| Staff travel is limited to official business and the Commons bankrolls some free travel between the constituency and London for family members. |
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| He represents the Meath constituency in the Dail and as a result of his appointment will resign his seat and a by-election will be held in Meath. |
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| But to succeed in elections, they must appeal to their core constituency of extremely conservative voters in the south. |
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| The Minister, who represents the Hacketstown constituency, expressed his delight that the project was now completed. |
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| However, in a series of manoeuvres, government whips agreed to his demands for two undisclosed concessions to benefit his constituency. |
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| Five contenders for the rural constituency were asked their opinion on a decision to shelve flood defence plans for Pickering. |
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| The redrawing of constituency boundaries reaches its crunch decision point early this month. |
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| The figures under the heading IEP relate to constituency office IT costs, stationery and incidental expenses. |
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| Offices required popular election, and tribunes represented a plebeian constituency. |
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| They rather spend more time on their personal business and respective interests in the constituency from where they hail. |
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| The alternative can't be a far right party with a very limited constituency and an openly divisive agenda. |
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| Every member of the Cabinet has been scheduled to visit the constituency in the run-up to the election. |
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| As for his constituency neglect rebuke, Francis contends that his claims still stand. |
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| He owns the 250-bedroom Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney, the heart of the minister's constituency. |
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| I'm up to my armpits in constituency work, but 30,000 hits from the public on the parliament's website over chronic pain haunts me. |
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| He vacillates between serving a rump nationalist constituency and seeking closer ties with the international community. |
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| They are running two candidates again, one from each end of the constituency. |
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| Fine Gael is to run two candidates in the renamed East constituency, which has been reduced to a three seater. |
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| If the party chooses to run only two candidates, it is certain they will come from either side of the constituency. |
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| There are a large number of schools in other parts of the country and in my own constituency which require urgent work. |
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| It also sets out no guidelines on whether votes will be broken down by constituency or nation. |
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| The constituency is currently a Tory seat with a majority of 11, 238 in the last election. |
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| The soft life they lead nowadays as constituency members is just unbelievable compared with the good old days. |
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| All I ask now is that I be allowed to continue my constituency and Parliamentary work and responsibilities as a backbencher. |
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| But here he is, threatening to go on and on, surrounded by fawning Labour ministers, backbenchers and constituency delegates. |
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| One nomination has been received so far for the region's three new Maori constituency seats. |
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| The fact that he picked up votes right across the constituency and across the political divide is testimony to his popularity. |
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| Other party officials say that on the ground there is immense hostility to him and he has few supporters left in the constituency. |
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| There will be condign punishment for any MSP who fails to make at least one long and tedious speech a month about a minor constituency matter. |
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| Local councillors are almost powerless, and even the best constituency MP is unlikely to rock the boat against a three-line whip in Parliament. |
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| In a segmented radio market, there are indications that there is a substantial country music constituency in Dublin. |
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| And I believe that his policies sometimes reflect a political need to throw a bone to that constituency to keep them happy. |
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| He says he no longer has any real constituency or constituents and that this latest endeavour is all about his sense of self-importance. |
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| If four candidates on a single ticket were all to get into Legco they would require the support of nearly the entire constituency. |
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| In every constituency there are men and women who want to rescue the party from the cuckoos in its nest. |
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| Oppositon to post office closures in the Twickenham constituency was highlighted again this week as questionnaires and petitions were completed. |
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| Letters inviting people to vote by post have been sent out by the three main parties in a Southend constituency against official advice. |
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| He was a great servant of the Conservative Party, a devoted constituency member and a very good friend. |
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| Clad in a white kurta-pyjama and a Gandhi topi, he brags about his contribution to the 10-lakh voters in the constituency. |
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| Residents also ask constituency assistants about bread-and-butter money issues. |
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| A wise politician would be mindful of what his constituency had to say, but he should not be dictated to. |
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| There are 15 declared candidates in the Mayo constituency for the General Election and I have met every one of them over the years. |
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| The great tribune of the people lost the confidence of his constituency party. |
