Sentences with phrase «parliamentary seats on»

While a now largely disappeared industrial middle class used to vote against Labour, and the Tories could count on winning parliamentary seats on Tyneside and in Sunderland until the Thatcher years, Teesside was always different.

The Labour case against the bill is a strong one, which ought to appeal to Lib Dem traditions of localism: they say it is unfair to spatchcock the boundary changes and reduction of parliamentary seats on to the referendum, putting the two together in one bill.

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

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 Northern Regional Minister, Mr Abdallah Abubakari, is contesting the parliamentary seat on the ticket of the NDC while the incumbent NPP MP, Dr Sagre Bambaagi, is seeking re-election.

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

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.

Corbyn plans to visit at least 40 marginal seats during the parliamentary recess that begins on Friday, enough to put him in Downing Street if Labour won them all.

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.

Kwasi Pratt, the managing editor of the Insight newspaper has condemned George Andah, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Awutu Senya West, for asking voters in the constituency to demand the whereabouts of the husband of his rival for the seat, Hannah Tetteh, on the campaign trail.

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 campaign.

Georgian parliamentary selection has two categories: seats allocated on the proportion of votes gained by the various parties, and seats allocated by plurality of votes in territorially defined majoritarian districts.

Georgian Dream came out on top in both categories, producing an 85 - 65 split in parliamentary seats, smaller parties being eliminated.

A review by Sir Eric Pickles into last year's general election called for parliamentary candidates to be in place in «battleground seats» by June 2018 «to ensure they are well - established within the seat before the next scheduled General Election on 5th May 2022».

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

If he's unlucky, he enjoys a brief honeymoon or else no honeymoon at all, and then — after trying but failing to keep his parliamentary party in order — faces a vote of no - confidence triggered by the kamikaze squadron seated on the benches behind him.

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).

While there may be concerns for a party committed to proportional representation about forming a government with the runner - up on votes, especially if the Lib Dems themselves win many more seats but fewer votes than UKIP, the constraints of parliamentary arithmetic will be a more powerful force.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On 1 May Labour won its biggest parliamentary majority in history — an overall majority of 179 seats.

If you can do any of get, say, a couple of million people to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the minimum wage; win parliamentary seats by running on this issue; or provide polling evidence showing majorities would repeal the race, gender discrimination laws, etc then I will withdraw the claim about this being a minority position.

I was selected to fight the Redditch parliamentary seat that I won in 1997 on an all - woman shortlist.

He also launched a sustained attack on the Tories, claiming that the Government is «gerrymandering the electoral system» by pursuing boundary reforms and reducing the number of parliamentary seats.

On Friday, Mr Murphy said he would remain leader of the party in Scotland and stand for a seat at Holyrood in next year's Scottish parliamentary election.

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.

During the 2005 - 2010 Parliament David held a seat on the Welsh Affairs Select Committee and was co-chairman of the Associate Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group.

This was a very useful follow - up after the President had sought to dismiss the usefulness of the on - going bipartisan parliamentary enquiry on the issue of «cash for seats.»

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).

The Labour parliamentary candidate for a key marginal seat was arrested after crashing into a roundabout on Monday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Poll suggests Tories on course to win majority of Welsh parliamentary seats.

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.

This predicted a landslide in the 2010 parliamentary elections, where they won the outright majority in the first round on 11 April, with the Fidesz - KDNP alliance winning 206 seats, including 119 individual seats.

The aggrieved branch executives are calling on the national executives to immediately investigate the parliamentary primary held in Ningo - Prampram if the NDC is to retain the seat in this year's elections.

If she loses her seat at the next general election, when the constituents get the chance to send a message on whether they think she's let them down, this could be the defining final moment of her parliamentary career.

Danny suggested a referendum on the most modest form of electoral reform - the Alternative Vote (AV), which allowed candidates to be ranked in preference order and required MPs to secure 50 per cent of the vote to be elected - linked to Lib Dem support for the Conservatives» own reform plan, which was to reduce the number of parliamentary seats and to remove Labour over-representation.

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.

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.

A Guardian analysis showed that the Lib Dems are on course to lose 20 of their parliamentary seats — nearly a third of the total — in what would be a blow to the authority of the deputy prime minister.

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.

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