Sentences with phrase «gained most votes»

Its principle is simple: each electoral division elects one representative, the candidate who gained the most votes.

[2] The Conservatives gained most votes in four of the six parliamentary seats, the Liberal Democrats coming first in Cheltenham and UKIP in the Forest of Dean.

Out of five candidates for village trustee, Timothy Elliott, Tim O'Shea and Dean Clark gained the most votes, securing the party's backing.

Those that are gaining the most votes will be reviewed by a team of professional publishers for the reward of being published.

Not exact matches

As the official vote count continued on Monday morning, after the ballot on Sunday, it showed the Five Star Movement (M5S) would be the largest single party, but a center - right bloc — which features the anti-immigration Lega party — would gain the most seats.

People will buy Bitcoin for the financial gains, and most won't realize they are voting with their wallets and self - interest to build a world based on peace and cooperation, even if that conflicts with their own political ideals.

Obama will not gain any support that he didn't already have but he most certainly will lose the support of hard - core Catholics who might otherwise have voted for him.

Neuer, Robben and Ronaldo had gained the most points from a second poll of the aforementioned journalists from each of UEFA's member associations, the three having been part of a ten - strong shortlist revealed last month that was the product of a first round of voting by the same reporters.

A century after the first women gained the right to vote, we asked some of the current crop of leading politicians to tell us about the female parliamentarian they most admire from the last 100 years...

The Tories secured the votes of most former Ukip supporters, which prevented the party from losing even more seats, and helped it secure a handful of gains well away from the capital.

The argument presented is that as these are the most likely votes to be redistributed the majority parties would pander to them to gain second preference votes.

This model starts from the premise that winning a general election in Britain means gaining most seats in the House of Commons, not the most votes in a general election.

The Conservatives were returned to power although Labour increased its vote from 30.7 % to a third of the popular vote, most Conservative gains being at the expense of the Liberals.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

Lots of people will be writing about past examples today — 1982 in Micham and Morden (Lab vote split because of SDP defection, and the government got a surge of support during campaign because of the Falklands); 1961 Bristol South East (Tory gain only because the candidate with the most votes — Tony Benn — was disqualified for being a peer), 1960 Brighouse and Spenborough (ultra marginal to begin with).

«With the exception of the Greens, politicians always try to gain votes on who can be the most anti-Gypsy in this country.

This is because the small states that Republicans dominate count for as many votes (1) as the larger states where Democrats are most likely to gain seats.

Saying this when it eventually comes around to Australia having another referendum Australians will most likely vote to leave because almost every politician is in favour of it (because they just want the title and are happy to dismantle a good thing for their own selfish gains) and this means that there will only be arguments in favour of abolishing it from the politicians which will massively influence the public.

Under the current system, sometimes called «first past the post» or «winner takes all», the successful candidate is the one with the most votes, with no requirement for them to gain an absolute majority.

My response from that is that Diane Abbott is probably the most typical Labourite out of the five, in terms of policy and rhetoric at least, and to suggest that she'd gain votes solely for being a black woman is to give no credit to her or the Labour membership.

«They may pick up Lib Dem second preferences but since 2007 votes for other parties have gone up and the Tories are most likely to gain from this.

the Tories have most to gain from a Lib Dem collapse: whether the vote is by AV or not may make a lot less difference.»

And Claudia Tenney, one of the state Legislature's most conservative members, won a three - way contest with 44.3 percent of the vote to replace moderate Republican Richard Hanna, who gained notoriety by being the first sitting GOP member of Congress to back Clinton.

Meanwhile, an opinion poll commissioned by former Tory deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft in the 40 most marginal Tory - held seats suggests that Labour remains on course for a comfortable overall majority at the next election — not because the party itself is gaining ground, but because Ukip has tripled its share of the vote, mainly at the expense of the Conservatives.

A party such as the Lib Dems who take every opportunity to decry an electoral system that does not fairly convert votes cast into seats gained could not then turn around and say they were backing a party with the most seats (but fewer votes) and hope to retain any credibility, at least in terms of consistency.

If most people vote «yes» in this referendum, the Assembly will gain powers to pass laws on all subjects in the devolved areas.

So it must be noted it was not by chance that the areas that voted Yes the most, were not only the areas with the biggest gains in participation since 2010, but also were the areas of highest unemployment.

If a narrow in vote won and it helped UKIP, which party would they potentially gain from the most?

The third most popular reason to grow a beard is to feel more masculine, which gained 12 % of the vote — meaning that attractivity beat masculinity, but only by a whisker.

While the second most popular reason was to feel more attractive, this only gained 13 % of the vote.

Even Aishwarya Rai, the Indian actress who was once voted the most beautiful woman in the world (Miss World), is currently the subject of internet gossip because she dared to gain weight after having a baby.

The community enables educators everywhere to provide feedback and vote on each other's ideas, allowing the most talked about ideas to rise to the top so they can gain traction and prominence in the field.

By contrast, the next most popular choice, the Xoom gained 4 per cent of the votes (though at the time of the survey, it had only just gone on sale, so awareness may have risen since).

Most of these attacks are populist fear - mongering that simply aims at finding a scapegoat to gain political traction, votes and, hence, power.

People will buy Bitcoin for the financial gains, and most won't realize they are voting with their wallets and self - interest to build a world based on peace and cooperation, even if that conflicts with their own political ideals.

There are three major reasons, in my opinion, that contribute to the lack of voter participation in elections, and they are these; 1) Eligible voters believe that their votes count for nothing, that their votes will not have any effect on the outcome, 2) That many, if not most, politicians are sadly the same (in it for their own personal gain, be it fame, a stepping - stone toward future appointments, or simply to satisfy their uber egos).