Sentences with phrase «parliamentary seats as»

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

Not exact matches

A single seat majority is as tight as things can get in a parliamentary democracy.

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....

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.

It is indeed true that when the Chamber is at its busiest, parliamentary prayers act as a bizarre and antiquated seat reservation system; on certain days MPs and peers have no option but to attend prayers in order to reserve a seat.

The defeated New Patriotic Party parliamentary aspirant in the Klottey Korle race Valentino Nii Noi Nortey will contest the seat as an independent candidate, starrfmonline.com can confirm.

he defeated New Patriotic Party parliamentary aspirant in the Klottey Korle race Valentino Nii Noi Nortey will contest the seat as an independent candidate, starrfmonline.com can confirm.

The defeated New Patriotic Party parliamentary aspirant in the Klottey Korle race Valentino Nii Noi Nortey will contest the seat as an...

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaigAs a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaigas supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

In some recent research, Valerie Belu and I show that compared to regular elections (defined as elections which occur within 6 months of the end of a parliamentary term), strategically timed opportunistic elections have allowed governing parties to realize an average vote - share bonus of just under 6 percent and seat - share bonuses of 12 percent, doubling the probability that the Prime Minister survives in office -LRB-.80 versus.40).

This saw them contesting seats on councils, using that as a springboard to winning parliamentary representation — which has also been done by other small parties, with UKIP recently adopting such a strategy.

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

My attention has been drawn to a deliberate and vile propaganda circulating on social media to the effect that, I am building a «magnificent villa» in Damongo, in the Northern Region, as part of an alleged ambition «to annex» a Parliamentary seat.

Speaking at the campaign launch of the deputy Central regional minister and parliamentary candidate for the Agona East Constituency, Queenstar Pokuaa Sawyer, Mr. Asiedu Nketia popularly known as «General Mosquito» alleged that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have hatched a plan to embarrass the vice president by winning more seats in the Central region to send a message to Ghanaians that the vice president is not popular and influential even in his own region.

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.

The MP's present action is said to be linked to the decision by the NDC vetting committee to disqualify his protégé and preferred choice for the parliamentary seat, Isaac Yibor, who contested the 2012 election as an independent candidate.

She spent a year as parliamentary under secretary of state for public health and innovation before losing her Oxford West and Abingdon seat in the 2017 general election.

[11][12] She first stood for election in the 1992 general election as the SNP candidate in the Glasgow Shettleston constituency, and was the youngest parliamentary candidate in Scotland, failing to win the seat.

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.

Blogs do best when they cover subjects whose minutiae are ignored by the mainstream media, as was true on the right during the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, and more recently the coverage of selections for individual parliamentary seats.

In actual fact there was no Lib Dem bludgeoning last night, as the party held its ground in its parliamentary seats and made some key gains too.

It currently polls at 14 %, above Plaid Cymru, and while it's not set to win any parliamentary seats this time around, it could cream off a proportion of Labour votes, as well as woo some nationalist supporters.

As we've seen in Scotland, when you separate assembly seats from parliamentary seats, it creates a great deal of confusion for voters, for parties and for the wider public.

In a seat with a high student population she resigned as parliamentary private secretary to Chris Huhne in order to rebel against increasing student tuition fees.

But in 2014, as a failed parliamentary candidate desperate to get back into the party's good graces, he launched a grassroots volunteer scheme that sent party members into marginal seats to distribute leaflets, knock on doors, and work the voters.

It can always be argued that, as undemocratic as it is, FPTP is «democratic enough» as it always delivers a majority of seats one way or another, which is the whole point in a parliamentary system.

Imagine, a Ukip parliamentary party with as many as nine seats — maybe 11 or 12 if they also succeed in winning a small handful from Labour.

As Parliament is dissolved, the Welsh Liberal Democrats are today publishing the full slate of candidates who will be competing in all forty Parliamentary seats in Wales.

