Sentences with phrase «few constituencies»

Adding to this difficulty, the next election will be conducted with fewer constituencies and with revised boundaries.

On Sunday morning, he held a keep fit exercise at Asawase, one of few constituencies in the Ashanti region that party has sitting MPs, at saw record attendance.

The Welsh Secretary's preferred option of fewer constituencies and more list members would deny Labour a majority in an election where its list vote was lagging so far behind its constituency support.

Richmond Park may not be typical: there are few constituencies where opposition to Brexit is anywhere near as strong as it is there.

Meanwhile she bases her critique of FPTP on the safe seats issue — a real problem, but one that AV would do very little to address (the Electoral Reform Society's own report on AV admits that «There will be relatively few constituencies which are currently uncompetitive under FPTP but would be put into play by AV.»)

The Welsh Secretary, Cheryl Gillan, has published a consultation on whether the Assembly should have fewer constituency AMs and more elected from regional lists.

The Boundary Commission for Scotland (BCS) has said that it wants to produce as few constituencies that mix parts of different local authorities as it can.

Imagine how few constituencies there would be if we also added a whole bunch of «list» MPs not connected to any constituency, as would be required by Nick Clegg's preferred AV +.

It's a stark contrast to 2009, when Governor David Paterson rushed to try to legalize gay marriage and was rewarded with a boost from gay and liberal voters, who were among the very few constituencies that hadn't deserted him.

That would mean not only that fewer constituencies were Labour - winnable, but that there were simply fewer potential Labour supporters registered in 2020.

I can't think of a clearcut example off the top of my head, but it happens regularly in Europe for topics that target groups that are concentrated in only a few constituencies (e.g. tax increases, NIMBY topics like authorizing a new airport, or extra layers of government regulation).

Nick Clegg visited the fewest constituencies (just 46) and made just two repeat visits.

«The Nigerian Police played an inglorious role during the December 10, 2016, helping the All Progressives Congress (APC) to rig elections in the few constituencies were they were declared winner.

Less scrutiny for private REITs One advantage of private REITs is that there are fewer constituencies to answer to, whereas public REITs must inform a variety of «publics,» including governmental regulators, of their activities.