Sentences with phrase «only parliamentary seat»

After it lost its only parliamentary seat in the 2015 election, the party has «voluntarily de-registered» from the Electoral Commission.

She admits that holding on to the party's only parliamentary seat in Brighton Pavilion against Labour will be «a hard struggle» but is convinced Caroline Lucas can do it.

Not exact matches

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.

Manchester East 1906In the space of two months, Conservative Arthur Balfour not only lost his office as prime minister, he also lost his parliamentary seat.

On these figures, the 325th MP, counting in from left or right, will represent Labour, but only just: a four - seat swing from Labour (or the SNP) to the Lib Dems, Conservatives or UKIP would give the median parliamentary seat to the Liberal Democrats.

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.

The United Kingdom Parliamentary boundary changes in Scotland, in 2005, were harmful to the Party, breaking up two of the Conservatives» best prospects, Edinburgh Pentlands, and Ayr, with the result that the Scottish Conservatives only won one seat in 2005.

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.

Now, the only parliamentary party big enough by itself to put forward a candidate is the joint CDU - CSU, with 246 out of 709 seats, 34.7 %.

When Petros Tatoulis, MP for Arcadia Prefecture, stated that Karamanlis was guilty of a few political scandals, Karamanlis immediately expelled him from both the parliamentary group and the party, as a result giving New Democracy a majority of only one seat [6].

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.

The Christian Democratic Union and its longtime ally, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, won a sweeping victory, taking 277 seats in the Bundestag to win the first — and to date, only — absolute majority for a single German parliamentary group in a free election.

In federal territories, where there is no state assembly, and states whose state election is held on a different date, each voter receives only one ballot for the parliamentary seat.

Burley had only a short Parliamentary career, standing down in 2015 following criticism for attending a stag party where guests dressed in Nazi uniform, but the Conservatives managed to hold onto the seat without him in 2015.