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It was a hot sunny day, but luckily their seats for the game were in the shade.
Members of a congregation began to spontaneously leave their seats and walk in the aisles inviting other members as they go.
Labour gained six seats from the SNP while the Liberal Democrats gained three.
Plaid Cymru retained their three existing seats and gained Ceredigion, the Lib Dems' only seat in Wales.
The swing to Labour was high in those seats with large numbers of young people.
The Scottish National Party emerged as the largest party with 47 seats, closely followed by the incumbent Scottish Labour Party with 46 seats.
The Scottish Socialist Party and the Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party, which won seats in the 2003 election, lost all of their seats.
Former MSP Tommy Sheridan's new party, Solidarity, also failed to win any seats.
Campbell Martin and Dr Jean Turner both lost their seats, and Dennis Canavan and Brian Monteith retired.
The party won 35 of the 59 Scottish seats, 21 fewer seats than in the 2015 election.
Acrylic paperweights and even toilet seats with bank notes embedded inside are also common.
Combined with additional temporary seating there was over 5,000 seats for the Games.
Some air charters brokers have been given economic authority to sell seats on private jets with mixed success.
Yes, I did look for two empty seats together so I could sit down with my wife, to talk to her.
Originally, there were no seats installed there to deter vagrants and crime, but these were added following complaints from passengers.
The election in 2003 produced an assembly in which half of the assembly seats were held by women.
Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, also have 3 seats after gaining a seat from Labour.
The Liberals increased their support only to 60 or so seats, while Labour became the largest party for the first time.
In Ireland, in the 2009 European election Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party took one of three seats in the capital Dublin European constituency.
On that imaginary island, gold is so abundant that it is used to make chains for slaves, tableware, and lavatory seats.
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They have three of these traditional Welsh boats with fixed seats and use these for races in Wales.
The Irish Parliamentary Party, led by John Redmond, achieved its seats with a relatively low number of votes, as 73 candidates stood unopposed.
The Liberal's landslide victory of 125 seats over all other parties led to the passing of social legislation known as the Liberal reforms.
The landslide Liberal victory led to many Conservative and Unionist MPs losing what had previously been regarded as safe seats.
In the model of AMS used in the United Kingdom, the regional seats are divided using a D'Hondt method.
The constituency seats won by each coalition would not reduce the number of proportional seats they received.
However, in 2011, the Scottish National Party won 69 seats, a majority of four.
Proportional representation systems aim to allocate seats to parties approximately in proportion to the number of votes received.
In general, exact proportionality is not possible because these divisions produce fractional numbers of seats.
This means the D'Hondt method is applied to the total number of votes in each province which then divides up the limited number of seats.
In this example, 230,000 voters decide the disposition of 8 seats among 4 parties.
It depends on the number of seats that are allocated with the D'Hondt method.
In most countries, seats for the national assembly are divided on a regional or even a provincial level.
In fact, the implementations of PR that achieve the highest levels of proportionality tend to include districts with large numbers of seats.
Mixed member systems are susceptible to gerrymandering for the local seats that remain a part of such systems.
Under MMP, the use of compensatory list seats makes gerrymandering less of an issue.
Some scholars recommend voting districts of roughly four to eight seats, which are considered small relative to PR systems in general.
A formal threshold usually requires parties to win a certain percentage of the vote in order to be awarded seats from the party lists.
A party is allocated seats in proportion to the number of votes it receives.
The count is cyclic, electing or eliminating candidates and transferring votes until all seats are filled.
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The list vote usually determines how many seats are allocated to each party in parliament.
Before apportioning list seats, all list votes for parties which failed to reach the minimum threshold are discarded.
If eliminated parties lose seats in this manner, then the seat counts for parties that achieved the minmum threshold improve.
Also, any direct seats won by independent candidates are subtracted from the parliamentary total used to apportion list seats.
Another factor can be how overhang seats are handled, district seats that a party wins in excess of the number due to it under the list vote.
The remaining seats are awarded in a compensatory manner to achieve proportionality across a larger region.
In the 2011 Welsh Assembly elections, Labour made gains, and won half of the seats in the National Assembly.
Labour was the biggest party with 26 out of the 60 seats, five short of an overall majority.
In 1906 the Welsh Liberals reached their peak when 35 of Wales' 36 seats had MPs who took the Liberal whip.
Total numbers of parliamentary seats, and vote percentages, are for Wales only.
Plaid Cymru became the Assembly's second largest party and the official opposition to the Welsh Government with 12 seats, one more than before.
