Sentences with phrase «election in a single district»

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It is harder to research a couple dozen candidates in a given election (which would be typical in a nine seat election since there would be viable third party candidates as well as a candidate for each seat from each of two major parties) than it is to research two of them as you would in a single member district with the two party system that single member districts strongly favor.

Currently single candidate districts are mandated in federal election law.

Half of the 450 seats will be decided by competitions in regional constituencies, technically known as single - mandate districts, using a «first - past - the - post» system like that used in U.S. elections.

The Democrats being singled out are considered among the most vulnerable House incumbents in next year's elections and generally represent swing districts around the country that are politically and culturally moderate.

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

A successful manipulation of a national election in the United States is much, much more likely to occur via one or more very small, but selectively specific segments of the overall vote (i.e. single district locations possibly involving single or small groups of persons) which, due to the specific circumstances of the election, provide a window of opportunity due to the relative importance of the specific district vote totals; a situation not common to all elections in any case.

Presumably, a single - district («majority») system like in the US, France or the UK was perceived as less democratic so if you still want to allow some form of personal election, you necessarily end up with a complex system.

Gillibrand was a hardworking lawyer (partner in David Boies» law firm); elected TWICE in a heavily Republican district; serves on the Armed Services Committee; ranks among the top ten fundraisers in the House; was hired by President Clinton to work at HUD; fought for the rights of abused women; is a genuine working Mom who gave birth to her second child just last March, making her only the sixth woman in the House to do so while serving in office; she has voted in every single election (unlike Kennedy who has missed even GENERAL elections); magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth... Need I say more?

But Republicans are licking their chops as Democrats push each other leftward, warning that going after single - payer supporters (categorized as left of center) in primaries next year will signal certain defeat in the November general election, particularly in the purple 19th and 21st districts, which are held by the GOP.

That's about average for off - year local elections, way short of predictions from advocates of single - member districts, who had argued that replacing multi-member districts with one - on - one contests voters would result in better - known candidates and greater voter participation.

He forgets that Parete was building the party, winning elections, exposing the Jail overruns, creating single member districts, and the county charter while he was out cashing in on his politically connected jobs and begging the Legislature to hire his wife.

The 1993 reform government under Hosokawa Morihiro introduce a new electoral system whereby 200 members (reduced to 180 beginning with the 2000 election) are elected by proportional representation in multi-member districts or «blocs» while 300 are elected from single - candidate districts.

In the 2011 district council elections his constituency lost a single Conservative seat to the Liberal Democrats resulting in a majority of 30 seatIn the 2011 district council elections his constituency lost a single Conservative seat to the Liberal Democrats resulting in a majority of 30 seatin a majority of 30 seats.

For example, a party with 30 percent support in the district gets 30 percent of the seats, not zero representation as in single - member, winner - take - all district elections.

Filed in U.S. District Court, the suit seeks to replace at - large elections with a system employing single - member districts, said Stephen M. Cody, a lawyer for the plaintiffs.

Each high school is asked to run a selection process that will result in a single candidate coming forward to participate in the District's election of a Student Trustee.

Although Pal points to this section as further evidence of an intent to create single - member geographic districts in 1867, Macfarlane points to these spent provisions which were replaced by the Canada Elections Act, Parliament of Canada Act and the Constitution Act, 1982, as further evidence of Parliament's unilateral s. 44 powers.