Sentences with phrase «single members of these parties»

While many were expecting that some leading members of the NDC will go after their founder like they did in the past in defence of the late President Mills, no single member of the party has come out to take him (Rawlings) on.

Senior Democrats on both sides of the Capitol greeted Trump's initial budget plan with furious opposition, and one Senate Democratic aide said «it's pretty hard to imagine» a single member of their party backing the proposal.

They can easily meet varying single members of these parties.

Not exact matches

But this same system also established single - member districts to elect the Congress and an Electoral College to choose the President, both of which fostered the familiar «two party system.»

Those who described themselves as members of the Tea Party came from virtually every single group of America... from ordinary (and extraordinary housewives) to Ph.D. s.

The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots.

«We are the only party fighting to keep Britain open, tolerant and united, and the only party that has said, loudly and proudly, that we want Britain to remain a member of the Single Market and that we want the people to be given the final say over the Brexit deal.

It is harder to research a couple dozen candidates in a given election (which would be typical in a nine seat election since there would be viable third party candidates as well as a candidate for each seat from each of two major parties) than it is to research two of them as you would in a single member district with the two party system that single member districts strongly favor.

A member of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) economic team, Mahama Bawa also did not find growth figures in Seth Terkper's review favourable, singling out the agriculture, unemployment and high interest rate figures as major setbacks.

One of those parties (Party for Freedom, currently polling as the largest party at 21 % of the vote), only has a single member (Geert WildParty for Freedom, currently polling as the largest party at 21 % of the vote), only has a single member (Geert Wildparty at 21 % of the vote), only has a single member (Geert Wilders).

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

If you get right down to the marrow of it, gerrymandering is essentially a sophisticated means of exploiting rounding errors in a crude historical method of determining a political party's support via single member districts.

«At the rate we're going every single member of the Liberal Democrat party will end up in the House of Lords,» he says.

This would indicate that the vast majority of Labour's half a million members are aligned with the unions and the Parliamentary Labour Party in support of remaining in the EU — or at least in the single market and customs union.

Of course a candidate needs to spend some cash but let's suppose that billboard and TV ads were banned, the local party sent out emails to all members on behalf of every short listed candidate, and the taxpayer (or central party) covered the cost of a single mailshot to all voterOf course a candidate needs to spend some cash but let's suppose that billboard and TV ads were banned, the local party sent out emails to all members on behalf of every short listed candidate, and the taxpayer (or central party) covered the cost of a single mailshot to all voterof every short listed candidate, and the taxpayer (or central party) covered the cost of a single mailshot to all voterof a single mailshot to all voters.

Never before had a party come anywhere close to raising that amount of money, because never before had any party's leaders so effectively focused the energy of their members on this single task: fundraising.

However, in a speech earlier today, he reassured members of his party that the plans would not see benefits for single parents cut.

(a) Hold a referendum on voting reform, giving the electorate a choice of the following four alternative voting systems: Additional Member System; Closed Party List; Open Party List; Single Transferable Vote.

Regardless of the actual voting patterns in this case, any voting system in which individual members are all elected from a single geographical region, as is used in the Australian House of Representatives can easily have the party with most seats (and perhaps an overall majority / plurality) not be the party which received most votes.

«60 % of Tory members think pact with UKIP will help Tories win next election Main «Yesterday, the Conservative Party suffered its worst single electoral setback since Black Wednesday».

We have decided on balance that we should provide a single list for these elections, including those parties that won seats in 2009, and remind people that the system for electing members of the European Parliament is different from that for electing MPs to the House of Commons.

Lavery, a former miner who replaced the deputy leader, Tom Watson, as party chair after the election, said he did not have «the divine right to be an MP for Wansbeck... I've got to work very hard on behalf of every single member of that constituency.

In 1964, for example, the Senate GOP's fundraising operations were pretty much dependent upon how much money the state party funded by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller decided to chip in; since then, the centralized Senate Republican Campaign Committee, a network of independent expenditure committees, and scores of single - member Albany fundraisers each year guarantee that no incumbent in a close race will lack for funds.

He said quite often than not, the number of registered party members the CPP have, does not show up to vote during national elections, thereby making the party record single digits at some polling stations.

