Sentence examples for constituency contests from inspiring English sources

Many said lawmakers should be elected in constituency contests, not by party lists, as happens now.

By abolishing constituency contests in favour of party lists he has made it virtually impossible for independents to run.

It still favours larger parties over smaller ones, who indeed are actually being discouraged from standing in the constituency contests".

Ruth Fox, director of the Hansard Society, said turnout looks set to echo 2010, despite the closeness of many constituency contests which might have encouraged more votes.

However, a lower turnout than that implied in polls could mean than in some of the closest constituency contests, Labour (or some Lib Dems) could cling on.

Unlike in constituency contests, where candidates can issue personal election addresses, in the new system they have to campaign on the basis of a common manifesto.But do these elections matter?

Freud did not run in the constituency, instead contesting another new seat, North East Cambridgeshire (where he was defeated by the Conservatives), and the first member for the new South East Cambridgeshire was the former Conservative Foreign Secretary Francis Pym.

A total of 311 party candidates and 45 independents registered in 26 constituencies to contest the 76 seats.

However, it is important to note Obama has also had difficulty in winning over this constituency in earlier contests.

If primaries are pushed from Westminster constituencies, through mayoral contests and up to the election of national leaders, the importance of money will grow and grow.

On his seventh visit to the constituency since the contest began, the Tory leader heaped praise on his newest MP, 27-year-old Chloe Smith, for turning a Labour majority of 5,000 into a majority of more than 7,000 for the Conservatives.