Sentences with phrase «first vote in parliament»

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There are two types of spending in the Main Estimates: first, there are «voted» expenditures that require annual approval from Parliament; and second, there are «statutory» expenditures (e.g., major transfers to the provinces and individuals) for which legislation was previously approved setting out the specific terms and conditions under which payments can be made.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

Its six points for parliamentary reform (universal male suffrage; no property qualification to become an MP; payment of MPs; equal sized constituencies; voting in secret; and annual parliaments) had first been proposed as a package in the 1770s by John Cartwright.

Her comments will come just hours after the semi-autonomous Scottish Parliament backed First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's call for a fresh independence vote in protest at Brexit.

Your question also touches upon another problem: The fact that first - past - the - post and other systems based on gaining a plurality of the vote in single - seat constituencies distort the vote and can be used to durably keep minority parties out of the parliament and government politics.

The Fidesz parliamentary bloc, which enacted constitutional changes without including or consulting any opposition party, slashed the size of the parliament in half, redrew all of the individual constituencies unilaterally, changed the two - round system to a single first - past - the - post election for individual constituencies, and altered the way votes were aggregated.

Vishal The Scottish Parliament is dissolved after a 50 % no confidence vote if no First Minister is elected in 28 days.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- Marine Le Pen's far right National Front scored a stunning first victory in European Parliament elections in France on Sunday as critics of the European Union registered a continent - wide protest vote against austerity and mass unemployment.

This May will be the first time 16 - and 17 - year - olds will be eligible to vote in a Scottish Parliament election and follows a change in the law last year which allows this age group to vote in all Scottish parliamentary and council elections.

Perhaps the first indication that the Greens are quietly gaining votes from the Liberal Democrats was demonstrated in the European Parliamentary elections in May when the Greens returned three MEP's in comparison to the Liberal Democrats one to the European Parliament.

Just how important Brexit has been as a recruiting sergeant for the Conservatives becomes even clearer if we look separately at the evolution of the Conservative vote between, first, 2015 and the Scottish Parliament election in May 2016, and, second, between May 2016 and the UK general election in June this year.

He has won two Scottish elections, the first as the largest party in a hung parliament and the second in 2011 with an overall majority, which, under the proportional voting system introduced after the 1998 devolution settlement, was forecast as highly improbable.

In elections for the Scottish Parliament — which, incidentally, have delivered coalition governments, a minority government and now single - party majority government — 73 of the 129 MSPs are elected by first - past - the - post voting and 56 by regional lists.

Per our research as an association the peoples of central region are poised to show appreciation to HE John Mahama and NDC members of parliament through massive voting for the unprecedented developments he has brought into the region, few among this numerous projects are the roads network, the first stadium in the region, kasoa interchange, komenda sugar factory educational infrastructure, health facilities and more

«In this plan, Mr. Blay has, through a facility, acquired 275 buses for the 275 constituencies of the NPP in the country», the statement clarified, in response to moves by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) to drag the former First and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament to the Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) as well as the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) for allegedly seeking to buy votes with the bus movIn this plan, Mr. Blay has, through a facility, acquired 275 buses for the 275 constituencies of the NPP in the country», the statement clarified, in response to moves by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) to drag the former First and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament to the Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) as well as the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) for allegedly seeking to buy votes with the bus movin the country», the statement clarified, in response to moves by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) to drag the former First and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament to the Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) as well as the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) for allegedly seeking to buy votes with the bus movin response to moves by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) to drag the former First and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament to the Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) as well as the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) for allegedly seeking to buy votes with the bus move.

His approach will be «exactly the same» as this year — that the party with the most votes and seats in a hung parliament should have the first crack at forming a government.

Conservative MPs are currently rebelling less often than Labour MPs (in around 11 % of divisions in the first three sessions of the 2005 parliament, less than half the rate on the government benches) and they are doing so in smaller numbers; although a slightly larger proportion of Conservative parliamentarians has rebelled compared to Labour, few have cast more than a handful of dissenting votes, and even the most rebellious would not find themselves high up the PLP's league table of troublemakers.

He led the Scottish Liberal Democrats in the first election to the new Scottish Parliament in 1999, himself winning the constituency of Orkney with 67 % of the votes cast.

In the 2014 European Parliament election, the Danish People's Party came first by a large margin with 26.6 % of the vote, gaining 2 extra seats for a total of 4 MEPs.

Pritchard was first elected to parliament for The Wrekin constituency in 2005, defeating Peter Bradley, the incumbent Labour MP, by just 942 votes although this represented a 5.4 % swing from Labour to Conservative.

It is the latest of a series of inroads on the first past the post voting system; already in elections for the Scottish parliament, the Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies and soon the election of a new London authority, proportional representation has become the chosen method of voting.

The way this works is that about half of the member of parliaments are elected in a district using a first - past - the - post system but the overall share of seats allocated to each party still has to be roughly proportional to the share of the vote.

For a new government to be formed either Theresa May must first resign or her government must lose a vote of no confidence in parliament.

Half the seats in Parliament are filled by first past the post vote, similar to what is being used in the UK and the US.

