Sentences with phrase «cent of the votes cast»

They don't mean 50 per cent of the votes cast, but 50 per cent of the votes counted.

The # 500 deposit which candidates lose if they fail to get five per cent of votes cast is another deterrent.

The UK's process for withdrawing from the European Union took 47 per cent of the votes cast in a survey of nearly 2,000 people.

Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a big protest vote, with more than 35 per cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual meeting, with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large share of the opposition.

Speaking after the leadership election, which he won with 62.6 per cent of the votes cast by party members, Mr Nuttall questioned whether there was «any place» for women who wore burqas in the UK.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Ashaiman, Alhaji Labarang Yakubu Barry has said he is certain of winning at least 65 per cent of votes cast in the area in the December 7 polls.

Tatts received a significant protest on executive pay with 22 per cent of votes cast against the remuneration report, just short of the 25 per cent level required to record a strike.

The minister, who was addressing the newly elected local government executives of the party at Ojoto, Idemili South local government area of the state, urged them to get down to work to ensure that Buhari garners over 70 per cent of votes cast in the state.

Alexis, who claimed 80.4 per cent of the votes cast, was the overwhelming winner with Mesut Ozil - who scored against West Ham and Stoke City - in second place.

This can be done by way of a relative majority (more than 50 per cent of votes cast), an absolute majority (more than 50 per cent of eligible voters) or some form of a super-majority (60 per cent or two - thirds majority of voters).

UKIP secured well over 900,000 votes, or 3.1 per cent of all votes cast, yet failed to win a single parliamentary seat.

Nii Ashitey polled 1,348 votes, representing 34.90 per cent of votes cast.

The scale of the left wing MP's victory even surpasses that of Tony Blair's 57 per cent of all votes cast — albeit under a different electoral system.

80,000 members voted and 67 per cent of votes cast were in favour of the strike.

The governor noted that he was not surprised that Efe won the competition by a «whooping 57 per cent of votes cast» because he was well behaved in the Big Brother's House.

Declaring the result of the rerun, the Returning Officer, Prof. Charles Esimone, said Umeh scored the highest number of votes cast with 64, 878 (95.6 per cent of the votes cast) and was therefore returned elected.

He was first runner - up to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo who had 47.96 per cent of the votes cast.

Mr Kyerematen made an attempt at the leadership of the New Patriotic Party in 2007, capturing 32.3 per cent of the votes cast.

And why would they have agreed to hold it under an act where the tax required 50 per cent of votes cast plus one to remain in place, as opposed to using another statute, called the Recall and Initiative Act, under which the government may well have prevailed?.