Sentence examples for the constituency system from inspiring English sources

For Ms Yingluck's party, Pheu Thai, the only unacceptable demand would be a wholesale review of the constituency system.

The price of the constituency system in Westminster is that parties concentrate overwhelmingly on a small number of seats deemed decisive.

A contorted first-past-the-post constituency system let the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy sweep 79 of 80 seats with little more than 60% of votes.

And that is why I propose enhanced African representation at the IMF, increased African representation in the World Bank and a constituency system for the G20 where Africa can be permanently and fully represented along with other non-G20 countries of the world.

After the first round, on the present FPTP, single-member constituency system, all parties would keep the seats they had won.

Reforms in the nineteenth century, however, integrated the Cinque Ports into a regular constituency system applied throughout the nation.

And it documents a yet weightier fact: that Britain's constituency system is now heavily biased against the Tories.Support for Conservatives is spread fairly evenly across the country.

Setting thresholds for small parties and fashioning a constituency system would also help.

None won a seat.Nonetheless, both male and female Kuwaitis were keener to vote under a new constituency system which is meant to be harder to rig.

Ms Rousseff's Workers Partyy (PT) wants public financing of campaigns and a closed list of candidates chosen by party leaders; others want to switch to a constituency system.

Early in his career, he competed for votes in the same district as two former prime ministers, Mr. Nakasone and Takeo Fukuda, under a multiseat constituency system that was recently abandoned.