Sentences with phrase «with seats in parliament»

Many trade - union bureaucrats were pensioned off with seats in Parliament, where they proved no match for the Eton or Harrow graduate.

Not exact matches

Since May's election gamble backfired, the Conservatives have only a one - seat majority in parliament thanks to a tactical deal with Northern Irish unionists.

Greek TV networks predict that New Democracy will take about 127 seats in the parliament, which when combined with the 32 seats for PASOK, give the coalition more than the 151 seats needed to form a government.

He emerged from two general elections as leader of the party with the most seats in a minority parliament.

The Left Platform, which holds about 40 seats in parliament and is composed of former communists and others closely aligned with labor unions, could defeat the government if its members vote against the plan.

By coincidence my visit coincided with that of one of the candidates for the local seat in parliament, an ally of nationalist General Aleksandr Lebed.

It suggests the Tories would remain the largest party in a hung parliament, losing just two seats to end up with 301.

This means that the British government - whoever they may be at the time - will always be happy with the fact that Sinn Féin don't take their seats - this time around, that's 7 opposing votes they don't have to worry about in parliament.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

The party or coalition of parties with the majority of seats in the parliament forms the executive.

Holding only 84 seats in the parliament, the Socialists engineered a coalition with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a mainly ethnic Turkish minority party, which had 36 deputies, thus securing a total of 120 votes in the 240 - member parliament.

But even with the Greek system which gives an extra 50 seats in the 300 seat parliament to the party with the largest share of the vote, it is not at all certain that the two big old parties will have a majority.

In a parliamentary system the party in power is the one with the most votes in parliament and that would always correspond to the party that won the most actual votes in the election, even if they didn't get the most seatIn a parliamentary system the party in power is the one with the most votes in parliament and that would always correspond to the party that won the most actual votes in the election, even if they didn't get the most seatin power is the one with the most votes in parliament and that would always correspond to the party that won the most actual votes in the election, even if they didn't get the most seatin parliament and that would always correspond to the party that won the most actual votes in the election, even if they didn't get the most seatin the election, even if they didn't get the most seats.

Libertarian Estonian Reform Party with 33 seats of 101 member Riigikogu is largest party in parliament.

If a citizen's vote translates directly to votes in parliament it doesn't matter which way you carve the seats, the party in power will be the one with the most citizens supporting it.

I'm proposing one rep per seat but with that rep's voting weight once in parliament adjusted based on the election result.

Survation's canvas for the Daily Record suggested Ukip might take six per cent of the list vote, which, according to Weber Shandwick's Scotland Votes seat predicting tool would see the party with a sizeable presence in the Scottish parliament.

May's Conservative Party needed to win 326 of 650 seats in the UK parliament to govern with a full majority.

It seems somewhat likely that we'll end up with the Tories having more seats than Labour, but the parties of the left having a majority of seats in parliament.

The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand is the third largest political party in the New Zealand parliament with 14 seats.

Results were less encouraging in the south of England, and results in Scotland were described as a «disaster», with Labour losing nine seats to the SNP, which went on to gain the Parliament's first ever majority.

In the opening half of the current parliament, it was the grassroots who were least invested in the present government; local authority elections were a much more important priority for councillors, many of which have already paid the price with their seats for the Lib Dem - Tory tie - uIn the opening half of the current parliament, it was the grassroots who were least invested in the present government; local authority elections were a much more important priority for councillors, many of which have already paid the price with their seats for the Lib Dem - Tory tie - uin the present government; local authority elections were a much more important priority for councillors, many of which have already paid the price with their seats for the Lib Dem - Tory tie - up.

With the possibility that the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (HDP) will not pass the 10 percent threshold and be left out of parliament as it has decided to participate as a party rather than a list of independents as in the past, the AKP is likely to increase its proportion of seats in parliament and succeed.

I am not at all sure that the reduction and equalisation of seats will be in the Tory manifesto, given events in this Parliament, but the priority which members give to the move reflects their frustration and anger with how the Liberal Democrats behaved.

