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pos: 26th South African Parliament was formally opened by president Zuma's State of the Nation Address in a joint sitting on 17 June 2014. 13 Different political parties are represented in this parliament. The majority party in the 25th parliament, the African National Congress (ANC) retained its majority, although it was reduced to 249 (62%) seats, down from 264 seats out of 400 (66%), while the Democratic Alliance (DA) increased its lead of the opposition, taking 89 (22.23%) seats, up from 67 seats (16.75%) in the National Assembly of the 25th parliament. The Speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Mbete and Chairperson of the National

pos: Parliament of South Africa blamed on the ANC. Currently the ANC holds 249 seats in parliament. Support for the ANC went down between the 2009 and the 2014 elections, with violent protests erupting all over the country in response to the allegations of corruption within the ANC. Democratic Alliance: The DA formed when New National Party and Federal alliance joined the Democratic Party in 2000 to form an alliance. The DA is the opposition party and has been traditionally supported by South Africa's minority communities (white, 'coloured' and Indian). In more recent years the party has attempted to win votes from black South Africans

pos: National Assembly of South Africa seats. In the election of 2014 the ANC lost further seats, but remained the majority party with 249 seats. The DA increased its support to 89 seats, while the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a far-left breakaway from the ANC, obtained 25 seats. The IFP further reduced to 10 seats while COPE's influence was strongly reduced, only electing three MPs. The following table shows the party composition of the National Assembly over time. The last election was held on 7 May 2014. !colspan="2" style="text-align:left"| Party !! style="text-align:center"| Seats !! % National Assembly of South Africa The National Assembly is the lower

neg: Western Cape members joined the ANC, again giving that party an absolute majority of 24 seats. In the 2007 floor-crossing period the ANC gained a further three members of the provincial parliament. In 2008 Rasool resigned as Premier due to internal party politics, and was replaced by Lynne Brown. The 2009 election marked a significant change in Western Cape politics, as the Democratic Alliance won 51% of the votes and an absolute majority of 22 seats in the provincial parliament, while the ANC won 14 seats with 31% of the vote. The DA leader Helen Zille was elected Premier. In 2010 the

neg: Western Cape to the ANC, giving it an absolute majority of 22 seats in the 42-seat house. However, the ANC remained in coalition with the NNP and van Schalkwyk remained as Premier. In the 2004 election there was again no absolute winner in the provincial parliament; this time the ANC won 19 seats, the DA won 12, and the NNP won 5. The ANC-NNP coalition continued in power, but van Schalkwyk took up a ministerial post in the national cabinet and was replaced as Premier by the ANC's Ebrahim Rasool. The NNP was finally dissolved after the 2005 floor-crossing period and its

neg: Bitou Local Municipality obtained a majority; the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the African National Congress (ANC) won six seats each, with the remaining seat going to the Congress of the People (COPE). The DA and COPE formed a coalition to govern the municipality. The DA won a ward from the ANC in a by-election held in 2014, and governed Bitou alone with an outright majority of seats on the council. A hung council was elected following the 2016 municipal elections, with the DA and ANC each winning six seats, and the final seat going to the Active United Front (AUF). The AUF chose

neg: South Africa was later expelled from the ANC, won 6.4% of the vote and 25 seats. The ANC has been the governing political party in South Africa since the end of apartheid. South Africa has no legally defined capital city. The fourth chapter of the Constitution of South Africa, states that "The seat of Parliament is Cape Town, but an Act of Parliament enacted in accordance with section 76(1) and (5) may determine that the seat of Parliament is elsewhere." The country's three branches of government are split over different cities. Cape Town, as the seat of Parliament, is the legislative capital;

neg: African National Congress won !1994 !1999 !2004 !2009 !2014 !rowspan=2|Election !colspan=2|Eastern Cape !colspan=2|Free State !colspan=2|Gauteng !colspan=2|Kwazulu-Natal !colspan=2|Limpopo !colspan=2|Mpumalanga !colspan=2|North-West !colspan=2|Northern Cape !colspan=2|Western Cape !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !1994 !1999 !2004 !2009 !2014 !Election !Votes !Change !1995–96 !2000 !2006 !2011 !2016 The ANC represented the main opposition to the government during apartheid and therefore they played a major role in resolving the conflict through participating in the peacemaking and peace-building processes. Initially intelligence agents of the National Party met in secret with ANC leaders, including Nelson Mandela, to judge whether conflict resolution was possible. Discussions and negotiations took place

neg: 25th South African Parliament National Assembly, while the Democratic Alliance increased its lead of the opposition, taking 67 seats (16.75%). The Speaker of the National Assembly was Max Sisulu of the ANC and the Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces was M. J. Mahlangu, also of the ANC. 25th South African Parliament The 25th South African Parliament was the fourth Parliament of South Africa to convene since the introduction of non-racial government in South Africa in 1994. It was elected in the general election of 22 April 2009, and first met on 6 May of that year to elect Jacob Zuma as the

neg: Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality sixty are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. The council was dominated by the African National Congress (ANC) since its inception in 2000 until 2016. In the most recent election on 3 August 2016, the ANC lost its majority and the Democratic Alliance (DA) became the biggest party with 57 seats. This was however 4 seats short of a majority. On 17 August 2016, the DA announced a coalition government with the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), the Congress of the People (COPE), and the United

neg: Parliament of South Africa capital. As a compromise, Cape Town was designated the "legislative" capital, Bloemfontein the "judicial" capital, and Pretoria the "administrative" capital. The African National Congress (ANC) government has proposed moving Parliament to Pretoria, arguing that the present arrangement is cumbersome as ministers, civil servants and diplomats must move back and forth when Parliament is in session. However, many Capetonians have spoken out against such a move, accusing the ANC of trying to centralise power. Under the Constitution, there is provision for Parliament to sit elsewhere than Cape Town on grounds of public interest, security or convenience and Parliament is permitted to

neg: Ancillary data word is an 8-bit value, encoded in the same fashion as the DID, which indicates how many user data words are to follow. It can range from 0 to 255. User data words are the "payload" present in the ANC packet. They are defined according to the packet type, SMPTE 291M does not define their use or impose any restrictions on the values which may be present in the UDW space. The only restriction is that the reserved values in the serial digital interface (0-3 and 1020-1023) may not be included in the UDW. Many ANC formats, though not all,

