Sentences with phrase «government majority»

Note: The effective Government majority is higher than the notional majority, because MPs from Sinn Féin do not take their seats due to their long - standing policy of abstentionism and vacant seats have no vote.

There are many reasons for this: Alberta's tradition of electing large government majorities, the ability of the PC party to create a big - tent party, the unpopularity of opposition parties federal counterparts, and the trap of falling into an opposition mentality.

In short, the advantages conferred to governing parties by the prime minister's power to time elections have been an important factor in generating the inflated government majorities that have characterized UK politics post World War II.

For the third time in a row, Westminster's voting system failed to do what it says on the tin — produce a big government majority.

As David Cameron gets to grips with the smallest government majority since October 1974, Tory whips will be working overtime to prevent independent - minded backbenchers from holding the prime minister to ransom.

-- a 20,000 government majority evaporates to a comfortable 5,000 - vote lead for the insurgent / protest party.

Every two years a third of MPs to stand for re-election would directly affect government majorities and ensure more fluidity in government

However, the authors note that «the lowest Government majority thus far has been 58» - the paper was clearly written before the tuition fees votes - and that the average Liberal Democrat revolt consists of just three MPs.

This resulted in a reduction of the actual government majority from eighty - three to seventy - three.

The effective government majority was slightly higher because Sinn Féin members do not take up their seats and the speaker does not vote.

The Tories are set to suffer losses as Theresa May to her biggest electoral test since she lost her government majority last year.

Alberta's NDP made its own leap last year from perennial obscurity to government majority, and sees political survival linked to approved pipelines and a robust oil sands economy — and to blasting the «so - called manifesto» as «naïve» and «thoughtless,» in Premier Rachel Notley's words.

In an open ballot, however, members of the government majority that had launched the constitutional reform process could not permit themselves to vote against the result of the referendum.

The government majority in Parliament shied away from breaking the filibuster by applying the «nuclear option» permitted by law, which also would have been unprecedented.

The Labour MP resigned so she could vote against military intervention in Iraq, but the plans were backed by 524 votes to 43, giving the government a majority of 481.

Yesterday it emerged that the committee the Speaker announced he was setting up to consider the issues surrounding the arrest of Damian Green would not only have a Government majority, but that he would not be able to select its membership either.

Another problem is that the outcome of the election, the Government majority, can be determined by campaigns in a few marginal constituencies.

The chamber is more political than ever before, a coalition for the first time guaranteeing a government majority.

The other issues that could put in doubt the Government majority are the circumstances of the parliamentary vote on the final deal and whether it should be for Parliament or the Government to fulfil Theresa May's threat to walk away from talks.

Critics have historically argued that the committees have no real purpose beyond being a kind of «mini-me» image of the Commons as whole, always dominated by a government majority and chair, and with over 99 % of ministerial amendments moved at the Committee or report stages, and a success rate for non-government amendments of below 1 %.

But with a government majority of 66, the Tories are never going to win a confidence debate.

It led to the government defeating a Labour bid to delay the increase until at least April by 282 votes to 234, a government majority of 48.

Theresa May faces her biggest electoral test since she lost her government majority last year.

Then an SNP amendment saying the government should «publish a strategy for seeking to ensure that reciprocal healthcare arrangements continue after the UK leaves the EU» was defeated by 315 votes to 294 - a government majority of 21.

On each occasion, the Committee divided with the government majority making the recommendations of the Committee and the Opposition and the Democrats producing a minority report demanding adherence to the Evatt Report.