She was selected as the parliamentary candidate by the local Labour Party after its first choice, Amina Ali, backed out of the seat 72 hours after being selected in an unhappy melée of local community and Labout Party in - fighting.

Many voters will see their place on the political map change as a new and restrictive set of rules ensures that parliamentary seats can not vary in size by more than 5 % from the average.

In June 2008 the then Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resigned his parliamentary seat over what he described as the «erosion of civil liberties» by the then Labour government, and was re-elected on a civil liberties platform (although he was not opposed by candidates of other major parties).

NiiNoi, who was recently muscled out through a re-run of the New Patriotic Party's parliamentary primaries, on Wednesday, officially announced his intention to contest the KlotteyKorley seat as an independent candidate at a press conference held in Accra.

Part of the petition read «The party's own rules that guided the conduct of the primaries provided that a member of the NDC shall not qualify to contest any primaries in any of the parliamentary seats if that member does not satisfy the requirement for election of a Member of Parliament as provided in Article 94, Section 1 (a) of the 1992 Constitution.»

The Parliamentary candidate hopes to recapture the Fanteakwa South seat from the opposition New Patriotic Party — due to hard work and evidence of good works she has done as a parliamentaParliamentary candidate hopes to recapture the Fanteakwa South seat from the opposition New Patriotic Party — due to hard work and evidence of good works she has done as a parliamentaryparliamentary candidate.

If ethnic minorities had voted for Cameron at the same rate as the white British population in 2010, the Tories would have won 500,000 more votes, 24 more seats from Labour, and a parliamentary majority.

The People's National Convention (PNC) is targeting 20 out of the 275 parliamentary seats in the 2016 general elections as it prepares to select candidates.

The division within the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Bolgatanga Central Constituency has hit a top point as election watchers say the prospect of the parliamentary seat slipping back to the People's National Convention (PNC) in the 2016 polls can not be ruled out.

«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.»

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary Candidate for the Awutu Senya West constituency, George Andah, appears to be more concerned about the marital status of his main opponent and incumbent Member of Parliament, Hanna Tetteh, as the race for the seat heats up.

As a Labour analysis shows a fall in membership in Tory associations in the most marginal parliamentary seats, De Piero is to launch a campaign to sign up supporters who are normally disengaged from politics.

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

«This autumn both David Cameron and Nick Clegg should ask their parties to approve a binding agreement to fight the 2015 general election as coalition partners... If the voters choose to keep our current system of electing MPs, as I fervently hope they will, the pact would give parliamentary candidates in constituencies in seats held by a coalition party a free run against other parties.

MPs are facing the prospect of what one has described as «musical chairs with machetes» as they seek to find a parliamentary seat to contest in 2015.

But due to various historical accidents, lost parliamentary seats and early retirements, the current parliamentary Labour Party lacks figures of this statute — with the possible exception of Harriet Harman, a former deputy party leader, and Alan Johnson, who has held previous roles as home secretary and security of state for health and education to his name.

Of course, Unite in Falkirk West and 40 other constituency Labour parties (CLP)-- through recruiting its members to Labour — has been trying to secure its candidates as prospective parliamentary candidates in safe Labour seats for the 2015 general election.

Following the 2003 — 2005 review into parliamentary representation in Wiltshire, the Boundary Commission created a new county constituency, reviving the name of Chippenham as a seat.

In the interim, he earned a place on the Approved List of Candidates, and fought the parliamentary seat of Huddersfield in the 2005 general election — as well as a county council seat back home in Amersham.

[14][15][16] In the 2001 general election she retained her seat by 5,555 votes and was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Hutton.

Any one of the aspiring leaders, or indeed Harriet Harman as acting leader, could have pressed for the referendum to include a further, better, option, perhaps that of STV; but none of them was prepared to do so, not least because going to the Parliamentary Labour party offering a system that would really end safe seats would reduce MP support in the leadership election itself.