Sentence examples for proportion of seats from inspiring English sources

Golkar and the PPP will therefore end up with a higher proportion of seats than votes.

We need a House of Commons that reflects the people's will; where the proportion of seats won corresponds to the proportion of votes cast.

Mr. Chen's party, D.P.P., in turn, hopes to increase the proportion of seats, now just 30percentt, it holds in the 225-member Parliament.

The results would usually be pretty close to matching the proportion of seats with the proportion of votes cast for parties.

Systems of proportional representation are designed to ensure a closer correspondence between the proportion of votes cast for a party and the proportion of seats it receives.

The proportion of seats on corporate boards occupied by women is 17 percent in Europe and 15 percent in the United States.

While the overall proportion of seated did not differ between men and women, the average individual period of uninterrupted seated work was longer for women.

Yet Tyler insisted that far more than the fuel price was responsible for the changing fortunes, saying: "The strongest driver is efficiency: airlines are filling more seats" with load factors, or the proportion of occupied seats, reaching 82.7%.

Seats held by women, as a proportion of all seats.

A higher proportion of Tory seats are currently within the range, so only between 10 and 15 of the party's seats are expected to disappear.

If a party's candidates got sixty per cent altogether, they'd get an equivalent proportion of the seats.