Sentences with phrase «representation in parliament»

And, let's face it, we need to increase working - class representation in parliament too.

General Secretaries of the four main political parties with representation in Parliament, are demanding a clear time table from the Electoral Commission (EC) ahead of the 2016 election.

An interesting analysis of the BREXIT vote in this LSE Blog post by Sascha O. Becker, Thiemo Fetzer and Dennis Novy, and the suggestion that the failure of our FPTP election system to give adequate representation in our Parliament to UKIP voters could have been a contributory factor to the unexpected result of the BREXIT referendum.

Cooper also admitted that increasing representation in Parliament is a «long journey» and championed Labour's use of a women's shortlist to promote more women into Parliament in 1997.

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Parties must win at least five percent of the national vote to gain representation in the Parliament.

Most European countries have instituted a system of proportional representation in parliament, where the percentage of the popular vote a party receives determines the percentage of seats it will have in parliament, provided it wins more than a set minimum threshold.

However, he went on to state that he estimated that it was likely that Christians had a higher representation in Parliament than the society at large.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union in their latest publication on 1st December 2016 classified nations in a descending order by the percentage of women representation in Parliament.

The Green party may not emerge from the general election with more representation in parliament but it is on course to win its highest - ever vote — and it will be Labour and the Liberal Democrats who feel its impact the most.

«We could have given the UK greater representation in parliament, but when presented with the chance, he bottled it; turned his back and ran,» said Lib Dem deputy leader Sir Malcolm Bruce.

4 Campaigning With MMP a medium sized party can have considerable representation in the parliament without winning any constituencies.

This set the scene for a surge in Labour representation in parliament.

I have come to the conclusion that among the three the person who will give us effective and quality representation in Parliament is Hon. Baba Jamal», he said.

When David Cameron says he wants to broaden representation in Parliament, that does not just extend to women and black and minority ethnic (BME) members, it goes right across the spectrum of interests and backgrounds.

Each of their parties hold different views on helping boost female representation in parliament: Creasy is «really proud» of being selected on an all - female shortlist, whereas Truss prefers primaries and would «like all the parties» to use them.

He explained that the NPP had representation in Parliament therefore can not claim innocence if government failed to do due diligence.

The rise of smaller parties like Ukip and the Greens — but their inability to gain decent representation in parliament despite surging support — could also be behind apparently increased dissatisfaction with the current electoral system, despite its retention at referendum four years ago.

indigenous representation in Parliament with interim arrangements for speaking rights by the ATSIC Chairperson;

Pope Tawadros has urged political parties to place Copts, women and youth revolutionaries at the top of their electoral lists in upcoming elections in a bid to give them adequate representation in parliament.

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This would ensure a sizable presence in the parliament of almost any other European country; in France, the party has no representation in parliament.

The indicators used for the rankings were child marriage, maternal mortality, teenage pregnancy, women's representation in parliament and the rate of completion of lower - secondary school among girls.

Ensure the representation in Parliament of significant minorities, but not give them disproportionate influence

This effectively doubles the party's representation in parliament.

The agenda of the Parliament in India is decided by the Business Advisory Committee, which includes leaders of all major parties in proportion to their representation in the Parliament.

They took a smaller share of the vote than at the previous election, but they managed to more than double their representation in parliament, [31] winning 46 seats, [28] through tactical voting and concentrating resources in winnable seats.

If this level of popular support is reproduced at next year's general election, the Liberal Democrats will see their representation in parliament cut by half.

Compare that, for example, to Ukraine (3.8 % votes in 2014 parliamentary elections and 1.5 % in same year presidential election) or Poland (no representation in Parliament).

Party G failed to get any constituency MPs elected and failed to exceed the vote threshold for automatic election, and so has no representation in the parliament.

The importance of women's representation in parliament should not be underestimated.

In the league table of women's representation in parliaments, the UK languishes at a slightly embarrassing 56th out of 141 — below states such as Rwanda, Nicaragua, Algeria and Kyrgyzstan.

This measure has a nice intuitive meaning: it represents the total over - or under - representation in Parliament.