Sentences with phrase «first preference»

Any candidate who has reached or exceeded the threshold with first preference votes shall be declared elected.

So even when they don't win, third parties do get substantial numbers of first preferences, and they can therefore build in prominence until they manage to win seats.

Positive Singles is first preference for most of the people worldwide in this segment.

If no one wins over 50 % support on first preferences, then the top two candidates stay in the race and all others are eliminated.

Participants in the class were offered incentives to practice newly learned skills and given first preference at the clinic.

And, when first established, they are not popular with parents, with first preferences well behind other types of school.

Anybody whose first preference is for a winning or top two candidate will stay there.

Can win / tie first preferences or be close behind, and finish ahead.

AV therefore opens the door to MPs being elected even though they have fewer first preference votes.

The number «1» or first preference votes are counted first.

Whether that was on first preferences or after the lower preferences had kicked in we do not know but there's a sense that progress has been by the younger brother.

This program will give first preference to students with special needs and then to low income students.

No way either would displace Ozil, Sanchez or Giroud as first preference in their respected positions bar injury in our current set - up.

Its officers therefore recommended support for Angela Eagle as first preference because of her unique record amongst women candidates in support of democracy in the party, of a policy - making process which was accessible to the party grassroots rather than one which was entirely based, in reality, in the leader's office, of the impartiality of party staff in internal democracy and of the party - union link.

«The National Endowment people insist that that minorities get first preference in our programs, and they do,» said Spriggs.

It's hard to deny that the odds aren't brilliant for the other candidates and I don't intend to argue the case here for my own first preference candidate: Ed Balls, by the way, but I do want to explain why the Milibands will be coming last on my ballot paper.

In order to address the question, I estimate what the party first preference votes would be in the different constituencies, assuming similar (proportional) changes in party vote shares in all constituencies to those that are being suggested by a particular opinion poll, or — in this case — an average of the most recent polls.

In a plurality system where only first preferences count, the outcome is simple: milk wins with 40 per cent of the vote, followed by beer, with wine trailing in last.

Or he could tack left which is unlikely to win many first preferences from Corbyn, but could ensure that Yvette took the lead when Kendall is eliminated.

because hes first preference over Cech..

If no - one achieves that after counting first preferences, the lowest - ranked candidate drops out and his / her votes are reallocated to their stated second preferences.

The Chase card gets first preference because it charges no foreign transaction fees, while the Andrews card charges 1 percent.

AV avoids this problem by requiring the winner to have a majority, if not on first preferences alone, then once the second, third and so on of the weaker candidates have been counted after they are eliminated.

If no - one gets enough first preference votes candidates with the fewest votes are knocked out and their second preferences are redistributed.

Parties who gained a very small first preference vote look set to be elected to Victoria's upper house.

If a candidate has more first preference votes than the threshold, that candidate's surplus votes shall be fractionally transferred to other candidates according to the next preference listed on each ballot.

In most English constituencies the Lib Dem candidate would typically receive the third highest number of first preferences among the big three parties (after the minor candidates have been eliminated).

The headline findings are that David Miliband leads on first preferences amongst party and trade union members as -LSB-...]

In London, many boroughs maintained the lowest first preference rates for schools in England, with Hammersmith achieving just 52 per cent and Westminster gaining 53 per cent.

Within London, there were boroughs with the lowest first preference rates for secondary schools in the country - such as 52 % in Hammersmith and Fulham and 53 % in Westminster.

If we had known that, say, the majority of second preference votes had been for Labour where first preference votes had been for the Green Party, the Lib Dems or the Nationalists, this would have made a coalition involving Labour far more likely, making the coalition a much better reflection of what people actually wanted.

Dr. Arrow: So if your [first preference] doesn't do well, your second choice counts.

Labor lost first preference support not to the right but to the Greens on the left.

A: No mystery; because the Conservative Party is traditionally the second choice of relatively few voters and they therefore wish to count weak second preferences as on a par with strong first preferences.

However, just looking at people's first preferences underestimates the level of support for more devolution.

In two of the twelve constituencies in 1987 where Labour won seats — Dublin South - Central, Dublin South - West, Galway West and Wexford — vote transfers were crucial in ensuring Labour won these these seats — i.e. Labour candidates were outside the seat positions on the first count but overtook candidates with higher first preference votes as counts progressed due to transfers from other candidates.

In a situation of this nature, would Clegg still feel compelled to give the Tories first preference?

The data in this answer uses undistributed first preferences and GVTs.

They would clearly do better under an undemocratic system that allows the positive first preferences of some voters to be negated by the second (and even lower) preferences of others.

For example, in a three - party election where voters for both the left and right prefer the centrist candidate to stop the «enemy» candidate winning, those voters who care more about defeating the «enemy» than electing their own candidate may cast a tactical first preference vote for the centrist candidate.

At the 2013 federal election, funding was $ 2.488 per formal first preference vote.

In order to gain more seats at Westminster under AV the Lib Dems would need to have enough candidates who are the natural first preference of enough voters to benefit from AV.

For example, the single transferable vote redistributes first preference votes for candidates below the threshold.

A further look at the Glenrothes West (Fife) by election indicates that the total first preferences at the 2012 council elections were:

In an effort to increase its enrolments, the University of Saskatchewan?s College of Education actively encourages people with math and science degrees to enter teacher training by lowering the admission standards for this group of applicants (which are ordinarily very stringent — see below) and by giving applicants who choose math, physics, or chemistry as their main subject first preference for program openings.

Bethlehem Area and Saucon Valley students receive first preference, along with siblings, Mauser said.

But lucky for the holidaying surfers here in Bali the apex predators of the ocean still have their natural and first preference food, fish in abundance.

Judicial Tip Sheet for judges to question kin first preference for placements and to encourage maintaining family connections for all children.