Sentence examples for elections seats from inspiring English sources

Goodies such as the introduction of proportional representation for European elections, seats on cabinet committees and the formation of the commission on electoral reform chaired by Lord Jenkins, a former leader of the Lib Dem peers all are held up as the immediate benefits of the new Lib-Lab relationship.

This realm of faded tea rooms, big skies, beach huts and Polish supermarkets has become UKIP's political heartland.On May 22nd this year, the same day as the European elections, seats on borough councils and unitary authorities will be up for grabs, many of them in places where UKIP has excellent prospects.

More importantly, state and local elections seat people who do really important things, like redistricting and passing voter ID laws.

On April 1st the NLD won 43 of the 44 by-election seats it contested, with possibly over 90% of the votes in some constituencies.

Small parties benefit: at the last election seats were won by the Greens and the right-wing UK Independence Party (UKIP), which have never elected an MP.

Some of the terminology used to describe results in by-election seats is different.

For Ed Miliband to become prime minister after the general election, seats like Warrington South simply have to turn red.

But Mr Bale dismissed the move as "electioneering" by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats who are fighting Labour in key general election seats in the city.

The Pendle constituency is one of the key election seats in the county, one which has attracted a great deal of attention from Labour and the Tories.

Counting the three special-election seats, I put Speaker Nancy Pelosi at 245 House seats in the next Congress, and Majority Leader Harry Reid at a minimum of 55 Senate seats come January.

Speaking to Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics, George Galloway recalled his accurate prediction of a 55-45 result in the Scottish referendum, and he spoke about his party standing in four general election seats.