Example sentences of "the number of seats " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite reports of strong objections from Peking , Mr De Silva said the government would proceed with plans to increase the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly . |
| 2 | The proposals to increase the number of seats to 23 , likely to be made later this year , will not change the balance of power in the Council : two seats each will be added to appointed , directly- and indirectly-elected categories . |
| 3 | It has increased the number of seats by three to 18 and will require that the MPs vote for at least three women . |
| 4 | Spurgeon 's six Corinthian columns were kept but the number of seats was reduced to 2,700 due to the decline in the congregation after the great preacher 's death . |
| 5 | Bets are also being taken until ‘ at least 2am ’ at IG Index , both on the number of seats the parties will win and on what the FT-SE Index might be . |
| 6 | At the election , the Nazi party increased the number of seats in the Reichstag to 288 , and by December of that year , all other parties were banned or dissolved . |
| 7 | The number of seats for Great Britain England , Scotland and Wales ) , which must not be substantially more or less than 613 , is presently 627 . |
| 8 | Proof of the number of seats in a passenger motor car or the maximum gross weight of a goods vehicle may be necessary to show this new offence applies to the vehicle in question , eg. ‘ The motor car had been adapted to carry 8 seated passengers in addition to the driver ’ ( but not more than 8 ) . |
| 9 | The 4 pc compared with the 7 pc increase in the number of seats supplied , said the International Air Transport Association . |
| 10 | The already safe seat at Wandsworth was divided in 1918 into five safe seats ; Lewisham , Hammersmith and Fulham were each divided into two seats ; the number of seats in the outer London suburbs of Kent , Surrey , Essex and Middlesex went up from fifteen to forty , of which thirty-five were held by Unionists at every election before 1945 . |
| 11 | Though variations attributable to local circumstances are frequent , the number of candidates tends to be equal to the number of seats being defended plus one . |
| 12 | PR 's sole concern is with the relationship between the number of votes each party has received and the number of seats it has been awarded . |
| 13 | The Commons assume no mediating role of any significance in the process of cabinet formation : it is simply there to register the popular will in terms of the number of seats held by particular parties . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the policy of Her Majesty 's Government on the number of seats that will be directly elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1995 . |
| 15 | The results of February 's State Assembly elections are given below , with the number of seats at stake shown in parenthesis ; resulting resignations and appointments are also noted . |
| 16 | Radical deputies attempted unsuccessfully on Oct. 2 to postpone the elections by proposing a bill which would require the number of candidates to be at least twice the number of seats at issue . |
| 17 | The detailed results of the Lok Sabha elections are given below , with the number of seats at stake shown in parentheses [ see pp. 37124-25 for detailed 1989 election results ] . |
| 18 | On March 21 , 1991 , proposals that the President should be directly elected , that the voting age should be lowered from 21 to 18 , and that the number of seats in the Grand National Assembly should be increased from 450 to 600 were presented by Özal , in spite of lack of support from some factions within the ANAP . |
| 19 | The February elections resulted in a substantial victory ( in terms of the number of seats won rather than the percentage of votes cast ) for the BNP [ see p. 38006 ] . |
| 20 | Kaifu 's prospects of a second term as leader brightened considerably after LDP successes in nationwide local elections held in April 1991 [ see pp. 38147-48 ] in which the ruling party increased both its share of the vote and the number of seats which it held . |
| 21 | By the beginning of 1991 the number of seats held by the CIP had increased from 12 to 14 — one member of the DP having defected to the CIP , and the sole independent member having joined the CIP — thereby giving the party , in alliance with the DTP , the two-thirds majority required to enact constitutional changes . |
| 22 | The DPP failed to gain the number of seats necessary seriously to oppose President Lee 's constitutional reform programme in 1992-93 . |
| 23 | It was agreed that ( i ) a system of proportional representation in the Assembly of the Republic ( legislature ) would be adopted ; ( ii ) legislative and presidential elections would be held simultaneously within one year of the signing of a ceasefire accord , although this deadline could be extended ; ( iii ) presidential candidates would be at least 35 years old and their candidacies supported by a minimum of 10,000 signatures ; ( iv ) the minimum voting age and that for the representatives in the Assembly would be 25 years , although there was an expectation that these would be reduced to 18 years after the first set of elections ; ( v ) a National Electoral Commission , one-third of whose members would be appointed by the MNR , would organize the electoral process , determining for example the number of seats per region ; and ( vi ) the government would assist the MNR to secure appropriate facilities to carry out its political work in at least every provincial capital . |
| 24 | A coalition was eventually formed on Sept. 20 when the conservative Social Action Party ( SAP ) was brought in , increasing the number of seats to 207 . |
| 25 | The number of seats in the European Parliament was to be increased from 518 to 567 to take account of German unification . |
| 26 | Hence , the electoral quota ( the national electorate divided by the number of seats ) is greater in England than in Scotland or Wales . |
| 27 | A combination of population shifts ( about three-quarters of a million people move house every year in Britain ) , the disparity among constituency electorates recommended by the commissioners in favor of other criteria ( maintaining local government boundaries and the like ) , the lapse of time between reviews , ad the disparity in the number of seats allocated to the different countries in the United Kingdom has meant that there are often marked differences among the sizes of electorates . |
| 28 | The number of aspiring candidates increased in the 1970s , but so too did the number of seats fought . |
| 29 | In the 1983 election , the party won less than half the number of seats it had won in the larger cities in 1959 , the last election when it was returned with a three-figure majority . |
| 30 | In terms of forming a government , it is the number of seats that count : the Conservatives formed the government in 1951 , the Labour party in 1974 . |