Sentences with phrase «per cent of seats»

Cambridge Analytica's website mentions a 2010 case study for elections in Bihar where its client JD - U won 90 per cent of seats targeted by the firm.

In the UK general election in 2005, the ruling Labour party won 55 per cent of the seats on just 35 per cent of the total votes.

So A has a power index of 3 ÷ 5, or 0.6, or 60 per cent — more than the 50 per cent of the seats it holds — and B and C are each «worth» just 20 per cent.

So far, the Tories and Liberal Democrats have chosen non-white candidates in about 5 per cent of seats.

· Eastleigh (Hampshire)- Lib Dems won 86.7 per cent of seats on 48.6 per cent of the vote.

· Oxford - Labour won 50 per cent of seats on 34.6 per cent of votes.

· Halton (north Cheshire)- Labour won 60 per cent of seats on 38.1 per cent of the vote.

· Stockport - Lib Dems won 39.6 per cent of votes, 57.1 per cent of seats.

· Tamworth (Staffordshire)- Conservatives won 90 per cent of seats on 49.5 per cent of the vote.

That means that the parties whose seat shares exceed their vote shares (the Conservatives, Labour, the SNP, the DUP, and — fractionally — Sinn Féin and the SDLP) collectively hold 24 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons more than they would if they were represented in exact proportion to their votes — that is, about 156 seats more.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

In 1994 the Conservatives» net losses amounted to 10 per cent of the seats up for election that year.

However, if he claims to be a democrat, he can not defend a system which, in Scotland, in 2003 for example, gave his party 41 per cent of the seats in local councils on 32.6 per cent of the votes.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) won 30 per cent of the vote, but only 15 per cent of the seats, in Scotland in October 1974.

The electoral system allocates 37 per cent of seats using a first - past - the - post method.

In 2005, 35 per cent of the vote got Labour 55 per cent of the seats, while only three per cent less in the vote for the Tories got them just 30 per cent.

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The hybrid electric jet will seat up to 12 people, fly up to 700 miles and have operating costs of 8 cents per seat mile, below the operating costs of small turboprops and business jets powered by jet fuel.

In the case, «[t] he CBSA argued that these items are seats and fall under tariff classifications 9401.71.10 and 9401.80.10 which have associated tariff rates of 8 per cent and 9.5 per cent, respectively.

But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

The wide - body planes, for example, will be fitted with 20 per cent more seats, raising the number of passengers to 275 per aircraft.

Sandberg is among the 14 per cent of women who hold executive officer positions and the 16 per cent of women who hold board of director seats, according to Catalyst.org.

Women of colour, she writes, hold just 4 per cent of top corporate jobs and 3 per cent of board seats.

Montreal - based Hopper announced Wednesday that WestJet and Air Canada were among its first global partners to unload some of their seats via «secret fares» at discounts of up to 35 per cent.

The New York - listed Constellation Brands, with 20 per cent of Accolade, will have a seat at the table and is still brandishing bruises from paying top dollar in a $ 1.9 billion takeover of Accolade's predecessor entity BRL Hardy in 2003.

Lion boss Stuart Irvine, who was in Geelong on Monday morning to launch the nation's biggest brewer's new Little Creatures brewery, said his company's lightening purchase of a 10 per cent stake in takeover target WCB two months ago would deliver it a «seat at the table» and influence over the direction of the outcome.

Travel budgets tend to take a back seat to holiday wish lists, but according to TD, over 80 per cent of Canadians are members of at least one travel rewards program.

When the number of voters in a third of seats in a particular state or territory deviates significantly from the average (over 10 per cent for a period of more than two months).

Just one per cent of the electorate - less than half a million voters in marginal swing seats - determined the outcome of the last general election.

His research focuses on how he won the Labour seat of Enfield Southgate on an 8.7 per cent swing at the last election, and on similar successes across the country.

The closed shop was as important for that as it was for giving the Tory forty - five per cent of the industrial working - class a moderating influence in the selection of Labour candidates for the safe Labour seats in which they lived.

He claimed 40 per cent of the vote at the 2005 election but is holding the country's most marginal seat - a 0.2 per cent swing would see it go to the Tories.

Before 3 May, officials were privately hoping for gains of around 550 seats and a popular vote share in the region of 40 per cent.

If United Russia were able to secure just under 50 per cent of the popular vote in the party - list competition, along with the lower estimate of seats in the singe - mandate district races, it would end up with over 270 seats, more than it now holds.

In both sets the vast majority of seats involve Labour defending vote shares of between 40 and 65 per cent with an average of 50 per cent.

Four parties are likely to clear the 5 per cent hurdle to gain a portion of the 225 party - list seats: United Russia, the centrist «party of power,» which currently holds 238 seats in the Duma; the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), a leftist opposition party (92 seats); the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), a nationalist party dominated by its firebrand leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky (56 seats); and A Just Russia (JR), a leftist party engineered by the Kremlin to capture votes from the KPRF — but which also included a small number of liberal legislators in the 2011 - 2016 Duma (64 seats).

In terms of straight projected seats, Labour could even get a majority with just 34 per cent of the vote if the Liberal Democrats do really well.

UKIP's national support was spread out too thinly for it to turn its vote share into seats; this was in stark contrast to the SNP, which needed only 4.7 per cent of the nation - wide vote to obtain 56 seats.

To gain a share of these 225 seats, parties must win at least 5 per cent of the vote.

In order to get the absolute majority in both houses, this result would have to come alongside with 70 per cent of the first - past - the - post seats, which seems a rather tall order, if not completely unachievable result for everybody, but Berlusconi.

In fact, of these 31 seats, only nine now have Labour majorities under ten per cent.

By contrast, 26 per cent of Conservative votes in 2015 were in seats that the party lost.

The centre - right coalition should achieve easily 36 per cent of the votes, which would result in roughly 40 per cent of the proportionally allocated seats.

It explains the focus on the SNP, a party that can't expect to take more than four per cent of the national vote share but could end up seizing 50 - odd seats — and advancing its long - term agenda of breaking up Britain.

At the end of 2014 the party were trending at around 20 per cent in several opinion polls with some excitable elements in the media claiming the party could win as many as 40 seats in the general election.

Liberal Democrat Simon Wood took the seat with a majority of just 310, a four per cent swing from Labour to Lib Dem.

Survation's canvas for the Daily Record suggested Ukip might take six per cent of the list vote, which, according to Weber Shandwick's Scotland Votes seat predicting tool would see the party with a sizeable presence in the Scottish parliament.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

Jim Knight - Labour The work and pensions secretary became another high - profile casualty when he lost his seat of Dorset South with a 9.3 per cent swing to the Conservatives.

Bill Rammell - Labour The armed forces minister also lost his seat of Harlow to the Conservatives after a swing of 5.9 per cent.