Sentence examples for elected constituencies from inspiring English sources

There are a further 70 seats reserved for women and minorities which will be apportioned according to the parties' performance in the directly elected constituencies.

Under this system, adopted by Germany after World War II and in several countries after the fall of communism in eastern Europe, half of the legislature usually is elected through constituency elections and half through proportional representation (the percentage of constituency and proportional representatives varies by country).

Primary governing units were set up to conduct local affairs; their members were elected by constituencies of 800 1,000 adults.

The idea of MPs being elected to constituencies based on geography would become "increasingly hard to sustain", he added.

Forty Welsh Assembly members are being elected for constituencies and the other 20 via another vote to represent five larger regions.

The five Muslims in Delhi's assembly have all been elected from constituencies where Muslims make up the majority, and so far, Mr. Kejriwal has placed a Muslim candidate in three of the five constituencies.

Everything the Tories can do to rig the political system – more appointed peers, fewer elected MPs, constituencies redrawn on the basis of an electoral register missing millions of the young and the poorest – will be attempted.

Under pressure from British MPs, some of whom are elected in constituencies with large migrant populations, the bank has agreed to a 30-day stay which ends in mid-August.Meanwhile, a group of 100 academics and other notables has written to the British government asking it to avert a humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa.

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

Only six of the 33 NEC seats are directly elected by constituency activists.

With all MPs elected at constituency or regional level this sets a high representation threshold, meaning that no party that does not already pick up seats would suddenly start to gain them.