Sentence examples for constituency candidates from inspiring English sources

Members already get to vote to select constituency candidates.

In both places, 75% of constituency candidates are men.

But perhaps most important is the under-performance of Mr Gandhi.Yet it is worth remembering that India does not have a presidential system, but a Westminster one, whereby constituency candidates, regional and local politics, the strength of party organisation, money, as well as skill in coalition building, all count for at least as much as prominent leaders.

The hustings, exactly a week before the poll, were ably chaired by a local Scottish youth parliament representative, Aqeel Ahmed, who had persuaded all the Glasgow Pollok constituency candidates to attend, including the SNP's Europe minister, Humza Yousaf, and ex-Labour leader Johann Lamont.

Resurrecting plans for a new hospital in Clevedon has been backed by Somerset North constituency candidates.

299 seats are allocated to constituency candidates, who need to win a simple majority locally to take a seat in parliament.

Under FPTP, voters can only back one constituency candidate at a general election.

Four years ago he took advantage of ebbing Labour popularity and chanced his arm as a constituency candidate, defeating Labour's Sophie Howe.

UK general elections are held under the first past the post, where the voter casts an X for their preferred constituency candidate.

In 16 constituencies the number of ineligible votes exceeded the winning candidate's majority.Voters were supposed to put their crosses in two different columns one for a constituency candidate, the other for a regional party list vote but many put both crosses in one column.

Lib Dem constituency candidate Andy Canning said the local party "wanted to concentrate on the general election campaign".