Moreover, in some cases regulation is not even intended to further the public interest, being tailored to the needs of particular constituencies. |
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In some states tacit agreements may strengthen the majorities of each party in its own constituencies. |
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Many such constituencies are safe seats where the same party regularly wins with an unassailable majority. |
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Six members of the legislative assembly are elected from each of the existing 18 Westminster parliamentary constituencies. |
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He blamed their electoral rout on the party MPs' neglect of their constituencies. |
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Mysterious extra voters appeared on the voting rolls in some constituencies. |
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Half of the seats are apportioned to winning parties and half to candidates elected from so-called single-mandate constituencies. |
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The Council of Guardians, an institution that stands above parliament, has annulled the election results of 12 constituencies so far. |
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The Andorran parliament includes twenty-eight members, half elected by local constituencies and half by national votes. |
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Currently, 25 constituencies are represented, and 17 constituencies are without a minister or minister of state. |
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It is ridiculous to suggest that this relationship would become more remote if there were single-seat constituencies. |
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The President wants to have all regions, districts and constituencies linked together. |
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They are increasingly fashionable, articulate, urban and upper class, even as they know their constituencies backwards. |
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Every other Labour government has seen big unions holding the line against radical constituencies. |
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They will become even more responsible if development in their constituencies is formally graded, ranked in order of merit and made public. |
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Counting begins at 9am in 39 constituencies and the agonised waiting also starts for some 400 candidates vying for a total of 153 seats. |
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However, unless the message is spread around the constituencies by the people on the ground, he may as well be whistling in the wind. |
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Maybe this is a true democracy, since politicians do respond to the feebleminded demands of their constituencies. |
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Some of the constituencies may be hotly contested and therefore, competition is likely to be stiff. |
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The UK's worst six constituencies for premature death and infant mortality are inside Glasgow's city boundaries. |
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The Green Party is fielding candidates in only 114 constituencies, but hopes to gain its first seat in the Commons this year. |
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The Liberal Party will field another nine candidates for functional constituencies. |
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Apart from the trio, the party will field nine candidates in the functional constituencies. |
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Bombay has six constituencies equipped with electronic voting machines with anti-rigging safeguards. |
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You will likely find that different user constituencies have very different needs and goals. |
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It is much easier for minor or new parties to gain votes in parliamentary systems, where voters elect individual members in constituencies. |
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What needs to be understood about the situation is that both leaders are hostage to their own constituencies. |
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Voters in multi-seat constituencies are asked to rank their candidate preferences on a ballot paper. |
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Some 3,3 million voters registered go to the polls in 31 constituencies to elect senators for a re-introduced upper house. |
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Members of Parliament are elected from 650 single-member constituencies in plurality elections. |
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In a new two-tier voting system, 400 members of the House of Representatives will be elected directly by voters in 400 constituencies nationwide. |
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He represented three different Dublin constituencies before losing his seat last June in the nationwide collapse of the Fine Gael vote. |
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Voting in constituencies where results were annulled was to take place at an as yet unscheduled time. |
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People stayed away from the polls in their thousands during by-elections in two opposition-held constituencies in Zimbabwe. |
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This year the scheme will be extended to 200,000 people in 15 wards in the parliamentary constituencies of Brightside, Central and Hallam. |
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The network will also take a look at constituencies with key Asian interests across the country. |
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Among their obligations is observing the Regional Election Commissions in all the constituencies in their regions. |
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Despite the notional use of single-member constituencies, this is in effect what happens in Malaysia. |
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Such is the sullenness towards him in some constituencies of opinion that they don't want to hear him when he wants to reach out to them. |
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Does he sometimes straddle difficult issues in an effort to please multiple constituencies? |
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A proliferation of media outlets emerged to serve specialized interests and constituencies as a consequence of economic reform. |
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Like the Dalai Lama, she would then be able to work the relevant political and media constituencies. |
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Macrolevel interventions can trigger competition between constituencies with opposing values and are often controversial. |
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There are straws in the wind that could influence the outcomes in marginal urban and extra-urban constituencies. |
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Military power has a way of creating some political constituencies for itself. |
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That is an awful lot of political constituencies to which accountability is required. |
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In fact, to read through most rap lyrics is to wonder which adults or political constituencies wouldn't take offense. |
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Their proactive constituencies espouse approaches that their opponents claim overshadow more important issues. |
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We got a quarter of the vote in both parliamentary constituencies in the London borough of Newham. |