It not only deprived him of seats that are rightly his, it undermines any hope that Clegg will be able to carry his party into a second coalition with Cameron in a future hung parliament — a parliament which is now more likely because of the failure of boundary changes.

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.

There is now a Tory Prime Minister with a majority in Parliament with the lowest share of the popular vote ever, who presided over the longest decline in living standards, yet Labour lost seats.

Voters have punished the nationalists for the failures of that parliament, including the high unemployment rate, leaving the party with four less seats in the Senedd.

With two MPs already in the Scottish Parliament Brighton Pavilion is not the only Westminster seat the Green's are contesting - but it is the one where they are bidding to create electoral history.

Example 1 A Parliament with two major parties, where all the MPs are party MPs (ie there are no independents) There are currently 650 seats in the House of Commons.

In all, 2,700 English councils seats were fought over, along with 129 Scottish Parliament seats, 60 in the Welsh Assembly, and all Police and Crime Commissioner posts in Wales and EnglanIn all, 2,700 English councils seats were fought over, along with 129 Scottish Parliament seats, 60 in the Welsh Assembly, and all Police and Crime Commissioner posts in Wales and Englanin the Welsh Assembly, and all Police and Crime Commissioner posts in Wales and Englanin Wales and England.

The Tories won the most seats but were trapped in a hung parliament, thrashing out a chaotic deal with Northern Ireland's right - wing DUP, after Labour won key symbolic seats in south east England, Wales and Scotland.

«The SNP's boast that they will be the powerbrokers in a hung Parliament with 20 seats now looks utterly ridiculous.

His approach will be «exactly the same» as this year — that the party with the most votes and seats in a hung parliament should have the first crack at forming a government.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

In this parliament - with the number of MPs set to fall from 650 to 600 if the boundary review is approved - the spare seat will help the whips find a slot for one of Sir John's colleagues whose own seat might have disappeared or been changed beyond recognition.

In the European Parliament election, 2014, the Sweden Democrats gained 2 seats with 9.67 % of the vote, up 6.4 %, and the Left Party took one seat with 6.3 % of the vote.

In the 2014 European Parliament election, the Danish People's Party came first by a large margin with 26.6 % of the vote, gaining 2 extra seats for a total of 4 MEPs.

[61] It has been elected into the German Parliament with 94 seats in September 2017.

But then the SNP did win previously safe - as - houses Glasgow East from Labour at the by - election earlier in the summer on a swing of over 20 per cent, and they start with an advantage in Glenrothes in that the party already holds the almost identical Fife Central seat in the Scottish Parliament.

Former MP Neil Hamilton who lost his seat in the cash for questions saga, explained his life after Parliament including bankruptcy, a media career and now working with the UKIP «to advance the causes I believe in».

The future constitution and makeup of the UK and its position in the EU are huge political unknowns; they are about to be addressed under a government with a dangerously slim majority in parliament — and only one seat in Scotland.

With the number required for an outright majority falling to 301 in the next parliament, the revised figures based on the 2010 general election result would see the Tories slipping to 291 seats - prompting the need for a second coalition government.

Akufo - Addo beat the incumbent John Mahama with over a million votes to win the presidency with the NPP also claiming majority of seats in Parliament.

Ok, I see the problem with paralysis if seats in the parliament are left empty.

But do parliaments exist (or have existed) somewhere in the world, where the amount of non-voters has an influence on the distribution of the seats in the parliament (So, e.g if there are 30 % non-voters, 30 % of the seats will stay empty or will be filled with randomly selected citizens)?

The SNP are now the third biggest party in the House of Commons with 56 MPs taking their seats when Parliament resumes this week.

«Or will Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green and all progressive voters come together in the marginal seats that matter to elect a parliament for progress and reform and a Labour - led government with Ed Miliband as prime minister?

Mr Carswell previously secured the Clacton seat in 2010 with a majority of 12,068 votes over Labour's Ivan Henderson, having first being elected to Parliament in 2005 in the Harwich seat.