Sentence examples for down constituency from inspiring English sources

Their former MP, Lady Sylvia Hermon, romped home in her North Down constituency with a majority of almost 15,000 over her nearest rival.

Wells was already under fire for appearing to link gay relationships to child abuse during an election debate in the South Down constituency last week.

McGrady unseated Powell in the South Down constituency in Northern Ireland in the 1987 general election, winning it for the Social Democratic and Labour party (SDLP), which still holds it today.

Other candidates standing in the South Down constituency are: UUP's Harold McKee, UKIP's Henry Reilly and the Alliance Party's Martyn Todd.

Despite stepping down from his ministerial post, Mr Wells is still standing as the DUP candidate in the South Down constituency.

Here in the Arundel and South Downs constituency we have a Conservative MP with a majority of 16,691.

But Nick Herbert, shadow environment secretary, who has called for more recycling schemes, is opposing the construction of two major facilities in his Arundel and South Downs constituency, claiming that they are "the right idea in the wrong place".

Breaking this down, Joanne Hepworth, constituency secretary for Pontefract and Castleford, West Yorkshire, said: "We've had 360 new members since the election.

The numbers of 4x4s that drive up and down the constituency are matched only by those living on the estate who are standing waiting for a bus.

Lord Coe, the double Olympic 1,500m champion who was the only other senior figure apart from Jowell to oversee the games from the moment London won the right to host the games in 2005, said: "I'm very sorry that Tessa has decided to step down from constituency life.

He said, "Policymakers have become all too aware that government spending programs and tax preferences can be easy to initiate but extraordinarily difficult to shut down once constituencies develop that have a stake in maintaining the status quo".