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But it did win significant shares of the vote in some of the 120 constituencies where it put up a candidate. |
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They could then reduce the political contest to one between core, politically active constituencies. |
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The boundaries of constituencies in both parliaments would be coterminous in order to allow clear local political accountability. |
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The three aspirants are already out of the race as elections in their constituencies had been countermanded. |
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The Liberals have become a right-wing reactionary party, forfeiting their claim to conservative ideals and constituencies. |
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The selection of candidates is a jealously guarded prerogative of the constituencies. |
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Political leaders need not only geographical but also ideological constituencies. |
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The present administration is a coalition reflecting a delicate balance between various constituencies. |
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So it is important, too, that political parties be inclusive and consultative with their constituencies and supporters on an ongoing basis. |
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Like their counterparts elsewhere in the world, most Taiwanese politicians favor tax cuts to appease their constituencies. |
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From this point forward, Europeans and Americans engaged in artistic endeavors were divided into two increasingly distinct constituencies. |
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In addition to the expectations of domestic constituencies, Lula must confront the antagonistic pressures of external interests and institutions. |
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The last four come from functional constituencies in which they won uncontested elections. |
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In both cases, significant constituencies had been left to rot, unattended, and they'd had enough. |
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This strategy seems to be aimed also at co-opting key constituencies such as Transjordanians and the business community. |
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It is Labour MPs from deprived constituencies, their minds now concentrated by reduced majorities, who will lead the charge. |
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The new Commons will be smaller than the old 659-seat House, which has been shorn of 13 Scottish constituencies because of devolution. |
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Shi'ite sheikhs could represent their small tribal constituencies, just as Sunni sheikhs could represent their followers. |
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Ministers on the council must answer to their national constituencies, but they can easily claim to have been outvoted in Brussels. |
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Mr Prentice has been named in a top 10 hit list of MPs they want to defeat in marginal constituencies. |
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The major problems seem to be fragmentation, deficient base in popular constituencies and insufficient links between civic and political efforts. |
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Only the leading two parties go through to the second round in each of 577 constituencies. |
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The different constituencies do not materially affect the semantic structure of the complex expression. |
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The election process alone succeeds in mimicking the cutthroat environment of campaign promises, schmoozing constituencies, and mindless pride. |
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The administration walked a political and social tightrope as it tried to satisfy the conflicting demands of all these constituencies. |
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Yet the port authority actually has little authority over its constituencies. |
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Not only did these relate to the realignment of counties within constituencies but also details on the transfer of voters between adjoining constituencies. |
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Mr Cullen said a publicity campaign will be run in the four new constituencies before the referendum vote to inform voters on the operation of the voting machine. |
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Equally, it must promote collegial decision-making in its organisational structure, based on broad consultation with and involvement of different social constituencies. |
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Finally, firms that were more dependent on constituencies that valued conformance with legitimate practices should have been less likely to downsize. |
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Fourteen members represent London constituencies, the other 11 are London-wide and their job is to scrutinise and monitor the mayor's performance. |
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The Conservative Party plans to use marketing software to identify potential supporters in key constituencies then telephone them to try to win their votes. |
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I think what we are looking at here is a new progressive political movement that will go beyond November in realigning political constituencies in this country. |
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Camp leadership should be able to live comfortably with its decisions, if those decisions are made with the advice and consideration of the constituencies supporting the camp. |
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It served to insulate agricultural policy both from competing domestic political constituencies and from American demands for trade liberalization. |
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Such ranking is carried out to respond to the interests of political constituencies and not primarily to the interests of the students engaged in the business of learning. |
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In doing so, the danger also exist that we might accentuate Africa's post-colonial particularity where politicians seek public office to serve ethnic constituencies. |
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The nature and interests of these constituencies were varied and illustrated the different ways in which working people had responded to the challenges of modernization. |
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The network's persuasiveness with Democratic constituencies and other voters will be the ultimate sign of how much of a breakthrough this online campaign achieves. |
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True, the Tories lost ground significantly at the 1715 general election, but in pocket boroughs rather than in counties and popular urban constituencies. |
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Billions of dollars are at stake, and large political constituencies influence and are influenced by choices of indices such as a cost-of-living index. |
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However, in rural lowland constituencies there is a widespread feeling that core issues such as depopulation, infrastructure and access get overlooked. |
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But a survey of 135 constituencies by the Guardian last month found record numbers of electors applying for postal votes, in some cases a tripling over four years ago. |
