Sentences with phrase «electoral system works»

Just by entering a postcode or location, the Dashboard will instantly tell voters which of the Devolved Assembly, Mayoral, Police and Crime Commissioner, Local or Parliamentary by - elections they have in their area, who is running, how the electoral system works, and a history of past results and local info.

Given how the First Past The Post electoral system works, concentrated support can translate into huge gains in seats (the PCs came third in the popular vote — in fact, they almost came second — but a distant fifth by seat count, which is all that matters).

Not only does the electoral system work against us, making the whole election contingent on a handful of swing voters in marginal constituencies, but the rightwing media get to call all the shots.

To my mind, the question is at least as important for the Tories as if they were to find themselves in the above situation, how could they continue to pretend that the electoral system worked when it had delivered such a result.

These are qualities of mind and character that make American markets and electoral systems work reasonably well, chiefly because they make Americans, at their best, reflective, law - abiding, mutually respectful people.

Not exact matches

I bet you know more about how our government and political systems and electoral processes work.

But the 2015 elections have shown that we can do it if all critical stakeholders agree to work together to consolidate a number of electoral tools that we have developed such as the use of the card reader in the designed election management system with the key seven principal business areas.

Consider his interactions with the Working Families Party, a homegrown New York third party of unions and liberal groups that, because of the state's unique fusion voting system, has become an electoral powerhouse over the past decade.

One immediate response is that the electoral system is working again and producing a strong, majority government: the Conservatives can claim that they clearly won the election.

I'm grateful to Vote Better NY for bringing attention to an issue that goes to heart of our democratic system, and look forward to working with my colleagues to create a better, fairer, and more open electoral process for all New Yorkers.»

But for this to truly work, the country needs to change its electoral system.

Advocates of electoral reform have argued the new system will force MPs to «work harder» because they will need to broaden their efforts beyond their core vote.

Also, the organization works to professionalize the system by helping ECOWAS carry out various actions to improve electoral governance in the region through programs targeted at strengthening the legal and institutional framework for organizing elections.

We have also worked very hard indeed to perfect our specific electoral systems.

As Douglas W. Rae points out in the standard reference work The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, majoritarian electoral systems are extremely rare for multi-seat legislatures, only being well established in Australia, and for second round voting in some French elections.

One is the decline of the Liberal Democrats and tactical voting — one of the reasons the electoral system had worked against the Tories in recent decades was that Labour and Lib Dem voters had been prepared to vote tactically against the Tories, and the Lib Dems have held lots of seats in areas that would otherwise be Tory.

There is not going to be electoral reform any time soon — maybe not for a generation — so both Ukip and the Greens are going to have to find a different way of working the system to their favour.

The electoral college system could work in Balls» favour.

The SDP turned out to be an electoral dead end, largely due to Britain's first past the post electoral system that works against new parties.

In his words at the public hearing on constitution and electoral reform held at Ogun State Cultural Centre, Abeokuta today, Governor Fayose said; «Even when it inherited a working system that conducted elections adjudged as free and fair by local and international communities, INEC has failed consistently to replicate the inherited working system due to overzealousness and rabid passion to work as appendage of the federal government.

«Our electoral system doesn't work well.

«We will not stop working until the bright light of opportunity shines on all New Yorkers,» Cuomo said, emphasizing also the need for economic equity in the educational system, racial and economic justice in the judicial system and voter empowerment in the electoral system.

According to the analysis in the Telegraph, an eighteen point lead would only translate into a relatively modest majority of fifty seats, which highlights the extent to which the electoral system currently works against the Conservatives.

Kofi Annan, the NPP flagbearer indicated, had also, in the aftermath of the 2012 election petition, urged the EC «not to be blinded to the flaws in Ghana's electoral system,» and that «all concerned need to work energetically to ensure that these flaws are addressed through the necessary institutional reform.»

For information about how the electoral college system works, see «MathAgainst Tyranny» by Will Hively, Discover, November 1996.

So, I think the emphasis of this liberal notion of social change by working solely within the established electoral system is just fatally flawed.

The law does not assume or presume any single type of electoral system, even if this is what has worked for us — for now.

Works to provide legal research, assistance and education on different legal topics, and specialise in transitional justice and the monitoring of the electoral system.

[52] Despite overwhelming evidence indicating the ease with which this wide - scale postal fraud was achieved, the judge noted that the government had published a statement in which it claimed that «the systems already in place to deal with the allegations of electoral fraud are clearly working.»

May 20: The Norwegian Labor Party adopts an electoral programme that commits it, if elected, to «bring international weapons control and disarmament work forward and taking necessary initiatives to regulate the development and use of fully and semi-autonomous weapon systems.»