Sentences with phrase «seats in a hung parliament»

His approach will be «exactly the same» as this year — that the party with the most votes and seats in a hung parliament should have the first crack at forming a government.

On an equal amount of votes — 34.5 % a piece — the Conservatives would have almost fifty seats more than Labour, Labour would need to have a lead of about four points over the Conservatives just to get the most seats in a hung Parliament.

Instead, Mr Clegg said he would work with whichever party has the most seats in a hung parliament - an increasingly likely prospect after the next election.

The significance of a five - point lead is that it is the point at which, on a conventional projection, Labour would win more seats in a hung parliament than the Tories.

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Arsio: Iranian Jews - those who haven't fled after seeing many of their community hanged as «spies» - have a couple of token seats in the powerless Iranian parliament.

It's called a hung parliament because no party won a majority of seats in the House of Commons.

It suggests the Tories would remain the largest party in a hung parliament, losing just two seats to end up with 301.

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.

If the gap in seats between Labour and the Tories is less than that, we shall wake up post-election to a hung parliament.

That would be good enough to save some 40 to 45 Lib Dem seats and give the party leverage in the event of a second hung parliament.

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.

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.

The Tories won the most seats but were trapped in a hung parliament, thrashing out a chaotic deal with Northern Ireland's right - wing DUP, after Labour won key symbolic seats in south east England, Wales and Scotland.

«The SNP's boast that they will be the powerbrokers in a hung Parliament with 20 seats now looks utterly ridiculous.

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.

The Conservatives win the most seats, but fail to secure an overall Commons majority in an election result that produces Britain's first hung parliament for 36 years.

On a uniform swing, this result would leave the Tories 43 seats short of a majority in a hung parliament.

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Personally I am astonished that nearly one fifth of people still expect Labour to get a majority, given that it will require the party to lose only 24 seats on a swing of a mere 1.6 % in order to fall into Hung Parliament territory.

The general election has ended in a hung Parliament, where no party has the 326 seats needed to get an overall majority in the House of Commons.

Clegg made it clear in advance of the previous election that in the event of a hung Parliament he would give preference to whoever won the most votes and seats.

In a close election that could still be the difference between a majority and a hung Parliament, so don't underestimate its potential importance, but it would be a remarkable election if the swing in marginal seats really was 4 or 5 points bigger or smaller than the national picturIn a close election that could still be the difference between a majority and a hung Parliament, so don't underestimate its potential importance, but it would be a remarkable election if the swing in marginal seats really was 4 or 5 points bigger or smaller than the national picturin marginal seats really was 4 or 5 points bigger or smaller than the national picture.

But, in his first comments on what he might do if Thursday's election is inconclusive, Mr Cameron challenged the Whitehall convention that says that, if Britain votes for a hung parliament, the existing Prime Minister gets the first chance to form a government, even if his party has fewer seats or votes than its main rival.

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.

The election resulted in a hung parliament, no single party having an overall majority in the House of Commons, the Conservatives having the most seats but 20 short of a majority.

Tonight's remarkable exit poll figures predicts the Conservatives will be the largest party in a hung parliament, with 316 seats to Labour's 239.

At the election, Labour lost 91 seats in the House of Commons, but the Conservatives failed to achieve an overall majority, resulting in the first hung parliament since 1974.

The election resulted in a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party winning the largest number of seats.

In February 1974 — the last instance of a hung parliament following a general election — Labour won 301 seats and the Conservatives 297, but the then Tory prime minister, Edward Heath, remained at Downing Street until the Monday after the election as he tried to form an alliance with the Liberals.

The Conservatives won the most seats in last week's general election, but not enough to secure an overall Commons majority, resulting in a hung Parliament.

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.

If repeated in at the general election there would be a hung parliament, with the Tories around 14 seats short of a majority.

The more seats the Lib Dems hold on May 7, the greater the chance they'll have to play a role in forming a government in the event of a hung parliament.

While no party achieved an overall majority, the Tories have won the most seats in Britain's first hung parliament since 1974.