Sentences with phrase «of electoral areas»

In order to do so, area statistics provided by the Central Statistics Office for the 3,000 + electoral divisions in the state were accessed and area figures / statistics for each of the different electoral divisions located within the different local and European election constituencies were aggregated together to calculate the area of these electoral areas.

Cork City accounts for most of the smallest local election constituencies, with a number of electoral areas within the Dublin City, Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown and Galway City local authority areas also figuring on this list.

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As with the economy, it is the political parties that gain public confidence in this issue area which stand to enjoy a better chance of electoral success.

The first is the redrawing of Highwood's boundaries where new electoral lines have transformed the riding from a large rural land base to a small, dense area of people that more closely resembles an urban riding.

It leaves some ends loose (for example, on state nullification of federal laws) and undertreats some areas of current interest (for example, the electoral college).

Geographically twenty - eight of the thirty - two electoral areas returned «No» majorities ranging from to 50.08 percent to 67.2 percent; while four returned «Yes» majorities ranging from 51.07 percent to 57.35 percent.

Defending a majority of 2,706 in a Brexit - backing area, and with Conservative Andy Street elected the first mayor of the West Midlands, the writing seemed on the wall for Gill's electoral hopes.

Many prisoners are homeless and / or not on the electoral register and because of over-crowding they are transfered from prison to prison on a regular basis often far from their the area where their home is.

It is the expectation of Bayelsans that this time around election materials will get to the various units across the council area as against the botched December exercise where materials and electoral officials were hijacked by political thugs.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

But the 2015 elections have shown that we can do it if all critical stakeholders agree to work together to consolidate a number of electoral tools that we have developed such as the use of the card reader in the designed election management system with the key seven principal business areas.

Yet we know that the electoral college provided incentives for candidates to ignore most of the country, especially rural areas.

His areas of interest include EU's policy for neighbouring countries (mainly EaP, Western Balkans, Turkey), electoral reform and state capture.

He said though it was the duty of assembly members to maintain close contact with the electoral areas, consult their people on projects and meet the electorates before and after each assembly meeting, majority of them had failed to do so.

Gerrymandering is when a partisan committee moves around the borders of voting districts to favor their own party, squeezing the maximum amount of electoral votes possible out of a certain area of land.

Analyse responses to the more contentious and emotive policy areas and how they drive voting intention, and we begin to identify the nub of the secret to electoral success on 7th May.

Hurricane Sandy, which devastated many of the conservative areas drawn into Mr. Addabbo's district, didn't help Mr. Ulrich's electoral fortunes either, but it's not clear it was decisive in the outcome.

She added that the commission had started distribution of non-sensitive electoral materials to electoral officers across the 20 local governments and 37 development areas.

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.

Now we have a clear - cut situation where independence is being rejected across most of Scotland's 32 electoral areas.

They explained that failure by the new government to bring the perpetrators to book would affect the electoral fortunes of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the area in the next elections.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said contrary to what some people want Nigerians to believe, the present administration was working assiduously to meet its electoral pledges, especially in the critical areas of developing the economy as well as fighting corruption and insecurity.

He said the programme had come to stay and urged the Assembly members to inform farmers in their various electoral areas about the ongoing registration exercise by extension officers of the Department.

The Milwaukee Area Labor Council is endorsing the workers» compensation lawyer Casey Shorts in his electoral challenge of Theo Lipscomb, the incumbent Milwaukee County Board Chairman.

While the party had fared especially well in the more working class parts of the city at the 2009 Local and European elections and the 2011 General Election, Labour actually fared (slightly) better in the more middle class Dublin constituencies at the 2014 Local Elections than they did in the more working class electoral areas.

No major incident has been recorded at the time when Citi News» Jonas Nyabor filed this report however pockets of agitation and misunderstanding erupted at some polling stations visited within the Achimota electoral area.

The Assembly man for the Nyinahin electoral area, Baba Yaro presented the petition to the District Chief Executive of the area on behalf of the youth.

The best result at the constituency, or electoral area, level for Labour in the 2014 Local Elections came in Athy, where Labour won 27.0 % of the first preference votes and took two of the six seats in that electoral area.

If it takes place after millions of people are removed from the electoral register we could see the biggest transfer of parliamentary representation and political power from urban to rural areas for more than a century.

(Although the distraction of contesting the by - election may have played a role in Denis Leonard losing his seat in the Mullingar - Coole electoral area at the local election contest.)

