Sentences with phrase «local constituency seats»

The Assembly election uses a form of Additional Member System (AMS), with 14 local constituency seats (spanning two or three London boroughs) with winners elected by «first past the post» (or plurality rule) voting.

Ten of the 14 Assembly local constituency seats have never changed party control, which may lead to complacency and inertia.

Not exact matches

Welcome to Hot Seats, a series in which local academics report from the UK's marginal constituencies.

There's always a chance that Kezia's national presence will benefit her at the local ballot box, but as the first capital constituency to turn to the SNP it seems likely that Ash Regan - Denham will win this seat.

The electorate of any constituency was to be as close as possible to a country - specific electoral quota to reduce malapportionment; where rigid adherence to the «as far as practicable» guidelines would mean a large disparity between electorates, the commissions were expressly empowered to form seats which combine parts of two (and where major disparity still remains, more) local government areas.

The best result at the constituency, or electoral area, level for Labour in the 2014 Local Elections came in Athy, where Labour won 27.0 % of the first preference votes and took two of the six seats in that electoral area.

For the last two years the Refounding Labour funds, established with membership subscriptions, have been channelled into key seats, but after the election constituencies will again be able to bid for support for projects to improve local organisation or enhance democracy and diversity.

For instance, knowing that in my local constituency, we have roughly 2.89 x more power than the average UK voter due to it being a marginal seat, could help encourage people to go out and vote knowing they actually could make a difference.

There are 299 such local constituencies, which means 299 seats get filled directly no matter what the outcome of the party - preference vote.

While the Irish Speakers also give up their party membership and are elected automatically at general elections, much like Westminster, their local electors still get the chance to vote for party candidates to fill the constituency's remaining seats.

Being local to a constituency indeed does help, as we've seen in various seats over the last few years.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

Constituencies may not be contiguous with local authority boundaries raising the prospect that part of a «safe seat» might be voting and another part would not be voting.

Nigel Farage, Ukip's leader, made three trips to the constituency during the four - week campaign, downing pints in local pubs, climbing aboard a tank and making disparaging remarks about Miliband, who visited the seat twice.

Farage does have roots in the constituency in which he is campaigning and UKIP won seven of the eight local council seats in May 2013, as well as topping the poll in the European Parliament elections in 2014.

West Mayo emerges as having the highest level in the state with an average of 320.89 km2 territory per council seat in that seven - seat local election constituency.

Cork City South Central emerges as having the highest level in the state with an average of 0.89 km2 territory per council seat in that five - seat local election constituency.

Without the loyalty factor to a well - known, local constituency MP the next Tory candidate will be in with an excellent chance of moving the seat of the gorgeous golden valley into the blue column at the next election night.

Here is the lead by constituency on the local votes from the 10 most marginal Conservative held seats in 2015 and Reading East / West (seats with ward boundary changes, no local elections in 2015 or either Con or Lab not running in more than one ward have been omitted), the actual majority is in brackets:

Kendall, a former Labour leadership candidate who is well regarded by the party's right wing, has a majority of just over 7,000 in her Leicester West constituency, but local Tories say they are hopeful of taking the seat.

Ian Swales, the Redcar MP whose constituency was also polled by Oakeshott, told his local Gazette that the results suggesting he would lose his seat were «based on a small sample and look very amateurish».