The Conservative Party won 31 seats and became the second largest party for the first time.
The Scottish Greens took 6 seat and overtook the Liberal Democrats who remained flat on 5 seats.
The Pavilion Theatre is also on the East Parade, has over 1000 seats and is managed by Denbighshire County Council.
You might want to bring binoculars if you will be in the nosebleed seats, so that you can see the action on the stage better.
I swapped seats with my sister so she could see the stage better.
In the 1993 parliamentary election, the first held after unification, the General People's Congress won 122 of 301 seats.
The party or coalition of parties, with the majority of seats adjudicates committee members, introduces policies, and appoints the Lord Mayor.
The main production studio, the Blue Room, includes 100 tiered and retractable seats.
Guilford County, North Carolina, in some ways effectively has two county seats.
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Since 1965, following clashes between the two communities, the Turkish Cypriot seats in the House remain vacant.
However, the movement lost all its seats following the 1948 general election and the 1951 regional election.
Minimum production was 100 cars during 12 months and cars needed to have only two seats.
Increasingly, business people in a group have been chartering private carriages as opposed to individual seats on the train.
Power points were added to seats in First class and coaches 5 and 14 in Standard class.
It was not until elections in 2010 that an eighth party, the Sweden Democrats, gained Riksdag seats.
Cathedrals in other parts of Sweden were also built as seats of Sweden's bishops.
There are concrete plans to build a new stadium with a capacity of at least 63,000 seats.
With 25,000 seats, it can host football matches as well as other sporting and cultural events.
At the 2013 county council elections, control of Kent County Council was held by the Conservatives, which won 44 of the council's 83 seats.
As usual the customer overspecified the requirements, it's like asking for a car that seats 20 and fits in a compact car's parking space.
A lack of seat belts and unsecured seats meant they tumbled around inside the car.
As of May 2017, it holds 294 seats in the lower house and 121 seats in the upper house.
In the 2017 local elections the Conservatives regained majority control of the Council with UKIP and the Greens losing all of their seats.
In the 2015 General Election seven of these seats were won by the Conservative Party, one each by Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
In the 4 June 2009 council elections the Liberal Democrats gained four seats and, for the first time, overall control of the city council.
The increases were only enacted in 1861 after Southerners resigned their seats in Congress.
However the Conservatives did not have a majority of seats and had to rely on the support of the Liberal Unionist Party.
Labour, the Green Party, UKIP and the BNP failed to secure any seats in Cornwall.
The Conservatives lost 18 seats, meaning they were no longer the largest group in the Council.
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Since only one candidate stood for each of six 'Off Island' seats they were elected unopposed.
A craft may have two pilots' seats with dual controls, allowing two pilots to take turns.
At the 2017 General Election, the Conservatives captured 16 seats, continuing their dominance in the county.
At the 2017 general election, the Conservative Party was dominant, taking all eight seats.
On 16 October 2012, the Northern Irish Commission confirmed alterations to their proposed Antrim, Fermanagh and Tyrone seats.
Provisional notional results published in January 2012 calculated that the Conservatives could have won 299 seats under the new boundaries.
The Act also disenfranchised the boroughs of Newport and Yarmouth and replaced the six lost seats with the first MP for the whole Isle of Wight.
In Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maine the county seats are legally designated shire towns.
Sometimes sliding seats are used to enable the rower to use the leg muscles, substantially increasing the power available.
From the Middle Ages the Parliamentary Borough of Newport had two seats in the House of Commons.
The House of Representatives is democratically elected and a government is formed from the party or coalition with the majority of seats.
An example is Harrison County, Mississippi, which lists both Biloxi and Gulfport as county seats.
In Louisiana, which is divided into parishes rather than counties, county seats are referred to as parish seats.
In the 2008 election, the ruling CDU held on to its position as the leading party in the state, despite losing votes and seats.
In the 1994 parliamentary elections, the Democratic Agrarian Party gained a majority of the seats, setting a turning point in Moldovan politics.
Other 10 cities, including the Comrat and Tiraspol, the administrative seats of the two autonomous territories, also have municipality status.
His successor Dagobert I reinforced the walls of Mainz and made it one of his seats.
Monasteries and episcopal seats were shrewdly awarded to elites who supported the dynasty.
The Danish Folketing, has 179 seats, including two seats each for the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
The Icelandic Althing has 63 seats, the Norwegian Storting 169 seats and the Swedish Riksdag 349 seats.