neg: Western Cape Independent Democrats, which had won 3 seats with 5% of the vote, merged with the DA. In the 2014 election the DA won 59% of the votes and an absolute majority of 26 seats in the provincial parliament, while the ANC won 14 seats with 32% of the vote. In 2018 King Khoebaha Cornelius III Declared the independence of the Sovereign State of Good Hope The provincial government is established under the Constitution of the Western Cape, which was adopted in 1998. The people of the province elect the 42-member Western Cape Provincial Parliament every five years by a system

neg: 2005 South African floor-crossing window period expanded the African National Congress' (ANC) representation from 279 to 293 seats, giving it control of almost three-quarters of the 400-member house. Other existing parties mainly lost seats, with several entirely new parties being created; still-existing parties created in 2005 include the National Democratic Convention Seven of the nine provincial legislatures were also affected, with only the Free State and North West legislatures remaining unchanged. In both the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature and the Western Cape Provincial Parliament the ANC received enough members to move from a plurality to an absolute majority; in KwaZulu-Natal it gained two members to control 40

neg: Democratic Party (South Africa) shift narrowed the political space available to the DP, and the party saw itself further marginalized during the Codessa negotiations which were dominated by the ANC and NP. In the 1994 election, the party won a disappointing 7 seats in the democratic parliament. Following the election, Tony Leon became the party's sole leader. Under Leon's leadership, the DP would become the most active and influential opposition party in the National Assembly, despite its small size. A mid-term review in 1997 found that the party's seven members of parliament had asked 50% as many parliamentary questions as the members of the

neg: Floor crossing (South Africa) and form alliances with the ANC in 2001, the ANC passed the legislation. ANC chairman Mosiuoa Lekota stated that the party's reasons for the legislation was "for some political realignment…and the break-up of racial power blocks". Floor crossing was originally enabled by amendments to the Constitution of South Africa and other legislation passed by Parliament. The amendments removed clauses requiring members of the National Assembly to give up their seats should they change parties. According to the void amendments, floor crossing was only permitted twice in an electoral term, in the second and fourth years after the general elections, from

neg: Kannaland Local Municipality financial problems an attempt to restore order was underway in 2011 In the election of 18 May 2011 no party obtained a majority; ICOSA won three seats while the ANC and the DA won two each. ICOSA and the ANC formed a coalition to govern the municipality. The election of 3 August 2016 left the party composition of the council unchanged. The DA and ANC councillors formed a coalition to govern without ICOSA, but DA national leadership said that the coalition had not been authorized. In March 2017 the ANC recalled its councillors to put an end to the coalition.

neg: Elections in Australia Parliament. It does not prescribe how elections should be conducted. Election campaigns and associated political advertisements have some regulation. Public funding of political parties and party registration was introduced in 1983. Voting is almost entirely conducted by paper ballot and is compulsory for adults. The informal vote is not usually significant, but a donkey vote is more common. They may, however, have a deciding impact in marginal seats. The Parliament of Australia consists of two chambers, the House of Representatives (commonly also referred as the lower house) and the Senate (also referred as the upper house). The House of Representatives

neg: 2012 Armenian parliamentary election 2012 Armenian parliamentary election A parliamentary election was held on May 6, 2012 in Armenia. President Serzh Sargsyan's ruling Republican Party gained more majority of the parliament seats. Armenia's wealthiest man Gagik Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia came second with about one fourth of the seats, while ANC, ARF, Rule of Law and Heritage won less than 10 percent each. In 2011, Armenia faced unprecedented opposition protests over the disputed 2008 presidential election, amongst other issues. Since then changes welcomed by the EU have been made, who stated that "the next parliamentary and presidential elections will be an important benchmark in Armenia

neg: Nhlanhla Nene "no nonsense" ways. Nene held the Chair of the Joint Budget Committee and is currently a member of the ANC Regional Executive Committee for the Bambatha region. Previously he has held the position of ANC Secretary for the Bambatha region. As chairman of the portfolio finance committee, he has said that it is "not proper" for parliament to be involved in process of drafting the budget, adding "Parliament has an oversight responsibility with regard to the budget so [our effectiveness] depends on how well we use the parliamentary process." In 2008 when Parliament passed legislation that would give them more

neg: Australian Navy Cadets a total membership around 400 staff and 2,200 cadets, including several that have been formed in high schools. However, 2012 reporting suggested membership has fallen drastically to about 1,600. The ANC adheres to a rank structure similar to the Royal Australian Navy, with cadets having the opportunity to progress from the rank of cadet recruit to cadet midshipman. Each unit has a complement which lays out how many cadets the unit is allowed to carry and how many are allowed at each rank. Training camps and examinations are held for promotion in rank. The structure and organisation of the ANC

neg: Drakenstein Municipal Council the DA was elected mayor while Nothnagel remained deputy mayor. During the floor crossing period in September 2007, seven councillors (five from the ID, including Nothnagel) defected to the ANC, giving the ANC an outright majority (32 of 61 seats) on the council. Charmaine Manuel was re-elected as mayor, with Nothnagel continuing as deputy. In the 2011 local government elections the DA managed to turn the tables, and obtained an outright majority on the council, holding 35 seats out of 61. Gesie van Deventer was elected Mayor with Conrad Poole as Deputy Mayor. In May 2016, Mayor van Deventer resigned

neg: 2016 South African municipal elections a number of municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal in coalition with the African National Congress. The NFP was, however, allowed to contest the election in one municipality, Nquthu, where its local branch had paid the registration fee on time. The party obtained just two seats in this council, down from five seats in 2011. The country's ruling party, the ANC, was reported to have spent R1 billion (US$71 million) in campaigning in the election. The Democratic Alliance (DA) was reported to have spent R350 million and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) spent between R15 million and R20 million. The United Democratic Movement

