Sentences with phrase «seat in parliament»

The party or coalition of parties with the majority of seats in the parliament forms the executive.

The parties win seats in the parliament based on the share of votes they won, and the parties select who sits in those seats.

The party vote is a vote for a party and is used to determine the proportional make up of the total seats in parliament.

In this case, there will be extra seats in parliament.

So why has this party — without a single seat in parliament — managed to change government and opposition policy on what many voters think to be the most important issue of the day?

The prime minister, is the leader of the party with the largest number of seats in the parliament.

The question of taking seats in the Parliament of the Irish Free State.

Away from the big - party struggles, the Greens» Caroline Lucas will be doing her best to win her party a first seat in parliament in Brighton Pavilion.

If May is successful in winning more seats in parliament, she would have a stronger hand in Brexit negotiations, and would be more likely to remove the country from the E.U. single market trade zone.

That is, roughly speaking, a system that gives parties seats in Parliament in proportion to the number of people who voted for them.

As of Monday morning local time, the official vote count indicated that a center - right bloc will gain the most seats in parliament — though that group does not include the day's top vote - getter, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement.

«But having taken responsibility for something that happened ten years ago the only proper course of action for me is to resign my Eastleigh seat in parliament which I will do very shortly.

Conservative attempts at tackling this have so far proven unsuccessful: Ukip has held steady in the polls, topped May's European Parliament elections, and on Thursday Douglas Carswell won the party's first (elected) seat in parliament by 35 points over his former party, and nearly 50 more than Labour.

Countries such as Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain have low electoral thresholds — under 3 percent — meaning it is relatively easy to gain seats in those parliaments.

The Greens earned 10.6 % of the vote (up from 6.7 % in 2008) and increased their number of seats in parliament from 9 to 13.

It acknowledges that it may, at best, win only a handful of seats in parliament next May, but that will mean it has a base in Westminster for the first time.

The Government's House of Lords Reform Bill proposes to continue reserving seats in Parliament for the representatives of the state Church in the form of «Lords Spiritual».

Ukip could stand to win 128 seats in Parliament if the results of a recent poll are repeated in the general election, an expert has told the Mail on Sunday.

These funds will be allocated to all political parties with seats in Parliament that they take up, in proportion to their share of the total vote in the last general election.»

Proportional representation - where the number of seats in a parliament reflects the number of votes cast for each party nationally - has been a key part Liberal Democrat policy since the party was founded.

By coincidence my visit coincided with that of one of the candidates for the local seat in parliament, an ally of nationalist General Aleksandr Lebed.

Note: for most voting systems currently in use there are already mathematical issues when assigning seats in Parliament.

Predictions did not have them sure to surpass the 5 % threshold barrier to get seats in the parliament.

A huge cheer greeted the SVT exit poll which showed that SD claimed 4.6 percent of the votes, sufficient to claim seats in parliament.

In the 1980s populist parties barely got more than a few seats in parliament, whereas in 2002 the left populist SP and Fortuyn's right populist LPF together gained more than 20 %.

A minority government, or minority cabinet or minority parliament, is a cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament.

He told Good Morning Britain that Ukip had taken votes from all parties, but had «cost Conservatives seats in Parliament,» putting Ed Miliband closer to Number 10.

Farage declared that Ukip had entered the «Westminster hen house» and was on course to win seats in parliament at next year's general election.

«It is also quite different representing my home seat in parliament because the people I grew up with - I'm now representing them.

The following table sets out the confessional allocation of seats in the Parliament before and after the Taif Agreement.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage and the party's first elected MP Douglas Carswell will hit the campaign trail again today to push to secure a second seat in Parliament.

supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to secure identified and non-identified Seats in Parliament

The Australian Green Party also made an historic breakthrough, picking up their first seat in parliament.

In 1998, for the first time, the BJP gained more seats in parliament than Nehru's venerable India National Congress party.

«It is realistic that Mr. Stronach's new party will gain seats in Parliament, though he will need a lot of good luck,» he says.

The boundary changes will boost the number of seats in Parliament from 646 to 650, with all the new seats being created in England.

Nigel Farage declared that Ukip had broken the political mould and was on course to win seats in parliament next year.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) is disappointed at this decision, because we hoped that Lords Reform would provide an opportunity for removing the right of Bishops to reserved seats in Parliament.

Many trade - union bureaucrats were pensioned off with seats in Parliament, where they proved no match for the Eton or Harrow graduate.

Since Suu Kyi's 2010 release, her political party has clinched dozens of seats in Parliament.

The extreme right wing party, the National Front, has soared in the polls and increased its percentage of the seats in the Parliament.

But many are active in politics as members of Lee's party, which holds all the seats in Parliament.

May stands to gain some 45 seats in Parliament, which could ultimately strengthen her hand to negotiate a hard - Brexit.

Greek TV networks predict that New Democracy will take about 127 seats in the parliament, which when combined with the 32 seats for PASOK, give the coalition more than the 151 seats needed to form a government.

The party may only control 37 of the 179 seats in parliament but its growing public support is reshaping the Danish political landscape with tougher policies such as the seizing of refugees» valuables starting to be passed.