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They are not in a position where they can gerrymander constituencies. |
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Another issue that has caused problems between Congress and the White House has been gerrymandering and the mal-apportionment of Congressional constituencies. |
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It argues that organizations are constituted and reconstituted by their ongoing, negotiated, asset-creating interactions with diverse constituencies. |
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Counts and recounts of Friday's votes were continuing in three constituencies last night, with just a handful of the 166 seats still to be decided. |
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The short, 35-day campaign period starts Jan. 12, when candidates may start submitting nomination papers to returning officers in Nunavut's 19 constituencies. |
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If, however, the 60 deputies had been apportioned to the various constituencies on the basis of ordinary mathematical equality, the results would have been as follows. |
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In a frightening development for the GOP, Democrats had won even traditionally Republican constituencies in the Midwest. |
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He was roundly defeated not only where the Treasury could exert its influence, but also in the larger, more open constituencies where public opinion mattered. |
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It found that young people living in constituencies with safe seats, where parties see little incentive in engaging with the electorate, are a particularly worry. |
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But because these tax cuts have powerful, well-connected constituencies, it has been difficult to slay them. |
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The ACA was ingeniously designed to deliver benefits to Democratic constituencies and impose costs on Republican ones. |
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Against this sulfurous backdrop, Democrats and Republicans alike feel compelled to man the ramparts for their core constituencies. |
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I know the President has to play to his constituencies, but sheesh? |
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In civics classes, world politicians are elected to serve their constituencies and the nation, not to serve as errand boys for the moneyed classes. |
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The joy among backbenchers when McCreevy announced the programme last December was almost unconfined, as they scurried off to their constituencies to bask in the good news. |
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The concrete situation is in any case one where there are a number of different united fronts, each with its own distinct political constituencies. |
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The right to vote in Parliamentary elections for county constituencies was uniform throughout the country, related to land ownership. |
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This resulted in prominent Conservative ministers being unseated from their constituencies, including former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour. |
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During the 1980s and 1990s, as the number of Conservative MPs for Welsh constituencies dwindled almost to zero, the office fell into disrepute. |
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Forty are elected as constituency AMs and twenty are elected as additional members, four from each of five regional groups of constituencies. |
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Some of them would open up deep splits in core Democratic constituencies. |
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Amongst the constituencies gained was Gower, a seat held by Labour for over a century. |
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These are also constituencies of the European Parliament and NUTS 1 statistical regions. |
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There is a unionist presence at election time in all parliamentary constituencies. |
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Before the 2010 boundary changes Cornwall had five constituencies all of which were won by Liberal Democrats in the 2005 general election. |
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The University Senate is a unicameral body consisting of 107 members drawn from all constituencies of the university. |
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They are common in functional constituencies, and are not rare among geographical constituencies. |
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Southampton is divided into council wards, suburbs, constituencies, ecclesiastical parishes, and other less formal areas. |
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The original legislation made several significant changes to the way constituencies were to be reviewed. |
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The total of 600 constituencies required by the Act were allocated between the four countries of the UK as shown in the table below. |
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Westminster constituencies are usually created by combining entire electoral wards. |
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At a meeting held in February 2016, the Boundary Commission for Wales confirmed it would recommend 29 constituencies in September of that year. |
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The Welsh Commission published its recommendations on 13 September 2016, reducing the number of constituencies by over a quarter. |
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Forty of the AMs represent geographical constituencies, elected under the First Past the Post system. |
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The constituencies used are the same as those used for elections to the United Kingdom Parliament at Westminster. |
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So we had to settle on the existing constituency arrangements, parliamentary constituencies and European Constituencies. |
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Counties with greater populations have multiple constituencies, some of more than one county, but generally do not cross county boundaries. |
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As of 2017, the United Kingdom is divided into 650 constituencies, with 533 in England, 40 in Wales, 59 in Scotland, and 18 in Northern Ireland. |
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For electoral purposes, the city is divided into six of the nine constituencies in the Lothian electoral region. |
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The districts are further subdivided into 80 constituencies, which consist of 129 local community councils. |
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The secondary and final elections takes place at the various constituencies called Tinkhundla. |
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At the 2005 general election, there were 646 constituencies, thus 646 MPs were elected to Parliament. |
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In systems that use constituencies, apportionment or districting defines the area covered by each constituency. |
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These constituencies returned members of parliament hostile to the Prime Minister. |
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Furthermore, the sizes of the individual county constituencies varied significantly. |
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In Scotland, five existing constituencies gained members, and three new constituencies were formed. |
