Sentences with phrase «majority government»

Another and more significant result was the election of a Liberal majority government with only 39 per cent of the vote.

A disaster for the PM, because she has thrown away the first Conservative majority government for 18 years after just two.

As you rightly mentioned in your question, arguments in favour of majority government is that they tend to last much longer, bringing with it an element of stability.

It's true that under a PR system, single party majority governments would probably be few and far between.

However, only 28 per cent say their preferred outcome in 2015 would be another Lib - Con coalition — just one point more than the number who want a Labour majority government.

It would mostly elect majority governments on minority votes.

It looks specifically at provision of grants, equity, loans, guarantees and insurance by majority government - owned institutions for domestic and international fossil fuel exploration and production.

Nobody is entirely sure how the new majority government will change things, but no Conservative is expecting a free ride.

I am not sure they are fundamental, in that both tend towards majority governments.

The election returned a Conservative majority government which is committed to the referendum and which has already introduced legislation to make it happen.

There might not be a national crisis which demands immediate majority government.

That's why majority government is more accountable, in his view.

So - called majority government that gives power to an administration for five years, supported by only 37 % of voters and 24 % of the population, is an outrage.

There should be a clear moment when voters understand very clearly how a Conservative majority government would be different.

In 2010 the first - past - the - post system failed to deliver a single - party majority government and it is very unlikely to deliver a stable coalition government in 2015.

Annastacia Palasczuk will be able to form majority government after the final results of the Queensland election were announced.

The election of the Conservative majority government in May 2015 very quickly signalled that reforms related to party funding would be attempted, not as a comprehensive attempt at reform, but with possibly far reaching consequences for some parties.

While there is little evidence to suggest minority government has been a cause of poor economic outcomes in Tasmania — it is more that these governments were unlucky and found themselves in charge after national downturns — the fact remains that Tasmanians have a strong preference for majority government.

The strategy worked and lead to a Tory majority government for the first time since 1992.

The English system prioritizes the achievement of accountable majority government over representativeness, so whether you think this is democratic or not depends on your stance on that issue.

Let's take a look at what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his Liberal majority government got done in the first half of 2017.

The 125 CEOs who participated in the survey were asked to compare a hypothetical majority government under Conservative leader Stephen Harper to one led by Liberal Stéphane Dion.

Clegg has succeeded in dramatically shifting the expectations of the public and the commentariat away from majority Government and towards a more fluid, continental model of Government.

That way every we still get majority governments, but also every vote is counted twice and therefore every single vote matters even in the safest of seats and we end up with a different make up of a second chamber but one that is completely democratic.

Expect endless stories about the Conservative leadership — articles which arguably distract from what the Tories will be getting up to in their first majority government in many young voters» lives.

Elected at the fourth federal election in 1910, it was the first majority Labor government and the first majority government since Federation in 1901.

When Justin Trudeau's Liberals won an unexpected majority government last October, Canadian First Nations and environmentalists cheered, while oil and gas executives groaned.

The parliamentary arithmetic, they argue, meant that the only available recipe for stable majority government was a Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition.

Just hours after the elections that locked in David Cameron at Downing Street with a new conservative majority government behind him, Focus Features has released a teaser poster for the film featuring big destruction in London.

The 2015 General Election saw a Conservative majority government returned (al biet on a minority of the vote) for the first time since 1992.

With no encumbrances to its decision - making powers, the Harper majority government will be responsible ---LSB-...]

Find out more on key issue areas and events in the 2008 federal election, including the minority / majority government question, the economy, leadership, the environment, and Canada in Afghanistan.

When the Conservatives finally achieved majority government in 2011, they ensured that more committee meetings would be held in camera — away from the public's prying eyes.

New to the office, Strom fought back young Peter Lougheed «s liberal - minded Progressive Conservatives, leading his party to form a small majority government.

This election has been a disaster for them, as it has too for the Liberal Democrats, who paid the price for locking themselves into a secure majority government for five years rather than seeing what they could achieve by working with a Tory minority administration.

In his latest blog, Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon reveals that the latest poll, for Mori / Reuters, suggests the Tories could be in majority government zone.

But something like: «In which direction does the election of a new majority government who has promised this level of fiscal spend above the previous baseline shift the balance of risks for monetary policymakers?

If, however, the Party is able to gain majority government status, then it will enjoy a great deal more freedom in pursuing its policies and programs.

Imagine, for example, a runaway majority government bulldozing badly - thought - out legislation through the House of Commons with a mandate from only a minority of voters.

Majority governments flatter to deceive.

Majority governments spend more time avoiding the risks that impinge on them than mitigating the risks that threaten the rest of us.

The Conservatives» remarkable success in converting coalition into majority government is down to two factors: this was the first governing party to increase its vote share after a full term in office for more than a century and it succeeded in concentrating that vote increase in the seats where it counted.

Long before the SNP's landslide victory in this election, PR gave Scottish voters the confidence to vote for an SNP majority government in Holyrood.

This especially matters if we either think majority government may be less common in future (for which there is good evidence) and / or also wish to actively promote a more pluralist political culture, as John does, and which I agree is both quite probably inevitable and potentially desirable.