He was also elected as the MSP for Glasgow Anniesland, the seat he also represented as an MP.

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He won the seat and represented the constituency until 1977.

A member who represented a pocket borough was expected to vote as his patron ordered, lest he lose his seat at the next election.

The town was first represented in Parliament in 1536, when it was allocated one seat and the shire two further seats.

In 1523, he obtained a seat in the House of Commons, though the constituency he represented at that time has not been identified.

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Each member of the Security Council shall for this purpose be represented at all times at the seat of the Organization.

From then until he lost his seat to the Conservatives in the 2010 General Election, Hendon was represented in the House of Commons by the Labour MP, Andrew Dismore.

Since 2005, the seat has been represented in the House of Commons by the Liberal Democrat MP, Lynne Featherstone.

It is represented in District 51 in the Kentucky House of Representatives by the Republican, John " Bam " Carney of Campbellsville, the seat of Taylor County.

Federally, Clio is located in California's 4th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 11 and is represented by Republican John Doolittle, who is stepping down from his seat due to the famous political-corruption scandal involving the convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

DeWitt represented Tensas Parish from 1964 – 1968, and then from 1968 – 1972, he and Lantz Womack of Winnsboro, the seat of Franklin Parish, together represented Franklin, Tensas, and Madison parishes.

Northampton Township is represented on the Council Rock School Board in 5 single seat School Director regions.

Of the eight parties represented in the Riksdag since 2010, all but the Sweden Democrats are found in the assembly, as well as the breakaway Socialist Justice Party headed by former Social Democrat Jan Hägglund ( holding its only seat ), renamed the Workers ' Party in 2011.

Every county has a minimum of 1 electoral district, thereby guaranteed at least one seat in the legislature, while half of the proportionally represented seats drawn from party lists must be women.

In this seat, Ray Burke represented the same constituency and its successor Dublin North until his resignation almost twenty-five years later.

Wakefield's MP is Mary Creagh who has represented the parliamentary seat for the Labour Party since the 2005 General Election.

The seat has been continually represented by Labour since 1885: longer than any other British constituency.

Tamworth has its own Parliamentary Constituency also called Tamworth and it is currently represented by the Conservative Christopher Pincher who has held the seat since the 2010 Election.

In March 1740 he was returned to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed ( a seat his father had represented from 1714-23 ).

From 1710, he represented Malmesbury, in his home county of Wiltshire, holding the seat until his death.

Raab represented the forces of the past that were unacceptable to the Soviets and the left-wing majority, and for a while was " relegated to the back seat ".

The rise of the mediaeval state of Wallachia followed in the 14th century, and the voivode ( Prince of Wallachia ) was represented in Oltenia by a ban-" the great ban of Craiova " ( with seat in Craiova after it was moved from Strehaia ).

In contrast, a voting system which allows only a single winner for each possible legislative seat is sometimes termed a plurality voting system or single-winner voting system and is usually described under the heading of a winner – takes – all arrangement.

With a samurai population of less than 1 % the culture of the merchant city of Osaka stood in sharp contrast to that of Edo, the seat of power for the Tokugawa shogunate.

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By contrast, Shachtman's initial ties to the young leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee frayed after the 1964 Democratic Convention, when he and his allies backed the Johnson Administration's decision to seat only two delegates from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

It was a strong walled city located only forty miles away, it was the ancient capital and present seat of the Mughal Emperor and finally there were no British troops in garrison there ( by contrast with the relatively strong concentration at Meerut ).

Jenkins kept a relatively low profile in Congress in contrast to Quillen and B. Carroll Reece, who between them represented the 1st District for all but seven of the 76 years before Jenkins won the seat.

The biggest contrast with the US system is the idea of a “ Full Slate ”; That is running a candidate in every possible seat.

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Between 1832 and 1847 the chapel served as an ornate parochial seat, its austere main nave in contrast to a painted lateral chapel, constructed in a revivalist style and embossed with gold.

Elmet was historically always a marginal seat due to the demographic makeup of the region, in contrast to Barkston Ash which was traditionally Tory.

