Sentence examples for direct constituency from inspiring English sources

Unlike MPs or MEPs, members of the Lords have no direct constituency to represent.

"This is the first time that a new party outside of this [post-1989] political circle has won a direct constituency," Gyöngyösi noted.

Voters will choose one direct representative per constituency and a preferred party to provide "at-large" members of parliament.

But survive it did, just failing to get 5% but snatching four constituencies direct, all in Berlin.

We argue any election should be direct, in smallish constituencies, based on our historic cities and counties, not by PR or lists in large, amorphous Euro-regions designed to give a permanent stranglehold on the House to the least popular political party.

In many countries they choose only from a party list, with no way of rewarding or sanctioning individuals and no direct link to a constituency.

While the party already has 23 parliamentarians, all of entered via the party list under Hungary's part-proportional representation system; this is the first time a candidate has ever won a direct contest for a constituency.

One is that MPs should retain a direct link to their constituencies rather than have an exclusive dependence on their parties.

But it emerged last night that Mr McCluskey has been pressing for more direct influence within individual constituencies for more than a year.

He said some issues that appeared to only apply to England actually had "massive knock-on effects" on Scottish constituencies with "direct consequences" and blocking Scottish MPs from representing their views would be undemocratic.

From Italy to Japan there is a host of evidence that state-controlled banks come under pressure to direct loans to favoured constituencies and to keep uncompetitive companies alive with subsidised credit (see article).