Sentences with phrase «vote splitting most»

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

Not exact matches

And although most Canadians dislike Harper and his approach to politics, their clout in the next election is diminished by the fact that their vote is split between opposition parties.

This roughly follows the split in their parties: most Labour MPs voted in favour, the conservatives were split evenly.

The challenge for Labour is that most splitting occurs between ideologically adjacent parties, and because less partisan Labour voters are more likely than Conservatives to split their vote.

But they may have another strategy: to avoid splitting the anti-Labour vote by making only the most token effort in the seat.

As the country split down the middle, former and current Cabinet ministers toyed with resignation, the UN went to vote, and the international community became entrenched in one of the most divisive issues of a generation, Brown stayed silent.

This means that if there are more than two candidates running, a third party candidate can «spoil» the vote for the viable candidate most similar in ideology to him by splitting the vote of people who share their ideology, making the winner the candidate whose ideology actually has less support in the electorate than an alternative.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House is about to vote on a farm bill that will reduce eligibility for food stamps, a move that has caused a partisan split, with most Democratic lawmakers opposing the legislation.

To avoid splitting the left - wing vote, they announced only the candidate with the most support would seek MPs» backing to make it on to the ballot.

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).

Whether it could be successful enough to actually retain or win seats and have a long term future is an entirely different matter — FPTP does not forgive smaller parties without concentrated support, the anti-Conservative vote is already split and the most pro-remain areas tend to be held by Labour.

That would fairly make labour the most eurosceptic, and thus you would be actually endorsing other rpo EU withdrawal parties to split the tory vote.

We must locate their most vulnerable seats and go out of our way to split the Conservative vote.

But most MPs I've spoken to are clear the race must narrow, or the anti-Corbyn vote will split, handing him victory thanks to his loyal supporters.

Both have managed to find a place for themselves throughout the season, and yes, Kendrick proved to be the most lauded throughout, but one can never underestimate potential vote - splitting.

In «Intelligent design», Althouse compares a recent split vote by the Kansas Board of Education to embrace creationism with a vote by most Pennsylvanians to use the polls to fire the board who tried to do the same thing.

Clinton has a modest 54 - 41 percent edge among early voters in an average of the three most recent tracking poll waves, while Trump leads by a 50 - 39 percent margin among those looking to vote on Election Day; those who anticipate voting early are more evenly split.