Sentences with phrase «parliamentary seats from»

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) at the 2012 general elections increased its Parliamentary seats from three to 10 out of 31 seats in the entire Northern Region.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) defeated the NDC's John Mahama with over one million votes and also snatched a lot of parliamentary seats from the NDC.

«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.»

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.

Not exact matches

The final example is from 1921, when Mackenzie King's Liberals won 116 parliamentary seats — just two shy of a majority.

After a response from Tony Clement about the future of the parliamentary budget officer, David Christopherson, seated directly across the way, made a silly face and a «nonsense talking» motion with his right hand.

The SNP's Callum McCaig has a healthy 9,000 plus majority in the granite city, but this seat is in the Tories» sights this time after a strong performance in the Scottish parliamentary elections from candidate Ross Thomson.

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.

From 1996, when the Tema West seat became a traditional one for the party, parliamentary primaries have always come along with associated disputes.

The Director of Election for the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) James Kwabena Bomfeh a.k.a Kabila has said Samia Nkrumah, a Flagbearer aspirant of the party should desist from continuing to accuse her political detractors of being behind her inability to retain the Jomoro Parliamentary seat.

The parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress» (NDC) for the Weija - Gbawe constituency, Obuobia Darko - Opoku says she will not fail in her bid to snatch the seat from the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2016 elections.

On these figures, the 325th MP, counting in from left or right, will represent Labour, but only just: a four - seat swing from Labour (or the SNP) to the Lib Dems, Conservatives or UKIP would give the median parliamentary seat to the Liberal Democrats.

The petition comes in the wake of calls by the Klottey Korle constituency Chairman of the umbrella family, Alhaji Bashiru Nii Narh Alema, that the party risks losing the parliamentary seat in the upcoming elections, should Zanetor Rawlings be disqualified from contesting.

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.

The Welsh Conservatives have been quite successful in recovering from the defeat of 1997, regaining three Parliamentary seats in 2005, and coming close in another three.

The seat, which borders Gordon Brown's parliamentary constituency, was gained by the Lib Dems (from Labour) at a by - election in 2005, where the Conservatives remained in fourth place.

The Parliamentary seat of the Ekumfi constituency in the Central Region has for the first time fallen to the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), according to certified results from the Electoral Commission (EC).

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.

A representative survey for CND, seen by the NS, shows that Labour's parliamentary candidates - from traditionally safe seats to unwinnable Conservative strongholds through to some of the most vulnerable of Labour's target seats - are overwhelmingly against maintaining the nuclear deterrent when it comes up for renewal.

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

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.

A total of 240 aspirants from 12 political parties filed to contest the 47 parliamentary seats in the region.

Commenting further, the NPP firebrand said the elephant family is poised to winning all the 47 parliamentary seats in the region, insisting that all the four seats currently being occupied by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) will be won from them.

After little more than four months in the hot seat, Corbyn's closest aides admit the kindly veteran is wounded by highly personalised red - on - red attacks from parliamentary comrades.

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.

«Whatever they do, nothing will stop us from winning all the parliamentary seats in the Ashanti Region», he stressed.

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 NDC lost the Walewale parliamentary seat in the 2012 general election to the New Patriotic Party (NPP); the NDC again lost the Kumbungu seat to the Convention People's Party (CPP) in a bye - election held in 2013 after Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, the then sitting NDC Member of Parliament (MP), resigned from Parliament to take up an international position.

What has made the contest for the parliamentary seat in the Walewale Constituency hotter is that the running mate of the NPP, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, hails from the area.

He said all parliamentary candidates of the party had received clearance from the EC to contest in the polls on December 7, and pledged his support to all of the candidates to ensure they win their respective seats.

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.

Ten per cent of Labour's new parliamentary candidates are from ethnic minorities, a figure that rises to 15 % in Labour - held seats.

Parliamentary aspirant of the National Democratic Congress in the Fanteakwa south constituency, Abigail Elorm Mensah has pledged to win the seat come 2016 general elections from the opposition New Patriotic Party.

Alhaji Bondinga, the Eastern Regional First Vice Chairman of the NPP, who hailed from Akyem — Kukurantumi have confirmed to contest the Abuakwa North Parliamentary seat on the ticket of the NPP in the upcoming Bye — Election slot on April, 5th.

[3] In the Brent area the Liberal Democrats had also gained the parliamentary seat of Brent East from Labour at a 2003 by - election and held the seat at the 2005 general election.

When Petros Tatoulis, MP for Arcadia Prefecture, stated that Karamanlis was guilty of a few political scandals, Karamanlis immediately expelled him from both the parliamentary group and the party, as a result giving New Democracy a majority of only one seat [6].

John Denham, Ed Miliband's parliamentary private secretary and the man charged with getting Labour into a position to win seats in the south of England, said the party had learned from the campaign.

The last person to be expelled from this house was 55 years ago - in 1954 - and it remains the case that members can be sentenced to prison for up to a year without being required to give up their parliamentary seat.

Also, any direct seats won by independent candidates are subtracted from the parliamentary total used to apportion list seats.

Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidates were polled by the Sunday Politics and ComRes on party priorities, with Eleanor Garnier reporting from a marginal North Yorkshire seat on the result.

With its worst electoral performance since 1918, the Labour vote fell by over 3,000,000 votes from 1979 and this accounted for both a national swing of almost 4 % towards the Conservatives and their larger parliamentary majority of 144 seats, even though the Conservative Party's total vote fell by almost 700,000.

Remained parliamentary leader after Jacques Parizeau became party leader from 19 March 1988 until Parizeau won a seat on 25 September 1989.

After next year's general election, Ukip will end up with not a single parliamentary seat at Westminster and a share of the vote much reduced from their share this week.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Dome - Kwabenya, Mr Nurudeen Mohammed has said that his party is poised to take over the seat from opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Nuneaton has been seen as a bellwether in recent General Elections, with the Parliamentary seat won by the Tories from Labour in 2010.

These notional figures are calculated using new estimated seat margins, calculated by both the AEC and the Parliamentary Library using polling data from the previous election.

In 1976, the Hansard Society recommended that a mixed electoral system in a form different from the German be used for UK parliamentary elections, but instead of using closed party lists, it proposed that seats be filled by the «best runner - up» basis used by the German state of Baden - Wurttemberg, where the compensatory seats are filled by the party's defeated candidates who were the «best near - winner» in each of the state's four regions.

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 %.

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.