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Abstentionism is the political practice of standing for election to a deliberative assembly while refusing to take up any seats won or otherwise participate in the assembly's business.
Comparative results of 2011 Canadian federal election with or without abstention. Abstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote (on election day) or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote but does not cast a ballot. [1]
In parliamentary practice, pairing is an informal arrangement between the government and opposition parties whereby a member of a legislative body agrees or is designated by a party whip to be absent from the chamber or to abstain from voting when a member of the other party needs to be absent from the chamber due to other commitments, illness, travel problems, etc.
Gained his seat from Labour in the 1931 general election. Retired at the end of the Parliament. Sir George Masterman Gillett: Finsbury: 31 August 1931: 25 October 1935: Originally elected as a Labour MP; was a junior Minister in the Labour Government. Announced his support of the Government [5] and was appointed to the National Government.
An attempt to force party unity then, the vote could instead prove to have the opposite effect and expose the deep internal divisions within Labour over the war, raising the very real prospect of ...
When Harold Wilson’s Labour government lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 in 1969, the UK became the first major democratic country to do so. And although the topic has come up at various ...
Labour's number of votes, 12.2 million, was ironically the same amount they had needed to win in 1964. The Conservative vote surge cost Labour in many marginal seats. Rose suggested the absolute fall in the number of Labour votes suggested that many of the party's supporters had decided to abstain.
SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has said Parliament must ‘show moral leadership’ and vote in favour of backing an immediate ceasefire. Labour seeks vote on Middle East stance while SNP ...