Sentences with phrase «alternative election candidates»

It deals in theoretical situations with all sorts of shortcomings — such as no defined alternative election candidates — but it underscores the risk to political parties of ignoring voters» moral sensitivities.

Not exact matches

When asked whether he would vote for Trump again during the 2020 elections, Niemeyer pauses — and then clarifies that while he voted for Trump, he was not 100 % behind the candidate — but thought him better than the alternatives.

The Liberals hope their candidate Mary MacDonald can regain the support they lost in the last election and maintain their position as the de facto alternative to the Conservatives in this riding.

In particular, independence of irrelevant alternatives (adding a new candidate to an election shouldn't change the result unless they win — it shouldn't result in another candidate that was in the election suddenly stealing the win from the original winner) is difficult to fully satisfy.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

Under the present rules it takes 51 MPs and MEPs to trigger a leadership election before the party conference by nominating an alternative candidate.

The election is a comparative choice, and while Labour's leader will never be a candidate of popular acclaim, if the alternative is an unpalatable Tory, he could yet win.

But it must be largely true, because the only alternative explanation is that they chose Corbyn as the candidate most likely to win a general election.

... the teachers» union leadership opposed any alternative candidate to the governor in last year's election, from the mild - mannered liberal Democrat Zephyr Teachout who challenged Cuomo in the party primary, to the radical Green Party ticket of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, who is himself a former New York City teacher.

Senior Eurosceptics say Hunt is lining himself up as an alternative to Boris Johnson as the main Brexiteer candidate for prime minister after publicly switching his support from «remain» since the general election.

Alternative vote Alternative vote means that voters rank candidates first and second, and the two candidates with the most votes contest an instant run - off (as with the Mayor of London or French Presidential elections).

For those with more influence over the election process (political club members and the like), they either support the candidate who has influence over them in some way or who they can influence (i.e. one who might be obligated to give name him police commissioner, for instance) and in the alternative just buy an official.

According to Huffington Post's Paul Waugh, Jeremy Corbyn wants Labour's national executive committee to agree that Labour MPs who want to stand again at the election have to go through a «trigger ballot» so that local activists can vote against them if they want an alternative candidate.

We are fighting against the Alternative Vote hard; we have excellent candidates in the local elections, a superb mayoral candidate in popular local councillor Ross Grant, and a brilliant parliamentary candidate shortlist.

Ricketts said the resolution was sparked in large part by the contentious special election in New York's 23rd congressional district, in which a third party candidate, Doug Hoffman, entered the race as an conservative alternative to the moderate Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava.

So not only do contributors mostly look to the preferable of the likely alternatives (instead of to the purely ideological, but unlikely to win candidate), but politicians are also only beholden to these influences to the extent they determine election results.

As it stands, uninspired voters can spoil their ballot by doing things like crossing out a candidate's name, writing in an alternative, leaving it blank or drawing happy faces all over it, and Elections Canada will lump them together under the label «rejected» and include them in the official results.

Prior to the election, the Ontario Trial Lawyers» Association published on its web site a list of benchers who opposed the introduction of alternative business structures, urging its members to vote for those candidates opposed to ABS.

It commemorates what happens when folks find alternatives to voting) our municipal elections and a provincial election before we can say goodbye to the mind - numbing empty promises candidates make in order to get us to put our mark next to their name.