Sentence examples for voters representation from inspiring English sources

The only town in New York with more population, Hempstead, with about 725,000, converted to districts last year after losing a civil rights suit to foster black and Hispanic voters' representation.

Since 1999, Scots have had their own elected assembly in Edinburgh as well as their seats in the British Parliament, which opponents of independence argue gives Scottish voters representation at two levels of government decision-making, more than they would have with their own separate state.

The Justice Department's efforts to equalize voter representation by dividing Passaic into districts are unlikely to be successful.

The California Legislature on Tuesday sent the governor a bill aimed at improving minority voter representation on city councils.

In 1962, Baker v. Carr elucidated the doctrine while limiting it, holding that despite the seemingly political nature of legal challenges to legislative districts and voter representation, voters held a justiciable right to representation in the House of Representatives on a numerically equal basis as voters in other districts.

The at-large voting system in Charleston County, S.C., deprives black voters of representation and should be dismantled, the Justice Department maintains in what will most likely be the last civil rights case brought by the Clinton administration.

Clark Vasey, from the Blue Collar Conservatism group which aims to boost the appeal of David Cameron's party among working-class voters, said: "Representation based upon ability will allow talented people whether they work in a factory, a shop or drive a bus to take on leadership roles within their communities and bring a real understanding of the needs of that community.

"Unfortunately, the opinion did not address the rights of American voters to equal representation," he said.

Rather than ousting Republicans, the main Democratic goal in redistricting is likely to be satisfying the demand of Hispanic voters for more representation.

Similarly, in the standard forms of proportional representation voters rank one party or group of candidates first, and all other parties and candidates last.

The coming election could leave a seriously large proportion of Turkey's voters with no representation in the new parliament whatever.