Sentences with phrase «whole number of seats»

There is no way, for example, to allocate a whole number of seats in exact proportion to a larger population.

Not exact matches

We have had the joy of helping a large number of families traveling around and make their excursions and treks a great deal more providing so as to consider the comfort of whole family, for example, crib rentals, pack - n - play rentals, car seat rentals, stroller rentals and high seat rentals and also several other child embellishments.

Boundary changes took place for the 2002 election, leading to the whole council bring elected in that year and reducing the number of seats by two.

the first half (rounded if necessary to the next whole number) are assigned seats to be filled from the list with the most votes; other seats are distributed among all the lists present in the final round that took more than 5 % of votes cast (including the majority list) which is called proportional to the strongest average.

Labour is well - placed to win a «whole number» of key seats in the 2015 general election, Douglas Alexander has said following local election results.

Instead, MPs wishing to chair specific committees must now put themselves forward for election to the whole House, with elections held within party groupings for the allotted number of seats on each committee.

The whole council was up for election after boundary changes reduced the number of seats by one.

Any that are going to dip out (which won't be many because it's mainly the disparities in the urban seats that are being dealt with as a whole) will be bought off with a cushy number in the House of Lords.

The whole council was up for election, with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 reducing the number of seats by nine.

The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 1.

These work by dividing voting populations by a common factor so that when the fair proportions are rounded to a whole number they add up to the number of available seats.

This «Alabama paradox» was caused by an algorithm known as the largest remainder method, which was used to round the number of seats a state would receive under strict proportionality to a whole number.

The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.