Sentences with phrase «votes than the opposition»

He pledged that if the ruling coalition parties receive fewer votes than opposition parties, the government would step aside and hold new elections later in the year.

«The only way a 25 percent party who received a quarter of a million few votes than the opposition can stay in power is through the selective and hyper - partisan drawing of district lines,» Shafran said.

Not exact matches

Martin Schulz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has stated repeatedly that the party wants to stay in opposition rather than joining another coalition, despite gaining 20.5 percent of the vote in September's election.

Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a big protest vote, with more than 35 per cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual meeting, with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large share of the opposition.

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

The opposition claims that the president, elected with more than fifty - four million votes, used accounting tricks to artificially lower the government's budget deficit.

-LRB-...) a united center - left opposition might get 8 % fewer parliamentary seats than Fidesz if both got an equal share of the votes.

This is essentially unchanged from 2014, when 77.8 percent of bills passed with fewer than 10 votes in opposition and only 0.7 percent received more than 50 no votes.

In 2016, 79.2 percent of votes on bills received fewer than 10 votes in opposition in a body that had 148 members during the busiest times of the year.

I think it is probably less of a vote winner than opposition to the Iraq war and top - up fees in 2005, or even the penny on income tax for education in 1997/2001.

Mayor Erin Stewart's plan to refinance more than $ 100 million in city debt hit a wall of silent opposition Wednesday night when the council's Democratic majority boycotted a vote that she had called «very, very important.»

This has continued since the election as the Liberals have sacrificed many of the manifesto pledges that they used to pose themselves to the left of the Labour Party, such as the scrapping of Trident, proportional representation, an amnesty for illegal immigrants and opposition to nuclear power — the latter on which it will now abstain in any parliamentary votes rather than oppose it as its manifesto had stated.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

By the time the votes were counted, all 36 opposition candidates put together had less votes than Obiano.

«We voted in the same way as we did for the Social Services Bill, and rather than blindly letting things pass, we will continue to be a strong opposition, fighting on behalf of our constituents.»

It would probably be easier for you than for the Coalition to reform either or both, but there probably aren't many votes in it in opposition.

• Mr. Krupski received a higher percentage of the vote than all but five county legislators who faced opposition in the 2011 general election.

The Upper West Regional Minister, Alhaji Amidu Sulemna, believes that with the current internal wrangling within the main opposition New Patriotic Party, the NDC has what it takes to win more votes than «the operation 79 percent» projection.

The former foreign secretary will suggest his brother is pandering to Labour's core vote rather than reaching out to the middle classes and that his strategy will keep the party in opposition rather than return it to power.

According to the Financial Times, a vote on the renewal of Trident could also be brought forward after 23 June in a bid to force Tories to focus on the Labour opposition rather than the rancorous EU campaign.

More than 50 MPs are opposed to an expanded Heathrow and the opposition requires only 32 rebels for the government to be defeated should it come to a vote.

More than 100 Tory MPs planned to register their opposition to the marriage (same - sex couples) bill by voting in favour of a series of amendments to water down the measure.

The BBC's chief political correspondent Norman Smith said it was interesting that opposition to the reforms had come from ordinary party members rather than trade unionists - perhaps underlining concern about how the changes would affect their own votes.

Opposition to the bill, they said, centers on a general reluctance to raise taxes, rather than the House transportation committee's recent vote to give none of the new funds to schools, which would have received...

Notably, Hispanic support of the standards is 34 points higher than Hispanic opposition in this crucial electoral voting bloc.

Apparently winning controversial votes by a margin of 6 - 3 rather than 9 - 0 is just not sufficient for politicians who want to make sure there are no questions or opposition to their proposals.

And the no votes last year appear to have been tactical, rather than any definitive opposition to a tender — so hopefully we'll make it across the line this year.

In that case, Congress eventually kvetched the president into allowing a «vote of disapproval,» a watered - down review process that required an unobtainable 60 votes in opposition to stop the deal, rather than the 36 needed to block a traditional treaty.

(14) If on the taking of the representation vote more than 50 per cent of the ballots cast are cast in opposition to the trade union, the Board shall declare that the trade union that was certified or that was or is a party to the collective agreement, as the case may be, no longer represents the employees in the bargaining unit.

After all, the U.S. process has been honed to a fine turn so that everyone knows their roles and does their best to perform them (I'm being unfair here to those on the Committee who are expected to oppose Judge Sotomayor's appointment based on their own party affiliation, but who will apparently vote for her, but they are more than accounted for by their compatriots who bluster their opposition.)

Describing its work in a Nigerian election, SCL Global said it had advised that «rather than trying to motivate swing voters to vote for our clients, a more effective strategy might be to persuade opposition voters not to vote at all».

The facts have not changed: more than 30 percent of outstanding Taubman Centers voting shares have publicly announced their opposition to Simon's hostile offer.»