Sentences with phrase «rural constituencies»

But an increase in petrol duty would be hugely unpopular in the many rural constituencies held by the party.
One reason behind the low percentage in this bill is that it could make it easier for the conservative opposition to target and trigger by - elections in rural constituencies represented by NDP MLAs.
The issue exploded last year when 106 members of parliament, mostly Conservatives representing rural constituencies, signed a letter to Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.
Strathmore - Brooks: Former Canadian Taxpayers Federation lobbyist Derek Fildebrandt announced this week that he will run for the Wildrose Party in this southern rural constituency.
Only in three rural constituencies did these two parties earn at least 11 % of the vote (New Democrats Mandy Melnyk in Athabasca - Sturgeon - Redwater and Bruce Hinkley in Wetaskiwin - Camrose and Liberal Pete Helfrich in Banff - Cochrane.
The most stunning change from previous election is the significant drop in support for Alison Redford «s Progressive Conservatives in rural central and southern Alberta rural constituencies, which have given the PCs large majority votes in most elections over the past 40 years.
Two rural constituencies currently fall under the 50 percent exception: Dunvegan - Central Peace - Notley with 16,392 voters and Lesser Slave Lake with 19,062 voters.
Other rural constituencies that have a notable lower than average population of voters include Peace River with 20,464, Lac La Biche - St.
He was the first Regional Secretary of NPP for Greater Accra in 1992, and also the first Chairman of the Party for the Ga District Rural Constituency, which later split into Ga West District and Ga East District.
The warped statistics will also mean the boundary changes review coming next year will redraw Britain's electoral map in favour of the Conservatives, enlarging rural constituencies and shrinking the total number of the urban ones with mobile populations that usually favour Labour.
I know that people tend to spread out from the centres of the towns and cities, but surely that would effect Labour more than it does the Conservatives, who seem to have strong rural constituencies.
Urban constituencies which tend to vote Labour therefore tend to have a smaller electorate than rural constituencies which tend to vote Conservative.
McGuinness blamed the lack of media coverage in the two - week - long campaign, fought in a mostly rural constituency, for the decline in Sinn Fein's vote.
In terms of the European Election constituencies, there is a notable difference between the amount of territory covered by the very smallest constituency, Dublin, and the other two, more rural constituencies, in terms of population but especially in terms of geographical area / territory.
Tory Peter Heaton - Jones said rural constituencies were populated by «chinless foxhunters, straw - sucking yokels and whinging farmers»
The optimistic reference in the OP to a time when labour had any serious presence in rural constituencies must refer to the time when mining communities still existed and I do nt see how that might be useful today.
Some local party members complained about the lack of multiple voting locations in the rural constituency and the police were called to the voting station after an allegedly intoxicated man caused a disturbance.
The suggestion that Labour might start looking to represent a rural constituency is very welcome.
But also if you want to maintain a car on a road - and for those in my rural constituency, lack of public transport means you have to - it's also more expensive.»
The outgoing Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, Simon Hart, gained the Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire at the election and of his rural constituency, he said that «it should not be thought that everything is rosy in our particular garden»:
On one hand, he toured his district touting a recently enacted farm bill that promises much for a large segment of his rural constituency and for their customers.
He's spent his time in Madison pushing bills aimed at pleasing his rural constituency, such as restricting game wardens» access to private land, eliminating the minimum hunting age, lowering the drinking age and ending the state's work to manage the wolf population.
Certainly, it would create all hell for the government's standing in its rural constituencies.
This is just one in a series of climb - downs by her department believed to be aimed at pacifying hostile backbench Conservative MPs representing large numbers of small schools in rural constituencies.
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