In the 2005 general election, Labour was re-elected for a third term, but with a reduced majority of 66 and popular vote of only 35.2 %, the lowest
percentage of any majority government in British history.
Not exact matches
A report released Monday by the good -
government group Citizens Union argued the current system for redistricting, dominated by the Democratic
majority in the Assembly and Republicans who control the Senate, has led to less - competitive elections, reduced voter turnout and, over the past four election cycles, a 96 percent re-election rate for incumbents — who are returned to office by an average margin
of victory
of 61
percentage points.
Neither NASA nor the companies will reveal what
percentage of the development costs are being borne by the taxpayers, although NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Bill Gerstenmaier acknowledged at a 2012 House Science, Space and Technology (SS&T) Committee hearing that the
government was paying the
majority of those costs and did not disagree when asked if it was 80 - 90 percent.
By shifting to long - term, income - driven repayment plans, they become indentured servants to the
government, paying a
percentage of their income for the
majority of their working lives.
Land tenure categories characteristically include private holdings (5 — 25 %
of national area), communal land (usually small
percentage) and state lands (the
majority of the land under
government control).
Meanwhile, these four types
of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands
of people whose lives have been damaged for lack
of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high
percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future
of contracting and
of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for
governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the
majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.
Both solutions will occur because the power
of the news media and
of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types
of information, the cumulative effect
of which will force
governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations
of the thousands
of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help
of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing
percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers
of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice
of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need
of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision
of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion
of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members
of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule
of law, the Canadian Charter
of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole
of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the
majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.