Sentence examples for proportion of constituencies from inspiring English sources

A large proportion of constituencies fall into this category.

Britain's major political parties are failing to represent the black or minority ethnic (BME) proportion of their constituencies, according to new research.

Unite is suggesting the unions keep 50% of the vote but they would also need a fixed proportion of the constituency section to back their proposals for it to be deemed agreed.

Any union proposition to conference would require not just simple majority support of delegates but support of a fixed proportion of both unions and constituencies.

They want a recall system triggered by a petition which would have to be signed by a healthy proportion of voters in the constituency concerned - a big enough percentage to ensure that there would have to be a real issue behind any recall attempt.

Meanwhile, the NRA is slowly losing one of its most important constituencies: the proportion of Americans holding hunting licences has declined from 10% in 1985 to 6% last year.

But the link between constituencies with a high proportion of minority voters and longstanding black and Asian MPs remained firm in many places.

There are two types of constituencies (electoral divisions) in Singapore: Single Member Constituencies (SMCs) and Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs).

There were two types of constituencies: counties and boroughs.

Generation Rent, a group that campaigns to improve the rights of tenants, used data from the 2001 and 2011 censuses to find the proportion of the population that rents in each constituency.

With regards to regional differences, the rise in property crime incidence rates that occurred during the 1980s in England and Wales reflected changes in crime concentration (number of crimes per victim) rather than prevalence (proportion of victims), and was unequally distributed across parliamentary constituencies.