Sentences with phrase «electorate voted»

«We're not well - positioned to judge why any one person or an entire electorate voted as it did,» he said.

On June 23, 2016, the U.K. electorate voted to leave the European Union.

On 23 June, based on a turnout of 72 %, 52 % of the electorate voted for Leave, while 48 % supported Remain.

This new mandate represents a sea - change from 18 years prior when 61 % of the electorate voted to basically outlaw bilingual programs through a different statewide proposition.

The town electorate voted the ballpark financing down, which most reasonable people would conclude to interpret that no funds would be allocated in any capacity; but the town paid for the infrastructure, in the process violating the CWA.

Furthermore, since most people vote based on party and not based on MP, we need some party discipline to ensure that the party policies the electorate voted for will actually get enacted.

In the 2015 election, 47 % of the electorate voted Labour, while 25 % voted Conservative, 17 % UKIP, 6 % Liberal Democrat and 4 % Green.

Only the last of these policies has resulted in actual change: the electorate voted «no» to AV, Conservative backbench rebels scotched Lords reform and the LibDems vetoed the boundary changes in retaliation.

It adds: «The days when over 95 % of the electorate voted either Tory or Labour are long gone.

In a sense, each voter in that 50 % enjoys 2 times the immediate voting power they'd otherwise not exert had 100 % of the electorate voted.

In 1951, 97 % of the electorate voted for one of the two main political parties.

~ 17 % of the electorate voted leave, ~ 70 % did not cast a vote on an important issue like that.

More controversially, it is argued that the government lacks the mandate to push through such radical reforms, since it failed to appear in the prospectuses which the electorate voted on.

The decline of the two - party system has been happening for years - in 1951, 97 per cent of the electorate voted either Labour or Conservative; in the last election, that was below 70 per cent - but the MPs» expenses scandal has put the final boot into politics as we've known it.

The Cunningham Amendment stated that the referendum would only be legally binding if 40 % of the electorate voted for it.

Despite the fact that huge swathes of the electorate voted with Labour, believing it to be their best way to stop Brexit, the Tories were able to spin the last general election as giving a huge mandate to pro-Brexit parties.

The outcome of the subsequent referendum in 1979, in which 80 % of the Welsh electorate voted against devolution, was, in his own description, «traumatic» for Prys - Davies.

In elections to its board of 53 elected members, 44 % of the electorate voted: much better than the 15.1 % in 2012 elections for police and crime commissioners.

The levels of turn - out for elections to its board of 53 elected members was not huge — 44 % of the electorate voted in elections across the 13 inner - London boroughs — but much better than turnout in elections for more recent devolved positions of authority, such as police commissioners.

Whether MPs across the parties like it or not, on May 7th the United Kingdom's political and discerning electorate voted for a new type of politics — coalition politics.

The Union - supporting Conservatives were on the winning side when Scotland's electorate voted 55 % to 45 % against independence.

In 2009, about a third of the electorate voted in the European elections — of whom 15 % used e-voting.

In the parliamentary elections in March 2011, 61 % of the total electorate voted; just under a quarter of the votes cast came through e-voting.

The UK electorate voted to leave the European Union in June last year.

On Thursday 71 % of the electorate voted against Labour.

Colin Rallings and Mike Thrasher of Plymouth University point out that just 21.6 % of the electorate voted Labour in 2005.

Data shows that 87.3 % of the electorate voted in the Scottish referendum compared with little more than 60 % in recent general elections.

I refer to the recent Indian general election in which a large proportion of the electorate voted and which was remarkably free from corruption.

This impression is supported by the fact that around half of the French electorate voted against the established political parties.

Clinton never had a majority of the electorate voting for him, and Bush's election needed a Supreme Court ruling to certify it.

If the electorate vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment, any draft legislation would only become law if the Dail voted for it, and that is not a foregone conclusion given the Fine Gael coalition is a minority administration and TDs will vote on conscience.

Dollars: Doheny as electorate votes: Hoffman.

Subject to subsection (4), each ballot paper in form 11 shall comprise 2 votes, namely, a party vote and an electorate vote.

The most Conservative seat according to the vote share is Saffron Walden with almost 62 % of the electorate voting Conservative.

The question is - what prevents a party from gaming this overhang dynamic by spliting the party into two, one party to attract party votes, and one party to gain electorate votes, and instructing their supporters to vote accordingly?

Today, the electorate votes for one with the best name, integrity and image,» he said.

Turnout was higher than in a modern day general election, with approximately 72 % of the electorate voting — 52 % to leave the EU and 48 % to remain.

Why couldn't you say: The LibDems plus the Conservatives represent 59 % of the electorate voting for change from New Labour.

The turnout figure marks a rise on that in 2015 of 66.2 % and fits a trend that has seen an increasing proportion of the electorate voting since 2001.

According to the Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Koku Anyidoho — Ghana will be in a «mess» if the electorates vote for the NPP and its leader, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo in the November presidential polls.

That renegotiation was followed by a referendum in June 2016, which resulted in the British electorate voting to withdraw from the European Union by 52 % to 48 % and led to the resignation of Cameron as Prime Minister.

All the Westminster parties are developing proposals for a further round of devolution, beyond the provisions of the 2012 Scotland Act, assuming the Scottish electorate votes as predicted.

There are 10 % of the electorate voting for other parties, but this would give only 45 % for Remain if all the voters went for that position.

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.

«In California, when legislators can't come up with a solution, it ends up going on the ballot,» says Bonilla, who worries about lawmakers abdicating their responsibilities, and the electorate voting on issues they're not well informed about.

climatereason (Tonyb): BB, would the US electorate vote for European style High energy prices or accept fuel rationing?

This country is stuck with politicians who look after their own interests and until the electorate vote in some ethical people, our country is only going backward.

Not exact matches

More than half of the French electorate want a vote on whether France should be a member of the European Union but many more do not want to leave the euro, research from Citi showed Tuesday.

Indeed, the 2016 election may be the last one in U.S. history before the self - employed comprise a majority of the voting electorate.

In 2004 fully 25 percent of the US electorate consisted of persuadable partisans, Democrats or Republicans who might be lured to vote for the other side, according to figures from political scientists D. Sunshine Hillygus and Todd Shields.