Sentences with phrase «number of seats by»

The election saw the Conservative Party lose overall control of the council, instead overtaken in number of seats by the Labour Party, without any absolute majority.

The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 1.

The whole council was up for election, with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 reducing the number of seats by nine.

The whole council was up for election after boundary changes reduced the number of seats by one.

Boundary changes which reduced the number of seats by 1, meant both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats needed 1 less seat to take control of the council.

Boundary changes took place for the 2002 election, leading to the whole council bring elected in that year and reducing the number of seats by two.

Iain, regarding the accusations of planned gerrymandering, it is all very well talking about the impartiality of the Electoral Commission but Cameron has announced his intention to slash its funding - while at the same time enforcing a massive reorganisation of boundaries by cutting the number of seats by 10 %.

Not exact matches

While United's fourth - quarter profitsurpassed Wall Street's expectations, investors were focused on its plan to grow capacity, or the number of seats it flies, by 4 percent to 6 percent each year through 2020.

As I made my way up to the second - story balcony — all orchestra seating had been taken by the time I arrived — I was overwhelmed by the number of people climbing up the stairs alongside me.

Delta Air Lines said it had upsized aircraft and added flights to increase the number of available outgoing seats by 2,000.

Southwest said it hopes to increase capacity ± the number of seats on its planes — by 8 % this year, up from its earlier goal of 7 %, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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.»

Often, the seats that you can claim with the fewest number of miles are hard to come by and have the lowest real value.

Caisse des Depots et Consignations (CDC), owned by the French state, controls 39 % of the Icade's capital and holds a disproportionate number of board seats.

While bitcoin's use as a payment mechanism seems to have taken a back seat to its value as an investment asset, the need for a greater number of transactions is still pressing as the fees charged by the miners for processing are now more expensive than fiat equivalents.

Those that claim to have the «gift» of prophecy appear to be a goodly number; but those that «sit in the seat» of prophet or higher must operate by His themes.

Joyce has his eye on the threat that Pauline Hanson's resurgent One Nation party poses to the numbers of seats held by the Liberal National party in Queensland and has to tread carefully.

Upon hearing the news, the announcer's widow, Dutchie, rewarded the party seated at table 23 (the second baseman's jersey number) with a ball autographed by Sandberg, who's a co-owner of the restaurant.

6 — the number of miles of seating if every seat was placed side by side (further than the distance from Anfield to the city centre and back).

Day trips to nearby Gibara and Holguin City are offered by a number of tour operators, or you can arrange a car and driver for the day so you can come and go at your own pace and install your car seat.

Consumers should determine whether their infant car seat is included in the recall by visiting: www.bsafe35recall.com or by verifying the model number and date of manufacture as follows.

We have had the delight of helping a huge number of families make their getaways and trips significantly more pleasant for the entire family by giving civilities, for example, baby gear rentals in South Carolina, stroller rentals in South Carolina, crib rental in South Carolina and now folks can even lease a car seat and every other baby equipment on rental in South Carolina.

Safety should be your number one priority followed by the durability and ergonomic of the convertible car seat.

What's more, a number of widely available children's products — such as baby bath seats — are considered dangerous by safety experts but are sold nonetheless.

Parties can only negotiate coalitions on their number of seats, which are won by securing votes.

Democrats plan to push hard in an effort to win a number of seats — the one vacated by former Sen. Chuck Fuschillo, the one that used to be held by Foley and will potentially being vacated by Sen. Lee Zeldin (assuming he wins the NY - 1 GOP primary) and the one currently held by Sen. Jack Martins).

I have been asked by a number of individuals in the Party in Rockland to consider running for the Senate seat,» Basile said.

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.

Given the tiny majorities they lost by in seats such as Falmouth, AV may well have given them a significantly increased number of seats.

Four parties are likely to clear the 5 per cent hurdle to gain a portion of the 225 party - list seats: United Russia, the centrist «party of power,» which currently holds 238 seats in the Duma; the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), a leftist opposition party (92 seats); the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), a nationalist party dominated by its firebrand leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky (56 seats); and A Just Russia (JR), a leftist party engineered by the Kremlin to capture votes from the KPRF — but which also included a small number of liberal legislators in the 2011 - 2016 Duma (64 seats).

She won the 143rd Assembly Seat in 2014 after it was vacated by Democrat Dennis Gabryszak, who retired amid allegations of sexual harassment against a number of female staffers.

In his letter, sent just before Christmas, Khojasteh notes he is so far the only Republican who has filed paperwork declaring his intention to run for the Hudson Valley seat vacated by former Democratic Sen. George Latimer, who is now Westchester County executive after defeating the Republican incumbent, Rob Astorino, last fall, though a number of other potential contenders have been mentioned.

«What the country needs more than ever is certainty, and having secured the largest number of votes and the greatest number of seats in the General Election, it is clear that only the Conservative & Unionist Party has the legitimacy and ability to provide that certainty by commanding a majority in the House of Commons.

As evidenced by the spirited — and not yet over — June 26 NY - 13 primary battle, there are a number of people jockeying for Rangel's seat).

Meanwhile, there are a number of Democrat seats that present opportunities for pickups, both on Long Island and in Upstate districts once represented by members of the now dissolved Independent Democratic Conference.

Gillibrand spent considerable time wooing the labor - backed party along with other so - called «progressive» interests (the LGBT community, black and Latino stakeholders etc.) Her initial selection by Gov. David Paterson to fill the seat vacated by former Sen. Hillary Clinton was met with considerable skepticism — and, in some cases, flat - out hostility — from a number of key liberal figures, who subsequently either considered challenging her in a primary themselves or encouraged others to do so.

If, as looks likely, the Conservatives end up with the largest number of seats, they get to go first in trying to form a government by going into coalition with other parties.

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.

The Electoral Commission must determine which candidates are entitled to be elected by selecting those candidates on the list of each party, beginning with the first candidate on the list and ending with the lowest ranking candidate, which are equal in number to the number of seats to which that party is entitled to have allocated from its list submitted pursuant to section 127.

Rachel Barnhart, one of the people seeking the Democratic nomination for the congressional seat previously held by Louise Slaughter, says she has secured the required number of signatures to get on the primary ballot.

When weighted by the number of seats they have up for election, the average Remain vote in those councils that have elections on Thursday is as much as 52 %, some five points above the overall Remain vote in England in June 2016.

Having ascertained the numbers required by section 191 (7), the Electoral Commission must then proceed to ascertain the number of seats in Parliament to which each remaining party listed in the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote is entitled by adding the number of circles in the column of numbers under the name of that party.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

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.

Elections expert Rob Hayward calculates that while Labour will be hit hardest by the reduction and redistribution, it will likely reduce the number of seats of both the Conservatives and Lib Dems by around 10.

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.

If less seats earned through electorates, than the number of seats earned by the party vote, then the difference is made up of list seats.

Or, does the number of seats held by each party matter even if a change in the number of seats held doesn't lead to a change in control of the body?

Labour were already concerned by the local election results, in which they had underperformed in a number of their key seats.

[96] Following the results, Sturgeon claimed that the election was a «clear and emphatic victory for the SNP», despite the large number of seats gained by the Scottish Conservatives.