Sentences with phrase «highest share of the vote»

How about the Bhutanese system where there is a second round in each constituency, contested by the two parties gaining the highest share of the vote nationally?

At the 2005 general election, the Lib Dems gained their highest share of the vote since the SDP — Liberal Alliance (22 %) and won 62 seats.

Popular incumbent MSPs have developed a considerable personal vote that enables them to secure a substantially higher share of the vote than their party list manages locally

In 1974, the Conservatives came out of the election 4 seats behind Labour (though with a higher share of the vote).

After leading the party through the second Holyrood elections in 2003 Elections, again winning 17 MSPs but with a higher share of the vote, he led the party into a second coalition with Labour.

According to Democratic consultant and numbers - cruncher Matt Isbell, this is the highest share of the vote received by any Florida Democrat in at least a decade.

«Even Michael Foot and Ed Miliband managed to gain a higher share of the vote than the Tory governments they were facing in their first electoral tests.

Ms. Teachout, a law professor, ran in the Democratic primary against Mr. Cuomo, winning the highest share of the vote of any primary challenger against an incumbent since primaries were instituted in New York.

Another crunch could come after next year's European elections, from which Ukip is confident of emerging with the highest share of the vote.

Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP for Rochdale and a long - term critic of his party's campaign methods, said its performance could have been better and attributed Ukip's high share of the vote in many areas outside London to its more passionate approach.

The respected psephologist John Curtice has calculated that the Tories could gain 71 seats from Labour without winning a higher share of the vote than in 2001, simply by a swing to the Lib Dems splitting the progressive vote in our marginals.

India has a British - style parliamentary system in which the leader of the political party with the highest share of the vote in the lower house of parliament is appointed as prime minister by the president (the President of India is a mostly ceremonial role; the prime minister is the head of government).

Not exact matches

If a majority of shares are voted in favor of Michael Dell's plan to take the company private, Dell's biggest outside investor, Southeastern Asset Management, has indicated it might go to court to fight for a higher price.

If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

Already, in Khosrowshahi's two months at the company, the board voted to do away with high voting shares as part of the funding agreement.

They emerged as the industry consolidators, using high levels of gearing to pay mind boggling prices for assets (in 2007, APN was the target of a bid by a private equity consortium that was blocked by a shareholder vote at $ 6.20 per share, a decision which cost them a lot.

Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ - NMS: ZNGA), a leading social game developer, today announced that its founder, Mark Pincus, has converted all of his high voting shares into Zynga's Class A common stock.

On March 24, Macron met Richard and Martin Bouygues separately to present them with his conditions: a higher valuation for Orange shares as the base of the transaction, a cap at 12 percent for Bouygues» potential stake in Orange, a standstill preventing Bouygues from raising its stake over a period of seven years, and a restriction on double voting rights for 10 years.

Romney won the highest share of the white vote of any presidential candidate since George H. W. Bush won 60 percent in 1988.

The Tories gained 5.5 % of the vote share from 2015, reaching an extremely high 42.5 % vote share.

However, there is one statistically significant result that suggests that constituency factors and re-election concerns might be affecting MPs» positions: MPs elected in seats with higher levels of UKIP vote share are more likely to be uncommitted on the referendum.

This means his share of the vote can get very high without actually winning any councils or MPs.

However, before we consign the party to history, it's worth recounting that it did achieve a national vote share in 2010 of around a fifth higher than the Clegg era poll average of 18 per cent.

«If the numbers hold, 2010 will be highest percentage share of the gubernatorial vote ever for the still - young WFP.»

My secondary model also predicts a very high probability that the Conservatives will win the largest share of the vote at the next election (76.24 %) whilst Labour only has a 15.35 % chance.

The vote share of the two major parties is unprecedentedly low: the combined Conservative and Labour vote share in 2013 is lower than any previous local election, and the 2014 vote share is only higher than two: 2009 and 2013.

It is remarkable that the UKIP share of the Euro vote was a full 10 points higher than the average of the estimates of the local election vote share (PNS and NEV).

Their share of the vote was higher than any post-war election except 1983 when the Liberal - SDP Alliance had 27.6 %.

The party contested the 2009 European elections around the slogan of «Make Greed History», campaigning for a Europe - wide tax on millionaires, [23] and also achieved a higher vote share than in the Scottish Parliament election.

For this reason, for a party not to field a candidate in a constituency where it wins the highest share of the party vote, would be a contravention of electoral law.

But, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Fianna Fail too would be rather disenchanted with these poll figures, with these leaving the party on a share of the national vote that would not be dramatically higher than that which the party won in 2011.

In the 1951 general election, Labour narrowly lost to Churchill's Conservatives, despite receiving the larger share of the popular vote — its highest ever vote numerically.

The lower the overall gubernatorial vote, the closer the conservative share gets to one - third of the total (most gubernatorial years), whereas, the higher the vote total, when driven by millennials, the liberal share hits a full third (most presidential years).

The authors look at the mindset of the electorate in 2010, assess the party leaders» strategies, and seek to explain why the Lib Dem vote declined in the final week and how Labour maintained a comparatively high share of the final vote in the face of gloomy predictions.

On the basis of Friday's results, the BBC is calculating that Labour would have got a 31 % projected share of the national vote, slightly higher than expected, with the Conservatives on 30 %, the Lib Dems on 15 % and UKIP on 12 %.

But a December vote on a proposal that would restore, refurbish and renovate Kingston High looms large and is likely to draw its fair share of supporters and detractors.

[41] Attlee therefore led Labour through the 1935 election, which saw the party stage a partial comeback from its disastrous 1931 performance, winning 38 % of the vote, the highest share Labour had won up to that point, and gaining over one hundred seats.

Their highest vote share was recorded in Gibraltar where they won a 67.2 % share of the vote.

Nick Clegg, for all the hype and excitement in 2010, actually lost several seats to win just 57, albeit on a slightly higher share of the popular vote.

She did achieve one of the highest UKIP vote shares in the election.

MUF received victory in only 4 of the contested 43 electoral constituencies despite its high vote share of 31 per cent (this means that its official vote in the Valley was larger than one - third).

Plans for a charter school to share space with five high schools will get another round of review and a new vote.

As for UKIP, their prospects could not be more different than four years ago, when they were riding high and about to win the largest share of the vote in the European elections.

The four Democrats were among the 25 members with the highest percentage of missed votes, according to an attendance analysis by State Watch that was shared with the Daily News by John Doyle, who is up against Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj for a Bronx Council seat.

Before I made the trip to Sacramento, I asked my students at View Park Preparatory Charter High School in Los Angeles to vote if I should stay and teach that day or if I should share my thoughts with the board of education.

We caught up with Arighni, a pupil from Woodford County High School who shared her team's experiences of the Childnet Digital Leaders Programme, which is up for a national award (find out more and vote here!)

«Preferred stock» typically trades a higher share of earnings for no voting rights.

With a high pagerank and Alexa rank and millions of visitors, Care2 is an excellent and fairly comprehensive destination for learning, sharing, discussing and voting.

Thus, the South was mostly poorer per capita to start with, and had a higher share of capitation taxes than it did of Congressional seats and electoral votes, which was not a recipe for building Congressional support for a major new tax.