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Lords Lieutenant, High Sheriffs and the Governor of the Isle of Wight are also disqualified from seats for constituencies within their area. |
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Voters in some constituencies resisted outright domination by powerful landlords, but were often open to corruption. |
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Members had to travel to Westminster over a primitive road system, a real problem for those who represented more distant constituencies. |
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Northampton is subdivided into suburbs, council wards, constituencies, ecclesiastical parishes, and other less formal areas. |
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The Conservatives hold all 11 Parliamentary constituencies within the county borders. |
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He was scheduled to speak in five constituencies within five hours during his whistle-stop tour. |
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Dumka was among the four parliamentary constituencies in Jharkhand which went to polls on Thursday. |
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The Scottish Parliament constituencies are also components of that parliament's Highlands and Islands electoral region. |
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However, the original constituencies drawn in 1871 were never redrawn to reflect the growth of urban areas. |
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For Scottish Parliament elections, Dumfries is in the South Scotland electoral region and split between two constituencies. |
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He contended the election commission was empowered under Section 10-A of the Delimitation of Constituencies Act to redraw constituencies. |
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The most radical elements proposed universal manhood suffrage and the reorganisation of parliamentary constituencies. |
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Following the Commons vote, any redrawing of constituencies will be postponed at least for the next five years. |
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On Sunday, Sattar criticised the ECP for proceeding with redrawing constituencies. |
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The Holyrood constituencies are also subdivisions of the Highlands and Islands electoral region. |
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These two constituencies were created in 2011 as two of the nine constituencies within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region. |
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In England and Wales parliamentary constituencies remained unchanged throughout the existence of the Parliament. |
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Voting is taking place for 117 constituencies spread over 11 states and one union territory. |
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Our Tory MPs vote in London for the same cuts and cry crocodile tears when home in their constituencies. |
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As a result of the legislation, Scotland had 22 burgh constituencies, 32 county constituencies and two university constituencies. |
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However, two separate East and West constituencies are proposed for the island under the 2018 review now underway. |
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The Whig party won almost all constituencies with genuine electorates, leaving the Tories with little more than the rotten boroughs. |
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As a result of the legislation, there were 21 burgh constituencies and 30 county constituencies. |
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With the exception of Edinburgh, the burgh constituencies consisted of districts of burghs. |
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Constituencies are an electoral subdivision, with each county comprising a whole number of constituencies. |
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Singapore is a parliamentary republic with a Westminster system of unicameral parliamentary government representing constituencies. |
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Objections in respect of delimitations of the constituencies have to be heard. |
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This rural effect is further amplified by the malapportionment of voters between rural and urban constituencies. |
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The two constituencies cover a similar area to that of the city area controlled by Newport City Council. |
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Only the Scottish National Party, the Scottish Labour Party and the Scottish Conservative Party contested all constituencies. |
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The Reform Act itself did not affect constituencies in Scotland or Ireland. |
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While this was partly due to an electoral pact between unionist candidates, the SF vote fell in the four constituencies they contested. |
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For elections to the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, the city area is divided between three constituencies. |
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Information was passed between villages using drums, and griots would relate it to their constituencies orally. |
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In the 1918 general election, Carson switched constituencies from his former seat of Dublin University to Belfast Duncairn. |
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When created, all but two had the names and boundaries of Westminster constituencies. |
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The constituencies below are not used for the election of members to the 11 district councils. |
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There has been nothing but gerrymandering of Welsh constituencies by the two main Unionist parties in the last 30 years. |
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In the 2005 United Kingdom general election, the House of Commons had 646 constituencies covering the whole of the United Kingdom. |
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Compass points are used to distinguish constituencies from each other when a more suitable label cannot be found. |
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Until 1950 there were also university constituencies, which gave graduates an additional representation. |
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In most popular constituencies, the election was fought between candidates clearly representing either Pitt or Fox and North. |
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A small number of Radicals, generally from northern constituencies, were the strongest advocates of continuing reform. |
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The Conservative century was therefore a game of two halves with regard to the procedures for defining parliamentary constituencies. |
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The MPs are elected by proportionality in constituencies across the nation. |
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Scottish Westminster constituencies were first used in the 1708 general election. |
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In gerrymandering, constituencies are deliberately designed to unfairly increase the number of seats won by one party at the expense of another. |
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Borough constituencies are predominantly urban while county constituencies are predominantly rural. |
