• Ending the ban is fiercely opposed by the millions of kirana owners and their dependents, who are an important electoral constituency of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.

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  • Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (BHV) is Belgium's biggest, and only bilingual, electoral constituency.

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  • These included proposals for the transfer from the federal to the regional level of certain aspects of fiscal, labour and healthcare policies, as well as the thorny task of reaching an agreement on the future of the bilingual electoral constituency of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (BHV).

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  • He has taken powers and funds from mayors and governors, clamped down on independent trade unions and broadcasters, and passed a law which will allow the government-controlled electoral authority to gerrymander constituency boundaries.

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  • The Almanac offers a complete guide to the electoral map of Britain, with profiles of every constituency and a biographical profile of every member of parliament.

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  • Part of the Fermangh and South Tyrone constituency, it traditionally has the highest electoral turnout in Northern Ireland and while now a Sinn Fein held seat, it had an Ulster Unionist MP for nearly 18 years.

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  • But he has proven electoral appeal, having wrested control of the traditionally conservative Bundang constituency in a by-election in April.

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  • Freedom for the ex-president is expected to diminish the Estrada-Poe constituency's rancour against Mrs Arroyo, and weaken Mr Poe's electoral support.

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  • Then it's on to that set-piece Coalition spat, the consideration of Lords amendments to the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill, including the one postponing the implementation of the review of Commons constituency boundaries.

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  • But constituency boundaries have not yet been defined and to achieve this, a more accurate electoral register will be needed.

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  • By marrying this constituency to poor minority voters, gentry liberals have turned our core urban areas into a collection of electoral "ditto heads, " with so-called "progressives" winning as much as 70 or 80% of the vote in presidential elections.

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  • The vote is on a Lords amendment to the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill, postponing the boundary changes needed to reduce the number of MPs to 600 and equalise constituency electorates.

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