Sentences with phrase «dem vote split»

Only a sharp vote split between Liberal Harvey Locke and Green Chris Turner ensured a Conservative win.

Kenney says vote splitting leveraged Premier Rachel Notley's NDP to majority government in the 2015 election, and only a united conservative party can prevent a repeat in 2019.

MP Richards adds that vote splitting between the two Conservative parties was the reason for last year's results; by uniting the parties we will once again see a Conservative majority in Alberta.

Providing sufficient evidence to both WRP and PC base that detest the other side right now... that they have to live with differences, to get together under one tent if they don't want to risk giving NDP Calgary again via vote splitting.

The lack of conservative vote split that the New Democrats, Liberals and Alberta Party had hoped to capitalize on may have vanished the moment Ms. Smith crossed the floor.

IMHO, there tends to be little electoral overlap between the provincial and federal levels, at least in this province, and in fact the vote splits between right, left and centre are quite different with one unified Conservative party (more aligned with Wildrose than with Alberta PC), and a not - quite - as - moribund Liberal party in play.

As the outcome of the March election shows, the fight is evident as the vote split the country in half.

Liberal candidate Susan Wright placed fourth with 1,519 votes, leading many of Mr. Clark's supporters to lament the vote split among the two centrist opposition parties (Ms. Wright, aka Susan on the Soapbox, is supporting the NDP in the 2015 election).

«Look at the cold hard math from the last Provincial election; a vote split, 27.8 % Progressive Conservative vote, 24.2 % vote for the Wildrose Party, 42 % NDP government.

MeadowlaRk Lemon says: «So stop fragmenting winnable seats and develop a strategic approach to end vote splitting.»

I think you're right about vote splitting but Why is it the Liberals fragmenting the vote?

Kenney has said only a merger can prevent vote splitting in the 2019 election and another election win by Notley.

If the party rejects the true believers, they risk driving them into a new party which will, at least for the next election, leave the Democrats as the largest party with other votes split.

With votes split 50 % / 49 % simple mathematics tells us that Christians voted for both sides.

The evangelical vote split because none of the options were good in this group of GOP candidates.

Very similar to (but probably more ridiculous than) vote splitting is the spoiler effect.

There are many voting systems that are quite resistant to strategic voting, vote splitting, etc..

The result of all this is that FPTP bodies tend towards dual party systems after a while; the similar candidates fight it out in primaries so that in the real election, there's only two major choices and the effect of vote splitting is minimized.

With the vote split, Gipson was able to secure a victory.

Runoff voting methods are less vulnerable to vote splitting compared to plurality voting.

Runoff voting is less vulnerable to vote splitting, yet vote splitting can occur in any round of runoff voting.

Vote splitting most easily occurs in plurality voting because the ballots don't gather any information about the secondary preferences of the voters.

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The resulting vote split the government and an early general election was called, which was won by SMER.

But it was not enough to overtake Ms. Cancel, a longtime resident of the area who has been active in tenant issues, who won 39 percent to 34 percent, with the rest of the vote split among other candidates.

Labour won both seats - with increased majorities - as the UKIP vote split between Labour and the Tories.

Lots of people will be writing about past examples today — 1982 in Micham and Morden (Lab vote split because of SDP defection, and the government got a surge of support during campaign because of the Falklands); 1961 Bristol South East (Tory gain only because the candidate with the most votes — Tony Benn — was disqualified for being a peer), 1960 Brighouse and Spenborough (ultra marginal to begin with).

In other words this system is more resilient to vote splitting than straight first - past - the - post.

It's certainly not unlikely that with a different voting system, primaries would work differently, and the Republican primary campaign in particular was a classic example of vote splitting among essentially identical candidates.

«They think the Ukip vote splits the Tory vote.

Again that Lib Dem vote split all over.

In 2013, the Times Union reported that the commissioners in a closed - door vote split 9 to 5 to approve Tagliafierro, amid concerns from some commissioners about her independence from the Cuomo administration.

The vote split the nation, including my own city of Nottingham, in two, and I share the concern that our strong collective position in favour of remaining in Europe was not consistently communicated to Labour supporters.

This climate — where voters, parties, and candidates were constantly forced to ponder the dangers of vote splitting and spoiler candidates — produced some early advocates of ranked choice voting.

Later on, the 1993 general election saw the New Zealand Labour Party's vote split by The Alliance, which has been attributed to the vagaries of the first past the post electoral system.

The opposition vote split almost evenly between the SDP — Liberal Alliance and Labour.

Many Conservative MPs plan to vote tactically to try to stop Bercow, while, if the Labour vote splits between the two candidates, a rival such as Tory grandee Sir George Young could be boosted.

The top three keep getting stronger and Selma sees some votes split between adapted and original to take a small hit here.

Why Game of Thrones will dominate the Emmys until it ends SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones Michael Kelly, House of Cards Kit Harington, Game of Thrones Ben Mendelsohn, Bloodline Jon Voight, Ray Donovan Who will win: Kit Harington, Game of Thrones If there isn't any vote splitting — a huge possibility now with the plurality system — between the Westeros dudes, look for Harington to win his first Emmy on his first nomination.

The former might not be huge competition and instead just a box office boon to his chances in general, but the latter could lead to vote splitting.

If not a vote split, it's possible that Southpaw becomes his true vehicle instead of Demolition.

Did the vote split?

Some would argue that it should have also been nominated for Best Picture, although it may have seen some heavy vote splits from the very similarly themed Million Dollar Baby, which deals with the same issues of one's right to end their life when they no longer have anything to live for.

And... with vote splitting (Adams, Leo), newcomers (Steinfeld, Kunis), or relative unknown from an Australian movie (Weaver)... I wonder if she could just sneak out a win, as well — if she's nommed at Oscars.

When the vote splits like that — which has only happened twice since Oscar expanded Best Picture — director has gone to the more artistically daring (Gravity, Life of Pi) while Picture went to the more somber (12 Years a Slave) or the crowd pleasing frontrunner (Argo).

The vote split 4 - 4, which means that SCOTUS let a lower court opinion stand.

Not exact matches

The managers, you see, voted to take Crowder's 2 % of gross profits and split it equally among every man and woman in the factory.

Remember that if President Trump is elected, Vice President Mike Pence will have a tie - breaking vote in the Senate, which will likely be nearly evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.

Surprising to some, the lower tally on the vote to split roles comes after a year in which investors were rankled over the $ 6.2 billion London Whale trading loss, which resulted in Dimon being summoned to testify before Congress.

In Newcastle, 65,404 people voted to remain in the EU, while 63,598 voted to leave, a split of 50.7 % to 49.3 %.