Sentences with phrase «single seat constituencies»

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Half of the 450 seats will be decided by competitions in regional constituencies, technically known as single - mandate districts, using a «first - past - the - post» system like that used in U.S. elections.

Your question also touches upon another problem: The fact that first - past - the - post and other systems based on gaining a plurality of the vote in single - seat constituencies distort the vote and can be used to durably keep minority parties out of the parliament and government politics.

Members of Parliament are elected from population - based single - seat constituencies using first - past - the - post voting.

Israel has a closed list proportional representation electoral system with a single nationwide constituency so, apart from the 3.25 % threshold, changes in seats are pretty much perfectly sensitive to the changes in the share of the vote.

«preserves the single - member constituency link» Biggest mistake Labour ever made, making that the standard in 1947 — you seem to not be aware that multi member seats based on historic boundaries like Boroughs and Counties were the norm throughout most of the history of Parliament, it was taking that into account that led to the creation of BPr / STV.

The revival of old plans to redraw constituency boundaries will boost the number of notional Tory seats without a single vote being cast.

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.

This way, people still have a single MP who represents their constituency, and all MPs can say they were supported by more than half the voters in their seat.

Unlike Lord Ashcroft's marginal polls (which are actually a series of individual constituency polls in seats that are marginals, which we can aggregate together to get an extremely large sample across a group of marginal seats) ComRes's poll is a more traditional marginals poll — a single poll of a group of marginal seats, meaning it gives us a measure of those seats as a whole, but has far too few people to tell us anything about the individual seats within that group.

With further seat reductions possible if further member states join the European Union, there may be a need to consider whether the rules shaping the redrawing of European election boundaries needs to be revised (to possibly allow for larger constituencies — even a national constituency) or to also consider whether there may be scope for using an alternative set of electoral rules (e.g. a List system) in the specific case of European elections, especially if the option of having one single constituency for the entire State was to be pursued at a later date.

These numbers assume a single UK constituency and thus do not represent the seats which parties might win under any likely actual proportional representation voting system.

Most of their gains were in the wards of the Fife North East constituency where they had previously only had a single seat.

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.

In the 2011 district council elections his constituency lost a single Conservative seat to the Liberal Democrats resulting in a majority of 30 seats.

However, the primaries, as well as earlier, were not binding for the leadership of United Russia: a number of winners of the primaries were withdrawn by the leadership without any explanation of reasons, and in 18 single - seat constituencies the party did not nominate any candidates.