Sentences with phrase «electoral districts»

After the last day of advance polls, the equipment shall continue to be made available from the fifth day before polling day until the last day before polling day, for electors voting in person by special ballot at returning offices in their own electoral districts.

For most of the province, voting hours will run from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.. For electoral districts that lie «entirely west of the meridian of 90º W. longitude» (i.e. in the Central Time Zone), voting hours will run from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m....

(c) an employee of the Chief Electoral Officer who is assigned on a temporary basis to provide support to returning officers in the administration of a general election or by - election under the Election Act within a region made up of one or more, but not all, electoral districts as determined under the Representation Act, 2015; («membre du personnel électoral»)

The most significant case Pal has Figueroa v. Canada, dealing with funding to smaller political parties unable to achieve the threshold of 50 electoral districts for registered party status.

They were protesting the school board's refusal to hold elections for all seven board members after new electoral districts were redrawn following the 2000 U.S. Census.

Teachers unions put boots on the streets in key electoral districts (when is the last time an urban center was considered a «key electoral district?»)

For about a decade, the state had had a relatively even split in its 13 electoral districts.

The Republicans had set up a chalkboard to report the returns, which at that point included only two of the town's four electoral districts.

Postal voting and early voting are separate procedures also available to voters who would not be in their registered electoral districts on a voting day.

You make the point that the Democrats will control the way that new electoral districts will drawn up.

ALBANY — Saying it's too late to replace the legislative task force that's been drawing new electoral districts, a good government group is calling for stricter criteria to guide its process.

The Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment is proceeding with hearings before it redraws electoral districts in the wake of the 2010 Census.

In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating geographic boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts.

«That's because electoral districts must be drawn based on population.

The exact names, dates, term lengths, term limits, electoral systems, electoral districts, and other details are determined by the individual states» laws.

While the voting and counting processes on election day were assessed positively overall, the tabulation of results was negatively assessed in nearly half of the electoral districts observed.

The referendum required approval by 60 % of votes and simple majorities in 60 % of the 79 districts in order to pass: final results indicate that the referendum failed with only 57.7 % of votes in favor, although it did have majority support in 77 of the 79 electoral districts.

Decisions about the rules of the political game — including the geographic delineation of electoral districts, rules about campaign financing, and voting systems such as plurality election and proportional representation — are frequently made by legislative bodies.

So effectively, what's the point of FPTP electoral districts if your party's share in the final Parliament will remain the same regardless of how many districts you actually win?

However, this doesn't always work out in practice because of something known as overhang seats: It is possible for a party to win more electoral districts than seats they are entitled to according to party votes.

Unofficial election results show the majority of Bronx electoral districts voted overwhelmingly in favor of Bloomberg's Democratic challenger, Bill Thompson.

From the years 1981 until 2005, Kuwait was divided into 25 electoral districts in order to over-represent the government's supporters (the «tribes»).

[78] In July 2005, a new law for electoral reforms was approved which prevented electoral gerrymandering by cutting the number of electoral districts from 25 to 5.

town versus country) or by artificial «fixing» of divisions (such as gerrymandering, in which the boundaries of electoral districts are abused by the party in power, or by varying the number of electors in different districts).

Ulrich ran for state senate in 2012 against Joseph Addabbo and lost, though it can be reasonably argued that Hurricane Sandy suppressed turnout in Ulrich's main electoral districts of support.

And they draw the boundaries of the electoral districts in which you live, work, and vote.

But over 70 electoral districts showing up at zero?

stating that the names and boundaries of the Maori electoral districts fixed by the Commission are available for public inspection; and

stating that the names and boundaries of the electoral districts fixed by the Commission are available for public inspection; and

Where the property on which a person's home is located is divided between 2 or more electoral districts, that person shall, --

subject to subsection (7), the Maori electoral districts shall each contain an equal number of members of the Maori electoral population.

the schedule must specify the electoral districts for which candidates are nominated in the schedule:

It shall be the duty of the Commission to divide New Zealand into General electoral districts from time to time in accordance with this section and section 269.

if his or her dwelling is located wholly within one of those electoral districts, be deemed to reside in that electoral district; or

the total number of persons whose names are shown on the dormant rolls maintained under section 109 for the Maori electoral districts; and

the Maori electoral population of New Zealand shall be divided by the quota for General electoral districts in the South Island determined pursuant to section 35 (3)(b), and the quotient so obtained shall be the number of Maori electoral districts:

the total number of persons registered as electors of the Maori electoral districts as at the close of that last day; and

has been carried by a majority of the valid votes cast at a poll of the electors of the General and Maori electoral districts:

report to the Governor - General the names and boundaries of the electoral districts fixed by the Commission; and

State is divided into electoral districts, with one Elector chosen per district by the voters of that district

If the electoral districts are large enough (possibly nationwide), a party does get a weight in parliament roughly equivalent to the number of votes they received in the election.

The project will code and digitise census and electoral data from 1970 up to the 1990s, and geo - reference this to maps of historical electoral districts.

In an era of deep partisan division, the U.S. Supreme Court could soon decide whether the drawing of electoral districts can be too political.

Plus, more - traditional mass outreach may still work in online social settings, since extensive advertising on MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn is still relatively untested, and campaigns with the resources to buy ads targeted at their particular electoral districts may find them an effective way to tap a politically active audience.

In the last congressional election in Brazil (where all candidates run state - wide rather than in electoral districts) the candidate who received the most votes in the state of Sao Paulo was a television clown.

The electoral quota is determined by dividing the total number of electors as at the relevant date by the number of electoral districts into which the State is divided.

A majority (153) of the targeted electoral districts — Prince George (20), Kamloops (16), Fraser - Nicola (1), Chilliwack and Hope (27), Abbotsford (31), Surrey (20), Burnaby (28), and Vancouver (12)-- are regions and cities along the pipeline's route.ii

The open data movement is lagging in Canada as demonstrated by exorbitant fees for such basics as the data set of postal codes correlated to electoral districts.

The government should also amend the section of the Act that lays out guidelines for the commission to redraw Alberta's electoral districts.

Alberta's Chief Electoral Officer Glen Resler spoke to the Standing Committee on Legislative Offices on September 24, 2015 about legislated timelines that require an Electoral Boundaries Commission be appointed to redraw the provincial electoral districts.