Similarly, a higher electoral threshold for winning seats should counter vote buying by candidates.

This is partly because Liberals have usually thrived by winning seats from Conservatives when Conservative administrations are unpopular.

Essebsi's party secured a plurality during the parliamentary elections on October 26, winning 86 out of the total 217 seats.

Though his party did not do well in the legislative poll only winning four seats, Marzouki is backed by Ennahdha supporters.

In the 2009 general election the coalition parties kept the majority in the Storting by winning 86 out of 169 seats.

The NDP won a total 90 seats (after some of the winning candidates joined the party following their victory), 46 Independent candidates (of which 42 are affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, raising the group's number of seats to a total of 76 seats) and 2 more seats for the New Wafd Party.

For the first time in the multi party era, local elections took place on 21 November 2000, with the UDF party winning 70 of the available seats.

The election ended with a victory for the four opposition non socialist parties, winning a total of 96 seats out of 169 (85 needed for a majority).

Ninety deputies are elected in 35 single and multi member districts (departments) by simple majority (plurality) party block vote (PBV, winning party list takes all seats in the district).

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.

Putin s Winning Streak

Winning the Peace

And in any case winning the battle against perception is sometimes winning half the war.

How Iran Is Winning

Global Development s Winning Goals

The Winning International NGO

Why is Obama Winning?

Winning the Confidence Game

1992 2005 After the Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election, 1992 resulted in the two main parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan winning 50 out of 100 seats they decided to move on without President.

3,600 VIP seats are available, with another 126 seats allotted for the press (with a possible expansion to 548 seats).

(i) Two permanent seats and two non permanent seats for African States

Sixty have been elected on reserved seats and thirteen on general seats.

There's no chance of winning.

Sami was winning the game.

Winning the Transatlantic Trade Challenge

Winning the European Confidence Game

Winning with Opium in Afghanistan

Congrats for winning Nobel prize!

Finding the winning revitalization strategies

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

The anti independence alliance increased its representation from 31 seats to 36 seats.

Distribution of seats

These were used by the Joint Electoral Management Body to allocate seats for both the Wolesi Jirga (249 seats, including 10 seats reserved for the nomadic Kuchi population) and the 34 provincial councils (420 seats).

Winning the Fight For Global Education

How China Is Winning Southeast Asia

We have little chance of winning.

Winning the Fight Against Killer Diseases

The stadium seats 12,500.

Winning the Too Big to Fail Battle

Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame

All hope of winning the game vanished.

Oscar Arias is winning in Costa Rica.

That ought to be a winning combination.

Following are three of the winning films.

The House contains 360 seats, with the number of seats per state is determined by population.