Based on past election results, enrollment figures, and fundraising totals, it's safe to assume that, barring any unexpected retirements, arrests or other major surprises, 23 seats currently controlled by Democrats, 21 seats controlled by Republicans and each of the five districts held by the IDC will
return members of the same party that voters selected in 2014:
Voting in the Irish Republic is so tribal that, at least other than in this completely exceptional year, most TDs who lose their seats do so to
members of the same party as themselves.
Schroeder said while they may have been
members of the same party, they did not have common goals.
Members of the same party (or allied parties or groups)[17] refer to each other as «my (Right) Honourable friend».
As
members of the same party, the letter aims to articulate a difference of opinion about the priorities in his budget.»
If a Liberal Democrat minister resigned or was removed from office,
another member of the same party would have had to be appointed to the Cabinet.
He added that Mr. Meguin, as a Democratic party leader in the town, might be able to get further in discussions with the governor, since they are
both members of the same party.
This question does not arise ordinarily because the governor who is the leader of the party and we, are
members of the same party.
That peaked during the 91st congress, during President Nixon's first term in office, when members of opposing parties voted with each other nearly as often as
members of the same party.