Sentences with phrase «second seat in parliament»

Ukip leader Nigel Farage and the party's first elected MP Douglas Carswell will hit the campaign trail again today to push to secure a second seat in Parliament.

Not exact matches

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.

Maybe in that case the candidate who comes second would have the choice of deducting their final tally from the winning candidates votes in parliament or distributing their final tally to strengthen other representatives, e.g. of their own party from other seats.

In fact the Conservatives were second in Edinburgh South West last time round and a large part of the seat is currently held in the Scottish Parliament by the ConservativeIn fact the Conservatives were second in Edinburgh South West last time round and a large part of the seat is currently held in the Scottish Parliament by the Conservativein Edinburgh South West last time round and a large part of the seat is currently held in the Scottish Parliament by the Conservativein the Scottish Parliament by the Conservatives.

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.

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.

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

Labour is currently the Official Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, having won the second - largest number of seats in the 2017 general election.

He fought the Argyll and Bute constituency in the 2005 general election, finishing second, [1] and fought the equivalent seat in the 2007 Scottish parliament election, finishing third.

With the number required for an outright majority falling to 301 in the next parliament, the revised figures based on the 2010 general election result would see the Tories slipping to 291 seats - prompting the need for a second coalition government.

In a second visit to Edinburgh in May 2014 Farage correctly predicted that UKIP would win a Scottish seat in the European Parliament electionIn a second visit to Edinburgh in May 2014 Farage correctly predicted that UKIP would win a Scottish seat in the European Parliament electionin May 2014 Farage correctly predicted that UKIP would win a Scottish seat in the European Parliament electionin the European Parliament elections.

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.

Even then, however, the SNP seem likely to retain most of their Scottish seats which would be claimed as endorsement for a second independence referendum and opposition to a hard Brexit in the next parliament.