While women had held 6.9 per cent of parliamentary seats in the fifth parliament, they held 12 per cent of seats in the twelfth parliament.

However, in the elections of October 2001 the Jatiya Party won 14 seats in Parliament.

The Parliament is unicameral and has a total of 250 seats.

Women hold less than 1 of seats in the current Egyptian parliament previously, they held 12 .

1924 February Zaghloul becomes Prime minister after that Wafd wins 90 of the parliament seats in elections.

Overall, that s 60 of the seats in Parliament, won in nearly every district in the West Bank and Gaza.

Further changes were later made, changing the ratio to 120 constituency seats and 80 list seats, reportedly in an attempt to reduce the Muslim Brotherhood's influence in the new parliament.

Is there political money fueling his country's campaigning for seats in the Parliament .. or it is just money?

In a parliamentary system of government, a hung parliament occurs when no single political party (or bloc of allied parties) has an absolute majority of seats in the parliament (legislature).

Together they won a narrow 51 majority of the popular vote, giving them 37 of the 65 seats in parliament.

In 1990, when the NLD won 81 of the seats in Parliament, the junta promptly voided the results and arrested Suu Kyi.

Thirty three per cent of local government seats had been reserved for women and a national effort was now under way towards a similar reservation of seats for women in the Indian Parliament.

With the TRT capturing over 75 of the seats in the lower house of parliament, Thaksin is now politically invincible at home.

His coalition government survives mainly because many members of Israel s parliament know that they would lose their seats in an early election.

In the following general elections, held on 24 October 2004, the Democratic Party of Kosovo came second and won 30 seats in the parliament.

With regard to parliament, there is no need to follow Lebanon s rigid apportionment of seats according to confessional identity.

Additionally, local and regional power struggles linked to the elections and the possible contesting of seats in the new parliament are a possibility.

The NDP had achieved over half the seats despite its bad performance, and speculations still predicted that the NDP will retain at least 70 of the parliament seats which they narrowly missed.

Women hold less than 1 of seats in the current Egyptian parliament previously, they held 12 . In Libya, a first draft of the electoral law reserved 10 of seats in the constituent assembly for women, but the quota was later abandoned.

In the elections of 8 August 1910, almost half the seats in the parliament were won by Independents, who were newcomers to the Greek political scene.

He looks pathetic because the high court certified the March 7 election results and declared Ayad Allawi the man with the most seats in parliament.

Given the distribution of seats in the Parliament, a constitutional amendment required the support of Mr. Hariri's bloc, a support he was unprepared to lend.

In the 1999 general elections, the Virtue Party won several seats in the parliament but it was not as successful as the RP in the 1995 general elections.

In Rwanda, in particular, that support had contributed to the election of women to 49 per cent parliament seats, the highest parliamentary representation of women in the world.

For years, his backbench members of parliament kept quiet because they knew that they owed their seats, and their majority, to him.

After a brief trans party government following the German capitulation in 1945, Labour gained a majority of the seats in parliament in the first post war election of 1945.

Since 2005, both the Conservative Party and the Progress Party have won numerous seats in the Parliament, but not sufficient in the 2009 general election to overthrow the coalition.

These efforts resulted in a woman contesting the presidency and in women being selected for 48 per cent and 30 per cent of the seats in Parliament and the Senate, respectively.

Coalitions The United Iraqi Alliance, made up primarily of religious Shi'ite parties, won 128 out of 275 seats in the previous election and was the largest party in the parliament.

In Lebanon s post war parliament, seats are widely distributed among the various confessional communities, so that none feels excluded or fears losing political representation if it loses numerical superiority.

Members of the National Democratic Alliance have subsequently agreed to join the Government of National Unity and have been allocated a number of executive positions and seats in parliament.

The European socialist party (ESP), which held 215 deputies in the old parliament, secured only 160 seats. In France and Denmark, where the Socialist Party is in opposition, it did no better.

Dalits and India s aboriginals (listed in the Constitution as Scheduled Castes and Tribes ) are entitled to 85 seats in India s 543 member parliament that are reserved for candidates from their communities.

In Rwanda, women now hold almost 50 per cent of seats in the national parliament, currently the highest proportion of women in parliament in the world.44 Concerted efforts have to be made to ensure an enabling environment for women's effective participation and positive impact on policy outcomes.

This gross mistreatment of the Palestinians in Gaza was escalated dramatically by Israel, with United States backing, after political candidates representing Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Authority parliament in 2006.

Further, it enshrines the equality of men and women and promotes women's political participation by guaranteeing them at least 25 per cent of the seats in the lower house of parliament.

In the European Parliament election of 2009 the Swedish Pirate Party received 7.1 percent of the votes, winning two seats and achieving the first major success of a Pirate Party in an election.

The other major parties in the council are the Green League (10 seats), the Left Alliance (9 seats) and The Finns (6 seats).

Seven parties and 185 candidates were vying for places in Nagorno Karabakh's fourth parliament, with two thirds of the parliament's 33 seats to be elected directly and one third under a proportional system.

Although the number of women holding seats in the Parliament and the People's Consultative Assembly decreased, the quality of women's representation in the two assemblies, having been won through popular votes, showed a marked improvement.

The Communists were guaranteed a majority in parliament. While the election to the newly created Senate was entirely free, the opposition could compete for only one third of the seats in the Sejm (the lower house).

However, the smaller liberal Free Democratic Party (which had members in the Bundestag from 1949 to 2013) and the Alliance '90 The Greens (which has had seats in parliament since 1983) have also played important roles.

However, seats in parliament, not percentages of the vote are what matters, owing to Britain s winner take all electoral system based on single member constituencies, which encourages political parties to gravitate to the center.

In the Somali Transitional Federal Parliament, 12 per cent of the seats are to be reserved for women, and a woman, Fowzia Mohamed Sheikh, is the newly appointed cabinet minister for Gender and Family Affairs.

In the elections, AK Party gained 341 seats and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) gained 71 seats.