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Sikh clergy consists of five Jathedars, one each from five takhts or sacred seats.
A large number of international institutions have their seats in Switzerland, in part because of its policy of neutrality.
Most of the cantons' legislatures are unicameral parliaments, their size varying between 58 and 200 seats.
Three seats are held by the SPD, 4 by the CDU, and one seat each by the FWG, the FDP and the Greens.
Kabbah's ruling Sierra Leone People's Party also won majority seats in Parliament.
Municipal elections followed in late 1992, in which the MLSTP won a majority of seats on five of seven regional councils.
In early legislative elections in October 1994, the MLSTP won a plurality of seats in the Assembly.
The Prime Minister is the head of government and is the leader of the party with the most seats in the House of Assembly.
A general election took place on 7 August 1967, and the Labour Party and its two allies obtained the majority of seats.
The political party or party alliance that wins the majority of seats in Parliament forms the government.
Reapportionment following the 2010 United States Census gave the state two more seats in the House of Representatives.
Infrastructure projects improved or created docks, roads, monuments and sporting facilities mostly in the capital and municipal seats.
Anova obtained 9 seats in the 2012 Galician election as part of the Galician Left Alternative coalition.
The Liberal Party saw their percentage of the vote decrease dramatically, and their representation in the Parliament fell to seven seats.
Many gondolas are lushly appointed with crushed velvet seats and Persian rugs.
The House contains 360 seats, with the number of seats per state is determined by population.
In other congregations, communicants may proceed to the altar to receive the elements, then return to their seats.
Senators are both Democrats, while Republicans hold nine of the state's fourteen US House seats.
This case arose out of a lawsuit challenging the longstanding rural bias of apportionment of seats in the Tennessee legislature.
In the 2017 assembly elections, the Indian National Congress gained the maximum number of seats with the BJP coming in second.
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The head of government of each province, called the premier, is generally the head of the party with the most seats.
Knesset seats are allocated among the various parties using the D'Hondt method of party list proportional representation.
The new system retained the existing 80 elected Assembly seats, but added 40 seats to be filled on a proportional basis.
The Internal Settlement left control of the Rhodesian Security Forces, civil service, judiciary, and a third of parliament seats to whites.
Morgan Tsvangirai did not participate in the Senate elections, while the Mutambara faction participated and won five seats in the Senate.
This continued until March 2007 when the Legislative Council was reestablished and elections were held for its seats.
Under the House of Lords Act 1999, only life peerages automatically entitle their holders to seats in the House of Lords.
The remaining two hold their seats by right of the hereditary offices of Earl Marshall and Lord Great Chamberlain.
Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats remain the third largest political party in the House of Lords, with over 100 seats.
The European Parliamentary Elections Act 1993 increased the number to 87, adding five more seats in England and one more in Wales.
The upper house of a parliament customarily has anywhere from 20 to 200 seats, but almost always significantly fewer than the lower house.
However, this can result in the distribution of seats not reflecting the national vote totals.
As a result, some countries have leveling seats to award to parties whose seat totals are lower than their proportion of the national vote.
This usually leaves some seats unallocated, which are awarded to parties based on the largest fractions of seats that they have remaining.
Reserved seats are used in many countries to ensure representation for ethnic minorities, women, young people or the disabled.
The Liberals lost heavily from their great majority of 1906, but still finished with two more seats than the Conservatives.
To the surprise of almost everyone except Heath, the Conservatives won the election, with a majority of 31 seats.
A year later Labour won the general election, with an overall majority of only four seats.
Macmillan led the Conservatives to victory in the 1959 general election, increasing his party's majority from 67 to 107 seats.
The block voting system was used, with each peer casting as many votes as there were seats to be filled.
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In the UK the Electoral Reform Society estimates that more than half the seats can be considered as safe.
A division is also called a rising vote, where members stand up from their seats.
Members may signify, but not record, an abstention by remaining in their seats during the division.
Labour's overall majority at the 2005 general election was reduced to from 167 to 66 seats.
Lords Lieutenant, High Sheriffs and the Governor of the Isle of Wight are also disqualified from seats for constituencies within their area.
When the antirailway men arrived to take their seats, Amboy partisans refused to let them enter on their duties.
Children often scrambled up the narrow staircases to play on the bleacherlike seats.
Wrestlers and promoters began to realise opportunities for gimmicks with broad appeal which would be used to put bums in seats.
