Sentences with phrase «parliamentary elections there»

Helena Catt, chief executive of the Electoral Commission in New Zealand, analyses how the Mixed - Member System for parliamentary elections there has bedded down and is effect on New Zealand's politics

In the case of parliamentary elections there shall in addition be a National Electoral Committee with no fewer than five members.

Not exact matches

However, there are points in every parliament's lifecycle when no government can lay claim to such support — between parliamentary dissolution and a general election; after a general election and before the new government is formed; or when an incumbent government loses the confidence of parliament.

... Even at the parliamentary level when he stood for elections and won against Owuraku Amofa in 1996, what he did to our party people there is still there, it's evident.

First, there is the numerical victory of the 2010 parliamentary elections, in which — despite gerrymandering and other governmental shenanigans — the opposition won 48 % of the vote.

No doubt, there should be a thorough parliamentary debate on the issue, but instead of forcing a decision in this parliament, which could well be as controversial and divisive as the ill - fated referendum, I strongly agree with Nick Clegg that by far the best and most dignified way out of the current mess would be to ask the people in the proper constitutional way by calling an snap general election:

Bear in mind also that in parliamentary systems, there are more ways to remove the head of government (chancellor / prime minister) than just losing an election, including loss of support from their own party / coalition, or loss of confidence from the legislature.

Although no electoral system is perfect, and the UK's First Past the Post method is worse than most, parliamentary elections are a better expression of democracy because unlike a referendum, there is no clear agenda setter: the agenda is contested between parties and candidates, the media, and, increasingly, via the internet, the voters themselves.

But 52 members of the new parliamentary group of MPs have to support a challenger for there to be an election.

«I am in this race because during the 2016 elections, I was in the Upper East Region campaigning for the NPP and I saw some gaping holes; there was no party unity and parliamentary candidates were not resourced adequately and party chairmen were struggling to work.

The 1996 Presidential and Parliamentary elections and all similar subsequent elections have been held on December 7 but there have been arguments that the process does not make ample room for the organization of a run - off and the subsequent handover on January 7.

As part of the requirements for the filing of nominations ahead of the 2016 elections, the EC has requested presidential and parliamentary aspirants to declare their assets, but the acting General Secretary of the NPP says there is no law that mandates that request.

Following a boycott of the December 1992 Parliamentary elections by the main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party, under allegations of malpractices in the presidential, there was a decision to hold both elections on the same day so as to be able to prevent a similar boycott in the future.

[There is a] very strong Conservative case for reform — the whole thrust last election was moving power from the centre to the voters and the whole Conservative approach to having a smaller government, limited government and having better parliamentary control over executive.»

But Ephson said Rawlings would have rather found herself wanting in her bid to contest the 2016 parliamentary elections, if there were no limited registration on the EC's calendar before the general elections.

If there is a hung parliament after a general election, then the Parliamentary arithmetic will be such that the Lib Dems will have everything to gain by holding out for full PR and everything to lose by settling for AV.

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and the BNP hadn't been standing last time so no one knows what vote they would have got last time - Council by elections though frequently are very localised, there isn't the focus on national issues that there is in a full set of Council Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - elections though frequently are very localised, there isn't the focus on national issues that there is in a full set of Council Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - eElection or a Parliamentary By - electionelection.

«There is an abundance of talent in the parliamentary party capable of ensuring that if this election has been reminiscent of 1992, the next election will recall the one that followed 1992.»

One constituency officer from the Ashanti Region noted that, «We have less than hundred (100) days to the elections, yet there is no T - Shirts and No Posters of Nana Akufo - Addo and our parliamentary candidates?

If the House of Commons, with the support of two - thirds of its total membership (including vacant seats), resolves «That there shall be an early parliamentary general election».

The campaign coordinator of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kofi Adams said there is no alternative to President John Dramani Mahama in the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections.

Morrison had argued that Labour party rules stated that at the start of a new session there should be an election by the parliamentary Labour party of a new leader.

Robert Harris, writing not long before the election was called in the New Statesman, «can't quite understand how the members of the Parliamentary Labour Party can sit there day after day, month after month, year after year, knowing that they're simply heading towards a kind of mincing machine at the next election.»

One year before the next General Election there'll be European Parliamentary Elections and UKIP have done very well in the last two of these eElections and UKIP have done very well in the last two of these electionselections.

And then there is the political wing of the Establishment, the Conservative Party, which failed to win a parliamentary majority in the last election but is still pushing far - reaching policies it never put before the electorate.

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.

Had we pressed ahead with our plans for a mostly or wholly elected Lords there would have been a second chamber election mid-way though this parliamentary term, giving us a chance to put a new Labour agenda to the public and — in the event of a win — prove to ourselves and to the country that we can be election winners again.

And there are some other Holyrood players being touted: James Kelly, Scottish Labour's business manager, for example, who has spent a decade before the parliamentary mast, but was in charge of the party's Scottish election campaign last year when they came in third behind the Tories.

Since last year's European parliament elections, where the centre - right European People's party (EPP) emerged as the largest bloc, there have been 13 parliamentary and presidential elections in the EU.

It's also worth noting that the small chance of getting in now will be even smaller next time if, as seems likely, the proportion of women is increased further before the next election in two years: although the parliamentary party settled on a quota of 31.5 % women, there was in fact a majority (of 139 to 107) for at least 40 %.

Mayors of London, Bristol, Liverpool and Salford and 36 police and crime commissioners (PCCs) will be chosen and there is one parliamentary by - election.

There is no by - election immediately in the offing, but the man who retained the seat for Labour at the general election, Denis MacShane, has been without his party's whip since last October after the parliamentary Standards watchdog referred him to the police over his use of parliamentary alowances.

There are unconfirmed but reliable reports that Angela Smith who is MP for south Basildon and East Thurrock and also Gordon Browns Parliamentary Private Secretary purchased some 70000 leaflets for an election campaign.

At the end of last week I expained that there will be four ballot papers issued to voters in Leicester South on May 5th, one of which will be for the parliamentary by - 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.

But, with cabinet ministers commissioning detailed backbench papers and policy submissions to feed into the next election manifesto, there are welcome signs of a deeper engagement with the parliamentary party over how Labour renews its appeal in office.

Most likely at the General Election - Labour and the Liberal Democrats will lose every single seat in the South of England outside London and Labour will pickup seats from the Liberal Democrats in the rest of England, and will probably mostly hold their position in Scotland and Wales leaving a Conservative parliamentary party in the House of Commons with a similar number of seats to those Labour had in 1987 and Labour with a similar majority to now, and Nick Clegg probably just hanging on as leader because there is no obvious replacement.

Five days later, the death of an independent Republican Member of Parliament meant there would be an election for the British parliamentary seat of Fermanagh and South Tyrone.