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| A shortlist of candidates is drawn up by the constituency association and a number of interviews reduces the number of applicants to two. |
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| The days of Trots taking over constituency Labour parties did Labour no good. |
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| As it was, the true blue constituency was a Conservative walkover with three Tory candidates winning the three seats up for grabs. |
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| An impromptu march included several sit-downs, blocking of roads and a lobby of the constituency office. |
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| In communities across the province, people will visit constituency offices to stage sit-ins or protest outside. |
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| For a party with such a pleasant public image, they have ruffled some feathers with their uncompromising constituency campaigns. |
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| While the split among these so-called undecideds helped make the election as close as it was, they are not a meaningful political constituency. |
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| The bogey of community in peril was falsely raised to keep the constituency within the preserve of male candidates. |
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| So, we are dealing with a very powerful constituency of religious nuts now doing the muscle work for a criminal political gang. |
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| Her wild, rash and unprecedented bombast was a shameful act of utter disrespect, not only to her constituency but also to the nation. |
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| Growing up in a PNM-loyal family, I have been a supporter all my life in the Couva North constituency. |
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| Then in a sugary way he said he had no time for us and attends only to the people in his constituency. |
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| There is no constituency for protectionism, all the big firms want to go offshore because the labor savings are large. |
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| The eclectic newspaper package offered every constituency something special. |
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| He promised to work to the best of his ability for all of the people of the constituency. |
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| He admitted the election in his constituency was likely to be a close-run thing as the seat was traditionally hard fought. |
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| I would also like to thank the associations for fighting a clean campaign in this constituency. |
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| The writer's constituency was financial institutions and they were the target of the syndicators. |
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| These local leaders also need a constituency that will support their efforts to take new steps to encourage that viability. |
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| The seat was abolished following boundary changes in 1983, after which he represented the Selby constituency. |
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| Our image as a low-key, behind-the-scenes supporter of a small, niche constituency is gone. |
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| He stopped speaking of revenge and focused instead on issues affecting the small circle of voters in his constituency. |
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| If the mayor has limited clout on the council, it's partly because he has little constituency support in the city. |
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| But local and family history has built up a political constituency that ought to be respected. |
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| Mr Baxter has travelled thousands of miles criss-crossing the constituency. |
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| If the newspaper is looking for a constituency to support it, we are here and waiting for you. |
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| Now, according to at least some pollsters, his support among that core constituency is slipping. |
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| Should the lazy idiot constituency be encouraged to influence society even more than it already does? |
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| We internet junkies, like the direct mail discussed in the article, are a very narrow constituency. |
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| The president, elected from the national constituency, reflected a different set of popular wishes. |
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| And when the time came to work on projects, his constituency readily supported many of his decisions. |
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| He continues to express a long-felt pride and affection for his constituency and voters. |
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| Maybe it will encourage him to actually address the relevant issues in our constituency for a change! |
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| This is his home town, and it will become part of his constituency at the next general election. |
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| A major Democratic constituency, the feminist left, expects a fight against any of his nominees. |
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| The Tory college could consist of MPs, grassroots grandees consisting of constituency chairs and council leaders, and finally members. |
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| Both announcements were made in the constituency of Northern Ireland's first minister, Peter Robinson. |
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| There are some people in that music scene who are defining a political constituency and using it as a voting bloc to effect social change. |
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| What they've heretofore lacked was a constituency among the countries of Europe to work against that dominance. |
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| Richardson is the de facto head of fundraising for Fianna Fail and organises the key fund-raisers for Ahern's constituency operations. |
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| A local constituency office in Keighley has been targeted by vandals who have defaced the building with graffiti. |
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| With guns at least, there obviously is a very real constituency for anti-gun-control activism. |
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| Among the eight contestants in the constituency, five are backed by parties and most are political heavyweights. |
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| After taking a small break, his carcade proceeded to visit other areas in his constituency. |