Tickets for seats in the endcourt are a lot more expensive than they were last time.
The car salesman came home with front-row seats after turning a hat trick at work.
Labour MPs hold 25 of the 40 seats, the Conservatives eleven, Plaid Cymru three and the Liberal Democrats hold one seat.
Labour remained the largest Assembly party following the 2007 election, winning 26 of the 60 seats.
Welsh Labour remained the largest party in the Assembly following the National Assembly for Wales election, 2011, winning 30 of the 60 seats.
Island Independent councillors currently hold 16 of the 40 seats, with a further five sitting as independents outside the group.
Both are officially recognised nuclear weapon states holding permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council.
The South East of England is the most Conservative voting region of Britain in terms of both seats and votes.
The oath was a key issue for opponents of the Treaty, who refused to take the oath and therefore did not take their seats.
As a result of the 2015 local elections the Labour Party was reduced to 15 seats.
A single party generally does not have sufficient political power in terms of the number of seats to form a government on its own.
From its inception the agency has been helping people obtain and properly install car seats for children.
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The Archbishops of Canterbury and York automatically have seats, as do the Bishops of London, Durham and Winchester.
In the 2010 elections, Republicans won three United States House of Representatives seats from the Democrats.
Of the state's eleven seats in the House of Representatives, Republicans hold seven and Democrats hold four.
They gradually drifted away from their original seats, and at length settled in Robeson, about the center of the county.
The drive will be too long, the seats too few, and the people too many. I rest my case.
Members are elected annually via a postal ballot, and current standing orders mean that at least ten seats must change hands each year.
Enemy industry, seats of government, factories and communications could be destroyed, taking away their means to resist.
Following the 2011 election, Welsh Labour held exactly half of the seats in the Assembly, falling just short of an overall majority.
The party, or parties, that hold the majority of seats in the Parliament forms the Scottish Government.
It also has seats in the European Parliament, two seats on the London Assembly and around 120 local councillors.
With this law, elected representatives lose their seats in parliament if they vote contrary to the directions of their party.
Additionally, prime ministers may lose their positions if they lose their seats in parliament, even though they may still be popular nationally.
If one party obtains a majority of seats, then that party is entitled to form the Government.
The Liberal Democrats said that they would talk first to whichever party won the most seats.
Their leader, Peter Robinson, said that the DUP would talk first to whichever party wins the most seats.
Labour also lost a further nine seats to the Conservatives to record their lowest share of the seats since the 1987 general election.
It is currently the governing party, having won a majority of seats in the House of Commons at the 2015 general election.
Between them, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats controlled 363 seats in the House of Commons, with a majority of 76 seats.
Having won 232 seats in the 2015 general election, the party is the Official Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Labour went on to win the 1950 general election, but with a much reduced majority of five seats.
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The Conservatives were unable to form a government alone as they had fewer seats despite receiving more votes numerically.
Despite the increased number of seats and votes, it was still an incredibly disappointing result for supporters of the Labour party.
Labour also won a majority of seats in the local council elections of 2014, gaining 324 more councillors than they had before the election.
The Party lost 40 of its 41 seats in Scotland in the face of record breaking swings to the Scottish National Party.
This was the first time since the European elections of 1984 that the largest opposition party had failed to win the most seats.
In May 2011, the SNP won an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament with 69 seats.
The party went from holding six seats in the House of Commons to 56, mostly at the expense of the Labour Party.
On the constituency vote the SNP gained 11 seats from Labour but lost the Edinburgh Southern constituency to the party.
Edinburgh and Dundee represented two seats each, and Glasgow represented three seats.
The Greens have retained their two seats and the TUV and Claire Sugden their single seats, while People Before Profit now hold only one seat.
The deal lasted until the election of 2003, when Labour won enough seats to be able to govern outright.
These two groups have dominated the Parliament for much of its life, continuously holding between 50 and 70 percent of the seats together.
In the 2014 local elections, UKIP won 163 seats, an increase of 128, but did not take control of any council.
The party won seats in every region of Britain, including its first in Scotland.
In the 2016 election, it entered the Assembly for the first time, winning seven of 60 seats.
In the 2013 local elections, UKIP won 147 seats and established itself as the largest opposition party in six English county councils.
At the 2012 local government elections the Green Party gained 5 seats, and retained both AMs at the 2012 London Assembly election.
At the local government elections the following year, the Greens gained 18 seats overall.
In London, the party won four seats, a gain of two, holding seats in Camden and Lewisham, and gaining seats in Islington and Lambeth.
