Sentences with phrase «number of its seats where»

His comments come after an Operation Black Vote study found the number of seats where black and Asian votes could swing the election result had increased by 70 % since 2010.
Traditionally strong tactical voters because of the sheer number of seats where their candidate couldn't win, the «yellow surge» means more Lib Dems may now believe their candidate has a chance after all.
Well, if the proponents of the change looked at UK election results they would see there are large numbers of seats where the incumbents already receive at least 50 per cent of the votes.
The biologist and writer is said to usually vote Labour, but this time around he has identified a number of seats where he believes it makes sense to vote Lib Dem.
«It tends to be a sort of conservative area... Having said that, in this region we've won a number of seats where you wouldn't normally think we'd compete.»
But the figures for England also showed it was going to lose a large number of its seats where Labour is the challenger.

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Musk said he wants to make the bus smaller than current models and increase the number of passengers on it by removing the «center aisle and putting seats where there are currently entryways.»
Exchangeable a number of infant strollers are supplied where they might be squared away into double seater's with additional seats as well as a transverse bar.
The way the question is currently written, one could either interpret it as any case where a party first got a small number of seats in one election and was then able to increase their share significantly in the next (by whatever means), or it could be interpreted as just covering the technique of using symbolic gifts to provoke their opponents.
Significant numbers of Labour supporters may be willing to vote tactically for the Lib Dems in seats where the Conservatives are the second largest party, the poll found.
Where a political party appoints more than 1 scrutineer to be present during the allocation of list seats, only 1 scrutineer for that political party, or such greater number as is permitted by the Electoral Commission, shall be present at any one time.
An increasing number of UK elections are now multi-member, where each elector can vote multiple times according to the number of vacant seats.
In Lewisham, where we took our highest number of votes, it is believed that Labour will put forward an all - female BAME shortlist to contest Heidi Alexander's seat.
That shift benefits downstate, largely Democratic districts, at the expense of upstate senate seats held by GOP members, where the inmates were used to bolster population numbers in the primarily rural districts.
The others are the 36th (Assemblyman Mike Gianaris is departing to run for retiring Sen. George Onorato's seat), and the 26th, where a number of candidates are jockeying for the seat Assemblywoman Ann - Margaret Carrozza (who had a bit of a residency problem that drew the attention of Cuomo's office) has decided not to run for again.
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.
Prior to setting up his own communications business, he was on the Conservative Party's professional staff working for Ministers and high - profile back bench MPs, where he masterminded and devised a number of community campaigns which saw the Conservative Party holding to a number of highly marginal seats.
, or without a vigorous opposition press, or with a slanderous and irresponsible opposition press, or which have signed up to supranational bodies outside democratic control, or which have signed up to international treaties ditto, or which make use of protected seats for women or ethnic minorities, or where the if the prime minister is one ethnic group the president is conventionally always another, or where unlimited campaign donations are allowed, or disallowed, or where significant numbers question the legitimacy of the polity holding the vote, or where voting is compulsory, or where non-citizens can not vote, or where they can, or where there is (or is not) a second chamber or supreme court that can block popular legislation...
Of the 100 seats for which final voter registration numbers have been collated, 82 have seen a rise in registered voters since the 2015 election - but more than half the increase is in just 20 seats where numbers have risen by at least three per cent.
The first results of the night had produced Labour wins in Sunderland but outside of its strongholds in the north, it failed to take vital seats such as the number one target of Warwickshire North, where the Conservatives increased their share of the vote.
I have restricted the list to the Tories» top 200 target seats (the party needs to gain 117 seats to get a majority of one in Parliament) and the numbers refer to where they appear, on paper, on that target list (based on the Rallings and Thrasher figures).
Campaigners such as the Electoral Reform Society and the Liberal Democrats want a fully proportional system where the number of seats a party wins is more closely aligned with the number of votes they get.
But at the same point, in a seat where, again, 2,500 more Republicans voted, Good doesn't win by winning a sizable number of Republicans.
So, by my reckoning there will probably be around 15 re-selection battles where a sitting Labour MP faces up against another sitting Labour MP on the provisional boundaries, though remember that these are subject to change (and it only takes a small adjustment by the boundary commission to shift the number of voters from an old seat above or below 40 %).
Vitter's numbers have dipped to a point where, should he lose, some Republicans will want him to drop his bid for re-election to the Senate in 2016 because they are concerned he could put the seat at risk of a Democratic takeover.
