Sentences with phrase «casting votes for the party»

Many former Likud voters cast their votes for his party, wishing it to enter a future coalition government headed by Netanyahu.

At the same time, Labour won just eight seats (of 139) in the South East and South West of England regions despite 1.3 million people casting votes for the party in this area.

Until 2009 all party heavyweights stood in both elections to ensure a good result for their European list (in Luxembourg voters can cast a vote for a party, one or several candidates on the same or on different lists, what is termed inter-party panachage).

Not exact matches

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

The first time he cast a vote, it was for Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party.

Addendum on Third Parties: Casting a «protest» vote for third - party candidates is essentially casting a vote for the major party you like theCasting a «protest» vote for third - party candidates is essentially casting a vote for the major party you like thecasting a vote for the major party you like the least.

Each voter casts one vote for an individual candidate of a registered political party or for an independent.

«I am very pleased that the Green party has decided to encourage their supporters to cast their second preference votes for me.»

South Korean MPs are often quoted as saying that they voted for impeachment under the pressure of popular demand, though opposition parties tend to cast this pressure in a positive light.

I think for the future Health of the Republican party a true conservative should take the long view and cast a protest vote for Barack Obama if Mitt Romney is the Republican nominee and standard bearer.

Political parties must explain and sell their policies and anyone over the age of 18 has an opportunity to cast their vote for whichever party appeals most.

By the time historically Labour supporters cast their «yes» votes, they had been led to conclude that support for independence was incompatible with support for the Labour Party.

Tactical voting is a deeply problematic concept, though — it perverts the fundamental principle that people should cast their vote for the political party they support.

Inevitably however most analysis of the results will simply reflect how many votes were cast for each party on the day and commentators will imagine what parliament will look like if the same results were for a general election.

This often pushes them to cast a «protest vote» such as those for nationalist parties, or simply not to vote at all.

A Political Science Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Samuel Adu Gyamfi says it would be impossible for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to secure 30 percent of votes cast in the Volta Region.

When adding Smith's 5,775 votes to Browne's 384,431 votes nationwide, that brings the total votes cast for president for the Libertarian Party in 2000 to 390,206, or 0.37 % of the vote.

When adding Smith's 5,775 Arizona votes to Browne's 384,431 votes nationwide, that brings the total presidential votes cast for the Libertarian Party in 2000 to 390,206.

«for the organized political party nominating by primary election that cast over one hundred thousand votes at the preceding general election.»

State law defines an established political party as any party whose candidate for a statewide office received at least 2 percent of the total votes cast that office in either of the two most recent general elections.

The number of signatures needed for statewide minor party and independent candidates in Pennsylvania in 2014 depends on the number of votes cast in the November 5, 2013 election, for Judge of the Superior Court.

Data from British Election Study panel surveys shows that the main problem UKIP has faced in translating its success from European Parliament elections to general elections has been retaining voters, whether because some UKIP voters only vote UKIP at European Parliament elections in protest and the return to their «normal» party for general elections or because the nature of the British electoral system incentivises voters to cast their vote for one of the existing main parties rather than a new entrant.

Well, based on the assumption that a vote is cast in anticipation that the recipient of the vote is going to win, it seems to me that a vote cast for David Cameron or whoever is the leader of the Labour Party at the time of the election is far more likely to see a winner than any vote for the Liberal Democrats will do.

Democrats have been casting a wide net looking for early votes, from party activists to college students to voters who usually favor the party but do not always turn out.

Adetimehin, who had been in acting capacity since Mr Isaac Kekemeke, a former chairman, was suspended after the 2016 governorship election for anti party activities, got 990 votes out of the 1,001 votes cast.

The U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. circuit, has set a briefing schedule in Libertarian Party v D.C. Board of Elections, the case over whether election officials must count the votes cast for a declared write - in candidate for President.

Lawyer David Gerstein, 78, who cast his vote on the Upper West Side Tuesday, said he didn't pay attention to party when he picked Democrat Andrew Cuomo for governor and Republican Harry Wilson for comptroller.