However they lost 9 out of their 20 seats on the Brighton and Hove council, losing minority control.
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Lords of Appeal in Ordinary held the rank of Baron and seats in the House for life.
Labour have almost twice as many seats than the Conservatives with 33 Labour, 17 Conservative and 2 Liberal Democrat.
The number of seats is more favoured towards Labour than the geographic spread, with 34 Conservative seats and 25 Labour.
The Conservatives gained 2 seats with virtually no swing from Labour to Conservative.
Directly east of Redditch in Beoley is Lear Corporation UK, who make car seats.
In the 2015 general election the South West contained 55 seats in the House of Commons.
The Conservatives gained 15 seats almost all of which were from the Liberal Democrats.
Dissolution ends a parliamentary term, and is followed by a general election for all seats in the House of Commons.
Only if there are more candidates standing for election than there are seats on the council will an election be held.
Where there are fewer candidates than vacant seats, the parish council has the power to coopt any person or persons to fill the vacancies.
The Labour Party gained 11 seats during the election, taking their total to 62 seats, compared with the 22 held by the Liberal Democrats.
Of the remaining seats the Liberal Party won three and the Green Party claimed two.
No other parties hold seats on the city's council, however there are 3 independent councillors.
Nottingham has three UK parliamentary constituency seats within its boundaries.
In 2011, the seats were held by four Liberal Democrat and five Conservative councillors.
Also, many automatic seat belt systems are incompatible with child safety seats, or only compatible with special modifications.
In some jurisdictions children below a certain size are forbidden to travel in front car seats.
In 1983 Rugby became part of the parliamentary constituency of Rugby and Kenilworth, one of the Midlands' most marginal seats.
When this configuration is used on an ordinary coach, it has 28, 29 or 31 seats.
Labour dropped from 30 to 29 seats, and Plaid Cymru moved from 11 to 12 seats.
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They are double deck, originally with open balconies and a capacity of 78 passengers, 32 seats on the lower deck and 46 on the upper.
They were designed for interurban use and of American appearance with 48 seats.
In the 2015 general election all Cornish seats were won by the Conservatives.
At the 2015 general election all six Cornish seats were won by Conservative candidates.
Theodore set up new bishoprics from Wilfrid's diocese, with seats at York, Hexham, Lindisfarne, and one in the region of Lindsey.
The high sides formed a sort of box in which seats were placed, with a notch on each side for entry.
A public latrine consisted of a bank of seats situated over a channel of running water.
It was papal policy for bishops to move to more urban seats, and John of Tours translated his own from Wells to Bath.
There was a concert room with over 4,000 seats that hosted successful Handel Festivals for many years.
It is next to a path where people walk and it has a few seats where they can sit and contemplate it.
Many operas are better suited to being presented in smaller theatres, such as Venice's La Fenice with about 1,000 seats.
Promming tickets are the same price as for other concerts during the season, but tickets for seats are more expensive.
The large reading rooms offer hundreds of seats which are often filled with researchers, especially during the Easter and summer holidays.
The ground has a capacity of just over 2,000 with 250 seats in the stand behind the southern goal.
A system of reallocation was put in place so the empty seats were filled throughout the Games.
The hall seats up to 1,200 people and hosts events ranging from classical to comedy and from choral to community events.
From 2008, there is a single queue, allotted about 500 seats for each court.
These additional 10 seats are created through directly elected members of District Offices.
The four formed the NI Unionist Party, which again suffered a split and won no seats in the 2003 election.
Labour had 29 members in the Assembly at the time, all of whom held constituency seats.
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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.
It prevents individuals from standing as candidates in both constituency and regional seats.
The Conservatives lost 3 seats, moving from 14 seats to 11, while the Liberal Democrats dropped from 5 seats to just one.
Most Taoisigh have served as the leader of the political party that gains the most seats in national elections.
The Labour Party under Harold Wilson won the October 1974 election by a tiny majority of only three seats.
The Conservative Party, Labour Party and Liberal Democrats, who all have seats in the Scottish Parliament, oppose Scottish independence.
The SNP gained an overall majority in the election, winning 69 from 129 seats, thereby gaining a mandate to hold an independence referendum.
The Liberal Democrats held the largest number of seats and Cllr Rodney Berman was Leader of the Council.
In the 2012 elections the Labour Party achieved an outright majority, after gaining an additional 33 seats across the city.
