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As a result, Jaroslaw Kaczynski was able to become prime minister with the support of a coalition of parties that gained a majority of seats in parliament, despite receiving only six million votes, out of a total of 30 million eligible voters.
Apparently, there was no hiding the 6,000 empty seats at the Uruguay-Egypt match on June 15.
We can either allow people to use their time (standing in line) to bid for seats, or we can auction seats for money.
Auctioning seats for money makes sense – the lawyer contributes more to society by preparing briefs than by standing in line.
But if we think that both objectives – efficiency and solidarity – should play some role, perhaps we should turn a blind eye to hiring the unemployed to stand in line in lieu of busy lawyers, so long as they do not corner all of the seats.
The 2019 election is likely to produce even more losses for the establishment parties, which are expected to win only 45% of seats.
Nonetheless, the Republicans hold a slight majority in the Senate, where each state is represented by two senators, regardless of the size of its population, because they tend to win their seats in less populous states, whereas Democrats prevail in the major coastal and Midwestern states.
Democrats win more votes, but Republicans win more seats.
In the subsequent general election, the Pakistan Peoples Party won enough seats in the national assembly to form a solid government.
The PPP’s political rival, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) won a majority of seats in the Punjab provincial assembly, giving it control of the country’s largest province.
In 2010, the incumbent prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, was re-elected, though his State of Law Coalition had won fewer seats than the more moderate Iraqi National Movement, led by Ayad Allawi.
European parliamentary debates rarely make it far outside Brussels or Strasbourg, and voter turnout to fill the body’s seats has typically been low.
And the ruling elite opens a number of parliamentary seats to a popular vote, only to be shocked by a landslide opposition win.
Following the 2004 elections, the European People’s Party (EPP), which regroups right and center right parties, held 288 MPs of the Parliament’s 785 seats.
The European socialist party (ESP), which held 215 deputies in the old parliament, secured only 160 seats.
The Greens appear to be the main beneficiaries of the elections and become the forth force: they will get around 55 seats, a gain of more than 10 seats.
Space at the table for China could be obtained if the eurozone countries, signaling their commitment to the common currency, agreed to surrender their individual seats in exchange for one representing the entire monetary union.
(In the 1995 elections, Motherland won the second highest number of seats in parliament and True Path came in third.)
Refah remains the largest party; its 22% of the vote in 1995 parliamentary elections translated into almost a third of the parliament’s 550 seats.
In less than nine months, California will hold elections for governor, a US Senate seat, and 53 seats in the House.
Although the government met neither of these demands, the early results clearly showed that the opposition was gaining a large number of seats.
Trump could appoint hawks to the two Fed Board seats that are currently vacant, and he will certainly replace Yellen when her term expires in 2018.
But rank-and-file Tory MPs seem increasingly Euroskeptic, with at least 60 of the Conservatives’ total of more than 300 seats in the House of Commons now reckoned to be occupied by die-hard anti-Europeans.
If a lot of people are leaving their seats during a sporting event, you might consider it an indication that the event is not exciting.
Despite Sharon's absence, Kadima maintains its lead in public opinion polls – the most recent gave it 44 of the Knesset’s 120 seats, compared to 21 for Labor and 14 for the right-wing rump-Likud, under Binyamin Netanyahu.
After the vote on December 19, OVR was not even runner up: it came third, with 13% of the vote and 46 out of 450 seats in the Duma.
, could end up with between 400 and 445 of the National Assembly’s 577 seats.
Second, the historically large majority of seats that LREM is set to win, owing to low turnout and the 12.5% threshold for going on to the second round of voting, means that a new and very different French political landscape is emerging.
Third, the reconstruction of the French political landscape goes far beyond the radical changes likely to occur in the distribution of National Assembly seats that will occur once the second round is complete.
The Chinese government is now requesting seats on the boards of companies such as WeChat, Weibo, and Tencent, and demanding access to their users’ personal data.
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