It is easier for Labour to gain the most MPs because constituency boundaries favour it over the Tories.
This will harm the MDC's chances, particularly because urban constituencies are its traditional electoral stronghold.
Size matters because important constituencies are sweating the details of mandated reforms, including setting a new gold standard for mortgages.
"I predict a lot of honest former N.D.P. members will be voted back into power because their constituencies know them".
It is because these constituencies tend to be more politically liberal — and Republicans are the conservative party.
Critics say that, because most constituencies return one candidate from each coalition, lawmakers are not really elected at all but appointed by their parties.
The leadership of the City of Oakland are so intent on "criminalizing" (read: prosecuting the criminal behavior inherent in) the "Occupy" movement because their constituencies are intent on them doing so.
Removing the argument that nothing can be done because domestic constituencies are fixated on the "plight of the Palestinians" would allow creative energy, talent and money to be rechanneled into education, health, housing, etc.
He added: "There are urgent measures that we need to take forward, because in constituencies similar to mine, much-loved and much-valued rivers, which are vital to our eco-systems and to the general health of our environment and to the way in which we value it, are running dry".
Many college presidents would like to pull back on athletic spending, he said, "but taking significant steps in that direction would cost them their job, because the constituencies for increasing spending are numerous and powerful, and the counterpressures are few and relatively powerless".