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| There is a definite spring in the step of Jim as he continues his canvass of the constituency. |
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| They tried to block her getting the party chairmanship, but failed because of her independent power base in the constituency vote. |
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| He wasn't terribly popular in our part of the constituency and rumours, some of which have hardened into allegations, abounded. |
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| He hopes to be as accessible as possible, and is planning a summer tour of villages in the constituency. |
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| In 1892 he was elected Labour MP for the West Ham constituency in London, abetted by the fact that the Liberal candidate had stood aside. |
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| We have a cabinet minister in this constituency and its about time he delivered for us. |
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| The bulk of the new voters voted Yes, with the result that 66 per cent of voters in the constituency backed the referendum. |
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| The election in that constituency has been abandoned and a by-election will be held in a month's time. |
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| She thanked voters in the Bolton West constituency for the support they had shown for her campaign. |
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| Gibraltarians vote in elections to the European Parliament as part of the South-West England constituency. |
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| Conservative MPs, the constituency associations, and the party bureaucracy at Central Office are now united in a single organization. |
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| They faced little opposition because there were as yet no e-books, and thus no constituency of readers for them. |
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| It was not until 1919 that Swindon was cut loose from Cricklade to become an independent constituency. |
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| However, Sligo must wait and see what the new team for the constituency will deliver. |
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| Unless leaders are accountable to a constituency, there can be no true democracy. |
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| The PRSI changes cut to the quick of a constituency that she and her party hold dear. |
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| It is reported that the constituency is having difficulty finding enough members to make it quorate. |
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| It would give each councilperson an identifiable constituency, and constituents an identifiable representative. |
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| Donald's love of sport was not some kind of affectation designed to bring him street credibility in constituency walkabouts. |
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| In coordinate dependency, however, the order of clausal constituency seems to be intimately related to that of affixation. |
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| The constituency has 873,000 voters who also seem to be divided in their loyalties. |
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| The last time I saw Donald was in Labour's Scottish HQ with his constituency secretary, a pile of local constituency correspondence on his knee. |
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| The party also says he is available to talk to the media at regular intervals during his constituency tours around the country. |
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| Pericles developed a loyal, if informal, mass constituency of ordinary Athenians through speechmaking in the Assembly. |
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| To judge by the reaction Galloway gets walking the streets of his new constituency, King is not sorely missed. |
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| Instead of complaining about constituency boundaries, the Conservatives should back a referendum on the alternative vote. |
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| More than 80 percent of the voters in the constituency are landless peasants or poor farmers. |
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| Beknazarov represented the remote constituency of Aksy district, a poor region in the south of the country. |
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| Hanson represented a constituency to whom the idea of the truth, of the real, of honesty, of authenticity did matter. |
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| The DUP, while representing the farming constituency, also lays claim to a sizeable chunk of support from working-class Protestants. |
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| He was first elected in the Fianna Fail landslide of 1977, representing the old three-seater Dublin West constituency. |
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| Within four years, he was elected as the Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside, and continues to represent this constituency today. |
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| A left challenge to New Labour was launched at a vibrant convention of the left in the Brent East constituency last week. |
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| As the 1998 midterm elections approached, Republican lawmakers had no desire to alienate the conservatives who formed their core constituency. |
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| The Government has also lavished funds on the constituency over the past year and sent a record number of ministers to attend events there. |
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| Their analysis illustrates a dramatic increase in Conservative party spending at the constituency level in francophone ridings. |
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| Bringing farmers back onto the dole shrinks the constituency for limited government and tax cuts. |
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| Seriously, if the opposition could only open their eyes they would see a large and financially solvent constituency looking for a home. |
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| An anti-hunting MP was forced to go to earth in the face of a noisy protest at one of his routine constituency surgeries by angry Yorkshire hunt supporters. |
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| In the United States, the professional constituency for primary care is fragmented into family medicine, general internal medicine, and general paediatrics. |
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| Why are right-wingers on both sides of the pond so keen to court this constituency? |
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| The whys and wherefores of how the leader of the State became involved in a planning controversy a hundred miles from his own constituency has become a convoluted story. |
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| Many civil servants living in the constituency will understand that the battle is essentially a straight fight between Labour and the Conservatives. |
