Sentences with phrase «gain seats in those parliaments»

«It is realistic that Mr. Stronach's new party will gain seats in Parliament, though he will need a lot of good luck,» he says.

Not exact matches

May stands to gain some 45 seats in Parliament, which could ultimately strengthen her hand to negotiate a hard - Brexit.

An earlier exit poll indicated that the center - right alliance would gain between 248 to 268 seats in the lower house of parliament, short of the 316 needed for a majority.

In 1998, for the first time, the BJP gained more seats in parliament than Nehru's venerable India National Congress partIn 1998, for the first time, the BJP gained more seats in parliament than Nehru's venerable India National Congress partin parliament than Nehru's venerable India National Congress party.

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.

Results were less encouraging in the south of England, and results in Scotland were described as a «disaster», with Labour losing nine seats to the SNP, which went on to gain the Parliament's first ever majority.

Other analysis suggests that UKIP would need to do very well — certainly much better than the results here suggest they will — in order to gain even a handful of seats in the next parliament.

Again, while the SNP has gained many votes and seats, hundreds of thousands of Scottish Liberal Democratic, Conservative and Labour voters have no representation in Scotland — apparently denying a voice in parliament to the Scottish unionist position.

And yet he's the one has the most to gain from the electoral system he called a «miserable little compromise,» in most seats and whenever AV delivers another hung parliament.

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

The party gained control of Plymouth, winning four seats in the city where two of the three members of parliament are Conservatives, showing Labour can do well outside the capital.

In the European Parliament election, 2014, the Sweden Democrats gained 2 seats with 9.67 % of the vote, up 6.4 %, and the Left Party took one seat with 6.3 % of the vote.

Given the fact that UKIP won the 2014 European elections — gaining seats in England, Wales and Scotland — and has now elected a member of parliament for the first time, something big is really happening here.

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.

The Conservatives did manage to gain a seat in Scotland, which ended the party's status as an «England - only» party in the prior parliament.

However, in 1997, all 23 candidates won seats in Parliament and, after Labour assumed power, the Party gained its first members of the Cabinet since AV Alexander: Alun Michael 1998 — 99 (later First Minister for Wales) and Ed Balls 2007 — 2010.

I have restricted the list to the Tories» top 200 target seats (the party needs to gain 117 seats to get a majority of one in Parliament) and the numbers refer to where they appear, on paper, on that target list (based on the Rallings and Thrasher figures).

In the 2009 European Parliament election, Fidesz won a landslide victory, gaining 56.36 % of the vote and 14 of Hungary's 22 seats.

This was because the SNP gained 47 seats out of 129 in the election, which was some way short of achieving an absolute majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament, but more than any other single party gained.

By comparison, when Margaret Thatcher formed her first government in 1979 her party gained 62 seats from other parties, but she was able to choose widely, from over 250 re-elected MPs from the previous parliament, the 100 or so cabinet and junior ministers.»

Boundary changes and the reduction in the number of MPs from 650 to 600 will see the Conservatives gain at least 20 more seats in parliament.

* The British National Party (BNP) is a far - right, whites only, political party that gained 0.7 % of the popular vote in the 2005 election and has no seats in the British parliament.