Sentences with phrase «electoral college voting system»

Shortly afterwards former energy secretary Ed Miliband announced his intention to stand in the leadership race and under Labour's electoral college voting system was narrowly elected over his brother David in the fourth and final round of voting.

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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.

Four women Assembly Members are calling on Welsh Labour to change its electoral college system and adopt «One Member, One Vote»...

In 2014, the party replaced its old electoral college with a one - member - one vote system, albeit one that includes more participants than just individual party members.

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.

'' [The Kinnock challenge] was in 1988, the electoral college system has since been abolished, we now have a one member, one vote system,» he said.

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.

Under the old system, in place at the time of Ed Miliband's election in 2010, trade union members and members of other affiliated societies had a third of the votes in the electoral college system, and would send out ballot papers to their members.

You could throw in something about how Hillary actually won the national popular vote and how the electoral college system is seriously broken.

The current electoral college system gives a third of the votes each to the unions, rank and file party members, and the MPs and MEPs.

Under the plan, the electoral college system for leadership elections - which gives a third of the votes each to the unions, rank and file party members, and the MPs and MEPs - will be scrapped for a system of one member, one vote.

The old three - way electoral college was replaced with a new «one - person - one - vote» system in which leadership candidates are elected not just by party members, but also by registered and affiliated supporters.

The Deputy Leader wants to scrap the «one member one vote» system used for electing Labour leaders, and restore the old «electoral college» which gave an equal say to party members, trade unions and Labour MPs.

Labour leadership elections have previously been decided by a complex electoral college system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

Currently - under Labour's electoral college system - MPs and MEPs get a third of the votes to select a new leader, trade unions get a third and party members another third.

At the moment, Labour leadership elections are decided by a complex «electoral college» system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

On 13 June 2015, alongside Murphy's resignation as Leader taking effect, the Scottish Executive Committee agreed to adopt the One Member One Vote system that the UK - wide contest is using, moving away from the electoral college system that was used up until December 2014's contest.

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This is a winner - take - all system, whereby the candidate who wins the popular vote within a state garners all of the electoral college votes, even if one candidate wins a razor - thin popular vote victory over his or her rival.

What if the US was an ordinary majoritarian democracy instead of having an electoral college system that skews voting impacts?

The science occurs when different voting systems are considered: the electoral college vs majority rule vs approval voting vs rank voting.