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| But as the epitome of a Middle England constituency, it's a vital seat for both parties and I'm looking forward to helping the Conservatives regain it. |
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| Hundreds commute on a daily basis from my constituency to the capital. |
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| If Representative workman wanted to serve his constituency well, he would look to create jobs for the masses. |
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| This connection provided the moral justification for foreign adventurism as well as a binding identity that linked it to a monarchist constituency at home. |
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| Frankly, ministers don't like being told what they can and can't do with English education spending by an MP who sits for a Scottish constituency. |
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| Silvio Berlusconi certainly knows how to typecast his potential constituency. |
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| On our behalf, they spoke to 400 voters across the constituency. |
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| Of course, the most important constituency to which the league appealed was the Irish-speaking population concentrated on the western and southern seaboards of the island. |
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| First, the other side has a huge advantage in money, incumbency and a constituency that benefits lopsidedly from the unrepresentative electoral college and senate. |
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| Living longer for someone like myself and my constituency allows for a superb quality of life. |
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| As Steve notes, giving all Iraqis a very concrete, material stake in the new regime would go a long way to securing a political constituency for the new order. |
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| Friends of the 63-year-old Speaker believe he wants to pass on the constituency to his son, who holds the matching seat in the Scottish Parliament. |
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| To get elected in her constituency, she promised jobs to everyone. |
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| It should be noted that her constituency includes Silicon Valley, which is where intuit is located. |
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| Moore is offensive in precisely the ways in which he sets out to be, through a thoroughgoing knowledge of his natural constituency and his natural antagonists. |
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| If Smith is such a great constituency Member of Parliament, why did he not get off his chuff and write to the Minister about the issues of which he speaks? |
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| Another target of the conservatives is the CIA director, a professional without a national constituency, who provides unvarnished information to the president. |
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| The party is banking on a voter swing away from the government but having both candidates so close together makes vote management difficult in the four seat constituency. |
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| The dark horse in this constituency is Cllr Finian McGrath, a school principal, who has worked with Dublin Central veteran independent, Tony Gregory. |
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| It follows reports that they failed to declare income from the sub-let of their constituency offices in Eastwood and Dumfries for at least a year. |
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| The axeman turned out to be none other than the 21-year-old PD candidate from Galway who polled 1,377 votes in the constituency in last month's general election. |
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| Griffiths clarified last night that he charges a market rent to the fees office, payable to him as owner of the office, for its legitimate use for an MP's constituency work. |
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| The United States also warred against and seriously weakened the Buddhist church movement, the second largest constituency organization in the South. |
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| Last week Lawlor failed to get elected as a councillor in a Clondalkin ward of the new Dublin mid-west constituency where he hopes to stand at the next general election. |
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| He pledged that the cash obtained from five sublets of his constituency offices when he was a Westminster MP would be paid back if the Commons instructed him. |
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| A representative sample poll of 4,000 people has a plus or minus one per cent chance of correctly calling the outcome of a national or constituency vote. |
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| He photographed the subway, including the real Pelham line, and its constituency in all their glorious degradation. |
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| The African American constituency isn't going to fall for this nonsense. |
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| The constituency most clamoring for executive action has already shown they expect little and will settle for nothing. |
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| There has been a lot of gerrymandering of the constituency boundaries. |
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| My constituency is in the outbacks and is a very backward one. |
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| He said the party had impoverished its supporters and predicted that they would turn against the ruling party, no matter how the constituency boundaries were gerrymandered. |
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| He was born to serve and served his primary constituency diligently. |
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| The constituency party was far from pleased to learn that its new MP, who was married with a small child, had been cavorting with women on Greek islands. |
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| Ballyhaunis man, Stephen Finn, has declared as an Independent candidate for the Claremorris Electoral constituency in the upcoming Local Elections. |
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| Public unions have also created conflict with racial minorities, another core Democratic Party constituency. |
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| The constituency is traditionally a battleground between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. |
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| The Isle of Wight was also the last constituency in England to declare its results. |
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| These areas do not overlap with constituency boundaries to get reliable data for election purposes as well. |