They tend to be seats with relatively small numbers of constituents in urban areas — that's right; they tend to be Labour seats, where the population has tended to shrink over the years as people sensibly flee areas represented by Labour MPs.
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.
This was the last general election where a governing party increased its number of seats until 2015.
«You see sort of a retrenchment in the City Council where black women and women overall have lost seats, have given up seats to their male counterparts and so then numbers that we've had in the past in the New York City Council have diminished a bit, but that means that we have to build a pipeline,» Clarke said, referring to the decrease in the number of women in the Council after last year's elections.
Conservative backbenchers were expressing fears on Saturday that Ukip — which leapfrogged the Conservatives into second place in Thursday's Eastleigh byelection — represents a serious threat to their support not just in the south of England but also in the north, where the Tories face a struggle to defend a number of key marginal seats at the 2015 general election.
It took seats in councils like Essex and Hampshire, where it previously had no councillors, but failed to pick up any seats in a number of councils including Hertfordshire, Warwickshire, North Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria and Derbyshire.
This is a small improvement on our current system of first past the post, since it allows voters to rank candidates and reduces the need to vote tactically, but it does not address the crucial unfairness at the heart of our democracy which is that a party's share of seats in parliament does reflect the number of votes it receives across the country - a situation which leads to millions of wasted votes and a shameful system of «safe seats» where a donkey could be elected so long as they were wearing the right coloured rosette.
In some councils, boundary changes come into force in 2018 where councils are reorganised and the number of seats on the council changes.
At the last election there were 21 seats where the number of votes that UKIP got was larger than the number of extra votes the Conservatives needed to win.
Each lottery will determine the order of the school's applicant pool, in grade levels where the number of applications exceeds the number of available seats.
In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court made school integration more difficult when it prohibited the Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, school districts from making racial balance a factor in assigning students to schools in cases where applicant numbers exceeded available seats.1 The plurality opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts called student categorization by race unconstitutional unless it was designed to reverse the effects of explicit rules that segregated students by race.
Inside Collector Edition Grand Sports receive the stunning two - tone Tension Blue seats, carbon fiber dash trim, premium floor mats with the Grand Sport Logo, and a numbered plaque showing where this car falls within the run of 1,000.
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Pont Aven features a number of lounges onboard where you can relax including a reclining seat lounge (for those that aren't travelling with a cabin), Commodore lounge (an exclusive room for suite passengers, and includes access to two side patio areas) and a spacious lounge on the mezzanine level of the main bar with comfortable lounge chairs and sofas.
You start the day cruising to Poissy where there is an optional guided tour of Versailles, the opulent former seat of the Royal family until the French Revolution (dependent upon minimum numbers).
Where there is a significant gain is on the number of Business Class seat available on the flight with the A350 offering over 60 % more than the 787 (36 seats compared to just 22).
The excellent seat width has been achieved by keeping the Premium Economy cabin on the lower deck of the A380 (where the aircraft is widest) and by keeping the number of seats in a row down to just 8 (in a 2 -4-2 layout).
The variety of bars is outstanding, including Saasil by the lobby, with indoor and outdoor seating and great ocean views; Juana Margarita, where you can taste Mexico's favorite libation — tequila - in a number of local varieties; and my fave, Tres Cervezas, a microbrewery serving superbly spicy wings and beer brewed on site by brewmaster Juan Jose Garcias, a delightful craftsman who is more than happy to talk beer at length, and who creates custom brews for the resort's many weddings and other events.
The gorgeous living area houses the composite lounge which has comfortable seating for large number of people; the dining area where you will have umpteen meals with the family and friends, the entertainment nook, as well as the terraced sit - out and kitchen.
The facilities include a number of different items from the luxurious classic tropical luxury pool area with divided separate pool areas and plenty of seating located around the outside of the pool and around the bar area where refreshments are served all day.
All of the rooms a have a balcony and great view over the Bandung area as well as up into the mountains.The facilities at Crowne Plaza Bandung Hotel are also of a very high standard with a beautiful swimming pool which is located in the garden areas where you will find a number seating arrangement for the pool and the bar as well as the poolside massage areas.
Koch Industries has had a seat on ALEC's «Private Enterprise» board for years, while Koch network entities like Freedom Partners, Americans for Prosperity, and Koch - funded «think tanks» have seats on a number of task forces where they get a vote on bills.
I came to London to serve the vast number of disputes for or against Indian clients, in which English courts have jurisdiction or where London was the seat of arbitration.
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