Sentences with phrase «of the minority governments elected»

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Yes, the citizens of Saratoga Springs elected a token black woman to be their mayor just to have a token minority in their city government.

In elections for the Scottish Parliament — which, incidentally, have delivered coalition governments, a minority government and now single - party majority government — 73 of the 129 MSPs are elected by first - past - the - post voting and 56 by regional lists.

Electing a minority government doesn't give the public a sense of predictability about what the government may do, because they require support from the opposition who come with their own demands.

First elected to the House of Commons in 1922 as the MP for Limehouse, Attlee rose quickly to become a junior minister in the first Labour minority government led by Ramsay MacDonald in 1924, and then joined the Cabinet during MacDonald's second ministry of 1929 — 31.

It is impossible to construct an electoral system that is perfectly fair (1 May 2010, p 28), but low turnout exacerbates the sense of unfairness when a minority government is elected, or when tiny factions end up tipping the balance of power.

In particular, independent research — once viewed as controversial but now increasingly acknowledged by elected and appointed officials in the highest levels of government — has revealed a state of affairs in which three in ten students fail to finish high school with a diploma and in which barely half of historically disadvantaged minority students graduate.

Rather it is the majoritarian culture on those campus use the traditional tools of majority power (elected student governments, for example) to silence what is an unpopular minority.