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| Sue Hayman is the MP for the constituency of the same name that includes other towns in Workington's hinterland. |
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| Aspiring members of parliament and the constituency Headman are also elected from each chiefdom. |
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| Candidates who won primary elections in the chiefdoms are considered nominees for the secondary elections at inkhundla or constituency level. |
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| The nominees with majority votes become the winners and they become members of parliament or constituency headman. |
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| In the Conservative Party, constituency Associations select their constituency's candidates. |
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| Once on the list, candidates are free to apply for selection in any constituency. |
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| Each constituency elects one MP by the first past the post system of election. |
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| The Proclamation also orders the issue of the formal Writs of Election which require an election to be held in each constituency. |
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| Results are declared in each individual constituency by the local returning officer. |
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| In the Westminster system, these ministers continue to represent their constituency in parliament while being part of the government. |
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| The results of the constituency vote has no effect on the outcome of the proportional vote. |
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| In systems that use constituencies, apportionment or districting defines the area covered by each constituency. |
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| A safe seat is one that is very unlikely to be won by a rival politician due to the makeup of its constituency. |
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| Client politics and pork barrel politics are associated with constituency work. |
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| Dunwich was abolished as a constituency in 1832, when what remained of the village became part of the new Eastern Suffolk county division. |
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| He spent part of each summer in Scotland, with golf, constituency matters, and time at Balmoral as duty minister. |
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| Only persons who can demonstrate a connection to the sector are eligible to run in a functional constituency. |
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| When a Member simply points at another whose constituency he or she cannot remember, Hansard identifies him or her. |
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| The Northampton constituency was established in 1295, which returned two MPs to the House of Commons. |
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| However, East Hunsbury, West Hunsbury and Nene Valley are included in the South Northamptonshire parliamentary constituency. |
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| In the same year he succeeded George Canning in the important constituency of Liverpool. |
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| Millom is within the Copeland UK Parliamentary constituency and the North West England European Parliamentary constituency. |
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| John Woodcock has been the MP for the constituency since the 2010 general election. |
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| Hawkshead is part of the Westmorland and Lonsdale parliamentary constituency and is represented in parliament by MP Tim Farron. |
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| The paper was first published in 1868 by Mitchell Henry as part of his Parliamentary election campaign for the Manchester constituency. |
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| Don Valley is the local UK parliamentary constituency near the Doncaster stretch of the river. |
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| The disenfranchisement took effect on 25 June 1885, when the town was transferred to the East Cheshire constituency. |
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| The constituency was held for two decades during the 20th century by Cyril Smith, first of the Liberal Party and then of the Liberal Democrats. |
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| Politically, the constituency of Southport has been a key battleground between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. |
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| A Solider of Fortune slam piece sought to devalue Gritz among his own jingoistic constituency. |
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| At this stage, her husband could probably run as a Unionist and poll better in the famously West Brit constituency. |
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| Could some of ideas in Open Marriage now be providing the same rationale for male randiness in an older constituency? |
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| The Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency was considered to be the safest Labour seat in Scotland since its creation 15 years ago. |
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| Yesterday Ms Windle, who lives in Hull, was driving her boss around on constituency business in her red Mini Cooper. |
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| One is Chancellor Mr Osborne's constituency of Cheshire East, the other is North Yorkshire. |
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| Charan Das Mahant is currently the lone Congress party MP in the Lok Sabha from Chhattisgarh, representing Korba constituency. |
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| A SWITCHEROO candidate has been selected to fight the Ochil and South Perthshire constituency for the SNP in the general election. |
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| Kabogo was authorizing a coolant and a milk pasteurizer at Muguga Dairy Farmers Coperative Society in Kabete constituency. |
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| Tenders are invited for Engaging of tractors with hydraulic trailer for loading garbage at east constituency in guntur municipal corporation. |
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| Candidates for each constituency are chosen by political parties or stand as independents. |
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| The challenge in all of this, Booth acknowledges, is to bring new customers to Volvo without alienating its core constituency. |
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| Houghton and Sunderland South was the first constituency to declare in the 2015 general election. |
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| They are represented in the UK Parliament as part of the St Ives constituency. |
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| Elections in the constituency have traditionally been a battle between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. |
