Sentence examples for constituency to elect from inspiring English sources

Six months ago in a by-election, Clacton became the first constituency to elect a UKIP MP - heralding a "coming of age" for the party, according to its leader Nigel Farage.

So the last big task for Icann's interim board is to create the at-large constituency to elect the board members who will replace the interim board and work alongside the business representatives selected last fall.

In Clacton, the only constituency to elect a UKIP MP, only 4% of the population is foreign-born, compared with a national average of 13%.Meanwhile in places such as Luton, where different ethnic groups have lived next-door to each other for some time, views on immigration are becoming more relaxed.

When I visited Clacton – the first constituency to elect a UKIP MP, the Tory defector Douglas Carswell – "anti-Establishment" was exactly what UKIP supporters thought they were voting for.

Convicted two years later for fraud (she couldn't resist cheating on her taxes), Bozzi convinced her constituency next to elect her daughter, Valérie, as mayor in her place.

Scotland's 4 million voters cast two votes each: a constituency vote to elect 73 MSPs in first-past-the-post contests and a regional list vote to elect 56 more from eight regions, who are selected proportionately.

The letter to Ireland's lawmakers suggested Russia would proceed with this tactic despite criticism that it harms the interests of the country's orphans, while also dashing the hopes of prospective adoptive parents abroad, who form an emotional and motivated constituency to influence elected officials.

James W. Skillen, APJ's director, said evangelicals should spend "at least a decade formulating a public philosophy, then building a constituency, and finally beginning to elect officials based on that philosophy". Skillen is a good man, but he failed to see that flesh-and-blood political theory develops on the hustings, not in the academy's office.

While Labour polled the most votes in the 1997 general election in the area, it was always going to be one of the Conservatives' better bets to elect a constituency member and so it proved in 2000 and 2004 by a considerable margin.

Added Member System Similar to AV Plus, but it doesn't use AV to elect MPs in constituencies, and has more MPs elected on top-up lists.

In this role she served as the Vice President's liaison to elected officials and constituency groups.