Sentences with phrase «single seat majority»

A single seat majority is as tight as things can get in a parliamentary democracy.

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In these systems, seats are not allocated on a proportional basis; rather, they are given to candidates who win a majority in single - member districts.

The new system is less proportional than the old system (which allocated half the seats through party lists and had smaller single member districts); thus Orban was able to retain his two - thirds majority despite winning 800,000 fewer votes than in 2010.

Both would lose their seats in the 2010 wave year following a tumultuous single - term stint in the majority for the Democrats.

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.

However, since the Greens are contesting 468 seats and UKIP 378, it's likely no single party would have a majority.

The upset delivered a significant victory for Democrats and reduced Republicans» unstable Senate majority to a single seat, which could snarl Republicans» legislative agenda in Washington and open, for the first time, a realistic but still difficult path for Democrats to capture the Senate next year.

He headlined a fund - raiser for the House Majority PAC and then headlined a single day of rallies to help Reps. Kathy Hochul, Louise Slaughter and Tim Bishop as well as former Rep. Dan Maffei, who's trying to win back his old seat.

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.

This provides the VVD / PvdA cabinet a single - seat majority in the Senate (see also: Purple (government)-RRB-.

In Kingston upon Thames, though, their majority now hangs on a single seat — and on the hope that UKIP takes Conservative votes in the right places.

The election resulted in a hung parliament, no single party having an overall majority in the House of Commons, the Conservatives having the most seats but 20 short of a majority.

Again, a single seat like Griffith's doesn't make a huge difference in the grand scheme of the battle for the House where Democrats hold a 40 - seat majority.

Conservative councillors won an overall majority in the council and formed a majority administration, Labour councillors form the second - largest grouping and UKIP's win of a seat was its single gain nationally in the 2017 local election cycle which saw all 145 of its other candidates standing in the election lose their seats.

The Christian Democratic Union and its longtime ally, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, won a sweeping victory, taking 277 seats in the Bundestag to win the first — and to date, only — absolute majority for a single German parliamentary group in a free election.

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

Currently — Republicans still control 31 of the 63 seats in the state Senate, and a single Democrat caucuses with the GOP, giving them a one - seat majority.

Most likely at the General Election - Labour and the Liberal Democrats will lose every single seat in the South of England outside London and Labour will pickup seats from the Liberal Democrats in the rest of England, and will probably mostly hold their position in Scotland and Wales leaving a Conservative parliamentary party in the House of Commons with a similar number of seats to those Labour had in 1987 and Labour with a similar majority to now, and Nick Clegg probably just hanging on as leader because there is no obvious replacement.

Labour has an absolute majority in the Commons, even if every single non-Labour MP voted against it is unlikely that even the most rebellious Labour Backbencher would bite against their party especially those in marginal seats as Turkeys do not vote for Xmas.