The system provides approximately proportional representation, enables votes to be cast for individual candidates rather than for parties, and — compared to first - past - the - post voting — reduces «wasted» votes (votes on sure losers or sure winners) by transferring them to other candidates.

At the last election only two in three votes cast across the UK as a whole were expressions of support for one of the two largest parties, fewer than at any time since 1922 (the year that Labour first displaced the Liberals as Britain's principal party of the left).

We still see a hung Parliament — that's what people voted for, after all — but there is better representation for smaller parties, far less divisive regional / national results, and, crucially, millions fewer wasted votes or tactically - cast ballots.

No «Party» votes are cast for independent candidates.

A minor party can maintain its status if one of its candidates for statewide office received at least 5 percent of the total votes cast in either of the last two elections or if 1,000 or more registered voters have affiliated with the minor party prior to July 1 before either of the last two elections.

Both of the Michigan Libertarian Party ballot access cases are still actively trying to win a court ruling that will make it possible for voters to vote «Libertarian» for President without the need to cast a write - in vote.

Four hundred million people across Europe will be able to cast their vote in May's elections to the European Parliament, with polls suggesting gains for far - left, far - right and Eurosceptic parties.

If that MP can be the sole voice speaking up for, representing, the party in the parliament when there is a party political debate, why can not that MP vote on behalf of the party, and why should that vote not reflect the full weight of votes determined by the votes cast by the electorate in the General Election?

In a multi party representative democracy where the voting is conflated in this way, votes are cast as much for the party as the individual (and you can't separate the two.)

It is the total value of the votes cast for the different parties that determines the number of parliamentary votes for each party and therefore which party or parties can form the Government, or which bills are passed.

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New York's unique «fusion voting» system allows minor parties to cross-endorse Democrats and Republicans, and lets voters cast their ballots for a politician on any one of a number of party lines.

Charles Falciglia won a seat on Rockland County legislature with 43 percent of the vote cast for the Reform Party.

Robert Rich got the nod for a second term as town justice with 1,751 votes on the Democratic, Republican, Working Families and Women's Equality Party lines; two write - in votes were cast.

The Parliamentary Candidate for the Progressive People's Party (PPP), in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem (KEEA) Constituency in the Central Region, John Sterlin, is aiming at winning 65 % of the valid votes cast on 7th December.

In a multi-way, pick two race, Hagen and Herzman won with eighteen percent on the Reform Party line, and a minority of votes cast for them on other ballot lines.

On May 12, 2015, Governor Mary Fallin (R) signed into law a bill that reduced the petition signature requirement for newly - qualifying political parties to 3 percent of the total number of votes cast for governor in the last general election.

The bill lowers the number of signatures for newly - qualifying parties, and statewide independent candidates, from 2 % of the last gubernatorial vote cast, to one - fourth of 1 % of that same base.

The County Committee shall be constituted by the election biennially in each Election District in the County of New York, at the Primary Election held in each odd - numbered year, of two members of the County Committee plus an additional member if 300 or more votes and less than 451 votes were cast in such Election District for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election, and an additional member if 451 or more votes were cast in such Election District at said time.

If the boundaries of such Election District have been created or changed since the last preceding gubernatorial election then the above formula shall apply based on the votes cast for member of Assembly under the party emblem at the last preceding General Election.

38 % of Britons certain to vote say that they would cast their ballot for the party, compared to 27 % who would vote for Labour, 18 % who would vote for the Conservatives and 8 % who would vote Lib Dem.

If the Republicans are to succeed, voters who will not cast a ballot for Mr. Zeldin must nonetheless vote for the party's candidate for town board, he said.

If the boundaries of such Election District have been created or changed since the last preceding General Election at which members of Assembly were elected then the above formula shall apply based on that percentage of the number of persons enrolled in the Party in such Election District on the list of enrolled voters last published by the Board of Elections which the total vote cast in the County for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election bore to the total Party enrollment in the County on the list of enrolled voters last published by the Board of Elections.