Sentences with phrase «electoral college for»

These two reforms would introduce an all - member ballot for the national chair with a voice in an electoral college for young trade unionists, and provide a proper basis for policy motions to the Young Labour conference.

The decision by the Labour leadership to run an electoral college for the mayoral nomination rather than the one member, one vote (OMOV) system originally planned, meant that Ken was ultimately narrowly beaten to the Labour nomination by Frank Dobson.

With their votes at the party conference, they could help to push through rule changes that assisted the centrists — perhaps to reintroduce the old electoral college for choosing leaders — and overturn the left's majority on the NEC, as they did in the early 1980s.

- Blair won majorities in all three sections of the 94 electoral college for leader.

Not exact matches

Sabato's Crystal Ball, the forecasting blog run by Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Centre for Politics, has Clinton winning 347 electoral college votes to 191 for Trump.

He subsequently lamented the fact that there was still anger surrounding his failure to release his tax returns, called for inquiries into the payments behind the rallies, and reiterated his electoral college victory.

Downer point being pushed by CNN: The electoral college challenge remains between daunting and hopeless for Romney.

So if I want to vote for a Republican, it doesn't matter because the electoral college will give its support to the Democratic Candidate.

It leaves some ends loose (for example, on state nullification of federal laws) and undertreats some areas of current interest (for example, the electoral college).

One of the simplest means of dealing with this even retains the electoral college: have the EC allocate its votes for each state proportionately to the vote, regardless of electoral district (which also renders gerrymandering almost irrelevant, since the state is considered as a whole).

For state D, with its 4 votes in the electoral college, there are two ways of deciding the coalitions that will not see it win:

Some mechanisms help on the margin, but each with its draw backs, like representative Democracy, small government, pre requisite for voting, electoral college, separation of power, or even the right to bear arm,...

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.

Although his book centres upon the UK, Goodhart explains that it can also account for the victory of President Trump: Trump consolidated the somewhere vote in key electoral college states.

The US Presidential election uses an «electoral college» system, where each state gets a certain number of «electors» (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President.

Former President Bill Clinton in Albany on Monday called his vote for his wife in the electoral college the proudest he's ever cast.

Under the electoral college it makes no sense for candidates to allocate scarce resources to states they either can not win or are certain to win, in which case, the size of their victory is irrelevant.

Yet we know that the electoral college provided incentives for candidates to ignore most of the country, especially rural areas.

Originally, there was a pool of potential candidates selected, out of whom the electoral college members would vote for their two favorite candidates.

The president also touted his own 2016 victory in the electoral college, and informed the farmers gathered to hear him speak that they were «happy» to have voted for him.

Gone will be the «electoral college» through which the affiliated unions have one - third of the votes for the party leader.

And the reason they should have won it is the electoral college is almost impossible for a Republican to win.

However, in practice all candidates for the electoral college make a pledge to vote for the president candidate and vice president candidate endorsed by their party, which makes the actual elections of president and vice president just a formality.

That didn't produce an electoral college win for their candidate.

Fifty five electoral college votes for Clinton, putting her marginally ahead of Trump overall.

Among the recommendations by the committee after six (6) months of work were for the NDC to embark on a «healing tour» across the country, restore the integrity of the party's biometric register and expand the party's electoral college.

On 1 March 2014, at a special conference the party reformed internal Labour election procedures, including replacing the electoral college system for selecting new leaders with a «one member, one vote» system following the recommendation of a review by former general - secretary Ray Collins.

«There is no constitutional provision for this kind of sideshow,» said Lloyd, pointing to the fact that the leader of the party is elected by an electoral college made up of rank - and - file members as well as MPs and unions.

Labour's electoral «college» is split into three sections — MPs and euro MPs, union - affiliated members and ordinary party members, all of whom can vote for more than one candidate in an order of preference.

While it's true that an original rationale for having an electoral college was because electors were regarded, at the time, as being relatively free from undue influence, nowadays they mostly just rubber - stamp the candidate for their respective party.

The electoral college, of course, exists because of concerns for the influence of less - populous states.

For example, he won majorities of states, counties, and electoral college votes.

* I know there has been a lot of debate this cycle about the role, efficacy and morality of the electoral college, but for this answer I'm just keeping it simple.

The electoral college gives the GOP a nice edge for now.

Given that the Americans don't vote directly for their president (i.e. the electoral college) and also that the dates are set when a new president is sworn in (ie fixed terms)- can the vote be redone?

Since the electoral college had already voted for the winner and the President had already inaugurated, what would happen since the Constitution doesn't state anything (as far as I recall)?

It also has the electoral college votes per state, but it removes faithless electors for other candidates.

--RRB- The winner - takes - all - electors in a state system is also a means by which smaller states gain disproportionate representation and it also helps create a mandate for the President by giving the winner a big majority in the electoral college.

At 2.30 am, the Associated Press projected Trump had won Wisconsin and called the overall race for Trump, who passed the 270 electoral college votes he needed to secure the presidency.

You might prefer to get the electoral college numbers for the whole states.

Apparently, David's lead among the parliamentary third of Labour's electoral college was not big enough to compensate for his relative weakness among the other two sections, which are ordinary party members and affiliated trades - union members.

Navigating the Byzantine wiles of the electoral college, You Gov has picked perceived wisdom up by the lapels, given it a good shake, and dumped it in the recycling bin by predicting a wafer thin victory for Ed Miliband.

In 1981 Tony Benn had used the new electoral college to challenge for Healey's job as Foot's deputy, albeit against the advice of many leftwing colleagues, who saw a left - left ticket (Benn's disloyalty had alienated Foot) as less attractive than a left - right one.

But for a shift of 0.65 % of the electoral college the wrong way, DM might have been leader.

That's yuuuge trouble for Trump: With Nevada in pocket, Clinton could lose Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, and New Hampshire, and that extra electoral vote in Maine, and even two members of the Electoral College in Washington who supported Bernie Sanders and have said they might not vote for Clinton, and still go over 270 electoral votes.

But we have to face the facts - namely, that two out of three parts of our electoral college voted for someone else.

There is a mechanism for dealing with the case when no Presidential candidate gets an overall majority of the electoral college, but that's not quite the same as what I think you're asking.

Options being examined include ending a separate electoral college section for MPs, or putting Labour sympathisers in a section with the union levy payers.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, in Albany for the state's electoral college vote, insisted to reporters on Monday there were no trades on legislative issues in exchange for a salary increase for lawmakers.

I don't know what world you're living in, but the electoral college was 306 for Trump and 232 for Clinton.