Sentences with phrase «seats in the parliament before»

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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.

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.

The constituency was once widely known for returning Sir Edward Heath to Parliament, he represented the seat and its predecessors for 50 years before his retirement in 2001.

[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.

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.

For now a brief note on seat projections — it's rather silly to speculate about how votes would translate into seats in Parliament based on polls four years before an election but everyone does it «just for fun», as Peter Snow used to say.

Addressing the North Wales Policy Forum in Llandudno the weekend before last, he congratulated the party on a string of excellent local election results and even raised the prospect of the party winning a second seat in Wales at June's European Parliament elections.

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.