Sentences with phrase «seat in parliament which»

In a heated contest delayed due to a legal tussle, incumbent Joe Baidoo Ansah lost his seat in Parliament which he has occupied since 2001 to Joe Mensah.

«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.

Not exact matches

The DUP in Northern Ireland obtained 10 seats, which would give Theresa May a majority 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 Left Platform, which holds about 40 seats in parliament and is composed of former communists and others closely aligned with labor unions, could defeat the government if its members vote against the plan.

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In parliament, a majority is achieved when the largest party has more seats than all other parties put together, which requires 326 seats.

He also failed to get elected to Parliament for the seat of Sheffield Brightside in 1968, which I then contested in 1992.

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.

He is the leader of the right - wing Jewish Home party which currently holds 8 of 120 seats in the Knesset (Israeli parliament).

Holding only 84 seats in the parliament, the Socialists engineered a coalition with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a mainly ethnic Turkish minority party, which had 36 deputies, thus securing a total of 120 votes in the 240 - member parliament.

But even with the Greek system which gives an extra 50 seats in the 300 seat parliament to the party with the largest share of the vote, it is not at all certain that the two big old parties will have a majority.

Guelleh's UMP, which has a tight grip on power, holds the majority of the seats in Djibouti's parliament.

If a citizen's vote translates directly to votes in parliament it doesn't matter which way you carve the seats, the party in power will be the one with the most citizens supporting it.

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.

Survation's canvas for the Daily Record suggested Ukip might take six per cent of the list vote, which, according to Weber Shandwick's Scotland Votes seat predicting tool would see the party with a sizeable presence in the Scottish parliament.

And having clearly defeated the Left, which is expected to retain only about 10 % of the seats in the lower chamber of Parliament, he can also expect little political opposition to his liberal - leaning reforms.

Evidently, Blunkett thinks there is nothing at all perculiar about a voting system in which the LibDems attract 23 % of the votes cast and get only 8 % of the seats in Parliament.

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.

Results were less encouraging in the south of England, and results in Scotland were described as a «disaster», with Labour losing nine seats to the SNP, which went on to gain the Parliament's first ever majority.

Both chambers are in The Hague which is the seat of parliament but not the official capital of the Netherlands, which is Amsterdam.

In the opening half of the current parliament, it was the grassroots who were least invested in the present government; local authority elections were a much more important priority for councillors, many of which have already paid the price with their seats for the Lib Dem - Tory tie - uIn the opening half of the current parliament, it was the grassroots who were least invested in the present government; local authority elections were a much more important priority for councillors, many of which have already paid the price with their seats for the Lib Dem - Tory tie - uin the present government; local authority elections were a much more important priority for councillors, many of which have already paid the price with their seats for the Lib Dem - Tory tie - up.

Is there any pattern in which party leaders in UK parliaments are typically from safer seats than average MPs?

I am not at all sure that the reduction and equalisation of seats will be in the Tory manifesto, given events in this Parliament, but the priority which members give to the move reflects their frustration and anger with how the Liberal Democrats behaved.

Kabila noted that the outcome of the research was duly followed which eventually saw Samia winning the Jomoro seat to become the CPP's only Member of Parliament in the Fifth Parliament of the Fourth Republic.

It not only deprived him of seats that are rightly his, it undermines any hope that Clegg will be able to carry his party into a second coalition with Cameron in a future hung parliament — a parliament which is now more likely because of the failure of boundary changes.

The ruling MPLA party won just over 61 percent of the votes cast on Wednesday and about 150 of the 220 seats in Parliament, according to election commission officials, which would put a Dos Santos loyalist, Joao Lourenco, in the presidency.

The UK is the only democracy in the world to have reserved seats for clerics in its parliament, and the BHA has been campaigning for many years to have abolished this outdated, undemocratic, unequal and unfair tradition which, if retained, would seriously undermine the validity of any reform of the House of Lords.

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

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

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.

The Conservatives did manage to gain a seat in Scotland, which ended the party's status as an «England - only» party in the prior parliament.

This will be the 2nd time this year that the three - time Presidential candidate will tour the region — a region for which the NPP has set an agenda of capturing at least 3 seats in parliament and 30 % of the popular vote.

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.

Crucially, the people elected in a district are guaranteed a seat in parliament no matter what, even if their party hasn't fared well in the global vote tally, which is why there have always been additional seats in the Bundestag.

The British National Party, Hungarian Jobbik movement and Geert Wilders» Freedom Party, all of which have played on the economic fears of working - class voters, are all within striking distance of seats in the Brussels Parliament.

Of the 231 Labour members of Parliament in England & Wales, 142 of them should not face any re-selection difficulties connected to boundary changes — they may well see changes to their seat, but there is a single notionally Labour seat to which they have the sole right to seek selection.

This was because the SNP gained 47 seats out of 129 in the election, which was some way short of achieving an absolute majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament, but more than any other single party gained.

However, the result was a hung parliament, in which the number of Conservative seats fell from 330 to 317, prompting her to broker a confidence and supply deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to support her minority government.

It was also the last United Kingdom national election in which a party other than Labour or the Conservatives won the most seats until the 2014 European Parliament elections.

The money would have been allocated to parties which now have seats in Parliament, according to their shares of the vote in May 2010.

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.

The polls all point to a hung Parliament and one in which Labour have just enough seats (even if they come third in the popular vote) to do a deal with the Lib Dems.

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.

Farage does have roots in the constituency in which he is campaigning and UKIP won seven of the eight local council seats in May 2013, as well as topping the poll in the European Parliament elections in 2014.

The latest poll points to a Labour lead in the battle for the Scottish Parliament by 7 % over the SNP in the regional votes which are normally the best predictor of the seats each party is likely to win.

The Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak, alleged in Parliament in December 2017 that the Trade Ministry charged expatriates between $ 25,000 and $ 100,000, to book a seat at the recent Ghana Expatriate Business Awards (GEBA) which had President Akufo - Addo in attendance.

This is a small improvement on our current system of first past the post, since it allows voters to rank candidates and reduces the need to vote tactically, but it does not address the crucial unfairness at the heart of our democracy which is that a party's share of seats in parliament does reflect the number of votes it receives across the country - a situation which leads to millions of wasted votes and a shameful system of «safe seats» where a donkey could be elected so long as they were wearing the right coloured rosette.