Sentence examples for constituency members from inspiring English sources

Constituency members protested and Flight briefly considered standing as an independent candidate before deciding against it.

Their first votes will be for the 40 constituency members, to be chosen for the Assembly by FPTP.

His father has an 8,500-vote 8,500-voteand he won 70% support fromajoritytuency members andthe selection hearing.

They will certainly not get places on the party's regional lists from which the constituency members will be topped up to achieve proportionality.So why did the government originally suggest that it would not change the system for 1999?

Two-thirds of the seats will be filled by constituency members elected by the usual first-past-the-post means, but the rest will be additional members elected from party lists.

This is being resisted, on the arguable grounds that list MSPs should not be allowed to preponderate over constituency members, but also, less altruistically, because it will lead to a severe outbreak of turf wars among those scrabbling for seats.

The "good constituency member" was once a relatively rare beast.

Gareth Snell, 30, worked for Hunt before leaving to join Unison and is a Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency member.

Additional Member System Voters have two votes, one for a constituency member, and one for a regional party list, both single Xs.

Voters elect a constituency member by first past the post, and seven more MSPs for their region from a closed list.

He described him in 1997 as "a very nice guy … a good constituency Member … [with] a good class sense … an amusing guy".