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Since the advent of universal suffrage, the differences between county and borough constituencies are slight. |
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Electoral areas called constituencies are also used in elections to the European Parliament. |
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All but three of the fifty nine constituencies in the country elected an SNP candidate. |
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It creates a number of constituencies in each of which O has an overwhelming majority of votes. |
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There was a Boundary Commission which changed all the constituencies for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election. |
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The same Scottish Parliament constituencies were used in the 2003 Scottish Parliament election and the 2007 Scottish Parliament election. |
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Of the 650 constituencies, 533 are in England, 59 in Scotland, 40 in Wales and 18 in Northern Ireland. |
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The Countries of the United Kingdom are divided into parliamentary constituencies of broadly equal population by the four Boundary Commissions. |
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All of the council area's constituencies were altered for the 1997 general election. |
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In Scotland, as a result of the legislation, there were 32 burgh constituencies, 37 county constituencies and two university constituencies. |
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The 1885 legislation detailed boundary changes but did not detail boundaries for all constituencies. |
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Scotland had 32 burgh constituencies, 38 county constituencies and one university constituency. |
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No new constituency straddled a regional boundary, and no islands council area was divided between two constituencies. |
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The party held onto just eight constituencies in Great Britain, with only one in Scotland, one in Wales and six in England. |
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At the same time, the SNP were to gain an unprecedented 11 MPs, unseating a number of Conservative MPs in rural constituencies. |
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Since 1999, the nine regions have also been used as England's European Parliament constituencies and as statistical NUTS level 1 regions. |
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There are 533 English constituencies, which because of their large number, form an inbuilt majority in the House of Commons. |
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South West England is one of the constituencies used for elections to the European Parliament. |
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For elections to the London Assembly, London is divided into 14 constituencies, each formed from two or three boroughs. |
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London is divided into 73 Parliamentary borough constituencies, formed from the combined area of several wards from one or more boroughs. |
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Results for all constituencies except Kensington were reported by the morning after the election. |
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In England, Labour made a net gain of 21 seats, taking 25 constituencies from the Conservatives and two from the Liberal Democrats. |
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These constituencies were represented by Hugh Bayley, John Greenway, John Grogan, and Anne McIntosh respectively. |
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Preston is currently divided between two Westminster constituencies, namely Preston and Wyre and Preston North. |
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From 1708, there were 45 single member constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain. |
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In some elected assemblies, some or all constituencies may group voters based on some criterion other than, or in addition to, the location they live. |
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Despite the court victory, Archer resigned as deputy chairman and rehabilitated himself by working as a party stalwart in backwood constituencies. |
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Candidates and supporters are reminded to refrain from visiting their constituents or attending public events within their constituencies on Cooling-off Day and Polling day. |
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In the Scottish Parliament, there are 73 constituencies and eight regions. |
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For the Parliament of the United Kingdom, there are 59 constituencies. |
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The remaining twenty AMs represent five electoral regions, each including between seven and nine constituencies, using the d'Hondt method of proportional representation. |
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The boundaries of the constituencies are determined by four permanent and independent Boundary Commissions, one each for England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. |
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The Libertarian Party was founded in 2008 and has contested several local elections and parliamentary constituencies, gaining some local councillors. |
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The county constituencies included, however, three pairs of alternating constituencies, so that only one member of a pair was represented at any one time. |
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The constituencies related nominally to counties and burghs, but boundaries for parliamentary purposes were not necessarily those for other purposes. |
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The constituencies again related nominally to counties and burghs but, again, boundaries for parliamentary purposes were not necessarily those for other purposes. |
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Typically a borough is covered by two or three constituencies. |
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The current set of Assembly constituencies is the second to be created. |
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There are two parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire. |
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The Act does not alter the structure and independence of the various boundary commissions that are responsible for carrying out reviews of constituencies. |
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While no constituencies were disfranchised in either of those countries, voter qualifications were standardised and the size of the electorate was expanded in both. |
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In some constituencies there was only one seat to be filled. |
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For elections to the British House of Commons at Westminster, the city area and portions of the Angus council area are divided in two constituencies. |
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The Holyrood constituencies were created for the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, with the names and boundaries of then existing Westminster constituencies. |
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The House of Assembly, or lower house, has 36 members, elected by the eligible voting populace in secret ballot to represent geographically defined constituencies. |
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Otherwise they should be designated as borough constituencies. |
