Sentences with phrase «number of constituencies»

Following the boundary review, however, MPs will fight it out among themselves for a reduced number of constituencies, with party members having the final say.

The total numbers of constituencies and regions (40 constituencies and five regions) remained the same.

Constituency boundaries would need to be redrawn to accommodate a smaller number of constituency MPs.

David Miliband currently enjoys the support of the largest number of MPs (101, after the Cruddas endorsement) and the highest number of Constituency Labour Parties (165).

By broadening their campaign to cover a larger number of constituencies, Ukip enjoys an exponential increase in its potential voters.

Mr Kerr failed to gain any union's support - other than an affiliate in the Scottish Labour students - but backing from 13 MSPs and MPs and the same number of constituency parties kept him firmly in the race.

FPTP rewards parties with votes concentrated into a small number of voters, such as those in one nation, such as the SNP or DUP and those who've learned to target their vote into a smaller number of constituencies like the Liberal Democrats.

These design idiosyncrasies appealed to a growing number of constituencies — developers trying to outdo one another with curb appeal, construction professionals showing off skills with emerging technologies, and home owners displaying new wealth and individuality, says architect James B. Garrison, an associate principal at the New York - based architecture firm RMJM.

Because remain voters are disproportionately concentrated in a comparatively small number of constituencies, if Labour adopts an official anti-Brexit stance it's likely to lead to electoral wipe out.

The Alberta Liberal is the only real progressive alternative considering total vote plurality in the last election and considering the number of constituencies that were second place for ALP.

Who needs mandatory reselection to send a new model army to Westminster if candidates selected in target seats are permitted to compete on equal terms against sitting members, should the number of constituencies be reduced to 650 from 600 under redrawn parliamentary boundaries.

The UK Government is likely to propose a reduction in the number of constituency AMs from 40 to 30, in line with the reduction in numbers of Welsh MPs ³.

The Liberal Democrats have also taken a beating, finishing behind the British National party (BNP) in a number of constituencies.

The Lib Dem collapse in Wales reached the point where they finished behind the British National party (BNP) in a number of constituencies, but their five seats could leave them as prospective coalition partners for Labour.

This tactic would only be worthwhile, if at all, where concerted action was taken in a number of constituencies, and the penalty could be graduated accordingly.

The reason the boundary changes helped the Tories was that they sharply reduced the number of constituencies in Labour's heartlands.

But on these constituency - estimate figures outlined in these analyses Labour Party candidates would find themselves polling below candidates from Sinn Fein, the Socialist Party, the Workers and Unemployed Action Group or the People Before Profit Alliance, or left - leaning independents, in a number of constituencies.

The General Secretary of the PNC Atik Mohammed told Joy News that «There are a number of constituencies and we are very sure and Insha Allahu we are going to win this time around.

It may have reinforced the views of those who had already decided not to vote Labour, and, if so, may have had a decisive impact in a small number of constituencies.»

Over the years the number of constituencies in the UK has grown to 650, but the Victorian era Palace of Westminster debating chamber only has seating space for something like four hundred.

Of course Plaid is in serious competition with Labour in Mid and West Wales and in a number of constituencies elsewhere, leading it to differentiate itself from Labour.

This article was amended on Wednesday 20 July to correct the number of constituency councillors interviewed from 104 to 101

We don't yet know for sure the impact of the reduction in the number of constituencies — the Conservatives should be the net beneficiaries, but the parties will fight over every boundary line; until the new map is drawn we won't know how many seats will change hands for a given swing.

But Unite and others now boast of «their» MPs, and have reportedly tried to seize ever more influence within a number of Constituency Labour Parties.

But there are a number of constituencies where UKIP are the largest party among BES respondents, which certainly signals the potential for the party to win a handful of seats.

On Wednesday, Mr Amissah - Arthur will pay a courtesy call on the Buipewura and meet with party executives from a number of constituencies in the Gonja area.

The number of constituencies represented this year at the conference at which Ed Milliband's election as leader was announced was the lowest in living memory — 412 meaning more than one in three -LSB-...]

The number of constituencies represented this year at the conference at which Ed Milliband's election as leader was announced was the lowest in living memory — 412 meaning more than one in three parties was unrepresented.

In Wales the reduction in the number of constituencies will have a great impact.

The research, conducted by a Democratic Audit - a research group based at Liverpool University - maps the results of last year's general election onto a set of boundaries based on a 600 - seat House of Commons, which is the number of constituencies that will exist at the 2015 general election.

President Mahama who is currently on a 5 - day campaign tour of the region expected to tour a number of constituencies in the region with his «Changing Lives and Transforming Ghana» agenda to woo the electorates to renew his mandate for the second term.

The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 duly introduced the referendum on AV and also the aim of reducing the number of constituencies to 600.

The postponed Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies proposed reducing the number of constituencies from 650 to 600.

I'm grateful to John Rentoul's blog for alerting me to the amendment put down by the Conservatives ahead of last Tuesday's voting reform debate that set out Tory plans to reduce the number of constituencies by 10 %.

The Lib Dems could stand to lose a number of constituency seats to the SNP especially in the Highlands and Islands, North - East Scotland and in the South of Scotland, although some of these would be replaced by regional seats (since its regional vote appears higher than in 2007).

The Boundaries Commission will formally present its proposals for reducing the number of constituencies from 650 to 600 tomorrow.

parliament has set us strict rules on reducing the number of constituencies and bringing greater equality of electorate size between the new constituencies — these new rules mean that there is likely to be a large degree of change across the country.

The Boundary Commission last week outlined its proposals for reducing the number of constituencies in the UK from 650 to 600.

The Conservatives lost six seats in the capital, losing Battersea, Croydon Central, Enfield Southgate and Kensington to Labour, who saw its majorities increase in a number of constituencies.

We would probably have to reduce the number of constituencies by at least a third, and it would be the Tories deciding what the ground rules would be for those new boundaries.