neg: 2010 Sudanese general election between FPTP seats and proportional seats, over the number of seats reserved for women, and over how many votes smaller parties would have to win in order to gain entry into parliament. The SPLM wants 50% proportionally elected and 50% therough FPTP, and it wants women to be given 50% of the proportional seats; the Sudanese government wants only 40% to be proportionally elected and wants a separate list of women-only seats, of which all would be given to the list with the most votes. The election law was passed on 8 July 2008. The law is based on a

neg: Cederberg Local Municipality the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016, the Democratic Alliance (DA) won a majority of seats on the council, defeating the ANC, which previously had a majority. The following table shows the results of the 2016 election. The local council sends two representatives to the council of the West Coast District Municipality: one from the ANC and one from the DA. Cederberg Local Municipality Cederberg Local Municipality is a local municipality which governs an area of the Western Cape province of South Africa stretching from the

neg: Lynne Brown chairperson of the standing committees on Community Services and on Health and Welfare, and served as an ANC Whip and Chief Whip in the legislature. She stood as the ANC's candidate as mayor of Cape Town in 1999 and served as provincial Minister (MEC) for finance, economic development and tourism until her elevation to the office of Premier in 2008. The ANC lost control of the province in the 2009 election with the Democratic Alliance garnering 22 of the 42 seats in the Provincial Parliament. The DA premier candidate Helen Zille replaced Brown on 6 May 2009. She served as

neg: National Assembly of South Africa to change the constitution. The DP became the Democratic Alliance (DA) and remained the official opposition with 50 seats, while the IFP won 28 seats. The NNP was severely weakened, obtaining only 7 seats; the party was formally disbanded in 2005 with the majority of the party joining the ANC. In the election of 2009 the ANC lost its two-thirds majority but remained the majority party with 264 seats. The DA increased its support to 67 seats, and the new Congress of the People (COPE) party, a breakaway from the ANC, obtained 30 seats. The IFP was reduced to 18

neg: Kgalema Motlanthe opposition, the media and the public. The ANC rejected "the inclusion of a public interest clause in the Bill" despite strenuous opposition from all sectors of society. When the ANC rejected the clause, Motlanthe argued that “the clause does not exist anywhere in the world." He also urged the ANC "not to ram the Bill through Parliament." However, after strenuous objection from various quarters, the ANC's MPs passed the bill, with proposed amendments, in the National Council of Provinces in December. Another controversial issue into which Motlanthe was unwittingly dragged into was the Iran helicopter deal, which was published in

neg: UK Independence Party as a majority after winning the 2016 Northwood ward by-election, taking its number of councillors up to 29. In the 2016 local election, UKIP won 58 council seats, an increase of 25. In the United Kingdom local elections, 2017, UKIP lost all of the seats it was defending but gained one from Labour on Lancashire County Council. As a result of its hard Eurosceptic approach, UKIP does not recognise the legitimacy of the European Parliament, and under Sked's leadership refused to take any of the EP seats that it won. This changed after 1997, when the party decided that its

neg: Western Cape votes and 23 seats in the 42-seat provincial legislature, and Hernus Kriel, a former Minister of Law and Order, was elected Premier. He resigned in 1998 and was replaced by Gerald Morkel. The 1999 election marked the beginning of a period of great turbulence in Western Cape politics. No party achieved an absolute majority in the provincial parliament, as the ANC won 18 seats while the New National Party (NNP), successor to the NP, won 17. The NNP went into coalition with the Democratic Party (DP), which won 5 seats, to form a government, and Morkel remained Premier. In 2000

neg: Marius Fransman his position. ANC Secretary-General, Gwede Mantashe, slammed the party official who made the false announcement. Fransman also brought forward a court application to get reinstated as chairperson. In August 2016, the African National Congress' support in the Western Cape significantly decreased. The party lost many wards and municipalities to the Democratic Alliance. In September 2016, Fransman announced that he had resigned as Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, though he did not resign from the position of provincial chairperson. On November 2016, the National Disciplinary Committee of the African National Congress found Fransman guilty on two counts of misconduct

neg: Scottish National Party 2011 Parliament election, after which it formed Holyrood's first majority government. It was reduced back to a minority government at the 2016 election. The SNP is the largest political party in Scotland in terms of both seats in the Westminster and Holyrood parliaments, and membership; reaching 125,482 members as of August 2018, 35 MPs and over 400 local councillors. The SNP also currently has 2 MEPs in the European Parliament, who sit in The Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) group. The SNP is a member of the European Free Alliance (EFA). The party does not have any members of the House

neg: Proportional representation seats, and election thresholds. It was invented for the German Bundestag after the Second World War and has spread to Lesotho, Bolivia and New Zealand. The system is also used for the Welsh and Scottish assemblies where it is called the additional member system. Voters typically have two votes, one for their district representative and one for the party list. The list vote usually determines how many seats are allocated to each party in parliament. After the district winners have been determined, sufficient candidates from each party list are elected to "top-up" each party to the overall number of parliamentary

neg: 25th South African Parliament 25th South African Parliament The 25th South African Parliament was the fourth Parliament of South Africa to convene since the introduction of non-racial government in South Africa in 1994. It was elected in the general election of 22 April 2009, and first met on 6 May of that year to elect Jacob Zuma as the fourth President of South Africa. It was formally opened by the newly elected President's State of the Nation address in a joint sitting on 3 June 2009. The ANC retained its majority, although it was reduced to 264 seats out of 400 (66%) in the

neg: Congress of the People (South African political party) !colspan=2|Kwazulu-Natal !colspan=2|Limpopo !colspan=2|Mpumalanga !colspan=2|North-West !colspan=2|Northern Cape !colspan=2|Western Cape !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !%!!Seats !2009 !2014 !Election !Votes !2011 !2016 The elected leadership of the party consists of the following: COPE's list of provincial premiership candidates was announced in the Sunday Sun newspaper on 2 March 2009. The list was: The premiership candidate for Limpopo was announced at a later date: The ANC leadership reacted by offering a reconciliation meeting between treasurer Mathews Phosa and Lekota and his former deputy defense minister Mluleki George on 13 October. However, the meeting ended without resolution. On 14 October, Lekota

