Sentences with phrase «party majority governments»

It's true that under a PR system, single party majority governments would probably be few and far between.

Despite the close polls and the surge of the Scottish National Party, the UK election result of a single party majority government is one almost no one predicted.

In 2010 the first - past - the - post system failed to deliver a single - party majority government and it is very unlikely to deliver a stable coalition government in 2015.

In 2010 the first - past - the - post system failed to deliver a single - party majority government and it is very unlikely to...

In elections for the Scottish Parliament — which, incidentally, have delivered coalition governments, a minority government and now single - party majority government — 73 of the 129 MSPs are elected by first - past - the - post voting and 56 by regional lists.

In the United Kingdom, 18 of the 23 general elections since 1922 have produced a single - party majority government.

Not exact matches

While approval is not a given since the ruling coalition government led by Abe's LDP does not have a majority in the upper house of parliament, most analysts do not foresee any problems given signs this week that main opposition parties will not block the nominations.

Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

But with her Liberals winning a majority government Thursday, Wynne emerged as the saviour of her party's flock, putting a fresh face on a troubled party that has ruled Canada's most populous province for more than a decade.

Kinsella later accepted blame for the defeat, the party's first time without a majority government in the province in 42 years.

People should start putting pressure on these parties to begin such negotiations as soon as possible so that immediately after the election they would be prepared to go to the Governor General with the request that they be recognized as a majority coalition government.

However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

A small majority (54 %) of those who voted for the governing federal Liberals also take the position that B.C.'s government is in the wrong, while most — but far from all — past federal New Democrats support the party's provincial wing in B.C.:

MAY 2, 2011: Harper's Conservative party, having been endorsed by the Globe and the Post, wins a majority government, as Jack Layton's NDP surges to opposition status.

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

It is no accident that two of the best federal NDP scores in that party's history — recorded in 1988 and 2011 — coincided with the election of majority Tory governments.

On November 22, 2004, Albertans elected the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party to a majority government, returning Ralph Klein as the province's premier.

Kenney says vote splitting leveraged Premier Rachel Notley's NDP to majority government in the 2015 election, and only a united conservative party can prevent a repeat in 2019.

The Conservative Party holds power but it is not a majority government and therefore always susceptible to losing a vote.

Prior to the election being called, the Progressive Conservative Party held a majority government with 31 of 52 seats in the Nova Scotia legislature.

The party is pushing to overcome a surge of support for the Liberals that seems to threatens any chance of the Conservatives winning a majority government and potentially a minority as well.

The party with close ties to the Serbian Orthodox Church said: «Is it possible that the ruling majority has no other candidate for the prime minister - designate but the one imposed by the West, which dictates all the moves by this government?»

Whichever party has a majority of those 650 MPs will form a government, and the leader of that party will be Prime Minister.

«If it becomes clear that the national interest which is stable and principled government can be best served by forming a coalition between the Labour party and the Liberal democrats, then I believe I should discharge that duty to form that government which would in my view command a majority in the House of Commons in the Queen's Speech and any other confidence votes.

A large number of Labour MPs were very keen to use the party's majority to ban hunting, but the government remained formally neutral.

Before the 2008 elections in Ghana, the party was in government with a majority in Parliament.

The Labour Party can form a government if they can get a working majority either through forming a coalition or through a «confidence and supply» deal.

As I said on Friday if no party is able to command a parliamentary majority... my constitutional duty as prime minister is to ensure that government continues while parties explore options...

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

This put Putin's political party in the position of being both in charge of large parts of the economy (through direct ownership) and in the position of majority in the government.

The mechanics aren't relevant to this answer but it basically allows the majority party to fund or defund part of the government with only a simple majority.

I think those are mostly debates about the nature of the government and Parliament that we elect - likelihood of single - party majority or coalition government, etc - and the issue of individual candidate selection is a relatively low priority (though I accept some, particularly STV supporters, might give that a higher priority).

In those cases the election of the leader of the majority party to head the new government would be a formality.

A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.

In our report we analyse the experience of other European countries, which have parliaments without a majority party most of the time, and we identify six rules that are in practice used to guide who should be asked to form a government.

Experience from other countries suggests that a majority - commanding group of parties is more likely to control the government the fewer parties there are in the group was well as greater the ideologically similarity between them.

With neither Labour nor the Conservatives likely to be capable of forming a majority government and given the SNP's fragmented unionist opponents north of the border, Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system could allow Nicola Sturgeon's party to exact a high price for support of a government in the Commons.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded by saying that his party wanted the election, calling it a chance to get a government that puts «the majority first».

The point for all sensible democrats to hang on to is that if the centre - left (Labour plus LibDems and perhaps Greens and some of the nationalists) together command a majority of Commons seats, that entitles them to form a government led by the leader of the largest centre - left party.

Theresa May has this morning announced that she intends to call a general election on June 8 in a bid to increase the size of her parliamentary majority and to reduce the ability of opposition parties to extract concessions from the government during Brexit negotiations.

The question of who would hold responsibility for a failure to raise the debt ceiling and a government default, posed as a hypothetical question, has received quite a bit of polling and a substantial majority say they would assign the blame squarely on the Republican party

You can not form a government without involving parties that represent a majority of the electorate, every vote counts and gerrymandering also becomes a non-issue.

In short, the advantages conferred to governing parties by the prime minister's power to time elections have been an important factor in generating the inflated government majorities that have characterized UK politics post World War II.

The background to Mrs May's decision to call a snap election is the government's small majority of 17 and the abiding weakness of the Labour Party under Mr. Corbyn.

The most important thing is that analysing past elections & predicting future elections is ridiculous, since electoral reform will hopefully change the political parties and the political process anyway, to make them more responsive to the genuine majority view, instead of the tribal attitude we see when Paul suggests that we should keep FPTP as the best way of electing a Labour government.

When one political party holds the governor's office and a majority in both houses of the state legislature, the state is governed by a state government trifecta.

At Westminster, one party has usually got a clear majority of MPs and formed the government in the post-war period.

Sharon had a majority for the plan in the government but not within his own party.

People know that I will take the steps that are in the national interest but I think I am perfectly entitled as the leader of a political party to say that I will spend the next 50 days fighting for a majority government.