Sentences with phrase «seats than the other parties»

Second, Arthur Meighen's Tories «won» the 1925 general election in the sense that they took more seats than any other party, 116 compared to 99 for King's Liberals.

In parliament, a majority is achieved when the largest party has more seats than all other parties put together, which requires 326 seats.

It won an absolute majority of seats in England in 2010, gaining 36 more seats than the other parties combined - an outcome I tested here, though admittedly in the context of Labour gaining a majority because of its strength elsewhere.

If the election was held today, the Conservatives would win significantly more votes, and very probably more seats than Labour, though it is much less certain whether they would win enough to secure more seats than all other parties combined.

The party has two more seats than the other parties combined.

And Miss Sturgeon repeated her party's promise to overthrow a Tory minority administration even if the Conservatives have more seats than any other party after the Election.

Not exact matches

ChangeAlberta.ca, which will go live within a week, is tracking the electoral contests in seats winnable for parties other than the Tories and their WR offspring.

Scotland's Big Voice aims to persuade people they need to vote for a party other than the one they support in seats where doing so could blunt the nationalist threat.

In Scotland the SNP won this election, we have more seats than all the other parties combined.»

The same's true with three extra seats on the govering NEC for a membership that's soared to 569,000 (more than every other British political party combined) though an additional union place going to an Usdaw shopworkers on the Right of the party translates into a net gain of two in Corbyn's slim majority.

Yet strangely, other than Unite and ASLEF, there is no calling for Murphy to resign despite losing 40 seats in Scotland and seeing a massive erosion of support following his election as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

Either party needed to win only eight seats more than the other to govern alone.

Table P0 shows that the Conservatives will gain 54 seats and lose 9 seats to end up 375 seats, exactly 100 seats more than all other parties combined.

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.

Voting in the Irish Republic is so tribal that, at least other than in this completely exceptional year, most TDs who lose their seats do so to members of the same party as themselves.

In 1984, the Progressive Conservatives came to power by winning more seats than any party had / has in any other election before or since.

Most constituencies are occupied by safe seat politicians who see little need to engage with the voters other than at election time or to get a front seat position in their parties.

The British Election Study found that Labour gained more Leave voters from other parties than it lost to the Tories, including 18 percent of 2015 Ukip voters - a proportion that must have been lower in safe Tory seats, but correspondingly higher in the safe Labour heartlands where scooping up Ukip voters was the Tories» entire strategy for success.

Most psephologists predict that they will lose between 5 and 7 of their seats (out of 57 currently) but this ignores their strong record of localist campaigning and incumbency even after previous boundary changes which have allowed them invariably to buck the electoral trend better than the other two main parties.

Conversely, the under - represented parties (UKIP, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, and other smaller parties) collectively hold about 156 seats fewer than they would in the case of perfect proportionality.

Labour was — and still is — considerably larger than the nine (or eight, depending on how you classify Sinn Fein MPs, who don't take up their seats in the chamber) other parties in the House of Commons which are not in government.

U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, a fixture of Republican politics in Alabama for a generation, sent a clear message to his home state when he said on national television that the party could «do better» than elect Roy Moore to the state's other Senate seat in two days.

UKIP won more seats at the European elections than any other UK party and the BBC's Graham Satchell spent day one with UKIP's newly elected MEP Janice Atkinson.

On 8 May, three party leaders announced their resignations within an hour of each other: [199] Ed Miliband (Labour) and Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat) resigned due to their parties» worse - than - expected results in the election, although both had been re-elected to their seats in Parliament.

This was because the SNP gained 47 seats out of 129 in the election, which was some way short of achieving an absolute majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament, but more than any other single party gained.

Among other results, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggested that the growth in SNP support would translate into more than 50 seats; [124] that there was little overall pattern in Labour and Conservative Party marginals; [125] that the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas would retain her seat; [126] that both Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage would face very close races to be elected in their own constituencies; [127] and that Liberal Democrat MPs would enjoy an incumbency effect that would lose fewer MPs than their national polling implied.

[9][10] It was also the first time a party other than Labour or Conservative had won the largest number of seats in a national election since the December 1910 general election.

Republicans also picked up six congressional seats — more than in any other state — although they failed to win even a single statewide contest (many blame gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino for dragging down the party's best hope, state comptroller contender Harry Wilson).

Like other observers, he, Thornton and Costello — who appeared in advertisements together decked out in hardhats and reflective vests next to a backhoe under the heading «Getting the job done» and have served for more than a decade together — foresaw that the second Town Board seat would be a contest between Barbaria and her, each having two out of the four significant party lines.

It was also the last United Kingdom national election in which a party other than Labour or the Conservatives won the most seats until the 2014 European Parliament elections.

Some of the above arguments still apply, but I'm not convinced that an independent MP can have his biggest impact by speaking or voting in tightly controlled party votes in the House of Commons, even those directly affecting his constituency (one of the many reasons it's such a shame he won the seat — the people of his constituency needed meaningful representation more than many others).

Folks other than a handful of Democratic Party insiders ought to have a say in who holds elected office, especially when there's an open seat involved.

But the seat has repeatedly flipped from one party to the other over more than a decade.

UKIP won more seats at the European elections than any other UK party and has already caused controversy during the first session of the new parliament by staging a protest.

The last instance of either of the two predecessor seats being held by an MP from a party other than the Labour Party was the period for both before the 1935 general elecparty other than the Labour Party was the period for both before the 1935 general elecParty was the period for both before the 1935 general election.

«The Liberal Democrats are likely to lose out more than the other main parties because their seats are yellow islands in a sea of red or blue; changing the boundaries is more likely to bring in hostile territories, their majorities tend to be smaller than Labour or Conservative MPs and their Lib Dems trade a lot on incumbency and constituency service.

Other than these parties, the Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) were able to obtain more than 5 % of seats in three elections (1999, 2003, and 2007), and the Scottish Green Party (SGP) was able to do so in one election (2003).

As it happens the Conservative - Labour swing in marginals was much the same as it was in safe seats in 2005, but the changes in the parties votes was different — both the Conservatives and Labour did better in their key marginals than elsewhere, it's just their mutual improved performances cancelled each other out!

The PNM was the only party to contest all 41 seats, and only two other parties contested more than half the seats; the United National Congress ran in 28 and the ILP in 26.

This is not to suggest that a choice of, for example, English law and arbitral seats other than China or Hong Kong are not appropriate, or can not or will not be agreed, but rather that it may be more difficult to achieve such outcomes where the balance of power lies with the Chinese party (state or non-state).

If there is a joint session then kick up a fuss about essential matters like the seating arrangement, the fact there may be more than one lawyer on the other side, or that the opposing party's spouse wishes to sit in.

The uncomfortable truth is that some parties would be happier to seat their arbitrations in Johannesburg or Cape Town, rather than in any other African seat.