Sentences with phrase «majority of seats»

We are hoping our tactical voting wheel will be effective in the vast majority of seats.

A party with less than 40 % of the popular vote can often win an outright majority of the seats.

The large majority of the seats were held by independent candidates, similar to other predominantly rural Scottish councils.

Meanwhile, neither of the parties that won respective majorities of seats in England or Scotland (or for that matter, in Northern Ireland) would be in government.

In terms of the electoral law — well, it's FPTP, so you're going to have a lot of councils where the winning party won an overwhelming majority of seats on less than 50 percent of the vote.

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

The SNP won 63 of the 129 seats and took 44 per cent of the vote in the constituency seats and regions, which is a slight dip in SNP support and it lost its overall majority of seats.

It won an absolute majority of seats in England in 2010, gaining 36 more seats than the other parties combined - an outcome I tested here, though admittedly in the context of Labour gaining a majority because of its strength elsewhere.

In both sets the vast majority of seats involve Labour defending vote shares of between 40 and 65 per cent with an average of 50 per cent.

As things stand, the SNP are set to win the overwhelming majority of seats in Scotland.

Akufo - Addo beat the incumbent John Mahama with over a million votes to win the presidency with the NPP also claiming majority of seats in Parliament.

The Tories have a clear majority of seats in England.

And even if Democrats did pick up a bare majority of seats in November, they would still have to contend with four members of the Independent Democratic Conference, who have often voted with the Republicans.

Until the 1980s, Irish politics was dominated by two parties, either of whom could achieve a simple majority of seats in the Dáil and therefore elect their party leader as Taoiseach.

On occasion, election thresholds have resulted in a party winning an outright majority of seats without winning an outright majority of votes, the sort of outcome that a proportional voting system is supposed to prevent.

The IDC subsequently struck an alliance with Republicans that let the GOP retain control of the chamber even though Democrats won a numerical majority of seats.

Independent Councillors retained the large majority of seats on the Council and retained control of the administration.

In the previous election in 2012, Independent Councillors retained a large majority of the seats on the Council, and retained control of the administration.

In both sets the vast majority of seats involve Labour defending vote shares of between 40 % and 65 % with an average of 50 %.

Son Adam at times appears to serve as his father's informal political advisor, as in this conversation, also recorded in late 2014, where the two discuss the continued alliance between the Republicans, who had just won a slim majority of the seats in the chamber, and a small group of independent Democrats led by Senator Jeff Klein.

(iv) If there was a political earthquake and an LD - led government it would almost certainly be a coalition, unless they won an overall majority of seats.

This was because the SNP gained 47 seats out of 129 in the election, which was some way short of achieving an absolute majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament, but more than any other single party gained.

David Cameron says he hopes to govern Britain in the interests of all its people as the Conservatives won an outright majority of seats in the House of Commons.

Doubtless Labour will not recover in Scotland to (even) 2010 levels of support, but they do not need to do so in order to save the vast majority of their seats in Scotland.

Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

The Conservatives hold a majority of seats in the House of Commons, meaning support from the governing party is required for a motion to succeed.

The announcement came less than 24 hours after the B.C. election results were finalized, with the two parties holding a majority of the seats committing to do anything in their power to stop the proposal.

Last time the ruling UMNO - led Barisan Nasional coalition received a minority of the popular vote, only winning a majority of the seats thanks to some creatively drawn electoral boundaries.

In a landslide victory, the Liberal Party took the majority of the seats across the nation and became the party in power.

I think that's the majority of the seats on the emirates, that can send a message big time.

The canopy is extra-large and covers a majority of the seat.

The UV 50 canopy is extra-large and covers a majority of the seat.

It provides a lot of protection for your child, including an extendable sun visor that covers a majority of the seating area.

It's called a hung parliament because no party won a majority of seats in the House of Commons.

It could be that, for instance, Labour will gain a majority of seats in the Commons because of the support of Scottish Labour MPs.

Hochul insisted a Senate in which Democrats hold a majority of the seats would be a benefit to Cuomo, who has had a decidedly cool relationship with the mainline conference.

As a result, the majority of seats that year were and are held by Democrats.

The potentially overwhelming prospects of the nationalists seizing the majority of seats north of the border are underlined by today's ICM / Guardian poll, which puts the nationalists on 43 % to Labour's 27 %.

The party or coalition of parties with the majority of seats in the parliament forms the executive.

Their Unionist opponents held the majority of seats in England, except from 1906 — 1910.

Guelleh's UMP, which has a tight grip on power, holds the majority of the seats in Djibouti's parliament.

Nevertheless, the Senate Republicans and Democrats exhausted their main campaign accounts, and slug fest resulted in no side emerging a clear winner in the sense that they have firm control over the chamber (Democrats have already won a majority of the seats giving them a numerical advantage and two races remain undecided).

Question for you Labour loyalists: is there a snowball's chance in hell that Labour will win a majority of seats in the election?

This is no new arrangement, nor does the IDC relent when Democrats have a stronger majority in the Senate: in 2012, Democrats won a majority of seats in the State Senate, but the IDC broke away from the main Democratic conference to give Republicans control.

Unfortunately for Labour, the large majority of these seats were last contested, in 2005, when Labour led the Conservatives by 3 %.

It seems somewhat likely that we'll end up with the Tories having more seats than Labour, but the parties of the left having a majority of seats in parliament.

This mean that if a party is popular in the regions but not in the cities, he can win the majority of seats with a minority of votes.