"seat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In countries where there is one dominant party and a divided opposition, the proportional seats may be essential for allowing an effective opposition.
- In the run up to the election, various organizations are conducting opinion polls to gauge voting intentions for the available proportional seats.
- It wanted to reform the electoral law so that an amount of the seats proportional to the rate of abstention would be left empty.
- After losing also his proportional seat in 2005, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2007.
- Parties had to receive at least 4% of the national vote to win any of the proportional seats, which were distributed using the largest remainder method.
- The constituency seats won by each coalition would not reduce the number of proportional seats they received.
- The parties were attributed a number of seats proportional to the number of votes they received.
- Toranosuke Katayama won the party's only proportional seat in this election.
- In the 2005 elections the party received 20% of the vote in the national voting for the proportional seats, putting it in first place.
- The number of proportional seats increased from 400 to 484, while the 242 electoral districts were maintained.
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