Sentence examples for electoral size from inspiring English sources

The Lib Dems looked set to lose as many as 15 seats from a reform promoted by Cameron as a way of cutting the cost of politics and equalising the electoral size of constituencies.

Labour continues to benefit from electoral size but its real advantage currently stems largely from a better distributed vote – it acquires fewer surplus and wasted votes than its rivals.

The evidence confirms our hypotheses that turnout is negatively correlated with electoral size and positively correlated with electoral competition.

The largest determinant of voter participation is suffrage: The contraction of voting rights to parents with children in school leads to an 18 percentage point average increase in turnout, even after controlling for electoral size effects.

If winner takes all is a poor electoral system, one size fits all is a poor way to pick its replacements.

From Trump's critics, anger at his policies continues to be mixed with a persistent bewilderment at his psychology: Why would a man who was just elected President still feel the need to argue about the scope of his electoral victory, the size of the crowd at his Inauguration, or the jokes that a variety show was making at his expense?

It will give the national assembly control over what it is called, its size, its electoral system and voting age.

During the campaign free television time is divvied up using a complex formula which takes into account the size of electoral alliances and tends to favour the incumbent.

Television time is divided up according to the size of electoral alliances, leaving Ms Silva with less than half as much as Mr Neves (and one-sixth as much as Ms Rousseff).

These ads, together with similar ones for local and congressional races, will cost taxpayers an estimated 840m reais ($368m).This "free" television time will be split between presidential candidates using a complicated formula which is largely based on the size of electoral alliances.

The results were not as unremittingly bad as the seat numbers suggest.Koichi Nakano of Sophia University in Tokyo points out that Japan's distorted electoral map exaggerates the size of the defeat: the DPJ lost heavily against LDP candidates in depopulated rural areas that are considered to be the opposition's heartland, but which produce a disproportionate number of seats.