Sentences with phrase «vacant seats counting»

With vacant seats counting towards the party that previously held the seat, the New Hampshire House held a difference in partisan balance between Democrats and Republican of 40 seats, which amounted to 10 percent of the chamber.

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Donovan must still get the Brooklyn Republican and Conservative committee support, a formality since he is the only such candidate seeking it in the special election to fill the congressional seat left vacant when Michael Grimm resigned after pleading guilty to one count of felony tax fraud.

The House of Assembly, in the exercise of its historic right to expel a member in appropriate circumstances, hereby expels from the Assembly the member last elected before the coming into force of this Act for the electoral district of Inverness South by reason of his conviction on four counts of using forged documents in respect of money received by him in his capacity as a member, and the seat of that member is and is deemed to be vacant until an election is held in that electoral district according to law.