"seat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At the 1991 election, the Coalition lost 10 seats to Labor, leaving it one seat short of a majority.
- Labour lost their majority on the council, finishing with 23 seats, 7 short of a majority.
- The Greens took 23 seats leaving them five short of a full majority.
- Initial results of the 2006 election indicated that the Conservatives would fall 31 seats short of a majority.
- Congress and its allies won 236 seats in Parliament's law-making lower house, 20 short of a majority.
- Party officials say, for example, that they feel confident of winning about 255 seats, barely short of a majority, including sympathetic independent candidates.
- This time, his Fianna Fail party fell three seats short of a majority in the national election last month.
- In the 1943 Faroese election, the party won 12 out of 25 seats: one short of an overall majority.
- The Tories therefore would fall 12 seats short of an overall majority.
- The vote brought the Islamic Front within 28 seats of a majority in Parliament.
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