Sentences with phrase «ballot paper»

Each voter has a vote on each ballot paper and makes a single choice - marked with a single X.

In practical terms it is relatively demanding to ask the voter to express a reasoned preferential choice when there may be more than ten candidates on the ballot paper.

Much of the early debate about Britain's coming in - out referendum on the European Union has concerned the operation of these rules: the wording of the question on the ballot paper, campaign spending limits and the extent to which David Cameron and his ministers should go into policy - purdah in the final weeks.

Yesterday I wrote to Harriet Harman to urge her to use her position as Acting Leader in association with the party's national officers to secure a reduction of the qualifying threshold for candidates to be allowed onto the ballot paper.

The voter also has a ballot paper to vote for a party to govern the country (The «Party» vote).

[46][47] Ossoff benefited by being one of only five Democrats on the ballot paper, with only one of those having previously participated in Georgia politics (former State Senator Ron Slotin), whereas Handel was one of eleven Republicans, four of whom had run for elected office on previous occasions, among them two former State Senators and one City Councilman.

In the Eastern Region, 3news.com's Yvonne Neequaye reported that 10 minutes into the statement - making process before voting, Nana Okrukata, who was 6th on the ballot paper, withdrew his candidature.

LabourList reports the disgusting remarks at a hustings of John McDonnell, the Left - wing candidate for the Labour leadership, who is unlikely to reach the ballot paper due to lack of support:

«I am from Elmina and I am telling you that we the people of the PPP are rallying behind Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom and we are saying that even if he is not brought back on the ballot paper, we are not going to vote,» one of them told Citi News.

«The GMB appear to have broken the spirit of the rules guiding the conduct of the Labour party leadership election by sending out a strong recommendation for Ed Miliband together with the ballot paper for political levy payers... It may well suggest that the margin of his victory depended on votes cast in dubious circumstances.

The first, held by the leader's office, is that he won't have to get nominations from MPs to stand again and will be on the ballot paper automatically.

It's hard to deny that the odds aren't brilliant for the other candidates and I don't intend to argue the case here for my own first preference candidate: Ed Balls, by the way, but I do want to explain why the Milibands will be coming last on my ballot paper.

Indeed, it would be alien to the concept of natural justice that Jeremy Corbyn is not automatically on the ballot paper.»

It is a preferential voting system so the voter ranks the candidates on the ballot paper in order of preference.

Her announcement looks set to trigger civil war within the party, with Mr Corbyn likely to fight to ensure that his name is on the ballot paper for a vote of the party's members, among whom he has strong support.

And we know and we are sure that by December 7 we are going to see the picture of Dr. Nduom on the ballot paper,» another one who gave his name as Ekow Vandike said.

Johanna Baxter hit out after the NEC voted by 18 - 14 in favour of putting Mr Corbyn straight onto the ballot paper for Labour's forthcoming leadership election.

Each vote is a single choice - the voter marks their choice on each ballot paper with a single X.

The voter has a one ballot paper to elect a Member of Parliament for the local area (constituency).

The other «representative» ballot paper lists the female candidates.

«We also propose to address an oversight in existing legislation passed during the previous Government's time in office which allows a candidate standing for a single party in a UK parliamentary election to use an emblem on their ballot paper, but does not allow jointly nominated candidates to do so.

We're currently conducting monthly polling to monitor voting intentions of this group and what issues will determine where they put their cross on the ballot paper.

To safeguard polling station voting for the future voters need to be asked to show ID before receiving their ballot paper.

History will remember him as the leader who presided over the end of a three century old union, the man who signed off on a weak question on the ballot paper, failed to focus on the campaign until it was far too late and then, when he finally realised the error of his ways, sprinted to Scotland and spluttered out a panicked - looking promise of everything he'd never wanted.

The Convention People's Party (CPP) may not be on the ballot paper for this year's elections as the party was unable to submit its nomination fees to the Electoral Commission (EC).

So why did Diane Abbott only make it onto the ballot paper through the intervention of David Miliband, who himself only backed her in an attempt to create a more diverse Labour leadership race?

Then people had a field day and issued more than one ballot paper, some three, some four, some five, to vote.

She broke away and formed her party but failed to make it onto the ballot paper in the 2012 elections.

There are plenty of other ways we can see what other people think, feel and say about the choices in front of us on that ballot paper.

A description — if you want the word «Independent», and / or «Annibynnol» in Wales, to appear on the ballot paper underneath your name, you need to state this on the nomination form.

If you want to stand as a candidate in the UK parliamentary election or by - election as an independent candidate and you want the word independent to appear on the ballot paper, you are required to state this on the nomination form.

However, Corbyn's aides have insisted he will automatically be on the ballot paper if there is another leadership election, virtually guaranteeing him victory given his continued popularity with the party rank - and - file.

Could the depth of their support make it difficult for a candidate such Kendall to gather the 35 nominations from MPs needed to get on the ballot paper?

And that's without actually putting their name on the ballot paper.

«Jeremy Corbyn's name is not on the ballot paper, nor is David Cameron's, nor is Boris Johnson's.

Every referendum with Europe on the ballot paper this century has been lost.

He further indicated that based on the «good works» of the president, Nana Konadu's efforts at getting on the ballot paper in this year's elections and her rhetoric's about President Mahama's governance style would not impact the elections in any way.GhanaPoliticsOnline.Com

The Islamic numerologist and spiritualist who predicted the loss of President Mahama by comparing his political life to Nigeria's former president, Goodluck Jonathan — Mallam Shamuna Ustaz Jibril — is again predicting a victory for NPP's Nana Addo using the ballot paper as reference.

Convicted Eric Illsley, with a jail term of less than 12 months, could theoretically have continued working as an MP from his prison cell, but he would not have been allowed to put a cross on the ballot paper while behind bars.

He is number 3 on the ballot paper.

Survation's ballot paper voting responses raise questions about incumbency boosts on which the Tories are relying so much 4 May 2015

Michael Meacher and John McDonnell both intend to challenge the chancellor for the leadership but it has been questioned whether they will have the support of 44 MPs necessary to appear on the ballot paper.

«In this leadership contest, Ukip's Tea Party tendency — people obsessed with US Republican conventions — are well represented on the ballot paper,» declared Evans last month,

A few hours later and with Diane Abbott on the ballot paper, the race took on a new dimension, not only for party members — it also became much more relevant to the wider public.

At a joint press conference Lords Clarke, Heseltine, Mandelson and Patten complained that Britain's place in Europe and not Labour's record was the question on the referendum ballot paper.

The Sunday Politics spoke to the other 10 who will also be on the ballot paper for voters to choose from, as they get a chance to make their case.

CLPD also proposes that the threshold of support be lowered from 15 % to just 5 % of MPs and MEPs, potentially making it easier for a left - winger to make the ballot paper.

«I've got a great MP, Keir Starmer, he's a terrific MP; I would find it very difficult to put a cross on a ballot paper if the consequence of that was to make Jeremy Corbyn prime minister of this country, because he's not up to it.»

Grant Shapps said the party will stand in every seat and its hopefuls will «only ever be on the ballot paper as Conservative candidates».

In a challenge to his internal critics, a spokesman for Mr Corbyn said today: «Our view is that the leader of the Labour party is on the ballot paper if there's a leadership election.»