Sentences with phrase «parliamentary seats in»

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

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

In the 2001 election she nearly doubled her majority, but lost in 2005 when the Liberal Democrats took all five parliamentary seats in Cornwall.

What I really meant was they are no safe parliamentary seats in London until you get to the outskirts seats like Orpington.

For instance, the creation of an additional 46 district assemblies and 45 new parliamentary seats in 2012, ratcheted up the fixed cost of government without much thought given to what those actions mean for public finances.

The Progressive People Party (PPP) and the National Democratic Party have agreed to support each other to win the parliamentary seats in some selected constituencies in this year's elections.

The Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, has expressed optimism that the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) will retain all the 11 parliamentary seats in the Upper West Region, in the upcoming December 7 elections.

The Central Region has seen the New Patriotic Party (NPP) win 19 of the 23 parliamentary seats in the 2016 parliamentary elections.

Lib Dems are resigned to losing parliamentary seats in less prosperous parts of the country, where the spending cuts of the past years have hit hardest, but had hoped to hold the line in wealthier places where their coalition with the Conservatives is less controversial.

Dubbed «operation 79 %,» the plan is to secure at least 79 percent of the votes cast in the 2016 presidential elections and win all the eleven parliamentary seats in the area.

Despite losing 6 Parliamentary seats in London in the General Election conducted on the same day, Labour's share of the vote, council seats and control of Councils rose substantially.

President John Mahama is optimistic the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will capture at least 13 parliamentary seats in the Ashanti Region in addition to the one million votes the party is vying for.

Labour took 45 of the capital's 73 Parliamentary seats in 2015.

Yet in terms of policy payoffs, evidence suggests that the more proportional dispersal of parliamentary seats in the Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales has created the conditions for non-government parties to exert influence, particularly in times of minority government.

In an interview with the UWR Branch Secretary of the CPP, Mr Issahaque Sulemana, he said they were starting early with new strategies being mapped out to ensure that they got a foothold and won more parliamentary seats in the region.

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 constituency seat has been a reserve of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), but the ruling NDC is keen on winning it and others, through its «Agenda 50 ″ plan to secure at least half of the parliamentary seats in the Eastern Region.

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

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.

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

Previous electoral results suggest the party that wins majority of parliamentary seats in the Region, subsequently wins the national elections.

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.

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 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 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.

He said he's motivated to lead the party at the regional level in order to unite all of its members to collaborate to win at least six parliamentary seats in the region at the next general elections in 2020.

Mr. Awankua, said the few [3] NPP parliamentary seats in the region was due to the poor leadership and disunity among the regional executives.

An Upper East Regional Chairman aspirant of the New Patriotic Party, Filson Awankua, says his leadership will ensure the party increases its parliamentary seats in the region and create job opportunities for the citizenry.

According to him there are six parliamentary seats in the region being held by the NPP out of which five may swing to the ruling party.

With Macron having no significant, established political party behind him, we expect those parties whose candidates fell short in the first round of the presidential campaign to push hard for parliamentary seats in the June parliamentary elections in a bid to win influence.

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....

Her husband became headmaster of the Leys School in Cambridge, where her foray into local politics was to begin, though she failed to be selected for a parliamentary seat in 1974.

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.

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.

Ali would have been the first Somali woman to contest a parliamentary seat in the UK, but within 72 hours of her nomination, she had stepped down, saying that she could not move her children to West Yorkshire without massive disruption to their education.

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

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.

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.

Labour has held its parliamentary seat in Wythenshawe and Sale East, with an increased majority - after a by - election prompted by the death of the former MP Paul Goggins.

Boris Johnson could «get away» with standing for a Parliamentary seat in the capital at the 2015 general election during his last year as London mayor, said a former Conservative MP.

Whilst she is married to an MP, the fact is that she is a politician in her own right, having stood as a Labour council candidate at the local elections this year and indicated her desire to fight a parliamentary seat in the future.

The Convention People's Party's (CPP) Presidential Candidate, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, has hinted of the party's resolve to use all its arsenals to retain the Kumbungu Parliamentary seat in the Northern Region.

The Conservative council leader, Geoff Roberts, saw the results as a sign they could take the parliamentary seat in the next general election, while Labour blamed their defeats on national issues.

But despite retaining his own parliamentary seat in 2015, he has resigned as Lib Dem leader after disastrous election results saw the party crushed at the polls.

Not exact matches

But confrontation over Northern Gateway could put their 21 (out of 36) seats in British Columbia at risk — more than enough to erase their parliamentary majority.

After Yanukovych's ouster, Manafort helped to rebrand his party into the Party of Regions, and made it possible for the party to gain more seats than expected in Ukraine's parliamentary elections.

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

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