Sentences with phrase «by supplementary vote»

The London mayor is elected by supplementary vote, with each allowed to choose a first choice and a second choice.

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In 2012 - 13, the Government increased overall spending by $ 7.1 billion through the tabling of Supplementary Estimates, of which $ 6.7 billion was for voted expenditures, thereby bringing total voted expenditures for 2012 - 13 to $ 98.7 billion.

Jonathan Isaby is ConHome's student of rebellions but with him away I should record a small rebellion by Tory MPs against the use of the supplementary vote in the election of city mayors.

«The people of Kogi are aware that the man being paraded by the APC is not the person they exercised confidence in at the election as he scored a paltry 6,885 votes in the so - called supplementary election, as against the 204,877 votes polled by the PDP candidate, Alhaji Idris Wada, in the overall election.

The commission, headed by Lord Plant, professor of politics at Southampton University, voted by 10 to 6 against keeping the present scheme for electing MPs - while, as predicted by the Independent, a narrower 9 - 7 majority decided it should be replaced with a «supplementary vote» (SV) system that would retain constituency links.

Next May's election is by «supplementary vote», so Labour should choose an independent minded candidate who can attract the second preference votes from supporters of the Greens and other parties.

It is unfortunate that in today's Nigeria, the authorities seem so prepared to waste so much public resources in conducting elections as was the case in the Kogi State supplementary election, which many consider unnecessary, but was conducted on the grounds of a so - called 91,000 voters, who were yet to vote, and who may not even have had the Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, whereas the total number of people who had PVCs was just 25,000, and APC was already leading by well over 41,000 votes.