Sentence examples for seat district from inspiring English sources

Here are our endorsements for several of the most competitive districts where winning the Democratic primary usually means capturing the seat: District 1, Lower Manhattan: This vibrant area from the Lower East Side to Wall Street and TriBeCa deserves a vibrant councilmember.

The last time Democrats won a midterm wave election, in 2006, they improved on John Kerry's 2004 performance in every open seat district that they contested.

In 2011, a Colorado judge ruled in favor of Democratic-drawn redistricting map and in the process made Coffman's once solidly Republican suburban Denver seat (District 6) much more competitive by including a relatively even split of Democratic, Republican and unaffiliated voters, 7News reported.

(Imagine an election between 10 different parties in a 10-seat district: if each party wins 10 percent of the overall vote, each one gets its own seat. In a two-seat district, only the top two lists win seats).

Overall, the LDP and its coalition partner, New Komeito, will run candidates who support postal privatisation in 299 of Japan's 300 single-seat districts.

In January 2008 the Kuomintang (KMT), or Nationalist Party, and its allies won 86 seats in Taiwan's first legislative elections after a constitutional amendment reduced the number of seats from 225 to 113 and introduced single-seat districts.

Of the 29 rural single-seat districts that were contested, the party's bag fell from 23 to six; overall the LDP suffered a net loss of 27 seats (see chart).

The proportional method generally provides minor parties with better representation in the federal Senate, where Senators for each state are elected in 12-seat districts, than in the House of Representatives.

Chile's electoral system, in which two-seat districts force the parties into two broad coalitions, provides a powerful incentive for the Concertación to remake itself under younger leadership.

The current law allows voters to choose only one candidate in multiple-seat districts, and in this largely tribal society (outside of the large cities) citizens tend to vote along clan lines, before considering party loyalties.

The former prime minister is well beyond the LDP's age limit of 73 for proportional-ballot seats which let privileged candidates ride the party's coat-tails rather than compete in single-seat districts.