Sentences with phrase «electoral voting system»

Prime Minister Gordon Brown battles Labour backbenchers and Conservative «cynicism» in an attempt to replace the current first - past - the - post electoral voting system.

Note that federal constitution has systems for preventing popular states from dominating congress or the white house by the great compromise or electoral voting system.

We're slowly learning, following the rejected referenda on elected mayors and the electoral voting system, that when you give the public a choice on a specific issue the decisive battleground is never the actual issues.

Not exact matches

Doing so will significantly diminish the likelihood of electoral fraud, which is a huge issue despite the prevalence of electronic voting systems.

This yielded electoral systems that seek to prevent extremist parties from coming to power, including mechanisms to raise electoral thresholds for parliamentary accession and multiple rounds of voting.

So after the pro-democracy legislators in Hong Kong's Legislative Council (Legco) voted down Beijing's proposal to replace the former British colony's undemocratic electoral system with another equally undemocratic version, the only thing we should expect is that this is not the end of the story.

If a campaign could persuade thousands of voters in those 50 ridings to vote strategically, countering the perverse nature of our electoral system, it could determine the outcome of the election.

Though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reneged on his promise to change the country's voting system before 2019, his government didn't totally walk away from electoral reform.

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.

The landmark survey commissioned by the Broadbent Institute is the first study of its kind and size to measure Canadians» attitudes about voting system design and preference for electoral reform.

The Abacus study also asked those who voted in the 2015 Canadian General Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral systems.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

This year, the red purse contains a # 5 coin, commemorating four generations of royalty, and a 50p coin commemorating the Representation of the People Act 1918, which reformed the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland, giving some women the right to vote for the first time.

The main one is that USA has what's known as «First Past The Post» electoral system (which is an academic way of saying, you can only vote for one candidate and whichever candidate gets most votes, wins).

The existing electoral system, though confirmed in a vote in 2011, is struggling to give adequate expression to the range of party support in the nations of the UK.

The British electoral system values clarity: few people dissent from the line that it is better to have a government that can pass legislation and take decisions when it needs to than to be stuck with one that stumbles on hand - to - mouth from vote to vote.

They claim boundary changes was introduced as a quid pro quo for the May 2011 referendum on electoral reform, in which the public rejected the alternative vote system by a ratio of two votes to one.

Whether or not electoral systems behave as political scientist think they «should» depends largely on the dynamics of protest voting.

The right - wing media is constantly trying to depict the current system as favouring Labour because the electoral arithmetic implies that the Tories need about 4 % more votes to gain a parliamentary majority than does Labour.

Open preferential voting is a hybrid electoral system which allows voters to either express a rank ordering of individual candidates in the same manner as STV, or to select a list of candidates chosen by a political party, much like a closed list proportional representation system.

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.

The US Presidential election uses an «electoral college» system, where each state gets a certain number of «electors» (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President.

Because every vote counts in proportional electoral systems, citizens are freer to behave according to their sincere preferences.

Gerrymandering is all about drawing electoral boundaries such that the artifact of most electoral systems (that one citizen's vote doesn't translate directly into voting weight in parliament) can override the natural outcome of a vote.

I would quite like an electoral system where «more votes» meant «more seats» and vice versa.

It helps explains why in the UK, where support for a more proportional electoral system has hovered above 60 % for 30 years, 68 % voted in favour of keeping the First Past the Post system.

The system with 225 local single - member districts elected by a first - past - the - post electoral system (highest vote wins) offers much room for manipulation, use of administrative resources and pressure, extortion, vote buying and putting only one candidate on the ballot in some districts.

We vote under a broken electoral system.

CES: A lot of the electoral systems in the US rely on winner - take - all, which sort of directly bars out proportional voting methods.

The paper suggested tactical voting to prevent a Conservative victory, given Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system.

There are certainly several examples in Britain where people have rejected change, the most prominent examples include the referendums on Scottish Independence, the Alternative Vote electoral system, and, in 1975, the UK's membership of the European Community.

Trump formed the Election Integrity Commission in May through executive order to study «vulnerabilities» in the American electoral system after he made unfounded claims that 3 to 5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election, costing him the popular vote.

Unfortunately, the Guide dates back to the first wave of electoral reform in the UK in 1999, but the Democratic Audit website also includes lots of useful material on recent voting system debates and controversies.

In the case of electoral reform, they were humiliated at the ballot box, as the alternative vote system was rejected by 67.9 % to 32.1 %.

Their agenda includes electoral reforms like early voting, a strengthening of the state abortion laws, creation of a single - payer health care system, criminal justice changes like an end to cash bail, passage of the Child Victims Act, enactment of pro-immigration measures like creation of a state DREAM Act and the issuance of drivers» licenses to undocumented immigrants.

Four women Assembly Members are calling on Welsh Labour to change its electoral college system and adopt «One Member, One Vote»...

«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.»

First, UKIP seat gains were very modest because of the even distribution of the vote and effects of the First Past The Post electoral system.

The Liberal Democrats lost the referendum on the alternative vote electoral system and proposals for House of Lords reform were defeated in the House of Commons.

Johnson said he was open to backing a more proportional voting system, closer to what Clegg wants, but another Labour electoral reformer, Peter Hain, told the Guardian that proportional systems break the link with constituencies and so make it more difficult to sack corrupt MPs.

The campaign to change the electoral system likes to call itself «Yes To Fairer Votes».

The British electoral system produces very disproportionate vote share to seat share outcomes and trying to account for local factors adequately is nigh on impossible.

Data from British Election Study panel surveys shows that the main problem UKIP has faced in translating its success from European Parliament elections to general elections has been retaining voters, whether because some UKIP voters only vote UKIP at European Parliament elections in protest and the return to their «normal» party for general elections or because the nature of the British electoral system incentivises voters to cast their vote for one of the existing main parties rather than a new entrant.

Now, either Labour has a huge amount to fear from forthcoming boundary changes (and much - needed reform of the corrupt postal voting system), or Cameron is an electoral genius.

The massive disparity between the share of vote and relative number of MPs will bring the electoral system back into focus.

In this form, the plurality principle can be problematic and ambiguous given the disproportionality of the UK's first - past - the - post electoral system, as a result of which the party with the largest number of seats may be different from the party which wins most votes.

The alternative vote (AV) electoral system would be used, where voters rank the candidates in order.

Until 2010, the electoral system hid the multi-party nature of British politics (smaller parties and independent candidates attracted 30 % of voting intentions but gained very few seats).

Geography will have a very significant impact here, while first past the post electoral systems, such as the one used in the United Kingdom, will always act to the advantage of the largest parties and will significantly disadvantage the smaller parties, unless their votes are strongly clustered in a specific geographical region — e.g. Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

Conservative MP Robin Walker is mistaken to think that voting systems other than first - past - the - post all give a leg - up to extremist parties (electoral system debate, TP, Nov).