Sentences with phrase «smaller number of constituency»

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EQUAL CONSTITUENCIES, securing the same amount of representation for the same number of electors, instead of allowing small constituencies to swamp the votes oCONSTITUENCIES, securing the same amount of representation for the same number of electors, instead of allowing small constituencies to swamp the votes oconstituencies to swamp the votes of larger ones.

Despite this, further small swings to the party in a number of Dail constituencies could see further seat gains being made by Labour, as the map above suggests.

In all, a small swing to Labour (of 2 %, or less) from other parties could see further seat gains fall into the party's hands in a number constituencies (highlighted by the yellow shaded constituencies on the map), with a particular cluster of these target constituencies being located in the Munster region.

That said, I could see this happenning in multi-seat constituencies in small populations; the need to present a minimum number of candidates even for marginal parties makes for some of the smaller ones including «fillers» (people who agree to be in the list so the list can be approved but who are not voters / supporters of the party)

Results, they say, increasingly hinge on the preferences of a small number of voters in a handful of swing constituencies which is undemocratic.

Like all winner - take - all voting methods, IRV tends to exaggerate the number of seats won by the largest parties; small parties without majority support in any given constituency are unlikely to earn seats in a legislature, although their supporters will be more likely to be part of the final choice between the two strongest candidates.

The update adds candidate spending data from the Electoral Commission (expressed as a percentage of the long and short spending limits for each constituency) and corrects a small number of errors in variable names.

Given that the Constitution explicitly states that the population per TD ratio nationally (this does not apply to individual constituencies) must not exceed 30,000 (or indeed fall below 20,000), this means that the smallest number of Dail deputies, which can be envisaged in the upcoming Constituency Commission review of / report on Dail constituency boundaries, is 159, which is a higher number that the current membership (158 TDs) of DConstituency Commission review of / report on Dail constituency boundaries, is 159, which is a higher number that the current membership (158 TDs) of Dconstituency boundaries, is 159, which is a higher number that the current membership (158 TDs) of Dail Eireann.

Cork City accounts for most of the smallest local election constituencies, with a number of electoral areas within the Dublin City, Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown and Galway City local authority areas also figuring on this list.

The area covered by this constituency is larger than that covered by number of the smaller European states / principalities, including Andorra, Malta and Liechenstein, and is almost as large as that covered by the state of Luxembourg.

This is just one in a series of climb - downs by her department believed to be aimed at pacifying hostile backbench Conservative MPs representing large numbers of small schools in rural constituencies.