Sentences with phrase «equal number of candidates»

The CCIM business network includes more than 7,500 designees and an equal number of candidates principally in North America, but also in Asia and Europe.

«if the number of seats equals the number of candidates with non-zero vote counts, they are all declared winners.»

The flowchart oversimplifies this, so actually if the number of seats equals the number of candidates with non-zero vote counts, they are all declared winners.

Not exact matches

While the exact rules vary from state to state, essentially a voter is voting for a set of electors chosen by the party, and the most votes for a given party / candidate selects that set of electors, so where there is winner takes all, the set of electors is equal to the total number of electors for that state

The Electoral Commission must determine which candidates are entitled to be elected by selecting those candidates on the list of each party, beginning with the first candidate on the list and ending with the lowest ranking candidate, which are equal in number to the number of seats to which that party is entitled to have allocated from its list submitted pursuant to section 127.

In the London election, roughly equal numbers of those voting for other candidates turned out to have a Labour or Tory preference - so those 250,000 voters got to count in the final outcome - though the result was unaffected by transfers.

Generally speaking, a candidate must collect signatures equaling at least 5 percent of the number of active enrolled voters in the political unit (e.g., the state for statewide offices, such as governor; the legislative district for state senate or assembly districts; etc.), or a fixed total established by statute, whichever is less.

Would a candidate with no votes at all win over a candidate with lots of positive votes, but an equal number of negative notes?

If the top candidate method is used to gauge the number of votes for party (i.e. assuming the number of votes in support of a party is equal to the number of votes for its most popular candidate) instead of the raw vote, then the party's vote shares are: Labour 72.3 %, Conservatives 16.2 % and Liberal Democrats 11.4 %.

With the initiative method, an amendment is proposed by a petition signed by voters equal in number to 8 % of the votes for all candidates for governor at the last gubernatorial election.

Among other things, the bill moved the presidential primary from February to March; provided for special elections when a vacancy occurs in statewide office (including U.S. Senate); and eliminated non-partisan city elections in some cities when the number of candidates listed on the ballot equals the number of vacancies.

The number of signatures required on the petition is equal to at least 3 percent of all registered voters who are not affiliated with a recognized political party in the district the candidate seeks to represent.

They are very stringent, and require signatures equal to 5 % of the number of registered voters (the law is much easier for statewide independents, and somewhat easier for independent candidates for U.S. House).

For statewide partisan offices (including congressional offices), petitions must contain signatures equaling 3 percent of the total number of votes cast for the party's candidate for the same office in the last general election.

But what surprised researchers was the difference those rankings made: Biased search results increased the number of undecided voters choosing the favored candidate by 48 % compared with a control group that saw an equal mix of both candidates throughout the list.

The following chart shows the debt to shareholders equity ratios for each of the stocks highlighted as a liquidation candidate above, rebased so that the last year's number equals 100.