Sentences with phrase «parliamentary seats»

Here a party is awarded a number of parliamentary seats in direct proportion to the number of people who voted for it.

These geographic variations in turn affect the number of parliamentary seats an area qualifies for.

Many European governments give women candidates a leg up in the competition for parliamentary seats.

Perhaps it is worth here listing the MPs who won parliamentary seats in the last general election.

After her party lost parliamentary seats in elections last month, doubts have arisen over how long she'll remain prime minister.

And that, first and foremost, means factions must acquire and holds as many parliamentary seats as possible.

«Winning more parliamentary seats will ensure a smooth passage of bills by the president in future and implementing policies will not face challenges since he has the bigger representation».

If these numbers were to be converted into parliamentary seats Labour would emerge with a majority of just eight seats.

They face the real prospect that they could top the poll next month — and win not a single parliamentary seat next year.

I didn't look at them until the last one — they were for his Conservative parliamentary seat campaign.

The German election system is such that the final proportion of parliamentary seats must match the country wide proportions of party - preference votes.

At least in 2012, there were three Independent candidates who won parliamentary seats.

Blunt contested his first Parliamentary seat at the 1992 general election, as the Conservative Party candidate in West Bromwich East.

«I organized the first fundraising ceremony in Accra, and I can confidently tell you, that under my leadership as the regional chairman, we were able to increase the number of parliamentary seats from One to Three (3) in the region, and significantly increase our presidential votes in the 2016 general election.»

Nominations have been opened for candidates who would want to contest for parliamentary seats on the ticket of the PNC to pick forms.

The ruling NPP has instructed all metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives who intend to contest parliamentary seats in areas where there is a sitting MP to resign years before the primaries.

It is not England's biggest parliamentary seats by number of voters — it is, however, geographically biggest.

The result left the party without an MP in Wales; the party and its predecessors had continuously held parliamentary seats in Wales since the formation of the Liberal Party in 1859.

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP)'s vice Presidential candidate, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia is convinced the party could win the Tamale central constituency Parliamentary seat on December 7.

Others potentially in the mix include Plaid Cymru, which had three MPs in the last parliament: and possibly even the Greens and UKIP, if they gain their first parliamentary seats this time.

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.

It originally said that Thirsk and Malton was England's biggest parliamentary seat with 16,000 more voters than the average.

The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has vowed to recapture the Walewale and Kumbungu parliamentary seats in the Northern Region in the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.

All eyes now turn to Rochester and Strood, where Mark Reckless» chances of winning a second parliamentary seat for UKIP have been significantly lifted.

In the latter, for example, this really matters: Reading has one, or possibly even two, marginal parliamentary seats up for grabs come 2015.

Other staffers currently looking for safe parliamentary seats include Greg Beales, his pollster, and Torsten Henricson - Bell, his senior economics adviser.

Galloway, who lost his Bradford West parliamentary seat in last year's general election, has said he will stand to be MP for Tooting if Labour incumbent and mayoral frontrunner Sadiq Khan wins the contest and calls a by - election.

This hung parliament leaves the country wondering whether Gordon Brown's Labour Party can somehow retain power through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, whose leader, Nick Clegg, turned out to be more popular than the party's platform — Clegg's poll numbers had dramatically risen after several national debates with Cameron and Brown, but the Lib Dems may earn fewer parliamentary seats than they did in 2005.

Conventional political wisdom would suggest that a government grappling with the aftermath of Brexit and a developing NHS crisis should not gain parliamentary seats from other parties.

But notwithstanding her defeat in the CPP flagbearership race, Samia Nkrumah has given wind of her intent to contest again the Jomoro parliamentary seat in the upcoming elections.

Rashid Ibrahim conceded that the NDC had lost several parliamentary seats in the country, but insisted that case was different for Mahama.

Even in places where leave was strongest, such as Yeovil and rural south Somerset, Grant says the party believes there are enough angry remain voters to take back parliamentary seats.

Launching the Northern Regional Minister's campaign at Walewale, the National Organiser of the NDC, Mr Kofi Adams, stated that the party was poised to recapture the Walewale parliamentary seat from the NPP and win the presidential polls one touch on December 7, 2016.

Mhairi Black, Paisley and Renfrewshire South There are only five seats where the SNP has to pick non-incumbent candidates, because of its dominance in Scottish parliamentary seats.

The UKIP leader Nigel Farage has been chosen by members of his party as their candidate for the South Thanet parliamentary seat.

Plaid Cymru claimed Wales would lose up to ten Westminster parliamentary seats under the plans, which envisage there being 600, rather than 650, seats, all with about 75,000 electors.

«Ruth Kelly is so desperate to push Greater Manchester into being a guinea pig for national road pricing that she is willing to stake her own parliamentary seat on it.

The team wants the former party chairman to withdraw his nomination forms filed at the Electoral Commission of Ghana to contest the Korle Klottey parliamentary seat as an independent candidate.

Nana Konadu, is the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Party (NDP), her son, has joined his father, who is the founder of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), as well as his eldest sister; Zenator Rawlings, who is vying for the Klottey Korle Parliamentary seat on the ticket of the NDC.

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Its most well - known member was John Alderdice, who became leader of the party ahead of the 1987 general election, contested the Belfast East parliamentary seat and received 32 % of the vote, the highest percentage ever achieved by Alliance in an individual seat in a Westminster election.

He won the East Belfast parliamentary seat in 1979, overturning an Ulster Unionist majority of 17,000.

Farage added that Ukip had won three recent council byelections in the north and predicted that in many parliamentary seats it would increase its percentage of the vote in 2015 from low single figures to closer to its current poll ratings, which have been as high as 15 %.

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.

After losing his Glasgow - Govan parliamentary seat in the 1992 General Election, Scottish National Party politician Jim Sillars condemned Scotland as a country of «Ninety - Minute Patriots,» willing to support Scotland during a football match but unwilling to take the necessary steps to....

Tatton 1997The parliamentary seat of Tatton was one of the safest Tory seats in the country.

So instead we see the Tories gaining in Dudley, whose parliamentary seats trended Tory last year.