Sentences with phrase «seats in the parliament»

Since Suu Kyi's 2010 release, her political party has clinched dozens of seats 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.

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.

«It is realistic that Mr. Stronach's new party will gain seats in Parliament, though he will need a lot of good luck,» he says.

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 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.

In 1998, for the first time, the BJP gained more seats in parliament than Nehru's venerable India National Congress party.

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.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of 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.

«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.

His party, the PRN, received 14 out of 57 seats in parliament.

Note: for most voting systems currently in use there are already mathematical issues when assigning seats in Parliament.

The party or coalition of parties with the majority of seats in the parliament forms the executive.

Generally, this result would give the majority of seats in the parliament to the united opposition forces and let the opposition form the coalition in the parliament.

The parties win seats in the parliament based on the share of votes they won, and the parties select who sits in those seats.

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.

«Ukip is getting itself now into a position in some of the marginals where it is in a serious position to win a seat in parliament and not just to split the vote.»

The year after she resigned, following 26 years as a Member of Parliament, just 24 women became MPs and took their seats in Parliament.

Predictions did not have them sure to surpass the 5 % threshold barrier to get seats in the parliament.

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.

It seems somewhat likely that we'll end up with the Tories having more seats than Labour, but the parties of the left having a majority of seats in parliament.

Example: There are 100 seats in parliament.

The Australian Green Party also made an historic breakthrough, picking up their first seat in parliament.

With the possibility that the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (HDP) will not pass the 10 percent threshold and be left out of parliament as it has decided to participate as a party rather than a list of independents as in the past, the AKP is likely to increase its proportion of seats in parliament and succeed.

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.

In this case, there will be extra seats in parliament.

In the general election of 26 June 2016, the PP increased its number of seats in parliament, while still falling short of an overall majority.

A shock exit poll in the 2017 general election suggests leader Jeremy Corbyn may have defied expectations and reduced the Conservative party's number of seats in parliament.

More tangibly, a strong local government presence can help win seats in parliament.

It is only available to those parties taking their seats in parliament, and, critically, is only available to opposition parties.

Well maybe it's a problem that no one living in a strong Tory area will be able to secure a seat in parliament, because where I live it wouldn't really matter whether they had an open primary or they drew the names out of a hat - it ain't gonna be Labour winning this seat any time soon.

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.

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

Sunday marks the second anniversary of the last Hollyrood election, when Alex Salmond's Scottish National party (SNP) won 47 of the 129 seats in the parliament.

So why has this party — without a single seat in parliament — managed to change government and opposition policy on what many voters think to be the most important issue of the day?

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has disclosed that figures available to it suggest it has won the majority of seats in Parliament.

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.

This Saturday sees an open primary in Macclesfield to select a Conservative candidate to succeed Sir Nicholas Winterton, who has represented the seat in Parliament since 1971.

After winning 56 seats in parliament, the SNP became the second biggest opposition party for the first time after the 2015 general election.

The NDC also lost most of its seats in Parliament pushing them to be minority side in the law making house.

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.

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.

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.

However, in 1997, all 23 candidates won seats in Parliament and, after Labour assumed power, the Party gained its first members of the Cabinet since AV Alexander: Alun Michael 1998 — 99 (later First Minister for Wales) and Ed Balls 2007 — 2010.

In this instance, it would appear that the Secretary of State for Health was actually rather astute in giving up his day job: Much better to have a seat 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.