Sentences with phrase «other constituencies which»

Senior figures said they had a good record of choosing female politicians unlike other constituencies which were still allowed open selections.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, if directors primarily serve a broader constituency of stakeholders (or society at large), is it possible to determine which groups are being served and how directors can prioritize between divergent stakeholder interests?

So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and host of other Christian advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands, and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the world.

My attention has been drawn to a video which captures the Member of Parliament for Dome / Kwabenya, Deputy Majority Leader and Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public Procurement, the Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo claiming in the said video that the Community Senior High School constructed and commissioned in her constituency during the tenure of President John Dramani Mahama was as a result of her personal intervention with the World Bank, that the Senior High School was not from the then NDC Government and that with the exception of the Dome / Kwabenya Senior High School project, all the other schools constructed during the previous NDC administration were executed in NDC strongholds.

«It's right that each area decides how to run elections, because some constituencies cover huge rural areas while others will have to contend with large numbers of postal votes which have to be carefully verified.

One of the major talking points has been Lord Ashcroft's recent polls of 16 Scottish constituencies, which attracted special attention because unlike the other polling companies it drilled down to constituencies rather than just voting intentions as a whole.

It said the other legal error apparent on the face of the record could be found under Article 10 of the NPP Constitution, which deals with the removal and suspension of elected officers from the level of constituency, regional and national officers.

Unfortunately, in the 2012 general election, our party, for the first time in its history lost the elections not only in Kpone, which is the constituency head office, but also, we lost in other villages throughout the constituency.

Thanks in part to Jason's efforts, which included extensive leafleting, public meetings and activities with other anti-fascist groups, the BNP was beaten into fourth or fifth place in the three Parliamentary constituencies, and lost in all of the City Council wards they contested.

Nana Akufo - Addo is expected to visit a total of 15 constituencies, which will include visits to South Dayi, Kpando, Krachi East, Nkwanta North, Hohoe, Ho Central, North Tongu, amongst others.

Critics, meanwhile, contend that the establishment of majority - minority districts can result in packing, which occurs when a constituency or voting group is placed within a single district, thereby minimizing its influence in other districts.

b. Must be resident in the Constituency other than that in which he / she registered for not less than 12 months;

AMS / AV + would almost certainly be easier than STV, which would require huge constituencies for rural areas (and even under FPTP, there are inequalities in constituency membership because of the difficulties caused by excessive size), but then a whole new can of worms would be opened up concerning how to set the ratio between corrective «top - up» MPs, and constituency MPs, plus a whole load of other factors such as whether to allow dual standing, whether the two votes should be two choices or interconnected, whether the list should be open or closed, etc., etc..

He beat three other UKIP candidates in the hustings vote, which was held in Ramsgate in the east Kent constituency.

The constituency elections, which are expected to end on Tuesday, February 27, have seen some aggrieved parties take legal action against individuals, whiles others are challenging some of the processes leading to the polls.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

In the 2005 general election the LCA stood in seven Welsh constituencies, [8] fielding enough candidates to qualify for a party political broadcast which aired on Welsh television and was also viewable in other areas of the country due to cable television and Freeview.

This is the first of six constituencies in the party's North East London City Seats Initiative to select; the others, which will be choosing their candidates over the coming weeks, are: Hackney South and Shoreditch, Islington North, Islington South and Finsbury, Leyton and Wanstead, and Walthamstow.

Again, Mr. Boadu informed the constituency executives that he has procured some computers and other IT infrastructure, which would be given to each of the 275 constituencies in the country for the effective running of party offices at the various levels.

[6] Of 440 voting areas (based on Parliamentary constituencies) only 10 of the 440 areas returned «yes» votes in favour of AV, of which six were in London, the others being Oxford and Cambridge, Edinburgh Central and Glasgow Kelvin.

Tory backbenchers are already in uproar about proposed increases to capital gains tax which will hit second home owners and other parts of the Conservatives» constituency.

The transfer of the solid Plaid Cymru Lleyn Peninsula made this constituency stronger and the other more marginal (which also gained the Labour stronghold of Bangor.

David Cameron's decision to press ahead with the review, which was blocked by the Liberal Democrats in the last parliament, means MPs will be competing with each other to keep seats if their current constituencies are too small to survive and forced to merge with ones nearby.

During the passage of the Parliamentary Voting Systems and Constituencies Bill, which, among other things, legislated for the referendum to take place, there was much controversy over the coalition government's decision to combine, in one Bill, both the referendum and the redrawing of Parliamentary cConstituencies Bill, which, among other things, legislated for the referendum to take place, there was much controversy over the coalition government's decision to combine, in one Bill, both the referendum and the redrawing of Parliamentary constituenciesconstituencies.

One can very easily make a case for one or the other method (Chris Hanretty has a good go here) but really that's only theorising, we can't know which way is better unless you test it against some actual elections, and at previous elections constituency polling has been a rare commodity.

The constituencies don't necessarily share any other demographic features other than they happen to be marginals (which could be for any number of reasons) so the weighting can only be complete junk.

In contrast, members of the opposition and numerous independent media sources highlighted among other things the poor quality of indelible ink — the first time it was used in a Malaysian election — which could be washed off almost immediately, early voting for servicemen and civil servants, state domination of media and repression of independent journalists, and perhaps most troubling of all, the mobilization by Barisan Nasional of foreign guest workers to vote in key constituencies.

But other Democrats and teachers unions, a powerful constituency within the party, have railed against charters, which operate free of many district constraints and usually have non-unionized teachers.

They ensure that the Community School Coordinator is a part of the leadership team and that a Community School Committee (Committee)-- which includes parents, community partners, school staff, youth, and other stakeholders that are representatives of the school's various constituencies — has a voice in the planning and implementation of the strategy.

Certainly the fact that Native groups are an important (and increasingly activist) political constituency for the administration played a part in the decision, as did President Obama's signing of Executive Order 13592 (which requires the Department of Education, the Department of Interior and other agencies to collaborate on improving education for Native students).

As you are aware, the Governor is asking parents, teachers, community members and other constituency groups to provide input and comment on the Common Core Standards which Utah has adopted as part of the Utah Core Standards.

Nonetheless, the only situation of which I am aware where one might expect management to work exclusively in the interests of stockholders to the exclusion of other constituencies, is the one where the CEO and his family own all the outstanding common stock.

Other nearby constituencies which have voted in Labour e.g. Ilford North with Wes Streeting (who has been a complete and utter disaster) have regretted it.

«It's a good thing provided it defends all cases of religious persecution, not just those that are bothering domestic constituencies at home, and that it doesn't ignore other human - rights violations, which usually accompany religious persecution, like limits on freedom of the press, denial of democratic rights and persecution.»

Not only are there forums and discussion groups, which are always beneficial for job seekers, but there are also appointed «ambassadors» for each community with a decently sized constituency which then hold «events» which allow for the participation and communication of other members.