Sentence examples for constituency basis from inspiring English sources

However, most charities and campaigning groups are not set up to account for spending on a constituency basis, and this would require major changes on accounting processes.

This body had two chambers the Soviet of the Union, with 750 members elected on a single-member constituency basis; and the Soviet of Nationalities, with 750 members representing the various political divisions: 32 from each union republic, 11 from each autonomous republic, 5 from each autonomous region, and 1 from each autonomous district.

The new congress had 2,250 members; one-third of these were elected on a constituency basis, one-third represented the political territories (as in the old Supreme Soviet), and the remaining third came from "all-union social organizations" such as the trade unions, the CPSU, and the Academy of Sciences.

As registration records are managed on a constituency basis, it will not be known how many people signed up to vote until after the election.

His reference to votes, not seats, seemed significant, since it acknowledged tacitly that the wide dispersion of Liberal Democrat support across the country might mean that his party would get disproportionately fewer seats in an election that was contested on a constituency-by-constituency basis.

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.

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.

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".

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).

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.

Everything the Tories can do to rig the political system – more appointed peers, fewer elected MPs, constituencies redrawn on the basis of an electoral register missing millions of the young and the poorest – will be attempted.