Disparity could be solved with territory transfer, involving transfer of (part of) the Rathfarnham electoral area into this constituency from Dublin South

(Killiney - Shankill was the only other six - seat electoral area where Labour won two seats despite taking just 18.6 % of the vote there, helped by good vote management between their two candidates and some degree of luck with the vote transfers).

While in terms of electoral races in different constituencies, Nigel Farage's party impacts both the Conservatives and Labour, one area where it damages the Tories more is on trustworthiness on key issues and the electoral implications of this.

The two, Kwame Adom Boakye and George Appiah Kubi, the Research and Elections Officer and Deputy Constituency Organizer of the NPP, are said to have been behind the disappearance in the Kokobra electoral area, where the party's polling station registration exercise was on - going on Tuesday.

Justice Bwala said that the panel has searched through the electoral act and did not find any where the returning officer is empowered to cancel the result of an election and therefore upheld the reversal of the cancellation of the election in the three council areas.

Just to add to the problems, many of the Lib Dem MPs who developed a strong local presence in these areas have now either retired from electoral politics or are at an age where another election run seems unlikely.

The NPP, in a statement signed by its Acting General Secretary, John Boadu, directed that «the various Regional Executive Committees of the party see to the formation of a Polling Station Elections Committee (PSEC) and Electoral Area Elections Committee (EAEC) in each Constituency for the purpose of conducting and supervising the polling station and electoral area elections respectively in the respective constituencies.&raArea Elections Committee (EAEC) in each Constituency for the purpose of conducting and supervising the polling station and electoral area elections respectively in the respective constituencies.&raarea elections respectively in the respective constituencies.»

Per the provisions in Article 6 (14) of our constitution, the constituency annual delegates conference shall be attended by all Constituency Executives (Elected and Appointed), all electoral area coordinators, all polling station executives, 5 members of the constituency council of elders, 5 constituency patrons, any founding member of the constituency who is a signatory to the registration document of the party at the electoral commission, Sitting MPs or Parliamentary Candidates as well as MMDCEs (as ex-officio members).

The Acting General Secretary announced that the Party had trained more than 3000 polling station officers on the electoral processes, adding that by the end of January 2016, similar training would be organised for electoral area coordinators.

«If our call is not heeded [to] then we the aggrieved members of these four electoral areas namely Krofofrom - CPC, Dichemso, Krobo and Afia Kobi will advise ourselves,» the petition concluded.

Adding that irregularities were also witnessed in Northern Taraba, particularly in Lau and Yoro, where Manzo comes from, Abubakar insisted that thousands of troops deployed to some areas as well as electoral officers were heavily compromised.

The party appears to have written off large areas of the country from its electoral calculus.

At a brief ceremony held at the constituency on Friday, May 11, 2018, Mr. John Kumah met and interacted with all the 28 electoral area assembly members and all the members of the...

One is the decline of the Liberal Democrats and tactical voting — one of the reasons the electoral system had worked against the Tories in recent decades was that Labour and Lib Dem voters had been prepared to vote tactically against the Tories, and the Lib Dems have held lots of seats in areas that would otherwise be Tory.

He said his office has received delivery of 90,500 doses of vaccine for the exercise which would cover the 11 electoral wards in the area.

Outside of a tangentially related proposal to increase the cybersecurity of the state's electoral systems, the entirety of what the governor proposed in areas like ethics, transparency and elections has been mentioned in past addresses.

Last week, the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) released the final results of the 2017 Local Government Elections conducted to elect chairmen and councilors of the 17 council areas and 260 electoral wards in the state, respectively.

Some MPs are concerned that his radical stance of facing down corporations and taking on Tory cuts will have little resonance in areas where Labour is facing a tough electoral challenge from Ukip; but asked if the party should tailor its message for different audiences, Corbyn said: «No: you've got to give fundamentally the same message, of the injustice of economic austerity, and the way in which local government is being punished».

The constitutional reform pledges within in the Programme for Government map onto six key areas: parliamentary reform; electoral reform; Europe; decentralisation; transparency and freedom of information; and, a written constitution.

In terms of the results, the European elections saw particularly striking gains, with Sinn Féin winning an MEP seat in each one of the island's four electoral areas — topping the poll by some considerable margin in two of them: with Martina Anderson in the north (25 per cent) and Lynn Boylan in Dublin.