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The emergence of Congress as the largest single party and its alliance as the biggest grouping with 219 seats, is the most astonishing result in the history of Indian electoral politics, as was the Left's stunning tally of 63.
In April 2011, Tunisian women successfully pressed for an electoral-parity law, thanks to which they won 49 of 217 parliamentary seats in last October’s elections.
In Egypt, though, the prospects for women seem gloomier, because they failed to retain the pre-revolution quota system that had given them 64 parliamentary seats.
It is fitting that Rome and Athens, the two seats of classical Western civilization, have turned to these two urbane, erudite men for leadership.
They are poised to take their seats at the top table – and perhaps to change its shape.
Owing to a major shift in public sentiment in the past few months, many Democrats are now convinced that they will win seats, and potentially reclaim control of the House of Representatives.
The Democrats need to flip only 24 seats to regain control of the House.
Flippable is focusing specifically on seats that can be reclaimed (although they might want to add California’s 45th district).
While the election to the newly created Senate was entirely free, the opposition could compete for only one-third of the seats in the Sejm (the lower house).
The challenges facing Jokowi are compounded by the fact that his ruling coalition holds only about one-third of the seats in Indonesia’s parliament, with the rest loyal to the coalition of his rival in the presidential election, Prabowo Subianto.
The ballot will include dozens of competing parties, most of which will not win parliamentary seats, owing to a 2005 electoral law requiring at least 4% of the national vote to enter the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house) and 8% on a regional basis to enter the Senate.
And, when the extremists take their seats, they are likely to stifle any effort to extricate Europe from its economic woes.
Instead, his Conservative Party won just 99 of the House of Commons’ 338 seats.
Instead, the Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau, ended up obtaining the second-largest parliamentary majority in its history – 184 seats – despite having started the electoral campaign in third place.
Originally, Abbas had reached an agreement with Hamas on a system according to which half the parliament’s seats would be elected on a regional basis, and half by party list.
However, the final version of the law would have chosen two-thirds of the seats regionally.
But the Republicans’ internal rifts have made it clear to Democrats that, if they stay united, they can put a serious crimp in the Trump agenda and claw back House seats in November 2018.
With the TRT capturing over 75% of the seats in the lower house of parliament, Thaksin is now politically invincible at home.
The former rebels have received the maximum number of seats in the constituencies where counting is complete.
It looks like that the communists together with their possible fellow-travelers will control close to half of the Duma seats.
For example, in 2012, the Socialists obtained nearly 50% of the seats in the National Assembly, despite having won only 29% of the vote in the first round.
The right-wing RPR-UDF coalition did even better in 1993, when it won 38.5% of the vote in the first round but obtained an astonishing 82% of the seats.
In France, smaller parties can gain parliamentary seats only if they manage to negotiate a pre-election agreement with one of the major parties to secure for them some constituencies.
After all, the Union has five seats on the Security Council and pays 40% of the UN budget.
Congress limped to the finish line with just 27 seats, and the BJP fared little better.
Instead, a local socialist group, the Samajwadi Party, claimed a convincing 221 seats.
In just 42 countries do women hold more than 30% of seats in the national legislature, and girls still do not have the same educational opportunities as boys in Sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, and western Asia.
Moreover, while research shows a clear link between a company’s gender balance and its financial health, women occupy fewer than 20% of governing board seats in the world’s largest companies.
Because the president's party controls only a third of the seats in the National Assembly, a new ruling coalition will be needed, which is tricky as parties are now increasingly divided along regional lines.
If these losers engage in post-election jockeying to cheat opponents of their fair allotment of seats, that will tell much about the future.
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