Sentences with phrase «single constituency»

Lord Ashcrofts poll are also, it's worth noting, of a substantially larger size — they are an aggregate of full size single constituency polls, rather than a poll of a group of marginals.

The AFL - CIO was stronger then than it is now, and the teachers could put more feet on the ground in legislative political campaigns than any other single constituency.

Urged on by a vast and hyper - competitive money management industry, American companies now increasingly serve a single constituency — shareholders - while stiffing employees and cutting investments in future products.

If you imagine the American presidential election as a single constituency (for the sake of ease), both parties put up a wide range of candidates who, through the primary process, voters finely tune to the two best options.

By elections will acquire considerable significance, as much as they did in the late 1980s and 1980s when leaders» futures were at stake as voters delivered their verdict in a single constituency.

Or single constituencies, FPTP?

This is in stark contrast to a system like the Netherlands where voting is entirely proportional and is done in one single constituency.

Peers wanted to only count activity directly relating to campaigning in a single constituency, but the Commons voted down their amendment by 314 votes to 274, a majority of 40.

Therefore a new selection will have to take place in every single constituency.

The Conservative Party, still recovering from their wipeout in the 1997 UK general election across Scotland, failed to win a single constituency seat but did manage to win 18 seats through the Additional Member System.

In DPR Voting one MP is elected in each single constituency.

In Northern Ireland local and Assembly elections (and Scottish local elections), voting is done on a single transferable vote basis which sees more than one candidate elected from a single constituency.

Two years after inauguration, members of the Assembly have yet to execute a single constituency project because they have been starved of funds.

Every single constituency must be subjected to a fully open primary election.

This is a somewhat academic exercise since it treats the whole country as a single constituency, when in practice the transfers would take place seat by seat — but it does underline how closely matched the two largest parties are in public opinion.

The Electoral Commission has confirmed to openDemocracy that in the European referendum, where the whole country was treated as a single constituency, donations made to a Northern Irish party such as the DUP could be used to fund campaigning in Scotland, England and Wales, and yet Northern Irish secrecy laws still apply to this cash.