Sentences with phrase «into parliamentary seats»

The table below shows how the share of the national vote achieved by the six major parties in 2015 translated into parliamentary seats.

If these numbers were to be converted into parliamentary seats Labour would emerge with a majority of just eight seats.

Not exact matches

After Yanukovych's ouster, Manafort helped to rebrand his party into the Party of Regions, and made it possible for the party to gain more seats than expected in Ukraine's parliamentary elections.

Her husband became headmaster of the Leys School in Cambridge, where her foray into local politics was to begin, though she failed to be selected for a parliamentary seat in 1974.

When I explained that 12.6 % of the vote translated into just one parliamentary seat, my Chinese students seemed less than impressed with democracy

A review by Sir Eric Pickles into last year's general election called for parliamentary candidates to be in place in «battleground seats» by June 2018 «to ensure they are well - established within the seat before the next scheduled General Election on 5th May 2022».

[9] New expenses rules published by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority coming into force after the 2010 General Election allow employment of one relative but replace funding for a second home with a London Allowance of # 3,760 for MPs with seats within 20 miles of Westminster.

In Mid-Devon the Tories moved into overall control, gaining four seats, while Solihull - an extremely close parliamentary seat between the two parties - was another Conservative gain.

But in 2014, as a failed parliamentary candidate desperate to get back into the party's good graces, he launched a grassroots volunteer scheme that sent party members into marginal seats to distribute leaflets, knock on doors, and work the voters.

Currently, opinion polls suggest the Conservatives will win a maximum of 14 % in the Parliamentary election, which would cost them two or three seats, and probably push them into fourth place.

The Labour parliamentary candidate for a key marginal seat was arrested after crashing into a roundabout on Monday.

In an unprecedented fashion, a sitting president was not merely denied a straight second term but was defeated by a margin of nearly 10 percentage points which translates into over one million votes in real terms and his party lost almost fifty parliamentary seats to concede their legislative advantage to the incoming president's party.

I would go even further than David Cameron - I would fast track even more talented women and ethnic minority candidates into the seats currently held by our Bedblocker MPs - about 25 % of the Parliamentary Party the last time I looked.

Following the 2003 — 2005 review into parliamentary representation in Wiltshire, the Boundary Commission created a new county constituency, reviving the name of Chippenham as a seat.

«Ruth Kelly is so desperate to push Greater Manchester into being a guinea pig for national road pricing that she is willing to stake her own parliamentary seat on it.

John Denham, Ed Miliband's parliamentary private secretary and the man charged with getting Labour into a position to win seats in the south of England, said the party had learned from the campaign.

In the 1990s the Liberal Democrats enjoyed success at a local level here, but it never translated into Parliamentary strength and following a difficult period of Liberal Democrat - Conservative control of Hackney council they largely collapsed, leaving every council seat in this ward in the hands of Labour.

At least in modern times (the post WW2 era), most cabinet ministers have always had safeish seats, the main reason being that you generally need to have sat for a couple of parliamentary terms to get into the cabinet and if you have a marginal seat you tend to lose it before you get to cabinet level.