neg: Helen Zille provincial ANC MEC Richard Dyantyi, announced that he planned to replace the city's mayoral system with an executive committee. The move would have resulted in reduced mayoral power, and the governing party would not itself have been able to assign the ten seats on the committee, which would instead have been allocated on a proportional representation basis. Dyanti and Zille agreed to retain the current mayoral system if the ANC were provided with two additional sub-committees in areas of the city controlled by the ANC. The matter was thus resolved. Zille's commitments as mayor included Cape Town's role as a

neg: National Assembly of South Africa South Africa's first non-racial election in 1994 with the African National Congress (ANC) winning 252 of the 400 seats. The National Party (NP), the previous governing party, won 82 seats, and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) won 43. Under the terms of the Interim Constitution this result entitled the NP and the IFP to take part in the Government of National Unity alongside the ANC, and gave the ANC and NP the right to each nominated one Deputy President. The other parties represented in the assembly were the Freedom Front (9 seats), the Democratic Party (7 seats), the Pan Africanist

neg: City of Cape Town elections also crossed to the NNP. The ANC and the NNP formed a coalition which held a majority of 112 seats. The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period between the floor crossing periods in October 2002 and September 2004. Another floor-crossing period occurred on 1–15 September 2004. 27 of the 32 NNP councillors crossed, mostly to the ANC, giving the ANC a majority of 104 seats. 2 councillors of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) also crossed to the Federation of Democrats, a new party. The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats

neg: Nosimo Balindlela subsequently resigned from "active" politics - however she still remained an active ANC PEC member. Both her "sacking" and that of the neighboring Western Cape's ANC premier Ebrahim Rasool were announced on the same day. Her successor, Mbulelo Sogoni, was sworn in on 1 August 2008. She resigned from the ANC on 4 November 2008 to join the Congress of the People. In November 2012 she joined the Democratic Alliance, her second change of political party. She became a member of parliament for the DA in May 2014, and served as Shadow Minister of Water and Sanitation until November 2016,

neg: Parliament of Australia state is allocated seats based on its population; however, each original state, regardless of size, is guaranteed at least five seats. The Constitution does not guarantee representation for the territories. Parliament granted a seat to the Northern Territory in 1922, and to the Australian Capital Territory in 1948; these territorial representatives, however, had only limited voting rights until 1968. Federal electorates have their boundaries redrawn or redistributed whenever a state or territory has its number of seats adjusted, if electorates are not generally matched by population size or if seven years have passed since the most recent redistribution. From 1901

neg: Harry Nkumbula seats in Western Province during the general elections of 1968, Nkumbula had little to offer the Zambian public. When Kaunda moved to convert Zambia into a one-party state, Nkumbula capitulated. He signed a document called the Choma Declaration on 27 June 1973 and announced that he was joining UNIP. The ANC ceased to exist after the dissolution of parliament in October 1973. Some have alleged that Kaunda "bought off" Nkumbula by offering him an emerald mine. However, the fact that the emerald mine did not enter his possession until 1975 suggests that this allegation is false. Nkumbula's last prominent political

neg: 2005 Norwegian Sami parliamentary election Balto, Jørn Are Gaski, Hilde Nyvoll, and Vibeke Larsen. The Labour Party does not have the majority in the parliament. One particularly remarkable facet of the Sami parliamentary elections of 2005 was the outcome of 50% women being elected into parliamentary seats, as compared to the 37% of seats occupied by women in the non-Sami Norwegian parliament. Through an active effort to foster women's participation in Sami politics, no less than 22 women were elected to the 43 seats in the Sami parliament, up from 7 in 2001. Also in 2005, Aili Keskitalo, a woman, was elected as Parliamentary President,

neg: 2019 South African general election of the term of the National Assembly. The governing African National Congress (ANC) have held a majority of the seats in the National Assembly since 1994, being re-elected with increasing majorities in 1999 and 2004, and with a slight fall in its majority in 2009 and 2014. The ANC is led by Cyril Ramaphosa, who was elected to a five-year term as President of the African National Congress, beating his rival, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma by a narrow margin. David Mabuza was elected as Deputy President of the ANC, succeeding Ramaphosa who had run for the position of ANC president. National Assembly

neg: Schabir Shaik trial to the ANC, said that "President Thabo Mbeki has taken a decision regarding my presence in government and cabinet. It is the president's prerogative to take such a decision, in the context of, and within his authority as the president of the republic in light of this decision. I have also offered to resign my seat in parliament not as an admission of guilt of any kind, but in order to make it easier for the ANC and government to function in parliament." According to the statement, Zuma planned to stay on as deputy president of the ANC. Cosatu immediately

neg: 26th South African Parliament Council of Provinces, Thandi Modise, both of the ANC, were elected on 21 May 2014 by members of parliament. The presiding officers of parliament, Mmatlala Boroto, Cedric Frolick and Thoko Didiza were elected on 18 June 2014. Mmusi Maimane was elected parliamentary Leader of the Opposition in a DA election in May 2014. !colspan="2" style="text-align:left"|Party !Seats On 13 November 2014, MPs were involved in a physical altercation with police when EFF MP Ngwanamakwetle Mashabela refused to leave the podium after being instructed to when she called President Jacob Zuma a thief. Several DA and EFF MPs were shoved and pushed

neg: The Spear (painting) paper. A statement released by the ANC said: "Their refusal to remove this portrait from their website and their controlled social media is a clear indication that this newspaper does not belong to our shared democratic dispensation and values." Responding to the boycott, "City Press" editor-in-chief Ferial Haffajee described Nzimande's call for a boycott of the paper as "deeply disturbing". The ANC was criticised by the South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF), which said "While we recognise the right of the ANC to advise members on how to exercise their consumer decisions, the call for a boycott of a newspaper

neg: African National Congress and gold tricolor was also used on the flag of the KwaZulu bantustan. Although the colours of the new national Flag of South Africa since the transition from apartheid in 1994 have no official meaning, the three colours of the ANC flag were included in it, together with red, white and blue. Politicians in the party win a place in parliament by being on the "Party List", which is drawn up before the elections and enumerates, in order, the party's preferred MPs. The number of seats allocated is proportional to the popular national vote, and this determines the cut-off point.

