Sentences with phrase «seat in parliament by»

Woolas has since been stripped of his seat in parliament by a special election court, which ruled that he knowingly made false statements about his Lib Dem opponent, and suspended from the Labour Party.

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.

Not exact matches

Polls show the race is tight and that the large «Together for Yes» block formed by pro-independence parties from the rest of political spectrum will need support from the smaller CUP to secure a 68 - seat majority in Catalonia's 135 - seat parliament.

By the early 1990s, the New Democratic Party — the political ally of the labour movement — was in power in three Canadian provinces, including Ontario, and held 43 seats in Parliament.

The passage of the Reform Bill may be defined in a shorthand way as the procedure of voting by Parliament, and approval by King William IV, of a law changing the qualifications for voting in British elections and redistributing seats in the House of Commons.

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.

The 2013 elections produced a highly fragmented and deeply polarised parliament, in which the strongest list — the right - wing Likud - Beiteinu, headed by incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu — secured just over one quarter of the Knesset's 120 seats.

The current endeavor by Tory backbenchers to repeal the Act is based on a simple calculation — most forecasts predict that the 2015 general elections will result in another hung Parliament, in which the joint seat share of the two dominant parties, Labour and the Conservatives, will be eroded even further.

I have been trying in recent weeks to publicise in my blog and in LabourList the little - known procedures in the event of a hung parliament, under which whatever the results in votes and seats, Gordon Brown will be both entitled and obliged to continue in office until he has met parliament as prime minister and ascertained by the vote on his Queen's Speech whether he still commands a majority in the House.

Currently, May is constrained by a relatively slim majority in Parliament of only 12 seats.

He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Ceredigion from 2000 to 2005, after winning the seat at a by - election in February 2000 caused by the resignation of Plaid Cymru MP Cynog Dafis.

Having ascertained the numbers required by section 191 (7), the Electoral Commission must then proceed to ascertain the number of seats in Parliament to which each remaining party listed in the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote is entitled by adding the number of circles in the column of numbers under the name of that party.

In the Scottish Parliament elections yesterday the SNP lost 6 seats and their majority because their share of the list vote fell by 2 points.

The Klottey Korle constituency is a swing seat that has been represented in Parliament by both the NPP and the NDC.

In fact the Conservatives were second in Edinburgh South West last time round and a large part of the seat is currently held in the Scottish Parliament by the ConservativeIn fact the Conservatives were second in Edinburgh South West last time round and a large part of the seat is currently held in the Scottish Parliament by the Conservativein Edinburgh South West last time round and a large part of the seat is currently held in the Scottish Parliament by the Conservativein the Scottish Parliament by the Conservatives.

So for example, if Red Party earns 10 electorate seats, but only 5 % of the party vote, they will be represented in parliament by 10 electorate MPs, and parliament will have 105 members.

Labour's 179 seat majority in parliament will not be taken by Tony Blair as a mandate for progressive social reform.

The Greater Accra regional NDC has revealed plans by the party to secure 60 % votes in the presidential elections and 25 seats in parliament.

Although Maclennan had taken the seat from George Mackie (currently the oldest living former Liberal MP), Mackie had taken it in 1964 from the * Tory * (albeit, Independent at the time), David Robertson (who'd kicked - up a stink in Parliament about a local boy slapped about by the Police).

Mr Murphy said he wanted to have a successor as leader in place by the summer, and confirmed he would not be standing for a seat at the Scottish Parliament in next year's election.

They are led by Jane Dodds and hold 1 of the 60 seats in the National Assembly for Wales [1] but none of the 40 Welsh seats in the UK House of Commons and none of the four Welsh seats in the European Parliament.

In the 2014 European Parliament election, the Danish People's Party came first by a large margin with 26.6 % of the vote, gaining 2 extra seats for a total of 4 MEPs.

But then the SNP did win previously safe - as - houses Glasgow East from Labour at the by - election earlier in the summer on a swing of over 20 per cent, and they start with an advantage in Glenrothes in that the party already holds the almost identical Fife Central seat in the Scottish Parliament.

Launching their manifesto this morning, UKIP leader Lord Pearson of Rannoch has announced that not only is his party making a conscious decision not to stand in a handful of seats held by what he defined as «committed eurosceptics» in the last Parliament, but that UKIP will «actively campaign» for them.

The Conservatives win a 12 - seat majority in parliament as Labour are almost wiped out by the SNP in Scotland and the Liberal Democrats suffer major losses.

Galloway returned to parliament after winning the «Bradford Spring» by - election in Bradford West, which had been a safe Labour seat.