First of all let's check the autonomic vote in the Catalan parliament from 1992.

Now, say a party got 40 seats in the first half of the Parliament but it should've gotten 80 seats based on popular vote across the country.

In doing so he will challenge the constitutional convention that says if Britain votes for a hung parliament, the existing prime minister gets the first chance to form a government.

-- every country in the EU is allowed to pick from a list of voting systems to choose their EU parliament representatives, and First the Past Post is not amongst them.

Mr Carswell previously secured the Clacton seat in 2010 with a majority of 12,068 votes over Labour's Ivan Henderson, having first being elected to Parliament in 2005 in the Harwich seat.

But, in his first comments on what he might do if Thursday's election is inconclusive, Mr Cameron challenged the Whitehall convention that says that, if Britain votes for a hung parliament, the existing Prime Minister gets the first chance to form a government, even if his party has fewer seats or votes than its main rival.

In 2011, motivated by the first hung parliament since the 1970s and encouraged by the Liberal Democrat's part in the following agreement, a referendum was held on the possibility of FPTP being replaced by the Alternative Vote (AV) systeIn 2011, motivated by the first hung parliament since the 1970s and encouraged by the Liberal Democrat's part in the following agreement, a referendum was held on the possibility of FPTP being replaced by the Alternative Vote (AV) systein the following agreement, a referendum was held on the possibility of FPTP being replaced by the Alternative Vote (AV) system.

How should a principled MP decide which way to vote, assuming a free vote is permitted, as it was on the first two occasions that Parliament voted on the principle of joining the European Economic Community (on the third occasion in 1971 Labour whipped against)?

The new MEPs will be «elected» on the basis of the first - placed unsuccessful candidate at the 2009 European elections and will officially sit as «observers» in the Parliament without the right to vote (but with the ability to speak and attend committee meetings) until a complex legal protocol is ratified by national governments - expected to coincide with Croatia's accession to the European Union in 2011.

In the 2014 European Parliament elections, Smer - SD came in first place nationally, receiving 24.09 % of the vote and electing 4 MEPIn the 2014 European Parliament elections, Smer - SD came in first place nationally, receiving 24.09 % of the vote and electing 4 MEPin first place nationally, receiving 24.09 % of the vote and electing 4 MEPs.

Some aggrieved youth of Wassa East in the Western Region, who are unhappy over the rejection of Mr. Wilson Arthur as DCE nominee in the first round of voting, have smashed the vehicle of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the area, Isaac Adjei Mensah.

Labour won the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election from 1964 until 2015, where they lost heavily to the Scottish National Party; [12] every European Parliament general election from 1979 until being defeated by the SNP in 2009; and in the first two elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and 2003.

He was first elected to Parliament in 2005 by a slender 920 votes.

Farage's party will also be banking on a big resurgence of interest during the European parliament elections next June, when it will hope to come first in terms of national share of the vote.

In the first election for Scotland's new Parliament, the majority of voters surveyed misunderstood some key aspects of the difference there between the «first» (constituency) vote and the «second» (regional list) vote; indeed in some ways the understanding worsened in the second electioIn the first election for Scotland's new Parliament, the majority of voters surveyed misunderstood some key aspects of the difference there between the «first» (constituency) vote and the «second» (regional list) vote; indeed in some ways the understanding worsened in the second electioin some ways the understanding worsened in the second electioin the second election.

In the last Parliament the first of a series of Commons votes about what to do with the House of Lords asked whether we should continue with a bicameral Parliament (two Houses) or go for a uni-Cameral system, leaving just the House of Commons.

In the independence White Paper published on Tuesday, the Scottish government pledged another # 100m a year for childcare in the first budget and a further # 600m by the end of the first parliament, subject to a «yes» vote in the referenduIn the independence White Paper published on Tuesday, the Scottish government pledged another # 100m a year for childcare in the first budget and a further # 600m by the end of the first parliament, subject to a «yes» vote in the referenduin the first budget and a further # 600m by the end of the first parliament, subject to a «yes» vote in the referenduin the referendum.

This is a small improvement on our current system of first past the post, since it allows voters to rank candidates and reduces the need to vote tactically, but it does not address the crucial unfairness at the heart of our democracy which is that a party's share of seats in parliament does reflect the number of votes it receives across the country - a situation which leads to millions of wasted votes and a shameful system of «safe seats» where a donkey could be elected so long as they were wearing the right coloured rosette.

In mid-July, the Parliament will first get to flex its political muscles when it votes to elect the next president of the European Commission, who is put forward by the European Union's heads of state and government.

On 6 May 1999, Scotland voted for its first parliament in nearly 300 years.

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

For instance, in 1833, Member of Parliament J.A. Roebuck referenced general wellbeing and the expansion of voting rights when he introduced England's first national resolution for government funding for education:

The sculpture will become the first to celebrate a woman historical figure in Parliament Square, London, and will be installed next year to commemorate the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, which gave women the right to vote.

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He is currently a member of Parliament, a position he was first elected to in 1999 — at the time, his victory (with 92 per cent of the vote) was considered to be one of the most stunning electoral victories of the century.