Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [adj] seats " in BNC.
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| 1 | BNP candidates won five out of 11 seats , the Jatiya Party winning four and the Awami League two . |
| 2 | On March 3 the Hamas-backed Islamic bloc won 10 out of 11 seats in elections to the Ramallah and al-Bira Chamber of Commerce . |
| 3 | By contrast , in elections to the Ramallah and al-Bira chamber of commerce in March , Hamas had won 10 out of 11 seats [ see p. 38836 ] . |
| 4 | In Sind , traditionally regarded as its stronghold , the PPP won 43 out of 100 seats while its chief opponent , the MQM , won 47 . |
| 5 | Congress ( I ) nevertheless remained short of a majority in the Rajya Sabha in which it now held 115 out of 237 seats ( with eight seats vacant ) . |
| 6 | It was all over by about 9pm : the ruling Barisan had scored a resounding thumping victory — 49 out of 56 seats . |
| 7 | Out of 470 seats the Socialists won 113 , the Radicals 89 , the Republican Left 85 , the Catalonian and Galician allies of the latter 55 , and other assorted pro-republicans around 60 . |
| 8 | The main opposition party is the National League for Democracy ( U Aung Shwe ch. , U Lwin gen. sec. — see below for removal of previous leaders ) which won 392 out of 485 seats in the May 1990 elections . |
| 9 | The SPS took 93 out of 120 seats in elections to the Assembly of Vojvodina . |
| 10 | In.the general election Labour won 79 seats for the first time ; it carried 10 out of 13 seats in Birmingham , 9 out of 10 in Manchester and 48 out of 62 in London . |
| 11 | The Democrats maintained their southern support , winning 26 out of 45 seats in the south , and Chart Thai performed strongly in the central regions , winning 42 out of 83 central seats . |
| 12 | In Cluj county , out of 45 seats , most seats were won by the nationalist Romanian National Unity party ( 14 seats ) ; the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania ( HDUR ) won 9 seats . |
| 13 | In the first round of balloting , on Feb. 24 , Sajudis-affiliated candidates won enough seats ( 72 out of 90 seats decided ) to ensure an outright majority in the 141-seat Supreme Soviet . |
| 14 | The Greens of Slovenia ( Zeleni Slovenije " ZS ) , which had won five out of 90 seats in parliamentary elections in December [ see ED 65/66 ] , were one of the five parties in the new coalition sworn in on Jan. 25 . |
| 15 | Nationalist candidates identified with the Palestine Liberation Organization won nine out of 12 seats in elections to the Nablus chamber of commerce held on May 21 ; only two seats went to the Islamic list , identified with Hamas . |
| 16 | The Social Democratic Party ( Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands — SPD ) won 54.4 per cent of the votes in Land ( state ) elections in Saarland on Jan. 28 , taking 30 out of 51 seats in the Landtag ( state parliament ) . |
| 17 | The Social Democratic Party ( PSD ) retained its absolute majority on Oct. 11 in elections to local assemblies in the Azores and Madeira , winning 28 out of 51 seats in the Azores and 39 out of 55 in Madeira . |
| 18 | With 164 out of 394 seats , the HDF , led by Josef Antall , was by far the largest single party , ahead of the liberal Alliance of Free Democrats ( SzDSz ) with 92 seats . |