Sentences with phrase «electoral vote winner»
When no candidate candidate achieves the 270 threshold, the 50 state delegations in the House are to choose between the top three electoral vote winners which would include the winner of the single district.
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OTTAWA — Nine million votes were wasted in the 2015 election under Canada's winner - take - all electoral system — that's more than the populations of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces combined, according to a new electoral reform primer outlining why the principle of proportionality must underpin the government's promise to bring in voting reform by the next federal election.
Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.
By contrast, the unit rule (by which states award all their electoral votes to the plurality winner in the state) that 48 states employ under the electoral college encourages third parties, especially regional candidates like Strom Thurmond in 1948 or George Wallace in 1968.
CES: A lot of the electoral systems in the US rely on winner - take - all, which sort of directly bars out proportional voting methods.
Maine and Nebraska both award their electoral college votes according to the winner of each of their congressional districts.
If one state becomes in doubt and unresolvable, the winner will still have 270 electoral votes, so the outcome will remain unaffected.
If 3 - 4 states become in doubt and unresolvable, enough that the winner no longer has 270 electoral votes, the US House of Representatives gets to pick, and it's likely they will choose their own party's candidate.
However, electoral laws demand that the winner gain more than 50 % of the vote, which none of the eight original contestants managed to achieve.
Awarding Connecticut's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote may disenfranchise a majority of the individual voters in our state.
«The provisions of the constitution and the electoral act are clear to the effect that with the unfortunate death of Prince Abubakar Audu before the conclusion of the election, and the fact that the laws do not permit the replacement of candidates once the balloting has commenced, the APC crashed out of the race, leaving the PDP candidate, Governor Idris Wada as the clear winner, having garnered 204,877 votes to top all other contestants since, Prince Ababakar, the hitherto leading contestant died with his votes.
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)?
State - by - state winner - take - all laws to award electoral college votes were eventually enacted by 48 states AFTER the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
I threw it in a spreadsheet, and the winner of the thirty - one places with the fewest votes per electoral college vote loses the popular vote by about 79.6 % to 20.4 %.
Callaghan and Foot had conceded the principle of a wider «electoral college» in which the unions would have 40 % of the votes (then cast in winner - takes - all union blocs), and the parliamentary party (PLP) and activists 30 % each.
Absent a precedent - shattering event when the electoral college votes, the apparent winner of the general election will be the next President.
However, two states (Maine and Nebraska) award an electoral vote to the winner of each district in the state in addition to one for the overall winner, so it should be possible for every numeric combination to happen.
Table 2 (a): Number of electoral college votes that would have been won by each candidate if these had been apportioned proportionally (PrEV), as contrasted with the number won by each candidate in the actual election («winner takes all» /» first past the post»).
The head of The Gambia's electoral commission declared Adama Barrow, 51, as the winner of the 2016 presidential election, with 263,515 votes to Yahya Jammeh's 212,099 votes.
Because in a «winner takes all» electoral system like that in the US and the UK, not all votes are created equal.
4... unfortunately, the poll didn't predict the winner, because Jackson didn't get enough votes in the electoral college.
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.
On a state level, each contest is a winner take all affair; with only Maine and Nebraska allowing for a split share of electoral votes.