Sentences with phrase «large constituency»

But it has been suggested in the past that getting out the activists for such large constituencies has proved difficult.

Just as some policies create larger constituencies than others, some create greater opposition than others.

When you have 109 people representing large constituencies, continuously, you have to manage situations.

But large constituencies weaken the link between voters and their representatives.

What good in the long run does it do a Democrat to veer too far left in a primary and therefore lose credibility with a more moderate if conservative larger constituency in the general election?

Under this system, some members are elected for traditional first - past - the - post seats, but others will be returned, in a second vote, in larger constituencies on a party list PR system.

Fewer MPs, and with larger constituencies, would be far better suited to open primary contests selecting candidates.

(but each MP has a very much larger constituency to cover.)

A number of evangelical leaders with very large constituencies sharply criticized the declaration as a betrayal of the central Reformation belief in «justification by faith alone.»

Moreover, many see greenhouse gas regulation as being about creating losers, most notably in fossil fuel industries and those who depend on those industries for energy; technology promotion, in the new narrative, is about creating new winning industries and large constituencies who can gain from the options they provide.

Both Murray and Rothstein have large constituencies for their views.

According to the youth group, known as NDC Asanka Crackers, despite the fact that the Ashaiman constituency is the fourth largest constituency with the highest voter population in the country, the President has failed to show them some appreciation for their loyalty to the NDC..

And large constituencies returning five to ten MPs would give smaller parties a chance to mitigate the «wasted votes» syndrome felt by UKIP, the Greens — even the Liberal Democrats.

STV in large constituencies permits an approach to the Hare - Mill - Wells ideal of mirror representation.

2 Re-drawing boundaries When changing from FPTP, MMP requires either fewer larger constituencies or a larger number of MPs in the parliament (to accommodate the Party List MPs who do not have a constituency).

I think the consensus is that the Tories will try to «equalise» the number of voters in fewer, larger constituencies which will almost inevitably mean they will be more rural and / or suburban, at the expense of metropolitan.

The UK was divided into large constituencies and different parties put together lists of candidates for election, with their preferred choices at the top.

At the same time, however, nowhere does UKIP achieve the kind of large constituency vote shares in the BES that the two main parties manage where they do well.

In the actual 2015 seats, Conservative MPs in England and Wales represented rather larger constituencies (in terms of the electorate) than did Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs.

They advocate moving to a system of single - transferable vote (STV), where large constituencies have multiple members.

Not surprisingly, the very largest constituency areas tend to be associated with electoral areas in the more rural and western parts of the state, in addition to the two, more rural, European election constituencies.

In many cases, larger constituency units have come about as a result of a loss of seats — whether it be the loss of a European Parliament seat by the Republic of Ireland or the loss of County Council seats by some (of the more rural) counties — added to the overall increase in seat numbers for City and County Council elections.

My suggestion was that you (actually, John P. Reisman) could solve CO2 accumulation faster if you didn't alienate too many large constituencies at the start, deep ocean fishermen and fish - eaters being two of those constituencies.

The government proposes large constituencies, while the Conservatives prefer smaller ones based upon recognisable and identifi able cities / counties.

While there is the disadvantage of resulting in much larger constituencies, I favour it because it has an important ameliorating factor.

According to the youth group, known as NDC Asanka Crackers, despite the fact that the Ashaiman constituency is the fourth largest constituency with the highest voter population in the country, the...

Wholesale changes, with larger constituencies, put them at risk.

The creation of new constituencies for the upcoming local and European elections (on May 23rd 2014) has resulted in the creation of some very large constituencies (in terms of territory / geographical area).

A large constituency of small business owners remains unconvinced, and have kept the Liberals on the defensive all summer and into the autumn.

Agrawal: Because we have a larger constituency than our individual voices.

It is no surprise that OZRK trade at more that 2x book value and has a large constituency among institutional investors, but also has a pretty volatile stock with a beta of 1.7.

Indeed, as former bishop of Worcester Peter Selby long ago pointed out, the real source of our indebted society is this: «Lending money has become the best way of making it, and there is a large constituency of people now with a strong interest in maintaining that situation.»

They have set aside (without downgrading) their particular agendas in order to galvanize a larger constituency on behalf of reempowered parenting.

The corporation must also be held accountable to larger constituencies — the communities that have given it tax advantages and public facilities, suppliers and customers, a general public that expects from it ecological responsibility, ethical practice and fair dealing in return for its exceptional powers.

Despite the claims of moderate Republicans and the warnings of liberal journalists, it is hard to see how Republicans could ignore such a large constituency.

The underlying assumption is that demonstrators only represent themselves rather than seeing them as an expression of a larger constituency of dissent.

By area, the largest constituency is 918,319 hectares and the smallest is 727 hectares.

Her very big patch, one of the largest constituencies geographically speaking in England, had been Tory forever.

He was certainly playing to a larger constituency than usual.

Isn't the larger constituencies argument from Hannan just a prerequisite for conservative success after the possible introduction of PR?

It's clear from this endorsement that Bill de Blasio is more concerned with his ambitions of becoming a national progressive figure than his relationship with one of one of New York's largest constituencies.»

They build a large constituency who will defend the policy when attacked.

Having fewer MPs, elected from large constituencies, and selected to stand in the first place via open primary contests, would make politics more open and competitive.

The Ketu South Constituency is the Electoral Commission's largest constituency, and has featured as the stronghold of the opposition NDC.

The recent turn of events involving Senator Ball has opened up the opportunity for service in an environment where I can be even more effective, on behalf of a larger constituency,» Castelli said in a statement.

If you assume that more than 60 % of the electorate are not planning to vote Labour, and even more are not planning to vote Conservative, then there is a large constituency to whom the idea of another hung parliament could conceivably appeal.

That manifesto was then endorsed by the largest constituency share of the vote of any party in the history of devolution.

As noted by Dennis Kavanagh and David Butler in their study on the 1987 election, «Since 1987 the Conservatives had located a large constituency of «winners,» people who have an interest in the return of a Conservative government.

The London Assembly meanwhile is elected from 14 large constituencies, and 11 top - up seats awarded by the d'Hondt system, based on a second «list» vote.