Internal surveys were reported to have shown that the joint list would win more than 50 seats in the upcoming elections, a total unheard of by a single party in decades, and one that if realized would virtually guarantee Netanyahu continuing as prime minister in the next parliament, no matter which candidates ran and no matter which alliances were formed against him.

The former employment minister, who sat in the Cabinet in the last Parliament before losing her seat in the general election, told Sky News she had been shocked by the way the EU operated.

Recent polling of key marginal seats by Lord Ashcroft found that Cameron's party can afford to lose no more than 21 seats to Labour in order to remain the largest party in parliament.

Half the seats in Parliament are filled by first past the post vote, similar to what is being used in the UK and the US.

The Tory MP's good behaviour could perhaps be explained by the fact that Cameron's media chief Craig Oliver had attended the lunch in parliament and been given a prime seat next to The Sun - and right in Grayling's eyeline.

The GSLP was represented in the European Parliament by Glyn Ford MEP [21] of the PES Group during the 6th European Parliament term, however Ford later lost his seat in the 2009 European elections.

[16] The election saw the first cap on spending by parties in individual constituencies during the 100 days before Parliament's dissolution on 30 March: # 30,700, plus a per - voter allowance of 9p in county constituencies and 6p in borough seats.

The Democratic Audit team have been running a series of posts previewing the European Parliament elections in the UK on a seat - by - seat basis.

By comparison, when Margaret Thatcher formed her first government in 1979 her party gained 62 seats from other parties, but she was able to choose widely, from over 250 re-elected MPs from the previous parliament, the 100 or so cabinet and junior ministers.»

Newark is a town under siege from outsiders ahead of Thursday's by - election for a seat in Parliament.

Harold Wilson's position was not too dissimilar to Cameron's (Wilson has 301 seats in a parliament of 635, Cameron had 306 out of 650) after the February election and he went back to the electorate in October and won a slender but working majority that only finally disintegrated after 4 years of desertions and by - election losses.

But it was his call for every Labour MP to be re-selected for their seats after a review by Parliament which will cause alarm for his colleagues in the House of Commons.

He added that he would consider standing for parliament again should a by - election be called in a Labour - held seat.

It would give an effective veto to MPs for seats in England - and Wales on some policies - over matters that are decided north of the border by the Scottish Parliament, but would still require a majority of all UK MPs to pass legislation.

He was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Solihull from 1983 to 2005, before losing his seat to Lorely Burt of the Liberal Democrats by a margin of 279 votes in the 2005 general election.

A: Lord Ashcroft says that he likes his privacy, but he must have known that anyone who takes a seat in the Houses of Parliament becomes a public figure, and as a consequence loses the type of privacy enjoyed by people who are not involved in Westminster politics.

In every other by - election in the current parliament in English Labour seats, the party's vote share has risen by around ten percentage pointIn every other by - election in the current parliament in English Labour seats, the party's vote share has risen by around ten percentage pointin the current parliament in English Labour seats, the party's vote share has risen by around ten percentage pointin English Labour seats, the party's vote share has risen by around ten percentage points.

To see why, consider three by - elections in Labour seats in the last Parliament — the only three, as far as I am aware, in which opinion polls were conducted.

In many cases, larger constituency units have come about as a result of a loss of seats — whether it be the loss of a European Parliament seat by the Republic of Ireland or the loss of County Council seats by some (of the more rural) counties — added to the overall increase in seat numbers for City and County Council electionIn many cases, larger constituency units have come about as a result of a loss of seats — whether it be the loss of a European Parliament seat by the Republic of Ireland or the loss of County Council seats by some (of the more rural) counties — added to the overall increase in seat numbers for City and County Council electionin seat numbers for City and County Council elections.

«So I will resign my seat in Parliament, trigger a by - election and, your national executive allowing, stand for Ukip.»

A plan to reduce the number of seats to 705 was approved by the Parliament in February 2018.

Tsipras led Syriza to victory in the general election held on 25 January 2015, falling short of an outright majority in Parliament by just two seats.

Andrea Jenkyns, a former music teacher and amateur opera singer, was a high - profile winner for the Conservatives, taking Ed Balls» Morley and Outwood seat after being prompted to run for parliament by the death of her father from MRSA contracted in hospital.

Jeremy Middleton Having stood for Parliament in Newcastle East & Wallsend in 1997 and at the 2004 Hartlepool by - election (as well as standing in the 2004 European election), Jeremy resigned from the candidates» list before applying for any seats in this Parliament.