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These seats will be given to entities that didn't gain enough votes in a province to win a seat but took a large number of votes across the country.
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France and Britain, for example, both have national electoral systems in which a single member of parliament is elected for each district, and thus only big parties that can win pluralities in a district gain seats.
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That number remains unchanged from a tracking poll released Saturday and represents a 5-point gain for Clinton since her Pennsylvania win.
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Failing to win the seat would almost inevitably mean a gain on the list - and that, Labour decided, was a cardinal sin against democracy and proof that the system they introduced in 1999 was flawed.
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The GOP is expected to win control of the House of Representatives Tuesday and gain a stronger foothold in the Senate.
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The move addresses a major concern of the Hispanic community and mimics some of the provisions of a Democratic proposal called the DREAM Act that has failed to win enough Republican support to gain congressional approval.
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The ruling Liberal Democrats have a majority in the lower house, but must win support from the opposition Democratic Party to gain his approval in the upper house.
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The Dow Jones industrial average ended on Friday with gain of 125.71 points, or 1.13%, which normally would have been a great win, except that the week closed with a loss of 175.59 points, or 1.53%, to 11, 269.02.
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In most of the constituencies they might hope to gain in a future election, they are second to the Tories, and rely on picking up Labour votes to win.
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