Sentence examples for as single constituencies from inspiring English sources

In Brazil, where entire states count as single constituencies, campaigns are ruinously expensive.

These days, a few small countries, including Israel and the Netherlands, treat their entire populations as single constituencies, and thereby get almost perfectly proportional representation.

States act as single constituencies, so the 70 deputies for São Paulo must canvass 30m voters.Congressional leaders favour a change under which voters would in effect choose individuals regardless of party.

He wants a minimum vote-share for parties to enter Congress and smaller constituencies (currently, states vote as single constituencies and some are very large: São Paulo has a population of 44m).

In European elections most of the Member States function as single constituencies.

Serbia votes as a single constituency, so no one would take a seat in Serbia's parliament claiming to be the deputy from Pristina.

It hopes to do better in an election to the European Parliament next June, for which the whole country will count as a single constituency.

Members of county, city and town councils are elected to four-year terms through proportional representation, with the entire local government unit as a single constituency.

Members of county, city and municipal councils are elected to four-year terms through proportional representation, with the entire local government unit as a single constituency.

In 2013 it lost several parliamentary seats because it fielded multiple candidates in single constituencies.

Then mandates are attributed to single constituencies.