Sentences with phrase «of seats held»

In England, the party failed to inspire former Lib Dem voters as the Tories bagged the majority of seats held by their former Coalition partners.

Angus Robertson, the SNP's Westminster leader, has told reporters that he was prepared for opponents to pounce on any fall in the number of seats held by the party as a sign of slipping support for the party's policies on independence.

At 18.75 % that is just short of the 22 % share of seats held by women in the House of Commons, although obviously still well shy of equal representation.

He also formed an alliance known as «The Coastals» (because of the seats they held) of Independents and the sole Green Party councillor, giving East Devon's ruling Conservatives the first true opposition they had faced for decades (the local Liberal Democrat and Labour parties being negligible).

However, they would not pick up any of the seats held by Liberal Democrats.

Launching their manifesto this morning, UKIP leader Lord Pearson of Rannoch has announced that not only is his party making a conscious decision not to stand in a handful of seats held by what he defined as «committed eurosceptics» in the last Parliament, but that UKIP will «actively campaign» for them.

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?

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.

Because each of these seats holds your kiddies until they're 38 pounds, we need a lot of shock - absorbing here.

Small mesh pockets on either side of the seat hold sippy cups, snacks or small toys.

A mesh pocket on the back of the seat holds feeding accessories or toys.

The Liberal Democrats had long dreamed of having a referendum on proportional representation (PR) that would significantly increase the number of seats they hold at Westminster.

Also at 5:30 p.m., the Commission on Judicial Nomination holds open discussions on the nomination process for the upcoming vacancy of the seat held by Association Court of Appeals Judge Susan Phillips Read, New York City Bar Association, Manhattan.

Harkin was recently named chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, taking control of the seat held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.

So A has a power index of 3 ÷ 5, or 0.6, or 60 per cent — more than the 50 per cent of the seats it holds — and B and C are each «worth» just 20 per cent.

Not exact matches

And five of the eight seats that are considered «toss - ups» by one or more of the political pundits rating the races are currently held by Democrats.

According to not - for - profit Catalyst, about 20 percent of board seats at S&P 500 companies are held by women.

Less than 7 percent of private tech company board seats are held by women.

Not as well as global frontrunner Norway, where women hold 35.5 % of seats, but not as bad as laggards like Australia, Ireland and Portugal, all of which top out at 13 % or less.

Time and again the Works Council, or Betriebsrat, which holds eight of VW's 20 board seats, has played a decisive role, mobilizing the support of the state government to get its way over the interests of private shareholders.

Globally, they found women now hold 18.5 percent of board seats, compared to 13.6 in 2013.

Flipping the seat currently held by outgoing Flake could be instrumental in changing control of the Senate.

Indeed, according to another study by Catalyst, only 10.3 % of board seats in this country are held by women.

At 17, Rosemary was even younger than her niece when she took a seat on the board of the holding company that in turn owned Cara Operations.

According to Catalyst's figures, women held just 19.9 % of board seats at S&P 500 companies in 2015, up slightly from 19.2 % in 2014.

Together with VW's home state of Lower Saxony, labour representatives hold more than half of the 20 seats on the group's supervisory board that ratifies key decisions on investment, plant closures and executive appointments.

The two companies previously discussed a merger after billionaire Liberty Media Chairman and Starz shareholder John Malone exchanged part of his Starz holdings for a 3.4 % stake in Lionsgate along with a seat on the studio's board.

The party likely needs to win the seat currently held by outgoing Republican Sen. Jeff Flake if it has any chance of winning a Senate majority.

Women hold only 17 percent of board seats in corporate America, Catalyst has found.

While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most of the seats up for election in two years.

Within Fortune 500 companies, women hold just 16.9 % of board seats and 5.2 % of CEO positions, according to the Pew Research Center.

This combination of a damaged personal brand, a lack of necessary electoral data, and local dissatisfaction over Brexit, meant that Goldsmith faced an uphill battle to hold onto his seat.

With the help of TRF, which now holds a seat on FlagZone's board, he plans to enter the specialty advertising market this year.

LLR holds one seat on Gestalt's five - person board of directors.

Keisling said she and 17 others in the first wave of arrests were seated in a holding area of the county jail and separated by gender.

Today, International Women's Day, brings news that progress in the boardroom remains feeble: 10 % of directors» seats worldwide are held by women, according to a new report.

Sandberg is among the 14 per cent of women who hold executive officer positions and the 16 per cent of women who hold board of director seats, according to Catalyst.org.

With the president's party controlling the Senate by just one seat and the Senate holding not only the power to pass or block legislation, but also to confirm nominees to federal positions, including the Supreme Court, the race in Arizona to replace the departing Sen. Jeff Flake is one of several to watch this fall.

Women of colour, she writes, hold just 4 per cent of top corporate jobs and 3 per cent of board seats.

And of the 5,415 board seats on America's largest corporations, 1,057 (20 %) of them are currently held by females — up 4 % from February.

He's also an investment partner at Green Acre Capital, a cannabis - related private fund; holds director seats at the TSX - V listed food firm Hempco Food & Fibre and the medical marijuana producer Emblem Corp.; and is part of Nesta Brand Co., an operation involving former Tweed Marijuana Inc..

Labour holds two - thirds of Scotland's seats in the British Parliament, and their removal would make it harder for Labour to become the governing party again.

Virginia and New Jersey will hold gubernatorial elections later this year, and all 435 seats in the House and 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested in the 2018 midterm elections.

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

At present, the National Front holds just two seats in the French parliament, out of 925.

Buffett admitted that in high school and college he held a deep - seated fear of public speaking.

There are other issues to settle, including the explosive lawsuit filed by Benchmark Capital — which owns more than 10 percent of the company and has a board seat held by Matt Cohler — against Kalanick, whom the venture firm helped oust and has been trying to restrain.

At some point, if these policies are inflationary, then the vigilantes or those that hold dollar reserves, such as China and Brazil and Mexico, they will be in the driver's seat in terms of longer - term Treasury debt, 10 years and 30 years Treasury debt in terms of their yield.

As the chart above illustrates, there is an interesting correlation between the seat - advantage a minority government holds over the official Opposition, and the length of time between general elections when the minority is in power.

According to the Thirty Percent Coalition, which aims for women to hold 30 % of board seats in public companies, there were about 25 board diversity resolutions filed in the first half of 2015.