neg: Parliament of Grenada he considers the Senators should be selected to represent". Since the National Democratic Congress does not have any seats in the House of Representatives it is only represented in the Senate. Parliament of Grenada The Parliament of Grenada is composed of the monarch and two chambers: Senate and the House of Representatives. Parliamentary democracy as we understand it today is based upon the consent of the governed. Sovereignty resides in the people and it is they who decide who shall occupy the seats of power. Parliament consists of the Queen, represented by the Governor General, the Senate and the House

neg: Laingsburg Local Municipality voting in four wards, while the remaining three are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016 no party obtained a majority; the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) won three seats each, and the Karoo Ontwikkelings Party (KOP; "Karoo Development Party") won the remaining seat. Initially the DA and KOP formed a coalition to govern the municipality, but in March 2017 the KOP broke with the DA and formed a new coalition with the ANC. The following

neg: Tsantsabane Local Municipality number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of seven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. Tsantsabane Local Municipality Tsantsabane Local Municipality is an administrative area in the ZF Mgcawu District Municipality of the Northern Cape in South Africa. Tsantsabane was the original name given to the town by the Batswana because of the presence of many shiny stones (e.g. the hematite). The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places: The municipal council consists of thirteen members elected by

neg: Harry Nkumbula white-dominated United Federal Party (UFP). He then found himself in a bind after the ANC won seven seats and held the balance of power between UNIP and the UFP. Eventually Nkumbula chose to form a coalition with UNIP and was given the post of minister of African education. The UNIP/ANC alliance lasted until the pre-independence elections of January 1964, when UNIP won fifty-five seats to the ANC's ten seats. Nkumbula became leader of the opposition. During the last days of the Federation, the ANC had been largely confined to Nkumbula's regional base in the southern province. Although the party won

neg: Overstrand Local Municipality elections floor to a different political party without losing their seats. In the Overstrand council, seven councillors departed the Democratic Alliance (DA) to become representatives of the New National Party (NNP). The NNP, which had formerly been part of the DA, then formed a coalition with the African National Congress (ANC); this coalition had a majority of 12 seats. Another floor-crossing period occurred on 1–15 September 2004. In the Overstrand council, 5 councillors crossed from the New National Party (NNP) to the African National Congress (ANC), giving the ANC a majority of 10 seats. At the elections of 1 March 2006,

neg: 2011 South African municipal elections !colspan="2" style="text-align:center"|DC !Votes !Votes !"Votes" !Votes In the Eastern Cape, the ANC captured a majority in all but one municipality; the lone exception, Baviaans,was won by the DA with four seats to the ANC's three. The Nelson Mandela Bay Metro was closely contested however, with the ANC dropping 15% of the vote, but retaining a narrow majority. The ANC won a majority in every municipality in the Free State, including the newly upgraded Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, in which it won 65 of the 97 available seats, against the DA's 26. The ANC won a majority in all but one of

neg: National Assembly of South Africa Congress (5 seats), and the African Christian Democratic Party (2 seats). In the election of 1999, the ANC won 266 seats, one short of the two-thirds majority needed to unilaterally amend the constitution. The DP expanded its representation to become the official opposition with 38 seats, while the IFP won 34. The NP, now renamed the New National Party (NNP), dropped to 28 seats, and the newly formed United Democratic Movement (UDM) won 14. Eight smaller parties also obtained seats in the assembly. In the election of 2004 the ANC obtained 279 seats, gaining a two-thirds majority and the ability

neg: Karoo Gemeenskap Party municipality. In the 2016 municipal election, the KGP won two out of seven seats in the council of the Prince Albert Local Municipality, while the DA won three and the ANC two. It also held two seats on the council of the Central Karoo District Municipality. In both councils the KGP entered into a coalition with the DA. Karoo Gemeenskap Party The Karoo Gemeenskap Party ( meaning "community") is a small South African regional political party which was formed in December 2010. In the 2011 municipal election, the KGP contested and won three out of seven seats in the council

neg: 24th Parliament of Turkey 24th Parliament of Turkey This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the Grand National Assembly for the 24th Parliament of the Republic of Turkey at the 2011 general election. Electoral districts are ordered according to plate codes of respective provinces, and parties within the electoral districts are ordered according to their "nationwide" vote (AKP, CHP, MHP, independents). Within the parties, MPs are ordered according to their orders in the party lists. The list shows the parties from which they were elected, not subsequent changes. It also does not show the vacated seats. 15 seats have been

neg: 2011 South African municipal elections Mandela Bay municipality was heavily contested in the elections with the ANC managing to secure 63 seats to the DA's 48 seats. Zille attributed the failure of the DA to win the metro to the decline of COPE, claiming that the latter's retention of votes could have unseated the ANC allowing a coalition government in the metro. The Poor People's Alliance called for a boycott of the election under the slogan No Land! No House! No Vote!. There were vote boycott campaigns by a number of civil society organisations including Soundz of the South, the Mandela Park Backyarders, the Mitchell's

neg: 2003 South African floor-crossing window period passed, so it included provision for a special window period starting fifteen days after the amendment came into effect. In the National Assembly, the floor-crossing expanded the African National Congress' (ANC) representation from 266 seats, one short of the two-thirds majority needed to amend the constitution, to 275 seats. In the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the ANC were before the window period the largest and second-largest parties respectively. As a result of the floor-crossing, they changed places; however, the ANC did not attain an absolute majority, holding 35 seats of 80. In the Western Cape

neg: Parliament of Singapore sends either four, five or six MPs depending on how many have been designated for that GRC. At present, SMCs return to Parliament 12 MPs and GRCs 75 MPs. All elected MPs are selected on a simple plurality voting ("first past the post") basis. A person is not permitted to be an MP for more than one constituency at the same time. In the last general election in 2011, the incumbent People's Action Party (PAP) won 81 of the 87 seats, but lost Hougang SMC and Aljunied GRC to the Workers' Party of Singapore (WP). This was the first time

neg: Roelf Meyer and consequently his seat in Parliament, in 1997. After he left the National Party, he became, with former Transkeian leader Bantu Holomisa, the co-founder of the United Democratic Movement (UDM). In the elections of 1999 the UDM received fourteen seats in Parliament and Meyer served as the Deputy President of the party until his retirement from politics in 2000. In 2006 he announced that he would join the ANC. In 2000 Meyer also involved himself in corporate business. He became a Director and later Deputy Executive Chairman of Tilca Infrastructure Corporation (Pty) Ltd. and is currently a director of Armscor.

