Sentences with phrase «elected by popular vote»

The charter provides for an elected mayor and a 13 - member council, also elected by popular vote.

He starts with the argument, that the United States is the only country in the world, where the US President is elected by popular vote, but the second place challenger can win.

The founders did not want the president to be elected by popular vote, just like they did not want the US Senators to be elected by popular vote.

mvy, you make a great argument on how the constitution does not specify how electors are awarded, but you fail to mention that the constitution clearly states that only the House of Representatives member is elected by popular vote.

Given that Senators are elected by popular vote, does this mean that gerrymandering has no direct effect on the election of US Senators?

And does anybody believe that a president of the European Commission elected by a popular vote will be able to bridge differences between creditor and debtor states within the EU?

Not exact matches

I thought the GOP had recognized by now that they will have to move such things to the forefront if they are to survive as a party that will ever hold the center or elect a president on the popular vote.

Second, the electoral college was set up to weed out «unacceptable» candidates not by dividing fringe voters in different states per se but by giving the electors the power to elect the candidate who lost the popular vote in the event that the more popular candidate turned out to be unacceptable for whatever reason.

The president of the United States is elected not by popular vote, but by the Electoral College.

While most delegates are awarded by popular votes in state - by - state elections, superdelegates largely consist of party leaders and elected senators, members of Congress and governors, and can change their mind at any time.

Also, you raise a good point re: Russia; I didn't make it clear enough in the question but IMHO elections of a tzar don't count - by «elections» I meant popular elections (e.g. majority of population is eligible to vote), not «10 boyars electing someone».

If a party has no MPs elected but achieves a popular vote that exceeds a predetermined threshold the party would be represented in the House by reason of the «Automatic election» provision by a single MP with a single vote.

(Nope, the president is not elected by direct popular vote, as you may have thought.)

2 of them have been finalists: Wagner Malta Tavares, in 2014; and Rodrigo Braga in 2012, when he was elected by the MAM's visitors, winner of the Popular Vote Exhibition award.

They also are the only artists who run for the other prize of R$ 20,000 — PIPA Popular Vote Exhibition in which the winner is elected by the visitors of the exhibition.