Sentence examples for basis of constituency from inspiring English sources

If we look at the national election results since 1990 we can see that the PDS/Left has managed to hold on with representatives in parliament on the basis of constituency votes during the 90s and into the 2000s, but since 2005 its representation has gone from vulnerable to stable, gaining 8.7% in 2005 and 11.9% in 2009.

I would have thought that the crowds for Central Park concerts should be the basis of a constituency.

This has been particularly true since the 1978 establishment of direct election to the Legislative Council on the basis of a statewide constituency, which enabled a greater diversity of candidates to win support.

These problems include the qualifications of electors (see suffrage); the apportionment of constituencies (see constituency); apportionment (electoral); the basis of election (see plurality system; proportional representation); methods of nominating candidates (see primary election); and means of ascertaining the wishes of electors (see referendum and initiative).

He will probably make his decision on whether to go to the country on the basis of micro-polling in marginal constituencies.One good reason for him to do so soon is that the sadism strategy cannot last.

They are allocated on the basis of a mathematical formula which takes into account the total votes cast and the number of constituency seats each party has already won.

In Upper Bann, Trimble himself achieved the unique triumph of topping the poll in one of Ulster's more hardline unionist constituencies on the basis of an open advocacy of compromise rather than on the agendas of ethnic and communal self-assertiveness that have been the stock-in-trade of unionist politicians in the past.

The National Assembly is composed of 577 deputies who are directly elected for a term of five years in single-member constituencies on the basis of a majority two-ballot system, which requires that a runoff take place if no candidate has obtained the absolute majority on the first ballot.

"The entire maneuver was set up on the basis of a political device to put the constituency that I serve under threat and to batter them into a state of submission that has a political spinoff".

Harman added that it was "morally unacceptable" to cut the number of parliamentary seats and redraw constituency boundaries on the basis of an electoral register "from which three and a half million people are missing".

So are a majority of constituency parties.