neg: Scottish independence of Scotland and of the rest of the United Kingdom". The agreement gave the Scottish Parliament the legal authority to hold an independence referendum before the end of 2014. Scottish independence is supported most prominently by the Scottish National Party, but other parties also support independence. Other pro-independence parties which have held representation in the Scottish Parliament include the Scottish Green Party, the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity. At the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, 69 of the 129 seats available were won by pro-independence parties (63 SNP and 6 Greens). The independence movement consists of many factions with varying political

neg: Overstrand Local Municipality consolidated its hold in the council following the September 2007 floor crossing window which saw the party gain an eleventh seat from the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP). The ANC lost a seat to the newly formed National People's Party, as did the Independent Democrats, whose only representative in the Overstrand Council crossed over. In the May 2011 local elections, the DA again won Overstrand outright, taking fifteen of the twenty-five seats on the council, with the ANC taking nine and the National Independent Civic Organisation one. In the August 2016 local elections, the DA increased its majority to sixteen

neg: 2019 South African general election candidates for the position of premier of the different provinces are as follows: The Economic Freedom Fighters was formed in July 2013 by expelled ANC Youth leader, Julius Malema, taking a strong anti-ANC position within its ultra-left economic platform, such as calling for the expropriation of white people from their land without compensation and the nationalisation of South Africa's mines and the South African Reserve Bank. The party contested its first general elections in 2014 and garnered support across South Africa, giving it a total of 25 seats in the National Assembly. In the 2016 municipal elections, the party's support

neg: Nala Local Municipality In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of fifteen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. In a by-election held on 5 September 2018, a ward previously held by an ANC councillor was won by the DA candidate. Council composition was reconfigured as seen below: Nala Local Municipality Nala Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Lejweleputswa District of the Free State in South Africa. The name is Sesotho for "affluence or plenty". It is derived from the maize belt and economic prosperity of the

neg: Dikgatlong Local Municipality number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of nine seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. In a by-election held on 26 April 2017, a ward previously held by the ANC was won by an independent candidate. Council composition was reconfigured as seen below: Dikgatlong Local Municipality Dikgatlong Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Frances Baard District of the Northern Cape in South Africa. Dikgatlong is a Setswana name meaning "confluence", and

neg: Walter Sisulu Local Municipality Municipality (DC16). The municipal council consists of twenty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Eleven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in eleven wards, while the remaining eleven are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of fifteen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. In a by-election held on 8 August 2018, a ward previously held by an ANC councillor was won by the DA

neg: Bela-Bela Local Municipality votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a narrow majority of nine seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. In a by-election held on 17 July 2018, a ward previously held by a DA councillor was won by an ANC candidate. Council composition was reconfigured as seen below: Bela-Bela Local Municipality Bela-Bela Local Municipality is located in the Waterberg District Municipality of Limpopo province, South Africa. The seat of Bela-Bela Local Municipality is Bela-Bela. "Bela" is a Sesotho word meaning "to boil", referring to the hot

neg: Pixley ka Seme Local Municipality is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of seventeen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. In a by-election held on 18 October 2017, a ward previously held by the ANC was won by an independent candidate. Council composition was reconfigured as seen below: Pixley ka Seme Local Municipality Pixley Ka Seme Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, of Mpumalanga. Volksrust is the seat of the municipality. The municipality

neg: Amahlathi Local Municipality number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of twenty-four seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. Amahlathi Local Municipality Amahlathi Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Amatole District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Amahlati is an isiXhosa name that means "a place where many trees are grouped together, a forest". Forests are a key feature of the area. The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places: The municipal council consists of thirty members elected by

neg: Cedric Frolick for a second-term in April 2004 and was appointed ANC Whip for Sport & Recreation and ANC Whip responsible for Questions to the Presidency & the Executive, Motions & Members’ Statements. He also served as the ANC Cluster Whip on Social Transformation and served as an additional member of the NEC Sub-Committee on Social Transformation. He served on the multi-party Chief Whips Forum and the ANC Strategy Committee in Parliament. He was again y re-elected to Parliament in April 2009 and appointed Senior ANC National Assembly Programming Whip in May 2009. During the ANC re-shuffle in November 2010 he was

neg: 2016 Slovak parliamentary election government. The Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) performed poorly, losing all 16 of their seats. They just failed to cross the 5 percent threshold required for parliamentary representation, for the first time since the establishment of an independent Slovakia in 1993. The far-right nationalist Slovak National Party (SNS) and Kotleba – People's Party Our Slovakia (ĽSNS) parties entered parliament with 8.6 percent (15 seats) and 8.0 percent (14 seats) of the vote respectively. According to an exit poll, dissatisfaction with corruption and social issues led many to vote for ĽSNS. Other parties who gained representation in parliament include Most–Híd, We Are

neg: Government of Bangladesh of reservation to 15 years from the date of promulgation of the constitution of the Republic in December 1972. The constitutional provision lapsed in 1987 and was re-incorporated in the constitution by an amendment in 1990 to be effective for 10 years from the first meeting of the legislature next elected. This provision also lapsed in 2001. The Parliament elected in October 2001 does not have reserved seats for women. Women's groups are lobbying for these seats to become directly elected positions and for the number of reserved seats to be increased." The 10th Parliament had its first sitting on

neg: How to Steal a City officials that the syndicate used to steal large amounts of public money from local government. The book concludes that the corruption, political divisions, and political disenchantment that the situation created led to the ANC losing the municipality in the 2016 municipal elections. Despite the region being an ANC political stronghold in the past. The book was widely discussed in the media at the time of its publication. Kristoff Adelbert, Chief of Staff for Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality stated that all the allegations in the book would be investigated in an effort to fight corruption. How to Steal a City

neg: Aleksandra Majkić Aleksandra Majkić Aleksandra Majkić (; born 1979) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party. Majkić is a graduate of the University of Novi Sad's Faculty of Law. She lives in Kikinda, Vojvodina. Majkić received the fifteenth position on the Serbian Radical Party's electoral list in the 2008 Vojvodina provincial election, in which half the members were elected by proportional representation. The party won twenty seats by the proportional system, though Majkić does not appear to have served in the parliament that followed. She

