Sentences with phrase «first voting areas»

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This makes it slightly easier to block laws they oppose because the Majority must first secure as many votes as possible in their own caucus before shoring up loose areas by flipping some opposition members with a few things they like.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that the EU vote «makes clear that the people of Scotland see their future as part of the European Union» after all 32 local authority areas returned majorities for Remain.

Both use a first past the post (i.e. the candidate (s) with a plurality of votes wins) in individual voting areas (parliamentary constituencies at national level, wards an local...

If said areas have first - past - the - post voting, a minority opinion population of any given area is basically robbed of being a full participant in a democratic process - the votes of any Republican in NY, or a Democrat in Utah, don't matter at all in terms of Presidential election.

The Women's Equality party is only three years old and yet in this, our first local election, around a quarter of voters in our target areas gave one of their three votes to us.

Maffei, who was first elected to the Syracuse - area congressional seat in 2008 with the Obama wave, lost the seat to Buerkle in 2010 by 648 votes.

These elections are conducted using the so - called «First Past The Post» voting system, whereby every registered voter casts one vote for a candidate in their town or area (known as constituencies).

The first set of seats are won in a traditional first - past - the - post election in local areas, where the candidate with more votes than anybody else wins.

- I would certainly vote against a local councillor that did this without considering other areas first, but because of the shift to localism this is actually irrelevant to the matter at hand.

With his paternal approach, Fraga had broad appeal, as evidenced by a national media broadcast featuring priests in rural areas asking the public to vote for «Catholic Fraga» during his first campaign and women working at a Vigo brothel distributing his leaflets in clubs.

Both use a first past the post (i.e. the candidate (s) with a plurality of votes wins) in individual voting areas (parliamentary constituencies at national level, wards an local level).

The prime minister then met with the Scottish first minister Alex Salmond to address outstanding areas of disagreement with the SNP including the vote's timing, the number of referendum questions and the wording of those questions.

The best result at the constituency, or electoral area, level for Labour in the 2014 Local Elections came in Athy, where Labour won 27.0 % of the first preference votes and took two of the six seats in that electoral area.

In Scotland, the voting breakdown saw the SNP coming first in 22 of the 32 council areas, the Tories in four, and Labour and the Liberal Democrats in three each.

The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband faced their first public appearances since the disappointing polls which seen Ukip take votes in key areas across the country.

Albany County lawmakers voted to require anyone blasting within two miles of a public water supply in the county to first research and clean any ground contamination known to be within the blast area.

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,

In the Albany area, one of the four regions of the state designated under companion legislation for casino construction in the first phase, several counties — including Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady and Warren — voted down the amendment.

The bill required a supermajority and only 12 Republicans voted for the act, which proposed giving as much as $ 7.4 billion to people who were exposed to Ground Zero toxins, including first responders, firefighters, rescue workers, police officers, EMTs, cleanup workers, area residents and schoolchildren.

Lynn Boylan's campaign had seen her soar ahead, polling 23 per cent (she almost got elected outright in first count of votes, without requiring any transfers from other parties, which is highly unusually) and winning over 40 per cent of the votes in some areas of the city.

Some aggrieved youth of Wassa East in the Western Region, who are unhappy over the rejection of Mr. Wilson Arthur as DCE nominee in the first round of voting, have smashed the vehicle of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the area, Isaac Adjei Mensah.

When Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) won re-election in November, it was the first time the district voted for the same candidate two times in a row since former Rep. Jim Walsh represented the area.

The party came a close second to Labour in the overall vote in Wales and were about 700 votes away from first place in the traditional Labour area of Torfaen.

Our first two papers have been on the Alternative Vote and on Big Society and we have been delighted that the two relevant Conservative ministers covering these areas, Mark Harper MP and Nick Hurd MP, have agreed to participate with the responses we receive.

While in many ways it may be satisfying for campaigners to achieve gigantic majorities in their home areas, once a party has achieved first place in a constituency under FPTP those extra votes do nothing to help secure more seats in the House of Commons.

To remedy this and other ills, the report calls for major changes in the current two - tier voting system, where parents first cast an advisory vote and then leaders of parent organizations in the respective area make the final choice.

Many people who are councillors in marginal areas, or have previously been in that position, know enough of history, or are old enough recall the 1980's, maybe they blame council election defeats of 1982, and the general elections on the Falklands, maybe they take credit for Andrew Mckintosh winning the GLC for livingstone in 1981, maybe they feel we lost in 1979 as it wasn't left wing enough, But they voted Corbyn and won't accept that we will lose by a mile in 2020 with him, even if we get half as any votes in the council elections over the next 3 years, as before, Various things can be done, Blue labour needs to work with Labour first, like compass before them, anti neo liberalism, felt Blair lost his way after his first 6 years, Yes progress has a large following and ability of resources, but since 2007 it's been redundant

It was the first in a series of critical votes on emotive issues in committee stage debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - the biggest shake - up of law in this area for 20 years.

Other quick polls... What comes first, love or sex; 27 % Love, 73 % Sex (1241 votes)... What's your reason for trying online dating; 47 % Lonely, 42 % It's hard to meet people, 11 % New to area (107 votes)

School projects are specific to the local area and children have uncovered some fascinating stories: from discovering their school was used as a military hospital during the First World War; to finding out how local women battled for the vote a hundred years ago; to how the mining, fishing or cotton industry shaped their town.

The Easton Area School District school board voted unanimously Tuesday to approve Easton's first charter school, Easton Arts Academy Elementary Charter School.

The first area is the clear waters of the Bunaken - Manado Tua National Marine Park which was voted the global winner of British Airways Tourism for Tomorrow Award in 2003.