These five nations are the only states to have permanent seats with veto power on the UN Security Council.
They comprise the group of four countries known as the G4 nations, which mutually support one another's bids for permanent seats.
The United Kingdom, France, and Russia support giving permanent seats in the UN Security Council to the G4 nations.
Along with the five permanent members, the Security Council has temporary members that hold their seats on a rotating basis by geographic region.
The countries who have made the strongest demands for permanent seats are Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan.
Unionists, however, won a majority of seats in four of the nine counties of Ulster and affirmed their continuing loyalty to the United Kingdom.
The Labour Party had the largest number of seats in the House of Commons, but not an overall majority.
House seats are apportioned among the states by population every tenth year.
The party went into decline and by the 1950s won no more than six seats at general elections.
At the 1983 General Election, the Alliance won over a quarter of the vote, but only 23 of the 650 seats it contested.
The Liberals gained ground, but once again it was at the Conservatives' expense whilst also losing seats to Labour.
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He suggested that the borough's two seats be transferred to the city of Leeds.
Instead, they modified the proposal so that two further seats were given to Yorkshire, the county in which Leeds is situated.
Thus 65 new county seats and 65 new borough seats were created in England and Wales.
In Scotland, where the Conservatives were perennially weak, they increased from seven seats to nineteen.
Overall, they won 350 seats to 245 for the Liberals and 57 for the Irish Home Rule League.
The election resulted in a Conservative landslide victory, with the now leaderless Labour Party winning only 46 seats in Parliament.
In early 1942, prisoners at Dachau were used by Rascher in experiments to perfect ejection seats at high altitudes.
The Treaty changes the way in which MEP seats are apportioned among member states.
In a multiple member plurality election, with n seats available, the winners are the n candidates with the highest numbers of votes.
This contrasted greatly with the SNP in Scotland who only received 1,454,436 votes but won 56 seats, due to more concentrated support.
In gerrymandering, constituencies are deliberately designed to unfairly increase the number of seats won by one party at the expense of another.
In brief, suppose that governing party G wishes to reduce the seats that will be won by opposition party O in the next election.
O will win these seats, but a large number of its voters will waste their votes.
Few G votes are wasted, and G will win a large number of seats by small margins.
As a result of the gerrymander, O's seats have cost it more votes than G's seats.
In such a system, each party introduces a list of candidates and the party winning a plurality of votes wins all the seats.
The Dinertown City Council consists of three seats, and seven candidates are vying for these seats.
Partial block voting is also used in the Spanish Senate, where there are 4 seats and each voter receives 3 votes.
After the 2012 elections, Rufus Ewing of the Progressive National Party won a narrow majority of the elected seats and was appointed premier.
Traditionally, the opposition parties will sit in one row of seats, and the government party will sit in the other.
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Robed parliamentary clerks often sit at narrow tables between the two rows of seats, as well.
In the October 1974 general election, the Labour Party gained 18 seats, giving Wilson a majority of three.
With 379 seats compared to the Conservatives' 132, the Liberals could confidently expect to pass their legislative programme through the Commons.
The assembly has directly elected 300 seats, and further 50 reserved selected seats for women.
There are currently 105 seats in the Senate and 338 in the House of Commons.
The political party which secures more than half the seats in the Lok Sabha forms the Government of India.
At the 1900 election the LRC won only two seats, and the SDF disaffiliated, but more unions signed up.
The Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes, but had only a fraction of its seats.
When the final results were counted however, Labour came in second with 232 seats with the Conservatives achieving a Majority government.
In the 1959 election, the party contested a majority of Welsh seats for the first time.
The DUP is the largest party in Northern Ireland, holding eight seats at Westminster and 28 seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Since its foundation it has won seats at local council, Northern Ireland, UK and European level.
In the delayed Northern Ireland Assembly election of 2003, the DUP became the largest political party in the region, with 30 seats.
At the 2015 general election, the party won two seats in the House of Commons, Fermanagh and South Tyrone and South Antrim.
In June 1973 the UUP won a majority of seats in the new Northern Ireland Assembly, but the party was divided on policy.
The decline continued in the 2016 Assembly election, as a further two seats were lost and the total number of votes received decreased.
The party narrowly missed winning additional seats in Belfast North and Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
At the general election in 2007 the party had expectations of substantial gains, with poll predictions that they would gain five to ten seats.
It ultimately won 14 seats, the best performance for the party's current incarnation.
The party went on to win three seats in the Seanad election which followed their success at the General Election.

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