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The spending limits for election campaigns are different in the two, the reasoning being that candidates in county constituencies tend to need to travel further. |
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An Interim Boundaries commission was formed in year 2010 to review the constituencies and in its report, it recommended creation of an additional 80 constituencies. |
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Previous to the 2013 elections, there were 210 constituencies in Kenya. |
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Iceland is divided into regions, constituencies and municipalities. |
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However there are also two separate constituencies that elect one Member of the Scottish Parliament each for Orkney and Shetland by the first past the post system. |
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Pursuant to this apportionment, the constituencies are formed. |
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Gladstone stood for South West Lancashire and for Greenwich, it being quite common then for candidates to stand in two constituencies simultaneously. |
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There are two British Parliamentary constituencies in the Borders. |
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Labour still won the most constituencies, but the SNP made inroads. |
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The Scottish National Party, the Scottish Labour Party, the Scottish Conservative Party and the Scottish Liberal Democrats fielded candidates in all 73 constituencies. |
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The 1997 general election saw the party fail to return any MPs in Scottish constituencies and returned only one MP in the 2001, 2005, 2010 and 2015 elections. |
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The party took the Ochil and South Perthshire and Stirling constituencies in central Scotland and missed out to the SNP in Perth and North Perthshire by just 21 votes. |
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Others included more autonomy for the Scottish party and the reorganisation of members into branches based on Holyrood constituencies rather than Westminster constituencies. |
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At the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections, the party lost all its mainland constituencies, retaining only the two constituencies of Orkney and Shetland. |
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The Scottish Green Party contested just three constituencies. |
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Rather than engaging in a formal pact, the DUP agreed not to contest Fermanagh and South Tyrone, while the UUP chose not to stand in four constituencies. |
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A number of local issue parties also stood in single constituencies. |
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The representation of the burghs and those of the shires and stewartries, by the time of the Union, consisted of 154 Commissioners elected from 99 constituencies. |
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There is less likely to be a strong incentive to parachute them into constituencies in which they are strangers and thus less than ideal representatives. |
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Glamorganshire was split from its two Members of Parliament to five, with the creation of constituencies for East, Mid and South Glamorganshire, Gower and Rhondda. |
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In the 2017 general election, Labour won all four of the Bristol constituencies, gaining the Bristol North West seat, seven years after losing it to the Conservatives. |
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However, following constitutional reforms in 1993, a number of them were restored as politically neutral constituencies of the state by the government of Yoweri Museveni. |
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The election was a resounding defeat for Robert McCartney who polled badly in the six constituencies he contested and even lost his own Assembly seat in North Down. |
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Namibia is divided into 14 regions and subdivided into 121 constituencies. |
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The island of Mauritius is divided into 20 constituencies that return three members each, while Rodrigues is a single constituency that returns two members. |
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The most recent National Assembly Election was held on 10 December 2014 in all the 20 mainland constituencies, and in the constituency covering the island of Rodrigues. |
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Historically, each session of a parliament would last less than one year, ceasing with a prorogation during which legislators could return to their constituencies. |
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Historically rotten and pocket boroughs, constituencies with unusually small populations, were used by wealthy families to gain parliamentary representation. |
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Federalism itself is an antimajoritarian mechanism for, by devolving power to smaller constituencies, it places some policy issues beyond the reach of the center's majority. |
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In 1624 a resolution was passed that Members of Parliament were given a trust to represent their constituencies and therefore were not at liberty to resign them. |
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A five-member bench of the apex court, led by Justice Anwer Zaheer Jamali, had ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan on November 29 to redraw constituencies in Karachi. |
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Mr Gregory, who lives Trealaw in the Rhondda, immediately set up his own People's Party and vowed to target Plaid voters in key constituencies in the Valleys. |
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At the party conference yesterday the South Belfast MP insisted the SDLP will stand candidates in all 18 constituencies as it aims to defend its three Parliamentary seats. |
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He directed provincial ministers to visit Sasti Roti Tandoors in their respective constituencies to make sure that the poor segments of society were being facilitated. |
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Events like the Ethernet Alliance TEF series are important for achieving greater collaboration and understanding between these synergistic constituencies. |
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During the 22-day tour ahead of the Delhi assembly polls, Kejriwal will visit all 70 constituencies in the union territory and interact with the people. |
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Glen Gabert, the initial focus will be to improve service and expand the level of support to the academic and administrative constituencies within the college. |
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The apex court also ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan to complete the delimitation of constituencies within five months of issuance of the court orders. |
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According to the reports, Sanaullah has also declared that the elections for the Local Government will be held in September on the existing delimitation of constituencies. |
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Rashidi said that delimitation of constituencies is an important issue regarding LB election and directed the party leaders to pay full attention towards delimitations. |
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