Sentences with phrase «for parliamentary elections there»

Helena Catt, chief executive of the Electoral Commission in New Zealand, analyses how the Mixed - Member System for parliamentary elections there has bedded down and is effect on New Zealand's politics

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... Even at the parliamentary level when he stood for elections and won against Owuraku Amofa in 1996, what he did to our party people there is still there, it's evident.

But 52 members of the new parliamentary group of MPs have to support a challenger for there to be an election.

«I am in this race because during the 2016 elections, I was in the Upper East Region campaigning for the NPP and I saw some gaping holes; there was no party unity and parliamentary candidates were not resourced adequately and party chairmen were struggling to work.

The 1996 Presidential and Parliamentary elections and all similar subsequent elections have been held on December 7 but there have been arguments that the process does not make ample room for the organization of a run - off and the subsequent handover on January 7.

As part of the requirements for the filing of nominations ahead of the 2016 elections, the EC has requested presidential and parliamentary aspirants to declare their assets, but the acting General Secretary of the NPP says there is no law that mandates that request.

[There is a] very strong Conservative case for reform — the whole thrust last election was moving power from the centre to the voters and the whole Conservative approach to having a smaller government, limited government and having better parliamentary control over executive.»

If there is a hung parliament after a general election, then the Parliamentary arithmetic will be such that the Lib Dems will have everything to gain by holding out for full PR and everything to lose by settling for AV.

Had we pressed ahead with our plans for a mostly or wholly elected Lords there would have been a second chamber election mid-way though this parliamentary term, giving us a chance to put a new Labour agenda to the public and — in the event of a win — prove to ourselves and to the country that we can be election winners again.

And there are some other Holyrood players being touted: James Kelly, Scottish Labour's business manager, for example, who has spent a decade before the parliamentary mast, but was in charge of the party's Scottish election campaign last year when they came in third behind the Tories.

It's also worth noting that the small chance of getting in now will be even smaller next time if, as seems likely, the proportion of women is increased further before the next election in two years: although the parliamentary party settled on a quota of 31.5 % women, there was in fact a majority (of 139 to 107) for at least 40 %.

There is no by - election immediately in the offing, but the man who retained the seat for Labour at the general election, Denis MacShane, has been without his party's whip since last October after the parliamentary Standards watchdog referred him to the police over his use of parliamentary alowances.

There are unconfirmed but reliable reports that Angela Smith who is MP for south Basildon and East Thurrock and also Gordon Browns Parliamentary Private Secretary purchased some 70000 leaflets for an election campaign.

At the end of last week I expained that there will be four ballot papers issued to voters in Leicester South on May 5th, one of which will be for the parliamentary by - election.

In federal territories, where there is no state assembly, and states whose state election is held on a different date, each voter receives only one ballot for the parliamentary seat.

Five days later, the death of an independent Republican Member of Parliament meant there would be an election for the British parliamentary seat of Fermanagh and South Tyrone.