Sentences with phrase «electoral votes based»

Maine and one other state I can't remember (probably NE) divide their electoral votes based on Senate districting (I believe).

Some states are «proportional», giving a candidate a percentage of electoral votes based upon their percentage of the popular vote.

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Subsequently, votes would be distributed to candidates on a proportional basis: candidates would receive a fraction of the electoral votes of each state, equivalent to the percentage of the popular vote they garnered during the election.

The 2015 election underlined the fracturing of Labour's electoral base, particularly in Scotland where the party's vote haemorrhaged.

Does any political system in the world have electoral vote weighting based on the voter's fiscal contribution?

These boundaries will have been drawn up based on the current electoral register - which we know is already missing around 10 % of those eligible to vote.

«Labour is to look at broadening its electoral base by offering the chance for Labour sympathisers, and not just members or union levy payers, to be given a vote in the Labour leadership election.

The argument of «Labour bias» in the electoral system is based on arithmetic that shows that Labour receives on average fewer votes per MP than Lib Dems or Conservatives.

The reason the last three elections were lost was not due to the policies of the Conservative leader (though including some of the policies mentioned above would have helped enormously), but a combination of Blair's spin - based popularity, and electoral unfairness (the Conservatives gained more votes than Labour, at least in England).

In the Democratic Party, for example, delegates are awarded based on a State's historical electoral vote and its turnout for the Democratic candidate in previous elections.

It is also becoming evident, on the basis of votes cast, how skewed the electoral system is: for the Conservatives, 2m more votes than Labour translates into 48 more Tory seats, while Labour's similar 2m vote advantage over the Lib Dems means 200 more seats.

The Political Machine 2016 is a turn - based strategy experience that challenges players to use a limited pool of resources to secure the electoral votes of states to get their favorite candidate a shot at the presidency of the United States of America.

Unable to benefit from subsequent changes to the law that would have limited the length of the ban, he contested a decision removing him from the electoral roll on the basis of two provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights (CFR)-- Article 49 on the application of a more lenient sentence in criminal matters and Article 39 on the right to vote in European Parliament elections.

On the one hand, in an electoral system it makes perfect sense for voters to promote and vote for benchers based on those benchers» positions on issues that affect their personal interests.

In the recent testing of its Ethereum - based electoral system, the Brazilian government utilized a system called hashing to combine all daily votes into a single transaction and broadcast it to the Ethereum blockchain network.