Not exact matches
The left - wing organisation was
only founded two years ago, but managed to win 21 %
of the vote and come third in Spain's 2015
parliamentary elections.
In other words, although King obtained
only a minority in the general
election, he sometimes had a majority
of parliamentary seats during the next four years.
I think it gives us lessons
of persistence and courage», Mr Nyaunu who left the NDC to contest the 2012
parliamentary elections as an independent candidate and
only returned to the party last year observed.
Women representation at the 6th Ghanaian parliament was 10.5 %, meaning
only 29 out
of the 133 women who contested in the 2012
parliamentary elections were elected.
In August 2016 — the month before
parliamentary elections —
only 37 percent
of respondents to a Levada survey approved
of the Duma's activities.
Ministers had thought a ruling by the European Court
of Human Rights would force them to give prisoners the vote
only in Westminster or European
parliamentary elections.
In this context, the vote shares
of both the Conservatives and Labour have declined steadily, as has turnout, but Labour are the
only one
of the two major parties to have won a
parliamentary majority in the last four
elections (they managed it in three), suggesting their death twitches, as you may describe them, are a little more animated than the Tories.
The
only major
parliamentary party that is vocally eurosceptic is the Human Shield, whose candidates came fourth in the 2016
parliamentary election, winning 8
of 151 available seats.
The Labour Party was defeated heavily in the 1983 general
election, winning
only 27.6 %
of the vote, its lowest share since 1918, and receiving
only half a million votes more than the SDP - Liberal Alliance who leader Michael Foot condemned for «siphoning» Labour support and enabling the Conservatives to greatly increase their majority
of parliamentary seats.
A shambolic campaign in the Scottish
parliamentary election of 2011 (which delivered just 0.35 %
of the local vote) and his most recent foray into the 2016 London mayoral
election (when he won 1.4 %
of the vote) showed that without the right issues and electorate to exploit, his rhetoric could
only get him so far.
However, the comparison with the US voter turnout is hampered due to the fact that the US President is elected in separate and direct
elections (presidential system), whereas the President
of the European Commission is
only approved by the European Parliament (
parliamentary system), giving the European Parliament
elections considerable weight.
It was the first nationwide referendum to be held for some thirty six years and was legislated for under the provisions
of the
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 and the Political Parties,
Elections and Referendums Act 2000 and is to date the first and
only UK - wide referendum to be held on a domestic issue.
The 2010 intake is a significant segment
of the
parliamentary party as a whole, but to my reckoning there are
only two non-2010 MPs above - Andrew Selous (2001) and Lee Scott (2005), and one quasi-2010 MP - John Howell, who succeeded Boris Johnson at the Henley by -
election in 2008.
In the 2005 general
election, Labour secured an absolute majority
of parliamentary seats but
only 35.2 per cent
of the national vote.
In terms
of parliamentary elections, prior to the 2016 general
elections, the NDC had 16 seats in the region, whilst the NPP had 7, but the NPP grabbed 19 seats leaving
only 4 for the NDC after the 2016 votes.
The Miliband brothers, the
only contenders with a chance
of becoming Labour leader, both think the party should start choosing
Parliamentary candidates this autumn for the next
election rather than wait for the new boundary changes, which won't be decided until 2013, more than three years from now.
It is, perhaps, an indication
of how weakened the
parliamentary Labour party (PLP) has become that the
only fight left is for the
election of the shadow cabinet by MPs.
He had briefly been Chief Secretary to the Treasury after the 2010
election,
only holding the office for 17 days after resigning due to the disclosure
of his
Parliamentary expenses claims.
And when party democracy has been restored, when the party has chosen its programme, when the party has chosen its
parliamentary representatives in a democratic fashion without the corruption and nepotism
of the New Labour years, than we shall argue for the reintroduction
of elections by the
parliamentary party not
only to the shadow cabinet, but also to the cabinet.
They are fielding so few candidates, that they aren't entitled to a
parliamentary party broadcast,
only contesting just over 10 %
of the seats up for
election and not even bothering to stand in many
of the seats they currently hold.