Sentences with phrase «voting constituency of»
Suburbanites travelling into NYC (no matter what the reason) should not be suplementing the voting constituencies of NYC politicians.
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The party expects to own the constituencies that will rally to the progressive theme: specifically women and youth; and, overall, the majority of the 60 per cent who bothered to vote in the last election.
With only 30 candidates nominated in 87 constituencies, most viewers tuning in to the televised debate will not have the option of voting for an Alberta Party candidate on Election Day.
The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Edmonton South West
The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Edmonton - Whitemud
The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Lac La Biche - St.
The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Calgary Greenway — Manmeet Bhullar
The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote.
The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Stratcona Sherwood Park
The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: (Lac La Biche - St.
The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Battle River - Wainwright (Doug Griffiths)
The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Peace River
The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Edmonton — Whitemud
Ms. Notley was first elected as the MLA for this constituency in 2008, earning 49 % of the vote.
Only in three rural constituencies did these two parties earn at least 11 % of the vote (New Democrats Mandy Melnyk in Athabasca - Sturgeon - Redwater and Bruce Hinkley in Wetaskiwin - Camrose and Liberal Pete Helfrich in Banff - Cochrane.
The average voting population of a constituency in Calgary and Edmonton is more than 33,000 voters.
The Alberta Liberal is the only real progressive alternative considering total vote plurality in the last election and considering the number of constituencies that were second place for ALP.
If the thresholds for the drag - along are set at a level where various stockholder constituencies are protected against transactions that are not economically beneficial to them, the drag - along provision serves a good housekeeping function to make sure that minority shareholders vote in favor of the transaction.
However, by 1988 the constituencies of two conferences had become so impatient with the failure to reach agreement that they voted to permit women pastors to conduct both baptisms and marriages.
The coalition of black churches in urban communities can no longer be counted on for block Democratic votes, and despite the president's pleas, he may find that his most loyal constituency will not be able to bring significant wins to the Democratic column come Tuesday.
Even if Labour gave a free vote, which is unlikely, the pressure from Labour constituency activists (not Labour voters) would force most Labour MPs to vote for the change: just a few people of principle will hold out.
Veteran Israeli politicians expect the Obama administration to give Israel an ultimatum later this year to make peace with the Palestinian Authority» that is, with a political entity that is kept alive on the West Bank by an American - trained militia and the Israeli Army, and that is headed by a prime minister, Salam Fayyad, whose party won 2 percent of the vote in the last elections and who faces a constituency two - thirds of which tells pollsters that it doesn't want any deal with a Jewish state.
With 80.2 percent of those casting ballots voting to enter the 21st century and admit women, that leaves some 20 percent of the constituency still dragging their knuckles about entering the 21st century.
In a one - on - one - interview, the former Trades Minister refuted assertions that, he has no «constituency» in NDC and that will affect his chances of getting delegates to vote for him to become the presidential candidate ahead of 2020 national elections.
«I think Brexit provides some opportunities, but I represent a constituency where nearly 70 % of people voted to Leave and I have a responsibility to make sure their voices are heard in that debate,» says Jarvis.
While some, such as @LeaveEUOfficial, have blamed it on Labour wanting to get the Muslim vote, as far as I can tell, none of these politicians are Muslim, and at least some of these politicians don't have much of a Muslim constituency.
Firstly, immediately, and funds permitting, Nuttall will surely be planning a major campaign tour of those constituencies whose MPs voted against triggering Article 50 — and particularly those where the MPs have a small majority and where UKIP are even vaguely viable.
The deputy prime minister told reporters he would instruct his MPs to vote against the constituency boundary review in retaliation for Tory MPs» refusal to support House of Lords reform.
The Greater Accra Regional and constituencies executives of the women wing of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), has taken the government, «Accounting to the People,» pictorial booklet known as the green book to the coastal towns of the region to canvass for votes.
According to the leading member who was Speaking at a campaign launch of the National Democratic Congress» Member of Parliament for the Odododiodio constituency, Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, if Ghanaians refused to vote for John Dramani Mahama and Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, they won't continue to see all the development they are seeing today so they should vote for them and continue to see more development.
Nick Griffin came sixth in his North West constituency, receiving just two per cent of total votes.
Mr Smith will however be able to continue to vote on some or all of these policy areas in other English MPs constituencies where responsibility has not yet been devolved.
On his part The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale South Constituency has pledged to garner 70,000 votes to back the second term bid of President John Mahama.
In constituencies where over 60 % of the population had voted Leave, the swing, of 0.8 %, was in the Tories» direction.
«It made me think that even though I always kept in touch every weekend with the constituency, never ever let them down, I hadn't realised that it wasn't just the disillusioned and dispossessed that were ready to vote for Brexit, it was quite a substantial chunk of the middle class and we need to take that on board.»
Just to demonstrate how emphatically the No votes outweighed the Yes, in the constituency of Eastleigh (Chris Huhne's backyard), they were using bricks to separate bundles of 1,000 votes.
In the Scottish Parliament election, 2016, SNP saw its constituency vote increase slightly (from 45.4 % to 46.5 %) and its regional vote decrease slightly (from 44.0 % to 41.7 %), leading to a decrease from 69 to 63 seats (out of 129) in the additional member system.
«It's right that each area decides how to run elections, because some constituencies cover huge rural areas while others will have to contend with large numbers of postal votes which have to be carefully verified.
«Every MP is going to have to ask themselves «why am I voting against equal - sized constituencies and a smaller House of Commons?».»
If Benson's thesis holds in 2012, the votes of this constituency will be shaped not by convention speeches, but by the social groups these men affiliate with.
Both use a first past the post (i.e. the candidate (s) with a plurality of votes wins) in individual voting areas (parliamentary constituencies at national level, wards an local...
Out of the over two million party members expected to cast their votes, 61,836 voted «No» representing 4.90 % in relation to President Mahama's candidature in 265 out of 275 constituencies.
Yes, it is ironic that the voting system favoured by John Harris and Neal Lawson - AV + - would allow a greater number of parachuted candidates through the top - up route as well as the constituency route.
Correlation between the estimated Remain vote in a constituency and the proportion of petitioners from such constituencies is extremely high (r = 0.93).
However, in the Hungarian system, surplus votes of the party winning the constituency go towards the list as well, skewing the result away from proportionality.
The independent variable is the MP's margin of victory in his / her constituency (i.e. number of votes the MP received over the second - placed candidate).
However, there is one statistically significant result that suggests that constituency factors and re-election concerns might be affecting MPs» positions: MPs elected in seats with higher levels of UKIP vote share are more likely to be uncommitted on the referendum.
Its six points for parliamentary reform (universal male suffrage; no property qualification to become an MP; payment of MPs; equal sized constituencies; voting in secret; and annual parliaments) had first been proposed as a package in the 1770s by John Cartwright.
One example of an MP who does do this is Jon Cruddas, who carved himself a constituency during the deputy leadership contest, is courted heavily before tight votes, argues, but almost always votes loyally.
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.