Sentences with phrase «parliamentary elections only»

It should also be noted that I'm talking about parliamentary elections only here.

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.

In your election platform, you promised to make the Parliamentary Budget Officer an independent officer, answerable only to Parliament.

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.

Following her release, Suu Kyi was not only allowed to go on a triumphant international tour — in Oslo she finally collected the Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 1991 — but also to run in parliamentary by - elections.

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.

And we demonstrated it in Eastleigh in the only parliamentary by - election that was held on our turf.

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.

Despite numerous attacks and killings, parliamentary elections in 2002 saw ZANU - PF win only a slim majority.

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.

The only primary will be in London, not much consolation for Londoners, but reassuring for those who might otherwise have faced a primary for other mayoral elections or for parliamentary candidates.

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.

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

Compared to UK Parliamentary General Elections, where only a # 500 deposit and 10 subscribers are required, these stipulations seemed overly burdensome to some.

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.

The 2011 AV referendum on the proposal to use the alternative vote system in parliamentary elections is the only UK - wide referendum that has been held on a domestic issue.

In the 2005 general election, Labour secured an absolute majority of parliamentary seats but only 35.2 per cent of the national vote.

Given that Mr Gummer, Ian Taylor and David Curry are all leaving the Commons, Mr Maples» departure means that Ken Clarke will be the only prominent EU enthusiast left in the Tory Parliamentary Party after the next election.

«Until we amend the constitution - and we still want to run both the Presidential and Parliamentary elections on the same day - then December 7 is the only day Ghana can organize its elections.»

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.

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.

Since 2011, parliamentary terms state calls to election every five years and, even before this, elections were commonly only called by prime ministers every four or so years.