Sentences with phrase «ballot voting thresholds»

New strike ballot voting thresholds of 40 % will make most industrial action illegal — this from a government backed by less than 25 % of the electorate.

Not exact matches

The Wilson Pakula threshold for anyone not enrolled in the party who wants to run on the line, as you'll recall, is just over 50 percent of the weighted convention vote — more than twice the 25 percent necessary for party members to get onto the ballot.

In that email, Cuomo said he wanted the newly created ballot line to achieve the 50,000 - vote threshold next week in order to remain on the ballot next year.

Hawkins crossed the 50,000 vote threshold in both elections, guaranteeing the Green Party automatic ballot status in the next election cycle.

But Steve Levy did get over the 25 percent threshold, so assuming he gets more than 50 percent in an upcoming Wilson Pakula act vote, he will be on the ballot.

Cuomo's formation of the women - centric ballot line could hinder the party's efforts at achieving 50,000 votes, the necessary threshold to qualify for the ballot.

MPs should maintain the gateway vote on who goes forward, but there should be a lower threshold (10 % seems fair), and in the final ballot an MP's vote should be equal to any member / affiliate / levy payer.

Paladino's win on the Republican line was more than shocking to state Conservatives: It imperiled the party's chances of winning 50,000 votes in the general election, the threshold required to maintain its regular ballot line.

Hawkins restored ballot status for the Green Party by receiving more than the threshold 50,000 votes during his first run for governor in 2010 — the year Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo was first elected.

Under Hawkins, the Green Party has been able to meet the 50,000 - vote threshold in both 2010 and 2014 to receive automatic ballot status the next election cycle.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo won his re-election with support from four different ballot lines, all of which cleared the 50,000 - vote threshold to automatically pop up again this election cycle.

While there's no way to prove with certainty that an independent WFP candidate would have crossed the 50,000 - vote threshold, Frase notes that the Green Party got 59,906 votes for its independent candidate, Howie Hawkins — suggesting that it was possible for a third party to hold a ballot line with a Left challenge to Cuomo.

Hawkins easily helped the third party achieve ballot access for this coming election by surpassing the 50,000 - vote threshold....

Hawkins ran in 2010, hitting the 50,000 - vote threshold to achieve automatic ballot status for the Green Party this year.

In 2010, Hawkins gained nearly 60,000 votes — eclipsing the 50,000 - vote threshold required to keep the Green Party on New York ballots.

Four years ago, when Hawkins first ran for governor, he garnered enough votes to pass the 50,000 - vote threshold and put the Green Party on the ballot.

Not much, given that the 120,000 votes cast for Mr. Cuomo on the WFP line, while well clear of the threshold of 50,000 needed to assure that it remained on the ballot, resulted in its being dropped from the fourth to the fifth position, behind the Green Party, which got three times as many votes for Mr. Hawkins this time as in 2010.

Blake, a 34 - year - old a veteran of former President Barack Obama's presidential campaign and White House, received the most votes — 171 — for the remaining position, open to a male or female out of 411.5 ballots received, but a second round was held because all contenders fell short of the 206 - vote threshold.

Lower the threshold for a new political party to qualify for the ballot by reducing the number of signatures they must collect from 2 % of the vote for Governor to 0.25 % of the vote for Governor or President, whichever is less.

The left will have confirmation this week that any successor to Corbyn will be of their ilk, when a motion is passed to reduce the threshold from 15 % to 10 % for the number of MPs» votes needed to get on the leadership ballot paper (the difficulty for the left is getting backing from MPs, not from the members who ultimately chose the leader).

Lower the threshold for a new political party to maintain ballot status by lowering the number of votes they must get from 2 % of the votes for Governor or President to 0.25 % of the vote for Governor, President, or any council of state office, whichever is less.

Johnson's votes in Nevada also met the threshold necessary to retain LP ballot access in that state.

«By having that low 50,000 - vote threshold to get on the ballot it's created a situation where you see these major parties creating these false lines, which are basically cross endorsement lines for the major parties,» said Dustin Czarny, an Onondaga County Board of Elections commissioner.

«I will not take lectures about democracy from a government elected on only 24 % of those eligible to vote - and only 10 % of those eligible to vote in Scotland - much less, of course, than the proposed thresholds that they wish to impose on strike ballots.»

In addition to the 50,000 - vote threshold, parties are ranked on the ballot in order of their gubernatorial vote.

So, after counting all the «number one votes», if no movie hits that magical threshold, the movie with the least number one votes is removed, and all those ballots, their number 2 vote, becomes their number one, and they count again... and so on, until one movie gets that 51 %.