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It was thought that if the Conservatives were able to secure this piece of legislation, then the newly enfranchised electorate may return their gratitude to the Tories in the form of a Conservative vote at the next general election.
In such cases, it is not required ( or even possible ) that the members of the electorate be familiar with all of the eligible persons, though such systems may involve indirect elections at larger geographic levels to ensure that some first-hand familiarity among potential electees can exist at these levels ( i. e., among the elected delegates ).
Examples include making an industry buy supplies from local producers ( when that may be more expensive than buying from abroad ), forcing an industry to freeze its prices / fares to satisfy the electorate or control inflation, increasing its staffing to reduce unemployment, or moving its operations to marginal constituencies.
Switzerland features a system of government not seen in any other nation: direct representation, sometimes called half-direct democracy ( this may be arguable, because theoretically, the Sovereign of Switzerland is actually its entire electorate ).
This may have had some unintended consequences in Massachusetts, where the makeup of the delegation to the House of Representatives changed from 12 Federalists and 2 Republicans to 8 Federalists and 6 Republicans, perhaps the result of backlash on the part of the electorate.
* There may be political reasons that deter policy makers from imposing a new range of charges on their electorate.
However, the reason it had gone unamended was the same reason the Constitution left it to remain separate from the rest of the EU: anti-nuclear sentiment among the European electorate, which may unnecessarily turn voters against the treaty.
It was not universally popular with the electorate, which may have been a factor in the Social Democrats ' defeat in the 2001 parliamentary election.
Clause ( 2 ) added to Article 58 by that Order stated: " The President may also dissolve the National Assembly in his discretion where, in his opinion, an appeal to the electorate is necessary.
For more serious offences, the Speaker may " name " a Member: he says " I name the Honourable Member for X ," following the House's convention that Members are always referred to by their electorate.
In Scotland, the introduction of multi-member wards in 2007 has made it harder to do so, since these wards each have a large electorate, and therefore a collection of complete wards may not give an electorate that is close to the required average.
Voters may vote at any voting station in the country, but they would need to cast a special vote if they are voting outside their electorate.
Electorate candidates may be nominated by a registered party or by two voters in that electorate.
If people eligible for public housing are likely to vote for a particular party, then they can either be concentrated into one electorate, thus making their votes count for less, or moved into marginal electorates, where they may tip the balance towards their preferred party.
The composition of an electorate may also be altered by disenfranchising some types of people, rendering them unable to vote.
For example, requiring people to vote within their electorate may disenfranchise serving military personnel, prison inmates, students, hospital patients or anyone else who cannot return to their homes.
Nonpartisan democracies may possess indirect elections whereby an electorate are chosen who in turn vote for the representative ( s ).
A rollocking bollocking may be delivered by an electorate.
HAVA's identification requirements, however, may heighten the opportunities for confusion and voter intimidation, and may reduce rather than expand the electorate.
) While such statements may have resonated with radical créditiste supporters, they undoubtedly impaired the party's popularity with the mainstream electorate.
In such cases, it is not required ( or even possible ) that the members of the electorate be familiar with all of the eligible persons in their area, though such systems may involve indirect elections at larger geographic levels to ensure that some first-hand familiarity among potential electees can exist at these levels ( i. e., among the elected delegates ).
The ordinary referendum is a referendum in the Republic of Ireland in which the president may refer a bill directly to the electorate before it becomes law.

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The split with Mebyon Kernow was down to the same debate that was occurring in most of the political parties campaigning for autonomy from the United Kingdom at the time ( for example the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru ), whether to be a centre-left party appealing to the electorate on a social democratic line, or whether to appeal emotionally on a centre-right cultural line.
Another subject of the split was whether to embrace devolution as a first step to full independence ( or as the sole step if this was what the electorate wished ) or for it to be " all or nothing ".
Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon I, returned from exile in the United Kingdom in 1848 to be elected to the French parliament, and then as " Prince President " in a coup d ' état elected himself Emperor, a move approved later by a large majority of the French electorate.
One of the most important of these powers — a legacy of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq ; is the president's power to dissolve the National Assembly " in his discretion where, in has arisen in which the Government of the Federation cannot be carried on in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and an appeal to the electorate is necessary.
Symbols can be very important when the overall electorate is illiterate.
For this example, suppose that the entire electorate lives in these four cities, and that they would all like the capital to be established as close to their own city as possible.
One of the stated aims of the literacy campaign was to create a literate electorate which would be able to make informed choices at the promised elections.
Gladstone argued that the £ 100 line was " the dividing line ... between the educated and the labouring part of the community " and that therefore the income tax payers and the electorate were to be the same people, who would then vote to cut government expenditure.
In Australia, which uses a single transferable vote proportional representation system, they avoided the need for an electoral threshold by establishing smaller electorates with each multi-member electorate returning fewer members of a Parliament and as such requiring a higher quota percentage in order to be elected.
He also had another objection: " How can the same electorate be represented in two ways so that the two sets of representatives can conflict and disagree with one another?
Unhappy with what seemed to be a pattern of governments failing to reflect the mood of the electorate, New Zealanders in 1992 and 1993 voted to change the electoral system to Mixed Member Proportional ( MMP ), a form of proportional representation.
Mark Rutte seems to be, in September 2012, the only European political leader who hasn't been voted out of office by the electorate during the euro-crisis.
In some countries, including Italy, there is also a requirement that there be a certain minimum turn-out of the electorate in order for the result of a referendum to be considered valid.
However, this voting pattern can be explained on economic grounds, and as part of an inter-ethnic power struggle waged in the electorate.
Only 10 % of the state's electorate had to take the loyalty oath in order for the state to be readmitted into U. S. Congress.
Cain remained very popular with the Victorian electorate, and was easily elected to a second term in 1985, becoming the first Labor premier to be reelected.
The electorate seemed to be responsive.
Just over 58 % of the electorate voted in the independence referendum, which had to be postponed one day due to disruptions caused by Hurricane Felix in 1995.
The documentary concluded him to be descended from one Roger Packsman, a 14th century politician from Suffolk who had changed his name to Paxman ( man of peace, " Pax " translates from Latin as peace ) to impress " the electorate.

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