Sentence examples for single constituencies from inspiring English sources

In Brazil, where entire states count as single constituencies, campaigns are ruinously expensive.

These days, a few small countries, including Israel and the Netherlands, treat their entire populations as single constituencies, and thereby get almost perfectly proportional representation.

States act as single constituencies, so the 70 deputies for São Paulo must canvass 30m voters.Congressional leaders favour a change under which voters would in effect choose individuals regardless of party.

He wants a minimum vote-share for parties to enter Congress and smaller constituencies (currently, states vote as single constituencies and some are very large: São Paulo has a population of 44m).

Yet it failed to win a single constituency.

Her problem extends beyond any single constituency group.

It looks like we will be beaten in every single constituency election".

"Not a single constituency emerges well from this story," he writes.

(The whole nation is a single constituency; there are no districts).

Therefore a new selection will have to take place in every single constituency.

"This programme is about creating jobs in every single constituency in the UK.