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21Nyan Win — U Nyan Win ဉာဏ်ဝင်း Nyan Win at UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009 …
22Marginal seat — Swing seat redirects here. For the piece of playground furniture, see swing (seat). A marginal seat, or swing seat, is a constituency held with a particularly small majority in a legislative election, generally conducted under a single winner… …
23box seat — /bɒks ˈsit/ (say boks seet) noun 1. a seat in a theatre box, etc. 2. the driving seat of a horse drawn coach: *There were about twenty passengers aboard – inside, on the box seat, on the tail board, and hanging on to the roof –henry lawson, 1901 …
24Window seat — Window Win dow, n. [OE. windowe, windoge, Icel. vindauga window, properly, wind eye; akin to Dan. vindue. ????. See {Wind}, n., and {Eye}.] [1913 Webster] 1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed… …
25Underhang seat — Underhang seats can arise in elections under any proportional representation (PR) electoral system, when a party is entitled to more seats according to party votes than it has put candidates forward for.Under list PR systems, parties receive a… …
26safe seat — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms safe seat : singular safe seat plural safe seats British a place where a particular political party is expected to win an election because most people support them …
27Open seat (elective office) — Open Seat refers to an elective office for which no incumbent office holder seeks re election. Given the incumbency advantage in legislative elections in the United States and Japan, such races typically offer non incumbents their best… …
28death seat — /ˈdɛθ sit/ (say deth seet) noun Colloquial 1. the front passenger seat in a car. 2. (in a trotting race) a position on the outside of the leader, from which it is very hard to win …
29Manchester Council election, 1973 — The first elections to the new Manchester City Council were held on Thursday, 10 May 1973. The election created the entire 99 member council (3 councillors to each ward), which shadowed its predecessor corporation before taking over its functions …
30Manchester Council election, 1982 — Elections to Manchester Council were held on Thursday, 6 May 1982. Due to demographic changes in the city since the formation of the new City Council in 1973, and in common with some other English councils in 1982, substantial boundary changes to …
