Sentences with phrase «cent of the voting members»

The vote was supported by 73 per cent of the voting members in attendance.

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According to the credit society's constitution, a minimum of 25 per cent of members were required to make the vote count, with 75 per cent of those voting needed to support demutualisation for it to go ahead.

At the StateWest meeting, 30,366 ballot votes were counted (representing 52 per cent of StateWest members) and 90 per cent of these were in favour of demutualisation.

Progressive Conservative members voted 95 per cent in favour of a deal to merge with the Opposition Wildrose.

Members of the two conservative parties also supported each other's amendments — the PCs supported 91 per cent of Wildrose amendments and the Wildrose voted in favour of every of PC amendment.

Party members voted by 90 per cent to back the Sinn Fein leadership's motion to support the PSNI and the rule of law, and encourage the nationalist community to cooperate with the criminal justice system.

Members of the House of Lords came in for criticism in January when it was revealed that average attendance at votes in the upper house was 55 per cent for Labour peers, 54 per cent for Liberal Democrats and just 29 per cent for Conservatives.

The remaining 40 to 45 per cent of representatives for each body (the «additional members») are elected in large regional areas using a proportional representation system, so as to match every party's share of winning candidates to their votes share.

An MP's vote is worth 0.12 per cent of the total electorate, a party member's vote is worth 0.0002 per cent and an affiliated member's vote is worth 0.00000943 per cent.

Only ten per cent of Labour Party members support Brexit, but up to one - third of people who voted Labour at the last general election want to leave the EU.

Eighty - nine per cent of members backed Mr Clegg's approach to the hung parliament scenario - that he should let the party with the most votes and the most seats try and form a government.

Just under half (49 per cent) of Unite members said they would vote Labour in an election tomorrow; 23 per cent would vote Tory.

Unite's health members voted by a margin of over 94 per cent to reject the pensions» package.

The shock survey suggested that a massive 43 per cent of Labour supporters and members would vote for Corbyn in the first round of the leadership contest.

The poll for the Times found that 66 per cent of Labour members believe that Corbyn is doing «well» — even higher than the 59 per cent who voted for Corbyn in September, with many of those who voted for Andy Burnham now getting behind the leader.

«I will be voting for 80 per cent of the new members of the House of Lords to be elected.

Many on the right of the party were then agitated that affiliated unions and societies held 40 per cent of the vote, as compared to 30 per cent each to the PLP and party members.

You should also know that the Republican Members of the New York State Senate, under the Leadership of Senator John Flanagan, and with the help of some Democrats: Senator Joseph Addabbo, Senator Tony Avella, Senator Leroy Comrie, Senator Michael Gianaris, Senator Jeff Klein, Senator José Peralta, Senator Roxanne Persaud, Senator Diane Savino, and Senator David Valesky, and myself, Senator Rubén Díaz voted to approve legislation introduced by Senator Simcha Felder to stop the imposition of the 5 cents (5 cents) fee.

In last year's leadership contest, Corbyn took the votes of nearly 60 per cent of members.

Yesterday 90 per cent of the DUP's ruling executive members voted in favour of a resolution requesting to push back the existing power - sharing agreement deadline at the Northern Ireland Assembly by six weeks.

The YouGov survey for the Times found that 64 per cent of members would vote for Corbyn in another leadership ballot, indicating that any moves to ditch him as leader any time soon do not stand a chance.

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.

Lazio has cast thousands of votes in Congress on everything from impeachment to prescription - drug benefits, but when asked to name one principled stand he's taken that's cost him politically, he has to reach all the way back to the eighteen - member Suffolk County legislature and a 1992 plan to raise sales taxes by half a cent that had been crafted by the Republican county executive, Bob Gaffney.

Around 86 per cent of 1,689 sixth - form college members who voted supported the call for industrial action.

The teaching union will support a walk out on Tuesday 5 July, after 91 per cent of its members who voted backed the action, claiming significant change was needed.

In February's ballot, 86 per cent of NUT members in England's sixth form colleges voted in favour of the strikes on a 44 per cent turn out.

95 per cent of the EIS union's secondary members voted «yes» for the action, which is in response to «SQA bureaucracy and excessive internal unit assessments», which the EIS claims is leading to workload problems and «unacceptable» pressures on pupils.

In Durham's strike ballot, 84 per cent of ATL's teaching assistant members in the authority voted to strike against the county council's revised deal.

At the NAHT conference in April 2017, against a backdrop of rising concerns about the impact of the proposed fairer funding formula, 97 per cent of NAHT members present voted to campaign for protected funding to ensure children have greater access to outdoor education and residential experiences.

In an unprecedented binding referendum of the LSBC's members in October, 74 per cent voted for a resolution that would deny TWU law school graduates accreditation to practise in the province.

(2) If the Board determines that 40 per cent or more of the individuals in the bargaining unit proposed in the application for certification appear to be members of the union at the time the application was filed, the Board shall direct that a representation vote be taken among the individuals in the voting constituency.

While the LSA made voting easy this year, only 3,632 lawyers (39 per cent) of the 9,291 eligible members took the time to cast a ballot.

Disillusioned with the fund, members of the profession voted in 2000 to decide its fate: A 70 per cent majority supported a return to buying insurance in the open insurance market.

Almost 37 per cent of barreau members cast a vote.

In an unprecedented binding referendum of the law society's members, 74 per cent voted for a resolution that would deny TWU law school graduates accreditation to practise in the province.

But the law society doesn't have to conduct such a referendum unless it hasn't implemented the resolution within 12 months of a general meeting on the issue and it receives a petition signed by at least five per cent of the members asking for a vote.

It also resulted in the rejections of five government offers and counter-offers, and ultimately an 84 - per - cent vote in favour of the strike by LANEQ members on Oct. 12, 2016.

Despite widespread public support from Quebec's legal community and a mid-strike vote in which they rejected the government's final offer by a whopping 97 per cent, the striking lawyers emptied their $ 4 - million strike fund, took out an $ 8 - million loan (which is currently being repaid through an increase in union dues to three per cent from 0.75 per cent of members» salaries) and dropped strike pay to zero from the 60 per cent of members» weekly salaries paid at the start of the strike.

Sixty - three per cent also voted to continue the strike even though the LANEQ had entirely depleted its $ 8 - million war chest (half of it loans that are being repaid through an already - activated increase in union dues to three per cent from 0.75 per cent of members» salaries) and strike pay was reduced to zero from a high of 60 per cent of members» weekly salaries at the start of the strike.

He is currently a member of Parliament, a position he was first elected to in 1999 — at the time, his victory (with 92 per cent of the vote) was considered to be one of the most stunning electoral victories of the century.

In a binding referendum last month, Law Society of British Columbia members voted 74 per cent in favour of a resolution stating TWU is not an approved law faculty for the purpose of the bar admissions requirements in that province.

Little also noted that TREB, as CREA's largest member, represents between 35 and 40 per cent of CREA's membership, and therefore, have the greatest number of votes when electing CREA's Board of Directors.

In an interview, Juanéda acknowledged that the close Montreal vote result indicates division among members on the question of CREA membership but notes that 61 per cent of members did not vote.

At the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board, president Richard Admiraal said his members voted 93 per cent in favour of keeping the 53 - year - old board intact.