Sentences with phrase «representative electorate»

I am humbled by this show of confidence reposed on me by the representative electorate of our great party, PDP.

Not exact matches

«For a politician who doesn't want to admit that the electorate sent a message that they don't like politicians, it's far easier to scapegoat it on economic issues than it is to address the fundamental question: that there are voters in this country who no longer think their representatives represent them,» said a Democratic strategist involved in 2016.

«Power is where power goes,» Johnson liked to say, and in a republic this means that men who wish to attract the power of the electorate and its representatives need to work the hardest to chart a path around the fears and interests of the multitude.

We will not here discuss difficult questions of a Christian philosophy about society and state, especially not in how far a representative of power in the secular state receives his authority not simply from the electorate.

Throwing away all these votes can result in a set of representatives, which does not reflect the desires of the electorate.

Surely a country is only truly democratic if all the laws that it passes either have the support of the majority of the electorate, or are passed by a quorum of elected representatives that can justifiably claim to represent that majority?

The current Lords is «not reactive or representative of the electorate,» he complains.

A short election term provides incentives for a representative to obey their electorate.

Cartwright's insistence upon annual parliaments was a riposte to the celebrated declaration made by Edmund Burke to his Bristol electorate in 1774, that a Member of Parliament's «unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you... Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion».

The two things you lose with simple PR is the link between a district and specific representatives (all MP represent the whole electorate) and the ability to choose exactly who gets elected (you vote for a party, not a person).

Underwood is highly qualified and just confirmed that she will not seek election, satisfying Common Cause / NY's chief priority that the electorate, not the Legislature, should choose our representatives.»

«We do a random sample of more than 800 registered voters and our sample looks like the New York electorate both in terms of geography, bipartisan break up, gender, age, income etc. so we do it very carefully to ensure we get a representative sample,» said Greenberg.

Both Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have gained from the very deep disaffection of the French electorate with its traditional political representatives.

Given this means a much larger percentage of the electorate turns out, and given a significant proportion of them do vote, the overall result is more representative.

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

In its appeal, the NYCLU said not knowing why the grand jury ruled not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the death of Garner was «incompatible with the understanding that democracy works best when public policy choices are undertaken by an informed electorate and their representatives.»

A petition submitted by electorates of a constituency for withdrawing their elected representative from a Legislative house.

While this district was clearly not representative of the overall American electorate, note the relative strength of the minor party candidates compared to the major party candidates.

The only sensible solution to all the imbalances and over population problems — in a representative democracy — must surely be for the electorate to decide who is most suitable to legislate on their behalf, irrespective of age!»

This mobilized electorate divides about whether current state senators should remain in office, and nearly half of these voters — 48 % — prefer a new representative in the Assembly.

The House of Representatives currently consists of 150 members, elected by and representing single member districts, known as electoral divisions (commonly referred to as «electorates» or «seats»).

As the most visible public representatives of the party, ministers and shadow ministers are the symbolic face of the party, and their demography shapes the electorate's perception of the party and its leader.

«Underwood is highly qualified and just confirmed that she will not seek election, satisfying Common Cause / NY's chief priority that the electorate, not the Legislature, should choose our representatives,» Susan Lerner, the group's executive director, stated.

This survey by the Daily News and the Marist Poll was based upon a representative sample of the New York electorate to measure, not influence, public opinion.

At some point, our political representatives need to level with their electorate about the need to do that.

Dr. Benjamin explained to us how polling a limited number of representative would - be voters — usually about 1,000 — could project how the electorate might vote.

Like the previous representative of the district, Republican Michael Grimm, Mr. Donovan portrayed his Democratic opponent as a typical tax - and - spend liberal who would be rejected by the district's more conservative electorate.

-- a parliament representative of the diversity of opinion in the country: AV does not do this — breaking the power of the parties and giving the electorate a genuine choice between candidates: list systems do not do this

He also urged the electorate to vote for credible and competent candidates that would adequately represent their interests, so as to avoid a repeat of non performance by some elected representatives.

The constituency vote is used to elect a single representative in the voter's constituency using the traditional first past the post system: the candidate with the most votes (not necessarily a majority of the electorate) wins.

Use of First Past the Post for both local and general elections now stands stripped of its main justification: delivering strong government, representative of the wishes of the electorate.

I'd respectfully suggest they are far less representative of the electorate than hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who come from a wide range of backgrounds and earn a wide range of incomes.

Each Section Committee shall consist of (i) the Section Officers: the retiring Section Chair, the Section Chair, the Section Chair - Elect, and the Section Secretary; (ii) four members - at - large; (iii) one representative of each Affiliate that is enrolled in the Section; and (iv) the Council Delegate (s) of the corresponding Electorate.

It is rare in Ontario, and in other democratic jurisdictions, when the wishes of the electorate, through their public representatives, are ignored so profoundly.

The Citizens» Assembly is made up of 99 citizens who have been randomly selected in an effort to be broadly representative of the Irish electorate plus a Chairperson, Ms Justice Mary Laffoy.

Finally, the situation in New Zealand illustrates the possibilities of how representative mechanisms such as the Māori electorates can co-exist with non-representative government bodies such as the Ministry of Māori Development, Te Puni Kōkiri (TPK).

The Māori electorates allows for Māori representatives to sit in Parliament.

The old question then arises: Is a representative elected to put forth the wishes of the electorate, or to do whatever he / she pleases according to his / her own spin on things, or according to how many in the herd are going in some direction?