Sentences with phrase «largest number of votes»

Some items will receive a disproportionately large number of votes.

Every single word he speaks about CAGW will be measured and turned into large numbers of votes for or against him.

On the left are diagrams; on the right, a map of Iowa, where Cruz won a surprisingly large number of votes in the primary.

When a president is to be elected, the RS chooses one person by simple plurality (the person with largest number of votes wins).

These structural weaknesses are the following: the hatred many people in former industrial heartlands of Northern England have for the Tories; the absence of the Tories from the centres of many of Britain's major towns and cities; and their failure to attract large numbers of votes from ethnic minorities.

«Not every Democrat will agree with every piece, but my caucus is prepared to provide a very large number of votes to get these passed,» said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y. «But we can't do it alone.»

The DUP winning more seats than the Greens or UKIP on a fractional vote share and UKIP winning the third largest number of votes but being able to break out of single digits in seats.

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.

So we could see the spectacle of the SNP as the third largest parliamentary party with the sixth largest number of votes.

And later, in by far the most controversial decision of his leadership, he led his party in outright opposition to the war on Iraq, something that saw the Lib Dems taking large numbers of votes from both Labour and the Tories.

We've received an extremely large number of votes, but of course, Lucas, Roy, and Ryu were in developed even before the ballot was created.

«Not every Democrat will agree with every piece, but my caucus is prepared to provide a very large number of votes to get these passed,» said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y. «But we can't do it alone.»

The Class B shares possess all of the attributes of common stock, with three exceptions: (1) ownership of Class B stock may not be transferred except to certain specified persons, such as the holder's spouse and heirs; (2) Class B shares, however, may be converted into shares of Class A, which are freely transferable; and (3) the Class B stock has a larger number of votes, usually ten, per share.

This has led to confusion within our fans XI, as a large number of you voted for him to star in our attacking three, as well as up front, and we ask for to make the decision on Alexis» final place within our team.

«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.

The person who gets the largest number of votes in each constituency (or ward) becomes the MP (or councillor).

Though the rise of political blogs and the netroots in this decade has diluted the place of Libertarians online, even today the audiences of tech - heavy sites such as Slashdot and Digg show a fondness for civil liberties and anti-authoritarian ideas: one sign of Paul's rise has been the large number of votes for stories about him on Digg.

But we forgot that the Tories remain the party with the largest number of votes and strongest parliamentary representation in the country, and that the SNP lost more seats to the Conservatives than to anyone.

The pressure on the WFP is two-fold: Cuomo's Women's Equality ballot line could siphon votes away from the labor - backed WFP, while Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins is expected to receive a large number of votes from liberals disaffected by the governor's economic policies.

FPTP can produce an electoral result where the party that «wins» is not the party to win the largest number of votes in the election.

Sutch came closest with 4.1 % and over a thousand votes at the Rotherham by - election, whilst Stuart Hughes still holds the record for the largest number of votes for a Loony candidate at a Parliamentary election, with 1,442 at the 1992 general election in the Honiton seat in east Devon.

There is no doubt that it won votes, perhaps a large number of votes.

He hasn't got a majority but wins the largest number of votes and even possibly the largest number of seats.

Stewart received the largest number of votes, [2] but the election inspectors made a false vote count and certified the election of Weill who was seated at the beginning of the session of the 121st New York State Legislature in January 1898.

The Democrats provided the largest number of votes for the same sex marriage bill to pass in 2011, though Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who does not personally back gay marriage, agreed to put the bill on the floor for a vote.

The election produced a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party led by Arthur Balfour and their Liberal Unionist allies receiving the largest number of votes, but the Liberals led by H. H. Asquith winning the largest number of seats, returning two more MPs than the Conservatives.

The Conservatives, led by Arthur Balfour with their Liberal Unionist allies, and the Liberals, led by H. H. Asquith, could not break the deadlock produced in the January general election, with the Conservatives again winning the largest number of votes.

Surely what we need is the Liberal Democrats working in some form of alliance with the party that easily got the largest number of votes, the largest number of seats throughout the country in order to start the work that needs to be done to put this country back on the road.»

Clinton's dominance among New York's Democratic political class isn't likely to sway a large number of votes.

Senior Tories believe Cameron will require political momentum if he wins the largest number of votes but falls short of an outright majority.

Now that I got a look at the last general election results, I'm fairly confident that UKIP will extract a large number of votes from the Black Country, notably in Dudley and Walsall.

The winners are not the films with the largest number of votes, but the ones that received the largest percentage of votes from the total audience that saw the movie.

But after gathering the largest number of votes in its category, BMW 6 Series Coupe came out as the clear winner.

Each week the photo with the largest number of votes will be picked as the winner.

The rescue group with the largest number of votes by 10 pm on May 31st will win a 6 month supply of Advantage II for either one cat or one dog.

The candidate for any vacancy who receives the largest number of votes for that office will be elected.

The nominated candidate receiving the largest number of votes for each office shall be declared elected.

The person receiving the largest number of votes for each position shall be declared elected.

In accordance with the decision by the Annual General Meeting, the members of the nominating committee of Paradox Interactive AB (publ) should be appointed by the three shareholders controlling the largest number of votes in Paradox Interactive AB (publ) at September 30, which desire to appoint a representative.

This method awards all of the state's delegates to whichever candidate received the largest number of votes.

Otherwise the Supreme Court is telling 17 million British people that the whole thing was a waste of time and that the largest number of votes ever recorded on any issue in the history of the British Isles was in fact a bad joke played by the «liberal elite» on a public judged by them to be to dumb to know their own best interests!

«I don't want to get into the mathematics, but safe to say TREB has the largest number of votes?»