Sentence examples for system of constituencies from inspiring English sources

Only at the lowest level the municipalities is there a system of constituencies (or "wards") and then only for half the seats.

"Certainly they're going to win a majority of the votes, an overwhelming majority of the votes, but they're not going to win a majority of the seats," because of a complex system of constituencies heavily weighted in favor of pro-government candidates, said Michael DeGolyer, a Hong Kong Baptist University pollster.

In essence, Mr Tung proposes that, though 20 of the 60 seats are to be chosen by proportional representation and universal suffrage, fully half the seats will be assigned to industry groups under the iniquitous system of functional constituencies.

We explored the performance assessment framework and system of each constituency, the embeddedness of performance data in management and policy processes, and the interrelationships between the frameworks.

Research by the Centre for Policy Studies, ahead of the 2011 referendum on changing the voting system, suggested 85% of constituencies representing about 39 million voters are either marginal or give voters a reasonable chance of changing their MP.

But the national parliament's system of single-member constituencies would have to go.

He wants a political reform, partly to sweep away the electoral system of two-member constituencies bequeathed by Pinochet.

The electoral system of two-member constituencies tends to over-represent the right; some laws require a supermajority of four-sevenths.

It is propped up by an electoral system of two-member constituencies, devised by Pinochet as one of several measures to ensure that the right, then a minority, would maintain a veto over change.

A plebiscite was held to decide whether Nunavut should have the world's first system of two-member constituencies in which the seats would be split evenly between men and women.

But Hong Kong has a complex system of multiple-seat geographic constituencies, in which voters choose slates of candidates.