Sentences with phrase «greatest number of votes»

Little also noted that TREB, as CREA's largest member, represents between 35 and 40 per cent of CREA's membership, and therefore, have the greatest number of votes when electing CREA's Board of Directors.

The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two - thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice.

The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President.

The nominated candidate receiving the greatest number of votes for each position shall be declared elected.

The nominated candidates for Board of Director positions, who receive the greatest number of votes for each position, shall be declared elected.

Not only did Gypsy get the greatest number of votes, but she won $ 1,000 for our shelter!

The nominated candidates for other positions on the board who receive the greatest number of votes for such positions shall be declared elected.

(a) The nominated candidate receiving the greatest number of votes for each office shall be declared elected.

And despite a $ 9 - million campaign by agribusiness to defeat Prop 2, it passed with the greatest number of votes of any citizen initiative in California history.

There are only a few honest members of the party (Jeff Graham, mayor of Watertown, being one of them) and he had this to say: «There is no mystery about the disposition of Line C -LRB-...) amassing the greatest number of votes to allow the party to remain on that line -LRB-.)»

Winners in Colorado's primaries are determined via plurality vote, meaning that the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes cast wins the primary election even if he or she does not win an outright majority.

But if one takes «first past the post» to mean the horse with the greatest speed, then extendingthat to the candidate with the greatest number of votes isn't difficult.

In Minnesota, the winner of a primary election is the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes cast for that office, even if he or she does not win an outright majority.

The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.

Under the tenets of the proposal, if Democrats control both houses, as they did briefly from 2008 to 2010, then it would require a greater number of votes to pass the lines.

I'm sure he received a great number of votes last year for both «Argo» and «Flight.»

Not exact matches

When it comes to a choice between somebody like Rick Perry and Obama, then of course people will vote for Obama, but not in great numbers and without much enthusiasm.

The result of the vote is important for a number of reasons, but none more than the fact that global economic growth has been fragile since the «Great Recession» of 2008.

[17] After 1918, a growing number of corporations issued two classes of common stock: one having full voting rights on a one vote per share basis, the other having no voting rights (but sometimes having greater dividend rights).

The three boards that reached high thresholds numbers needed: B.C. Northern Real Estate Board (75 per cent needed and 89 per cent of agents voting were in favour); Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV)(67 per cent needed and 69 per cent of votes in favour); and South Okanagan Real Estate Board (75 per cent needed and 79 per cent of those voting favoured a merger).

Considering that achieving the greatest good for the greatest number is kind of the point of democracy and any other coercive form of government, I guess you can say that Rand is opposed to the Republic as well, although in public she essentially gutted her own philosophy and said that she was only opposed to people being allowed to vote on matters of private enterprise.

«Zero Hunger» was selected as the most important to our employees, and «Responsible Consumption» was seen as an area where the business could have the greatest impact, with 73 percent of employees voting for food waste as their number one issue to tackle.

Stressing that he voted against the benefit cap, Corbyn adds: «The numbers of families involved are not that great but most of them are in London and the south east and they are grievously affected by it.

Yes, it is ironic that the voting system favoured by John Harris and Neal Lawson - AV + - would allow a greater number of parachuted candidates through the top - up route as well as the constituency route.

«What the country needs more than ever is certainty, and having secured the largest number of votes and the greatest number of seats in the General Election, it is clear that only the Conservative & Unionist Party has the legitimacy and ability to provide that certainty by commanding a majority in the House of Commons.

With the 2015 UK general election David Cameron became the first Prime Minister to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a larger popular vote share since 1900 and the only Prime Minister other than Margaret Thatcher to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a greater number of seats to - date.

The reason for NOT expending effort tp «conduct a wide scale attempt» by targeting the subset of non-citizens is that it has been determined time and again that the number of non-citizens that attempt to vote is exceedingly low (but admittedly greater than zero).

More subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which voted remain in 2016, while losing votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who voted leave.

The Lib Dems and their Liberal and SDP predecessors have suffered especially, [143] particularly in the 1980s when their electoral support was greatest while the disparity between the votes and the number of MPs returned to parliament was significantly large.

These factors explain why Labour faces greater challenges in translating lower levels of national support into seat numbers than it did back in 1987 when the party won 12 seats with just over six percent of the national vote.

This reflects the rural and Southern domination of the Conservative party in general, and the great success of the election in particular; winning 100 new seats and coming out as the country's largest party both by popular vote and the number of seats.

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.

While the city's request has been winding its way through the regulatory pipeline for a number of years, the governor's office has given no indication regarding his intentions in terms of whether or not, as one of eight Great Lake states governors with veto power over the proposal, he will vote to approve the unprecedented water diversion.

The person having the greatest number of [electoral] votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed

If people's votes were fairly represented, under a proportional voting system, any given party which had control of a local authority would have to justify its decisions more frequently as a result of being monitored by a greater number of scrutineers who more accurately reflect the will of local people.

In past elections, including the 2013 general election for mayor, the largely well - off neighborhood typically votes for the Republican candidate in greater numbers than much of New York City.

In the 2016 New York presidential primary, Hillary Clinton won the greatest portion of New York City's Democratic vote share by a better margin than pundits expected, substantially increasing her votes in predominantly black communities from 2008 and also receiving solid support from a number of traditionally white, liberal areas.

This was a citywide total compared to a district, but larger numbers of votes means greater name recognition and wide - spread support of my candidacy and our platform against poverty.

A large number of Labour - held metropolitan boroughs are up for election in this region, which is likely to bring out the party's vote in greater numbers than if the European elections were held alone.

By concentrating black votes in Rangel's district to protect his seat, the likelihood also becomes greater that legislators will end up with a new majority Latino district with a high concentration of Dominicans, whose numbers have grown 40 percent in the city over the past ten years.

The Vice president who was the main guest of honour at the campaign launch said «Greater Accra is a very important region in Ghana, not only the capital of our country but also in the number of people who vote.

Service is good, with 71 % of Tesco Bank customers in our recent poll rating it «great», though we had a limited number of votes.

If for any reason the judge who received the greatest number of membership votes is unable to accept or fulfill the assignment, the next highest person to receive membership votes shall be contacted by the host Regional Director and offered the assignment.

Aliens: Colonial Marines (Gearbox Software)-- The title with by far the greatest number of write - in votes.

If everyone votes together, there's a great chance that a number of SEGA hits could end up winning.

But shift electoral votes from the Sunshine State to the Great Lakes, or from California to the Dakotas, and you open up all sorts of new routes to the magic number, 270.

That may be the reason Quebec lawyers voted in greater numbers than Ontario lawyers did during the recent Law Society of Upper Canada bencher elections.

Although this outcome is perhaps not so spectacular in terms of legal reasoning, it might help strengthen the rights of a significant number of self - employed EU citizens in the run - up to the «Great Divorce» following the Brexit - vote.

A greater number of paralegal benchers at Convocation means that paralegals will have a larger vote and a bigger voice in the legal community.

The higher the number of votes, the greater the chances to see some elements of concept at least being used in Windows 10.