neg: 2003 South African floor-crossing window period Provincial Parliament the ANC expanded its representation to an absolute majority, growing from 18 to 22 seats of a total 42. During this window period representatives of the Democratic Party (DP) officially became representatives of the Democratic Alliance (DA). Amongst a group of new parties created by floor-crossing, the most significant was the Independent Democrats, who gained one member in the National Assembly and one in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature. The tables below show all the changes; in those provinces not listed there was no change in the provincial legislature, other than the DP becoming the DA. !colspan="2" style="text-align:left"|Party !Seats

neg: Parliament of South Africa political system, especially against the ANC. The Independent Electoral Commission is charged with keeping elections fair, regular, and equal. Parties submit closed lists of candidates to the IEC, and the IEC fills the seats allotted to individual parties using the candidate lists after election results come in. The electoral system has seen little corruption since 1994. Higher Education Minister Naledi Pandor has noted that during her term (starting 1994) a decline in political respectability had occurred in parliament, due to its members not engaging with one another in a courteous manner. She remarked that she felt undignified to be an

neg: Parliament of Singapore political party often forms a Shadow Cabinet, the members of which serve as opposition spokespersons on key areas of government. Singapore law does not provide for an official Leader of the Opposition, though the leader of the largest opposition party in Parliament is usually given the title of unofficial Leader of the Opposition. This is taken into consideration by the Speaker when seats in Parliament are allocated, and during a debate the MP so designated is often given the privilege of being one of the first non-Government MPs to speak. Singapore presently does not have a shadow cabinet in Parliament

neg: 2012 Armenian parliamentary election Ter-Petrosyan and other ANC leaders said President Serzh Sargsyan had rigged the election and demanded new polls. International monitors said the election was peaceful, but criticised "interference" by the ruling party, which it said violated election law in the run-up to the vote. The ANC leaders addressing thousands on Freedom Square, claimed that the vote giving the ruling RPA a majority in National Assembly does not reflect the real lineup of political forces in the country. "Armenian Times" editor Nikol Pashinyan stressed that the opposition bloc will not give up the seven mandates and will enter parliament and continue its

neg: National Democratic Party (Egypt) roughly a fifth (88 seats) of parliament seats before the elections, won zero seats. The Wafd Party won two seats - down from five seats in the last parliament. Many human rights groups and NGOs decried the elections as fraudulent. The United States and the European Union have also criticized the poll. The elections are widely viewed as a tightening of power by the regime in preparation for next year's presidential elections. In the first round of voting, the NDP won 209 of 211 seats. The Wafd Party won the other two seats. After the near sweep of the first

neg: Minority government charge. Sweden had several minority governments in history, most of the time led by the Swedish Social Democratic Party, with the support of the Socialist Left Party. Centre-right Alliance which led by Moderate Party formed a minority coalition government from 2010 to 2014. The recent minority government is led by the Social Democrats and Greens, which only have one-third of seats. Minority government A minority government, or minority cabinet or minority parliament, is a cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament. It

neg: Apportionment in the European Parliament reduce inequality of representation. In February 2018, the Parliament approved a plan to reduce the number of seats to 705. It involves redistributing 27 seats to under-represented members, and reserving the remaining 46 for future EU expansion. The proposal to create a pan-European constituency was rejected at the same time. United States Congressional apportionment Apportionment in the European Parliament The apportionment of seats within the European Parliament to each member state of the European Union is set out by the EU treaties. The apportionment of seats is not proportional to each state's population, nor does it reflect any particular mathematical

neg: Baleka Mbete the National Assembly. A debate held in Parliament on 16 September resulted in the motion being rejected by 234 votes to none. This was a result of opposition parties collectively walking out of the house after the ANC tried to change the vote into one of confidence in Mbete instead. Mbete has faced accusations, over the course of several years, that she is biased in favour of the ANC and a puppet of Ex president Zuma. In March 2016, the Constitutional Court held, in "Economic Freedom Fighters v Speaker of the National Assembly", that the National Assembly under Mbete's stewardship

neg: 2011 South African municipal elections local municipalities in the province. In a further four local municipalities the DA was the largest party but did not hold a majority of seats. The ANC won outright only the Beaufort West Local Municipality, and was the largest party in the Cederberg Local Municipality but did not hold a majority there. Five local municipalities were evenly split between the ANC and the DA, with other parties holding the balance of power. In the Kannaland Local Municipality, the Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa won a plurality of three seats while the ANC and the DA won two each; a

neg: Umtshezi Local Municipality number of party representatives was proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 18 May 2011 no party obtained a majority; the African National Congress won eight seats, the Inkatha Freedom Party five, and the National Freedom Party three. The following table shows the results of the election. The ANC and the NFP formed a coalition to govern the majority. Subsequently, the ANC won a by-election in a ward previously held by the IFP, giving the ANC a majority of nine seats. Umtshezi Local Municipality Umtshezi Local Municipality was an administrative area in the Uthukela District of

neg: Separatism in the United Kingdom Party, but other parties also support independence. Other pro-independence parties which have held representation in the Scottish Parliament include the Scottish Green Party, the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity. At the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, 69 of the 129 seats available were won by pro-independence parties (63 SNP and 6 Greens). The independence movement consists of many factions with varying political views. The SNP wants Scotland to keep the monarchy (see personal union) and become an independent Commonwealth realm, similar to Canada or Australia. Others—such as the SSP and Solidarity—want Scotland to become an independent republic. The SSP has led

neg: Representation (politics) it might be put in the United Kingdom, on title to land, as was originally the case with the old pre-Reforms House of Lords. In the Senate or the Lords, it does not matter how many people are living in a constituent's jurisdiction, it matters that the constituent have the jurisdiction (by election, heredity or appointment—the US, the UK and Canada respectively). The principle of rep-by-pop, when brought in and promoted publicly, removed many archaic seats in the British House of Commons although some northern and rural counties necessarily still have variably lower populations than most urban ridings. Former British

