Sentence examples for half the constituencies from inspiring English sources

In the last election, opposition parties contested just half the constituencies.

This did not get them very far, so this time the various opposition groups will stand in at least half the constituencies.

In the last election, in 2006, the opposition put up candidates in only about half the constituencies, winning just two parliamentary seats.

It is therefore disappointing that voters in more than half the constituencies did not have the opportunity to express their will at the ballot box and that turnout in most other constituencies was low," Warsi said.

A boycott by the Bangladesh Nationalist party, the main opposition in the poverty-stricken country of 150 million people, meant that results in more than half of the constituencies were decided before voting had even started.

More than half of the constituencies surveyed (96) are marginal seats so it is perhaps unsurprising to see many showing a different result in polling than at the last election.

In 2010, researchers at De Montfort University found over half of the constituencies in the UK, including 94 marginal seats, would have a majority of voters over 55.

For the first time since 1988 opposition parties managed to put up candidates for over half the 84 constituency seats.

Down in the other half of the constituency, in the tough town of Oldham, the Conservative candidate Kashif Ali struggled manfully this week to bash his Lib Dem rival without attacking the coalition.

It is not quite the style of his old Financial Times days; but the first paragraph of his first column last week succeeded in mentioning half the wards in the constituency he hopes to represent.

The party finds itself unrepresented in over half the country's 43 constituencies, and without a single woman member of parliament.