Sentences with phrase «electoral map»

An electoral map is a visual representation of how people vote in a specific area. It shows which areas or states support a particular candidate or political party in an election. It helps understand the distribution of votes and which regions have influence in determining the outcome. Full definition
Microsoft ironed out those kinks via its 2012 acquisition of Perceptive Pixel, the touchscreen startup behind CNN's «magic wall,» which anchors have used to pinch and zoom in on electoral maps.
Last week saw the Scottish boundary commissioners unveil their proposed new electoral map.
The warped statistics will also mean the boundary changes review coming next year will redraw Britain's electoral map in favour of the Conservatives, enlarging rural constituencies and shrinking the total number of the urban ones with mobile populations that usually favour Labour.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- Disputes over a wedding cake for a same - sex couple and partisan electoral maps top the Supreme Court's agenda in the first full term of the Trump presidency.
Under the terms of the Act the Commons must hold a vote choosing to either reject or accept the redrawn electoral map proposed by boundary commissioners.
The cases involve the use of a landmark voting rights law that led to the election of African - Americans across the South and Supreme Court decisions that limited the use of race to draw electoral maps.
In viewing the national electoral map of House seats, it is as if someone came in overnight and redid the whole canvas, changing huge swaths of blue to red, especially in the vast area between the coasts and — adding to the impression of Republican dominance — in non-urban districts, which cover much larger geographic areas.
His findings more or less airbrushed the Scottish electoral map the bright yellow of the Scottish National Party (SNP).
Though the Lib Dems avoided the ultimate humiliation of being wiped off the European electoral map — one of their 11 MEPs survived — the party trailed in fifth place behind the Greens, its 7 % share of the vote half that won five years earlier.
Labour's fear is that the entire electoral map of the country could be reshaped as a result of the electoral register.
Clinton has dropped below 270 electoral votes in CNN's electoral map when adding up the states that are either solidly Democratic or leaning in her direction.
Professor John Curtice, an elections expert from the University of Strathclyde, said the existing electoral map discriminated against the Conservatives, due to population shifts over time and the comparative number of seats in England, Scotland and Wales.
The Boundary Commissions for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will be announcing their initial proposals for the new boundaries this September, although the final electoral map will not be confirmed in Parliament until 2013.
And in the end, the two electoral maps wound up looking largely the same: Cuomo and Clinton triumphed thanks to support in the New York City metro area and in and around Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse.
«The Assembly plan released today by the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR) is the culmination of a months - long process to reshape New York's electoral map based on shifts in population that have occurred over the last decade.
Electoral College Lessons From Gilder Lehrman: Looking to help students understand the U.S. electoral map?
If you prefer a more modern gift, this year's hot new President's Day «it toy» is an interactive electronic electoral map that all the kids want.
For one thing Democrats start with a favorable electoral map, with 18 states, representing 240 electoral votes, having sided with the Democrat in the last six elections.
«Lib Dems face crisis over new electoral map», screams the headline on the front of this morning's Guardian.
This Green Paper was Cheryl Gillan's attempt at rigging Wales» electoral map in the same way that her Cabinet colleagues were trying to gerrymander the results of the next general election.
One of the most prominent features of the set of «The Opposition» is a permanently installed Murder Board, a tackboard reminiscent of «A Beautiful Mind» with nonsense scribbled next to a 2016 electoral map, and images and arrows linking Beyoncé, former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Taylor Swift, and, of course, Hillary Clinton.
The realities of the electoral map have tempered the optimism of some newly invigorated Democratic activists.
Obama and other White House officials blamed the electoral map - noting that many key Senate races took place in conservative states that Obama lost in 2012.
But a race that political watchers in both parties had expected to go the Democrat's way quickly became a nail - biter, with razor - thin margins in key states turning into a Trump tide that flooded the electoral map.
This allowed MAN1 to focus efforts and funding on the truly undecided voters in key regions of the electoral map that would ultimately decide the race.
This week's defection of nine Wildrose MLAs to the Progressive Conservative Caucus has drastically impacted Alberta's electoral map.
It is expected that, due to the creation of a new party and a new electoral map, those MLAs will have to run for their new party's nominations.
As winners are projected and the electoral map is updated, Christians of many denominations will sing their praises and proclaim their loyalty to Jesus.
Looking at the electoral map of the country it is striking to see the disposition of the voting.
The old south is one such block that jump to the eyes when looking at the electoral maps, but there doesn't seem to be many others.
If the electoral system were to change, then the Boundary Commission would surely attempt to mitigate any trend towards greater dis - proportionality in the result by redrawing the electoral map.
Conservatives say the dramatic shakeup of Britain's electoral map, which could hand the party around a dozen more seats at the general election, was a quid pro quo for the electoral reform referendum, which took place in May 2011.
The Commons voted by 334 to 292 to accept a Lords amendment opting to delay the redrawing of the electoral map until the 2020 general election.
It can help to explain not only why some of the supposed iron laws of politics failed to hold, but also the changes in the electoral map from 2015.
Thus, whether the electoral map turns predominantly red or blue on November 8th green might have to be added to the mix.
Studies of the electoral map suggested the pathway to the White House was nearly unachievable for Trump.
This election was a once in a generation chance for them to redraw the electoral map, to drive their much mentioned tanks deep into Labour territory.
New York is always a bright cobalt on the electoral map.
Under what is called «AV plus» every constituency on the electoral map would need to be redrawn, making it difficult to hold a referendum and implement reform in one parliament (while straight AV would use the current constituencies).
The Times suggested you pay attention to the electoral map, debates, ads, third - party candidates and fundraising.
Shaking up Britain's electoral map was a Tory idea.
Your tiny bit of orange on the electoral map is about to be engulfed by voters from neighbouring Tory or Labour seats.
The Shadow Secretary of State, Owen Smith, has issued his response, claiming that it is an attempt to rig the electoral map of Wales that should be abandoned.
For David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg, the result is an electoral map of nightmarish complexity.
PITTSBURGH — Last week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court stepped over the line by redrawing the entire state's electoral map.
The improbable meeting took place before January's boundary changes vote, after the Labour leader succeeded in defeating the Conservatives» proposed redrawing of Britain's electoral map by working with the Liberal Democrats and minority party leaders.
The new proposals to reshape Britain's electoral map and cut the number of MPs from 650 to 600 were published this morning.
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