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| The North West England European Parliament constituency has the same boundaries as the Region. |
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| Yorkshire was represented at this time as one single, large, county constituency. |
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| Yorkshire and the Humber is a constituency for European elections, returning six MEPs to the European Parliament. |
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| These are York Central, which covers the inner urban area, and is entirely surrounded by the York Outer constituency. |
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| The whole of the city and local council area lies within the Yorkshire and the Humber constituency of the European Parliament. |
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| Since 1950 each Member of Parliament has represented a single constituency. |
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| A member is also traditionally allowed some leeway if the particular interests of his constituency are adversely affected. |
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| A notable exception came in Fox's own constituency of Westminster which contained one of the largest electorates in the country. |
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| That year, John Wilkes returned to England, stood as a candidate in the general election, and came top of the poll in the Middlesex constituency. |
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| In practice, it may have had the effect of lending more power to constituency parties and making candidates more uniform. |
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| Members of the public join the party by becoming part of a local constituency association. |
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| It has branches at both universities and at parliamentary constituency level. |
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| Finally, the Speaker continues to represent his or her constituency in Parliament. |
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| However, they are entitled to take part in constituency politics, and to make their views known on these matters. |
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| Cameron's constituency home is in Dean, Oxfordshire, and the Camerons have been described as key members of the Chipping Norton set. |
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| The party with the highest quotient is awarded the seat, which is then added to its constituency seats in allocating the second seat. |
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| Working with Ramsay MacDonald and Sidney Webb, Henderson in 1918 established a national network of constituency organizations. |
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| On the constituency vote the SNP gained 11 seats from Labour but lost the Edinburgh Southern constituency to the party. |
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| Constituency Associations are composed of delegates from all of the Branches within the constituency. |
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| A burgh constituency is now one with a predominantly urban electorate, and a county constituency is one with more than a token rural electorate. |
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| Scotland had 32 burgh constituencies, 38 county constituencies and one university constituency. |
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| Each constituency was entirely within a county or a grouping of two or three counties. |
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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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| Each constituency is entirely within a council area or a grouping of two or three council areas. |
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| In 2010, the party gained its first MP in Caroline Lucas, who represents the constituency of Brighton Pavilion. |
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| At the 1992 general election, local Greens entered an electoral alliance with Plaid Cymru in the constituency of Ceredigion and Pembroke North. |
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| Northern Ireland itself forms a single constituency for elections to the European Parliament. |
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| They are taken into consideration when drawing up Parliamentary constituency boundaries. |
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| The European constituency of Yorkshire and the Humber is coterminous with the English region. |
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| From the 2004 election onwards, Gibraltar has been included within the constituency for the purpose of elections to the European parliament only. |
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| London is covered by a single Parliamentary constituency in the European Parliament. |
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| This ward forms part of the Westminster North parliamentary constituency, represented by Labour MP Karen Buck. |
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| This ward forms part of the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency, represented by Labour MP Tulip Siddiq. |
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| Derbyshire residents are part of the electorate for the East Midlands constituency for elections to the European Parliament. |
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| Nottingham has three UK parliamentary constituency seats within its boundaries. |
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| For elections to the UK Parliament, Ely is part of the South East Cambridgeshire constituency. |
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| For elections to the European Parliament, Ely is part of the East of England constituency. |
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| Since 1983, Ripon has been part of the Skipton and Ripon constituency, a Conservative Party stronghold. |
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| In 1983 Rugby became part of the parliamentary constituency of Rugby and Kenilworth, one of the Midlands' most marginal seats. |
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| In the 2010 general election, the existing Rugby and Kenilworth constituency was abolished and split in two. |
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| The constituency was created by a Royal Charter of 1603 and returned two members of parliament. |
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| In 1602 John Donne was elected as Member of Parliament for the constituency of Brackley, but this was not a paid position. |
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| Members may call each other directly by name, rather than by constituency or cabinet position, and hand clapping is allowed. |
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| Currently, the average Scottish Parliament constituency comprises 55,000 electors. |
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| It prevents individuals from standing as candidates in both constituency and regional seats. |
