Sentences with phrase «seats than the opposition»

That's about the point that Labour can win more seats than the opposition, due to the British electoral system's inbuilt bias.

Not exact matches

While Tony Clement was more than happy on Monday to talk to reporters outside the House about the G8 Legacy Fund, he continues to remain seated when opposition members rise

Even when the NLM — Mate — Meho people formed an alliance with the late S.D. Dombo's Northern People's Party (NPP) in the late 1950's, they refused to make Mr. S.D Donbo the leader of the opposition although Mr. Dombo's NPP party had more seats in the Legislature than the NLM / Mate - Meho Party.

The context is made all the worse for the coalition by the fact that parties in opposition nationally tend to win more seats in local elections than governing parties.

-LRB-...) a united center - left opposition might get 8 % fewer parliamentary seats than Fidesz if both got an equal share of the votes.

Ruth Davidson's Conservatives are now the official Holyrood opposition, with seven seats more than Labour.

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.

Relief that it hasn't lost more council seats when this is the first time for more than 30 years an opposition didn't gain is the low expectation of a stalled party.

Labour could end up with fewer than 150 seats in the House of Commons after the next election but will not be replaced as the UK's main opposition, the Fabian Society has warned.

Some loyalists are trying to offset it with the fact that Labour staved off defeat in Stoke — as if retaining a rock - solid seat against a carpetbagging, tweed - wearing fantasist counts as some kind of triumph rather than the minimum ask of an opposition party in midterm.

If the Conservatives get 10 more seats than Labour, but Labour has the bigger bloc overall, would the Tories retreat quietly into opposition allowing Miliband to head a minority government, tacitly sustained by the SNP?

The rebels believe that the move could help protect from threats of de-selection, as Co-Op-Labour MPs could apply to become the official opposition if they command more seats than Mr Corbyn.

Rather than confronting opposition to wind farms, DECC ministers like Ed Miliband decided it would be better to engineer values, to make being against wind farms as «socially unacceptable» as not wearing a seat belt.