While she had not expressed a preference either way as to whether she wanted to remain Speaker ( in contrast to Deputy Speaker Gerry Wood, who had made clear that he wanted to retain the position ), it was widely expected that Braham would continue in office after the election if she retained her seat.

With the stark contrast of attack advertising and limited charisma coming from the opposition, George H. Bush lost his seat in the Oval Office to Bill Clinton in 1992, and presidential hopeful Robert " Bob " Dole was left behind in 1996.

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These directives implied precise emphasis on: the search for political coordination with emerging and developing countries, namely India, South Africa, Russia and China ; creation of the Union of South American Nations and its derivative bodies, such as the South American Security Council ; strengthening of Mercosul ; projection at the Doha Round and WTO ; maintenance of relations with developed countries, including the United States ; undertaking and narrowing of relations with African countries ; campaign for the reform of the United Nations Security Council and for a permanent seat for Brazil ; and defense of social objectives allowing for a greater equilibrium between the States and populations.

Dublin suffered a period of political and economic decline during the 19th century following the Act of Union of 1800, under which the seat of government was transferred to the Westminster Parliament in London.

Parliament has two meeting places, namely the Louise Weiss building in Strasbourg, France, which serves for twelve four-day plenary sessions per year and is the official seat, and the Espace Léopold () complex in Brussels, Belgium, the larger of the two, which serves for committee meetings, political groups and complementary plenary sessions.

It is located near the island of Pohnpei and was the ceremonial and political seat of the Saudeleur Dynasty that united Pohnpei's estimated 25, 000 people until its centralized system collapsed amid the invasion of Isokelekel.

On assuming his seat he stated, " I accepted the kind invitation to enter the House of Lords as a working peer for practical political reasons.

In the early days of political representation, the majority did not necessarily carry the day and there was very little need for contested elections but by the beginning of the 15th century, a seat in Parliament was something to be cherished.

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office.

Should a sitting prime minister today lose his seat in the legislature ( or should a new prime minister be appointed without holding a seat ), the typical process that follows is that a junior member in the governing political party will immediately resign to allow the prime minister to run in the resulting by-election.

After returning home the Governor was able to raise his family to a position of wealth and political influence which he acquired in 1691 by purchasing the property of Boconnoc in Cornwall which gave him control of a seat in parliament.

On the strength of his father's political machine, Daley ran for and won a seat in the Illinois Senate, serving from 1972 to 1980.

President Lyndon Johnson offered Dewey a number of positions on several blue ribbon commissions, as well as a seat on the U. S. Supreme Court, but Dewey declined them all, for he preferred to remain in political retirement and concentrate on his highly profitable law firm.

But, without political allies in the second round, they failed to gain a parliamentary seat.

The town has traditionally been known as the seat of Serbian Orthodox Church in the Habsburg Monarchy, as well as political and cultural capital of Serbian Vojvodina after the May Assembly and during the Revolution in 1848.

In 1847 the bishop's seat was transferred from St. Andrä to Marburg an der Drau ( Maribor ), and after World War I the see's boundaries were adapted to the new political frontiers.

Like several other Kent constituencies, Chatham has proven to be a marginal seat, swinging backwards and forwards on the political tide and almost always following the national trend.

Jospin lost his seat in the National Assembly in the Socialists ' landslide defeat in the 1993 legislative election and announced his political retirement.

A fierce political battle, with armed " night riders " who spirited county records from Harney to Burns, ended with Burns as the county seat in 1890.

* City of Saginaw-county seat ; most populous political subdivision in the county ; independent of Saginaw Charter Township

Over the next two years, a political " battle " continued over the location of the county seat.

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Formigoni also sparked controversies when agreeing to put in his majority-premium list, granting her safe election, Nicole Minetti, former showgirl and actual dental hygienist of Silvio Berlusconi, who asked for a political seat for her.

He won the seat two years after graduating from the University of Alabama, where he had been elected President of the Student Government Association, defeating the fraternity political party ," The Machine ".