Sentences with phrase «voting strength»

DPR Voting — Party voting strength in Parliament is proportional to votes cast in the election (but small parties may fail to achieve the threshold)

At the recent Progress conference, where he first attacked trade unions for wanting to influence the outcome of current selections, he also described union voting strength at conference as «disgraceful» — and this was in answer to a question inviting him to outline what united Progress and Unite!

However, it also insisted that collective affiliation of the trade unions should continue alongside the opting - in of individual levy - payers and that there should be no diminution of trade union voting strength or representation within Labour party structures.

Colours denote the winning party, shades denote voting strength as shown in the main table of results.

Members would be elected exactly as now, but where their party was under - represented nationally this would be corrected by giving them an additional voting strength in the division lobbies of the House of Commons.

Districts must not be drawn to dilute minority voting strength or intentionally disenfranchise minority voters.

«I know there are some people who are upset about it, mostly MPs who will lose their golden share but it really is a nonsense that one MP should have the same voting strength as 1,000 party members,» he added.

But the Labour leader declined to give details of what might happen to the unions» voting strength at party conference and in future leadership elections

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

At the time, the unions controlled five - sixths of the voting strength at the party conference.

The voting strength of the party derives from the Party vote.

However when «party» issues are voted on, the voting strength of the party takes primacy.

to divide (a territorial unit) into election districts to give one political party an electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the voting strength of the opposition in as few districts as possible

Does the Norwegian system concentrate the voting strength of the opposition (in this case, we'll assume that's the minority party (s)-RRB- in as few districts as possible?

Assemblyman Karim Camara, chair of the caucus, says on Long Island, and in Rochester and Buffalo, African American voters are splintered into separate districts, diluting their voting strength.

This makes them key political allies and essentially allows the teacher unions to double their voting strength.