Indeed, once you exclude those Lib Dem MPs who are or were at some point members of the «payroll vote», either as ministers or parliamentary private secretaries — and thus expected to remain loyal to the government, there is now not a single Lib Dem MP who has been on the backbenches throughout the parliament and who has remained loyal to the party whip.

The Unite boss - a key ally of the Labour leader and head of the biggest single donor to the party - suggested local Labour members should oust critical MPs through trigger ballots.

«An unfortunate precedent is occurring in our great party where a single individual wishes to hijack the party machinery for personal interest to the detriment of all members.»

Few raised their ire more than Ed Balls, but as far as they were concerned, every single member of the Labour party was a war - mongering, ultra-authoritarian, power - crazed loons.

Given that this was the decade that saw two whole parliamentary sessions without a single vote being cast against their whip by a member of the governing party, this observation was at least more accurate then than modern - day attempts to paint politicians as a bunch of spineless sheep.

STV would have the advantage of retaining a stronger independence of locally elected MPs (due to preferential voting and the fact that party member can in theory compete against each other), but be a more dramatic move away from single - member representation, incur geographical difficulties mentioned earlier, and have a far less transparent counting process which is far less straightforward to understand.

Not only did Conservative Party members form the single largest group at Conference, but over the last six years the number of Party Members attending Conferences have increased significantly — reaching a peak at Birmingham lasmembers form the single largest group at Conference, but over the last six years the number of Party Members attending Conferences have increased significantly — reaching a peak at Birmingham lasMembers attending Conferences have increased significantly — reaching a peak at Birmingham last year.

Third, if minor parties are worried about how winner - take - all, single - member - district elections encourage voters to vote for lesser evils rather than their first choice, we want to work with them for a real solution to that problem: a system of proportional representation,» LaVenia said.

But this in itself is no guarantee of inevitable change in the representational share between the major and minor parties, especially in single - member district electoral systems.

«We realize it must be embarrassing for the Donovan campaign that Dan Donovan, by his own admission, has never prosecuted a single corrupt official, while Eric Schneiderman chaired the committee that expelled Hiram Monserrate, a member of his own party, from the senate.

The Labour leader faces a battle within his own party on the issue - with 87 % of Labour members wanting to remain in the single market according to a recent YouGov poll.

Every single member contributes positively to what we try to accomplish as a party, and the same holds true of our county committee.

He said: «Without consulting a single member of the Lewisham East Labour party, the officers» group of the national executive is meeting at 10.30 am tomorrow to decide the selection process for deciding who replaces Heidi Alexander as our MP, a position someone could hold for decades.

They also cast proxy votes for single - member parties whose member is not in the chamber at the time of the vote, and also cast proxy vote during personal votes for absent members of their parties and for absent members of associated single - member parties.

The most widely used families of PR electoral systems are party list PR, the single transferable vote (STV), and mixed member proportional representation (MMP).

Labour will even do this on Brexit (it was striking and important that John McDonnell said on Peston on Sunday that Labour is not «at the moment» signed up to staying members of the single market in perpetuity - which reinforces my view that the party is on a journey to that destination).

Studies show that a single payer system that covers everyone would lower overall health care costs by $ 45 billion in the first year alone,» said Gloria Mattera, state party co-chair and a board member of the NYC Physicians for a National Health Program.

«I gave a well - attended talk on how money in politics is the single biggest obstacle to legislation dealing with the climate crisis,» Craig Dunkerley, a member of the Santa Clara County Democratic Central Committee, wrote in a recent post on the party's blog.

This would have involved the use of the Alternative Vote for electing members from single - member constituencies, and regional open party lists.

«Regardless of political party, the leaders and nearly every single member in this chamber are willing to make tough decisions, willing to negotiate and compromise so the state of Connecticut gets a budget it can live under,» he said.

«I have a feeling that the second option will be the case because, right now, Sheriff does not have a single PDP governor, senator, house of representative member or any of the party's founding fathers on his side.

Each constituency elects one AM by the first past the post (single - member district plurality, SMDP) system, and the additional Assembly seats are filled from regional closed party lists, under the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account, to produce a degree of proportional representation for each region.

For example, a party with 30 percent support in the district gets 30 percent of the seats, not zero representation as in single - member, winner - take - all district elections.

SNP MSP George Adam said Labour was also «hopelessly split over Brexit», and that the party leadership's stance on the single market was «alienating huge numbers of Labour supporters and members across Scotland and the rest of the UK».

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