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| Labour had 29 members in the Assembly at the time, all of whom held constituency seats. |
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| Alun Cairns, who represents the Vale of Glamorgan constituency in the Westminster Parliament, is currently the Secretary of State for Wales. |
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| So we had to settle on the existing constituency arrangements, parliamentary constituencies and European Constituencies. |
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| Kawczynski also pointed out that the average number of voters in a parliamentary constituency is larger in England than in Scotland. |
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| Conservative leader Ruth Davidson currently represents the Edinburgh Central constituency. |
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| For elections to the European Parliament, Belfast is within the Northern Ireland constituency. |
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| In the 2015 UK general election, Belfast elected one MP from each constituency to the House of Commons at Westminster, London. |
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| Today they are used chiefly for purposes of local administration and electoral constituency. |
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| It also authorised the use of multiple polling places within the same constituency, and limited the duration of polling to two days. |
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| Acts of Parliament passed in 1835 and 1836 increased the number of polling places in each constituency, and reduced polling to a single day. |
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| He did not defeat the incumbent Whig member, Henry Labouchere, but the Taunton constituency was regarded as unwinnable by the Tories. |
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| In the election in July 1837 Disraeli won a seat in the House of Commons as one of two members, both Tory, for the constituency of Maidstone. |
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| In the 1847 general election, Disraeli stood, successfully, for the Buckinghamshire constituency. |
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| In December 1878, he was offered the Liberal nomination at the next election for Edinburghshire, a constituency popularly known as Midlothian. |
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| Thatcher returned to the backbenches as the parliamentarian for her constituency after leaving the premiership. |
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| Orkney is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, a constituency of the Scottish Parliament, a lieutenancy area, and a historic county. |
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| In the European Parliament the city forms part of the Scotland constituency, which elects six Members of the European Parliament. |
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| It elects nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituency members and seven of the 56 additional members. |
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| The city formerly had only one constituency until 1983 when the city was split into Newport West and Newport East due to population growth. |
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| This term is sometimes also used to refer to elections for multiple winners in a particular constituency using bloc voting. |
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| In the European Parliament the area is within the Scotland constituency, which covers all of the 32 council areas of Scotland. |
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| The boundaries of one constituency had been established since the 1918 general election, the other two since the 1983 general election. |
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| Like other members, they are elected initially to represent only a constituency. |
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| A county borough was the constituency of a county corporate, combining the franchises of both county and borough. |
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| Clacton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. |
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| Apart from the North Sea it is surrounded by the Harwich and North Essex constituency on all other sides. |
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| The electoral wards used to form the Clacton constituency are entirely within the district of Tendring. |
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| Gerry Adams won the Belfast West constituency with Danny Morrison only 78 votes short of victory in Mid Ulster. |
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| A modified D'Hondt method, using the constituency results, is used to calculate which additional member MSPs the regions elect. |
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| Additional member seats are allocated from the lists by the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation. |
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| MacDiarmid stood in the Glasgow Kelvingrove constituency in the 1945 and 1950 general elections. |
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| I recall, Anderson went on, the fine story of a Welsh mystery tour by bus from Cwmrhydyceirw in my constituency. |
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| Candidates who succeed in being elected to a constituency seat will then have their name removed from the regional list process. |
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| In the remaining member states, the whole country forms a single constituency. |
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| Four weeks are allocated as constituency week to allow members to do exclusively constituency work. |
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| The corporate area name is also that of a constituency, but boundaries are different. |
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| Inverness Burghs was a district of burghs constituency, covering the parliamentary burghs of Inverness, Fortrose, Forres and Nairn. |
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| As created in 1918, Inverness covered the county minus Outer Hebridean areas, which were merged into the Western Isles constituency. |
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| The Inverness constituency included the former parliamentary burgh of Inverness. |
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| In 1918 the Caithness constituency and Wick were merged into the then new constituency of Caithness and Sutherland. |
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| Dumfries lies in the UK Parliament constituency of Dumfries and Galloway which is represented by Alister Jack of the Scottish Conservative Party. |
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| Gladstone won his constituency election in Midlothian and also in Leeds, where he had also been adopted as a candidate. |
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