third offered by the current electoral college.

The number of Council delegates per Electorate is based on the number of Members enrolled in each Electorate as their primary Electorate.

Authority to determine the number and names of the Electorates shall be vested in the Council.

At five - year intervals, on the basis of the number of Members then enrolled in each Electorate as their primary Electorate, the Council shall reconsider the validity of the formula which determines the number of Council delegates to be elected by the Electorates [see (a) above] and, when necessary to insure equitable representation of the Members, shall change the formula and amend the relevant portion of this Section accordingly.