neg: Politics of the Caribbean is in the name of the party system, it is by far not democratic. Cuba suggests that democracy is about power and how many have access to it, whereas they believe their system is about how many people have access to basic goods. Multi-party systems are political parties of three or more groups. Seats are awarded in legislature according to how many votes are received; therefore small parties can win seats. This encourages many small parties to form. Haiti, Suriname and Guyana are all good examples of this practice. Haiti has approximately twenty-eight parties, Suriname twenty-six and Guyana fifteen. Two

neg: Matatiele Local Municipality number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-eight seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. Matatiele Local Municipality Matatiele Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Alfred Nzo District of Eastern Cape in South Africa. The name is derived from the Sesotho language and it means "the ducks have flown", in an apparent reference to the abundance of waterfowl that even today inhabit the surrounding pools and marshes. The 2001 census divided

neg: City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality 135 councillors elected by Proportional Representation (PR) from party lists (so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received). Ward Councillors have more local responsibilities, including setting up Ward Committees in their wards to raise local issues, commenting on town planning and other local matters in their ward, and liaising with local ratepayers' and residents' associations. PR Councillors are usually allocated to more political tasks within their party structures and within the City. In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won the largest share of the seats on

neg: Victor Khanye Local Municipality party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of eleven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. Victor Khanye Local Municipality Victor Khanye Local Municipality (formerly Delmas Local Municipality) is located in the Nkangala District Municipality of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The seat of Delmas Local Municipality is Delmas. The local municipality was one of the four to have passed the 2009-10 audit by the Auditor-General of South Africa,

neg: UMhlabuyalingana Local Municipality the bottom of this, and, if heads have to roll, so be it: they will." The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places: The municipal council consists of thirty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Eighteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in eighteen wards, while the remaining seventeen are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of twenty-two seats on the council. The following table shows the results

neg: 2016 Irish government formation 2016 Irish government formation The events surrounding the formation of Ireland's government in 2016 took place during March, April and May of that year, following the general election held on 26 February, which failed to produce an overall majority for any of the country's outgoing political alliances and resulted in a hung parliament. The outgoing administration was a coalition government of Fine Gael and the Labour Party. Both parties lost many seats, meaning they no longer commanded an overall majority in Dáil Éireann. The largest opposition party, Fianna Fáil, more than doubled its number of seats, becoming the second-largest party

neg: Elections in Croatia all 116 seats in the Municipalities Council of Croatia and all 160 seats in the Associated Labour Council of Croatia (since Parliament had three chambers at the time). The first round of the election saw a turnout of 85.5 percent, and the runoff-election turnout was 74.8 percent. The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) won 205 seats, and the Social Democratic Party of Croatia won 107. Eight parliamentary elections have been held since for the Chamber of Deputies () or the unicameral parliament since then—in 1992, 1995, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2016. Beginning with the 1992 elections, the number of

neg: 2016 Australian federal election 2016 Australian federal election The 2016 Australian federal election was a double dissolution election held on Saturday 2 July to elect all 226 members of the 45th Parliament of Australia, after an extended eight-week official campaign period. It was the first double dissolution election since the 1987 election and the first under a new voting system for the Senate that replaced group voting tickets with optional preferential voting. Unusually, the outcome could not be predicted the day after the election, with many close seats in doubt. After a week of vote counting, no party had won enough seats in the

neg: Politics of Denmark contested in elections held at least every four years and in the present parliament, all seats are taken up by members belonging to a political party. All parties receiving more than 2% of the votes are represented in parliament. Comparatively, this is quite low; in Sweden the minimum level of support necessary for getting into parliament is 4%. Often, this has led to the representation of many parties in parliament, and correspondingly complex or unstable government majorities. However, during the last decade the political system has been one of stable majorities and rather long government tenures. Denmark does not use

neg: Devolution in the United Kingdom largest in the UK Parliament. In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election the SNP fell 2 seats short of an overall majority with 63 seats but remained in government for a third term. The Conservative Party won 31 seats and became the second largest party for the first time. The Labour Party down to 24 seats from a 38 fell to third place. The Scottish Greens took 6 seat and overtook the Liberal Democrats who remained flat at 5 seats. Following the 2016 referendum on EU membership, where Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to Remain and England and Wales voted to

neg: Malta an alternative government for the remainder of the legislature. The House of Representatives is nominally made up of 65 members of parliament whereby 5 members of parliament are elected from each of the thirteen electoral districts. However, where a party wins an absolute majority of votes, but does not have a majority of seats, that party is given additional seats to ensure a parliamentary majority. The 80th article of the Constitution of Malta provides that the president appoint as prime minister "... the member of the House of Representatives who, in his judgment, is best able to command the support

neg: Leigh (UK Parliament constituency) it does contain the more Conservative-inclined area of Lowton East. Following the review of parliamentary representation in Greater Manchester in 2009, the Boundary Commission for England recommended alterations to constituencies in the Wigan area. The electoral wards used in the altered Leigh constituency are: The seat was created in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. Since 1922 it has been served by candidates belonging to the Labour Party continuously, which for the political party makes it one of their longest held seats, the most recent incumbent was Shadow Home Secretary from September 2015 to October 2016. General Election 1914/15 Another

neg: June List Qviberg group of companies, served on the board of the party. The June List suffered a significant decline in its support at the 2009 election and lost all of its seats in the European parliament. June List The June List (, jl) is a Swedish, Eurosceptic political party. Founded in 2004, it received 14% in the European Parliament election of the same year - gaining three seats. In the elections of 2009, however, it saw a drop of 11 percentage points in support and lost all of its seats. It currently holds no seats in parliament and does not play

neg: Jacob Zuma with the influential Gupta family. He survived multiple motions of no confidence, both in parliament and within the ANC. On 18 December 2017, Cyril Ramaphosa was elected to succeed Zuma as President of the ANC at the ANC Conference at Nasrec, Johannesburg. Subsequent months saw growing pressure on Zuma to resign as President of South Africa, culminating in the ANC "recalling" him as President of South Africa. Facing a motion of no confidence in parliament, Zuma announced his resignation on 14 February 2018, and was succeeded by Ramaphosa the next day. Zuma was born in Nkandla, Natal Province (now part