Sentences with phrase «seats in parliament from»

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

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.

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.

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.

He emerged from two general elections as leader of the party with the most seats in a minority parliament.

Owusu Amankwah is touted as the key man to increase the party's presidential votes from 37, 853, representing 71.41 per cent in 2012, to at least 40,000 in the next elections according to the party's estimation, and maintain the party's seat in Parliament.

In the Scottish Parliament election, 2016, SNP saw its constituency vote increase slightly (from 45.4 % to 46.5 %) and its regional vote decrease slightly (from 44.0 % to 41.7 %), leading to a decrease from 69 to 63 seats (out of 129) in the additional member systeIn the Scottish Parliament election, 2016, SNP saw its constituency vote increase slightly (from 45.4 % to 46.5 %) and its regional vote decrease slightly (from 44.0 % to 41.7 %), leading to a decrease from 69 to 63 seats (out of 129) in the additional member systein the additional member system.

Maybe in that case the candidate who comes second would have the choice of deducting their final tally from the winning candidates votes in parliament or distributing their final tally to strengthen other representatives, e.g. of their own party from other 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.

The recent violence mainly results from local tensions between the 19,000 candidates for the 500 seats in parliament and the election campaigns of the two main presidential candidates, Etienne Tshisekedi and Joseph Kabila.

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

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

Our own analysis, based on Vote Watch Europe's projections, has found that overall, these parties could win up to 31 % of the vote - up from 25 % in 2009 - and 218 out of 751 seats in the new parliament.

And yet he's the one has the most to gain from the electoral system he called a «miserable little compromise,» in most seats and whenever AV delivers another hung 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).

We have decided on balance that we should provide a single list for these elections, including those parties that won seats in 2009, and remind people that the system for electing members of the European Parliament is different from that for electing MPs to the House of Commons.

In this parliament - with the number of MPs set to fall from 650 to 600 if the boundary review is approved - the spare seat will help the whips find a slot for one of Sir John's colleagues whose own seat might have disappeared or been changed beyond recognition.

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.

The Minority has staged a walkout from Parliament over the «cash for seat» Committee report following a probe into claims that the Trade Ministry extorted $ 100,000 from expatriates to allow them to sit close to the President during the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards in December 2017.

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 DUP holds eight seats in the Westminster Parliament and Sinn Féin holds five, though its members abstain from sitting.

That could shift two seats in the Israeli parliament from the right - wing bloc to the center - left bloc, potentially tipping the balance between the parties.

Accra News» Richard Appiah Sarpong reported that in response, however, the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye, read a communiqué from the seat of government that informed the House of the president's trip.

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.

The NDC lost the Walewale parliamentary seat in the 2012 general election to the New Patriotic Party (NPP); the NDC again lost the Kumbungu seat to the Convention People's Party (CPP) in a bye - election held in 2013 after Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, the then sitting NDC Member of Parliament (MP), resigned from Parliament to take up an international position.

Robinson said this showed that it was the collapse in support for other parties that gave the BNP a seat in the European parliament - their share of the vote went up from 1.6 %, to 8 % - not the fact that more people were voting for them.

Parliament will today debate the report of the bipartisan «cash for seat» Committee, barely a month after the Committee was formed to investigate claims that the Trade Ministry extorted $ 100,000 from expatriates to allow them to sit close to the President during the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards in December 2017.

The name of the group derives from the fact that 301 is the number of Tory MPs that will need to be returned to Parliament in 2015 to create a majority government (the boundary review means there will be 600 seats at the next election).

Ed, meanwhile, continued working for Brown at the Treasury - aside from a brief sabbatical at Harvard in 2003 - until he won a seat for himself in parliament in 2005.

This caused renewed internal strife, leading to the resignation of former Synaspismós president Alekos Alavanos from his seat in the Greek parliament, a resignation that was, however, withdrawn a few days later.

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.

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.

In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Labour lost a third of its seats, dropping from 37 to 24.

In 1976, Jenkins resigned from Parliament to become President of the European Commission, and his Labour colleague David Marquand also resigned his seat to help Jenkins in BrusselIn 1976, Jenkins resigned from Parliament to become President of the European Commission, and his Labour colleague David Marquand also resigned his seat to help Jenkins in Brusselin Brussels.

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.

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.

He showed that of 51 selections in Tory - held seats during this Parliament, 31.4 % of selected candidates were women and 7.8 % from a minority background.

A grammar school boy from Essex who went on to work in law, he spent his first five years in parliament representing Hornchurch, but had to apply for a series of other seats as it was being abolished, eventually winning Old Bexley and Sidcup.

The Conservatives more than doubled their number of seats in the Scottish Parliament elections, up to 31 from the 15 secured in 2011.

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.

Boundary changes and the reduction in the number of MPs from 650 to 600 will see the Conservatives gain at least 20 more seats in parliament.

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.

Mhairi Black, who was 20 when she won the seat of Paisley and Renfrewshire South for the SNP from Labour's Douglas Alexander in 2015, says she finds parliament «depressing» and «defunct».

Presidential staffer, Clement Apaak clinched the Builsa South constituency seat in the Upper East Region from Alhassan Azong who entered parliament in 2008 and again in 2012 on the ticket of the PNC.

In 1972 the sitting Labour MP Dick Taverne resigned from the Labour party and from Parliament to re-contest his seat as an Independent Democratic Labour candidate - the last instance of an MP resigning to contest their seat under a different party label and winning until Douglas Carswell repeated the feat in 201In 1972 the sitting Labour MP Dick Taverne resigned from the Labour party and from Parliament to re-contest his seat as an Independent Democratic Labour candidate - the last instance of an MP resigning to contest their seat under a different party label and winning until Douglas Carswell repeated the feat in 201in 2014.

Voters indicated that they had grown weary of the separatist Bloc Quebecois, which had a shocking drop to four seats from 47 in the last Parliament.

«A greater number of Europhobic members... in the European Parliament would certainly have negative consequences on the idea to turn scientific research and innovation into a great European policy, as we have done for agriculture,» says Jean - Pierre Audy, an EPP parliamentarian from France who lost his seat in this election.

Greening, who was re-appointed as education secretary earlier this month after narrowly keeping her seat in the general election, faced pressure from MPs on both sides over school funding details as she made her first speech in this parliament.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Labor is launching court action with the objective of having a government minister disqualified from holding his seat in Parliament.