Sentences with phrase «electoral votes possible»

Gerrymandering is when a partisan committee moves around the borders of voting districts to favor their own party, squeezing the maximum amount of electoral votes possible out of a certain area of land.

Not exact matches

«What I'm saying here is pointing at a very, very irrational possible outcome of our potty electoral system, which is that a party that has spectacularly lost the election because fewer people are voting for it than any other party, could nonetheless according to constitutional tradition and convention still lay claim to providing the prime minister of the country.»

But both are crucial parts of a competitive campaign and shape how it is possible for ordinary people to take part in the electoral process beyond casting their vote.

Chair of Electoral Commission, who is probing possible Russian meddling in the Brexit vote, urges urgent reform of electoral laws to stop cheats

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.

Since, Clinton will simply need 39 electoral votes to win a majority, it's mathematically possible.

It is possible to win one to nothing in enough states that the candidates gets at least 270 electoral college votes, which is enough to win.

Note: It is not possible to predict how people will vote when a new electoral system is introduced, so that the above projections are simply to illustrate the principle, and are unlikely to be an accurate guide to what will actually happen.

Although Labour losses in Scotland are likely to undo some of the pro-Labour bias in the electoral system and so reduce the chances that the party will emerge largest on seats but not votes, that scenario is still possible.

Under this fourth consequence of the possible electoral arithmetic, policy for non-Scottish areas of the country would be partially formed by a party that has never received a single vote in those areas, is completely unaccountable to the electorate and has an electoral incentive in ensuring that another part of the country, Scotland, gets as large a slice of the national budget as possible.

Convincing the Michigan legislature that at least 7.21 % of the third party voters would've voted for Clinton if they knew that Trump would win otherwise, and that Clinton «should've won» might make it possible for them to flip their electors, giving Clinton 16 more electoral votes.

Of course, it is possible for those electors to cast an electoral vote for someone other than the person pledged or does not vote for any person, but it rarely happened.

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.

«With these new safeguards, New York — in the strongest terms possible — will combat unscrupulous and shadowy threats to our electoral process, as well as break down fundamental barriers that for far too long have prevented New Yorkers from being heard and from exercising their right to vote,» Cuomo said.

In the 1972 Presidential election, Nixon easily defeated Democratic candidate George McGovern, grabbing a whopping 520 of a possible 538 electoral votes.

64 Immediately following polling day, the Chief Electoral Officer shall determine the number of electors that were entitled to vote in each electoral district and, as soon as possible thereafter, shall furnish a certified statement thereof to each candidate in the electoral district.