Sentences with phrase «more seat in the legislature»

Get more seats in the legislature, get more governors elected, get more judges on the bench — the path to electoral power in a democracy is pretty straightforward.

Republicans had hoped to gain one more seat in the legislature but incumbent Democrat Tom Loughran was able to hold off a strong challenge in the 5th District.

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But even so, PAN («National Action Party») gets at most 14 percent of regional votes, and its token seats in the legislature serve more to prove the ruling party operates a democracy.

After more people arrived at Naper Settlement, Naper helped to plat the town and then joined the state legislature in 1836 to guide the formation of DuPage County in 1839 with Naperville at that time as its county seat.

But it's clear that Gregorius, as Democratic majority leader, is not enamored with a county legislature that has more members of his own party seated (13 - 10), yet is controlled by Republicans in league with a small Democratic breakaway faction that, together elected Democrat John Parete as its chair.

Like all winner - take - all voting methods, IRV tends to exaggerate the number of seats won by the largest parties; small parties without majority support in any given constituency are unlikely to earn seats in a legislature, although their supporters will be more likely to be part of the final choice between the two strongest candidates.

The 23 members of the county legislature are also on the ballot, with no more than three seats actually in play.

More than 6,000 seats in the state legislatures are up for grabs Nov. 5.

Four state legislatures races out of Utah County are going uncontested for Republicans, but many districts in the valley have two or more candidates fighting for seats on Capitol Hill.

Both he and his spouse Cara are seeking to represent LD 16 to bring more attention to those issues in the legislature, with Cara running for one of the open seats in the House of Representatives.