Sentences with phrase «more local government seats»

Not exact matches

Local government elections don't have any direct impact on each other and there is no consensus way to quantify the fact that an election in a small city, or a city with more seats on its council, may be less important than in a major city, or a seat with fewer seats on its council.

In the opening half of the current parliament, it was the grassroots who were least invested in the present government; local authority elections were a much more important priority for councillors, many of which have already paid the price with their seats for the Lib Dem - Tory tie - up.

In the most recent election, as the original post notes, neither of the major parties changed their share of seats in local government offices by more than 0.3 %, which rounds down to 0 %, so it is fair to say that there was «no clear winner» judged relative to the status quo.

Teamsters Local 237, a union that represents more than 30,000 government workers in the city and parts of Long Island, has thrown its support behind Heidi Harrison Chain, one of five Democratic candidates vying for Melinda Katz's (D - Forest Hills) Council 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.

More tangibly, a strong local government presence can help win seats in parliament.

In the recent United Kingdom local council elections, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) won 147 seats, an increase of 139 seats, garnering more than one million votes (around 23 %) across 35 local governments...