Sentences with phrase «low electoral votes»

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This is overcome by removing the surplus electoral vote from the candidate receiving the lowest portion of the popular vote.

They also all have only one representative in the US house of representatives (meaning they have a very low population), but 2 senate votes and 3 votes in the electoral college.

However while the low earner Conservative vote is now at 1992 levels, it is also true that Cameron's popularity lags behind John Major's at a similar moment in the electoral cycle in 1992.

Gildernew's claim to the seat rested on a majority of four votes in 2010 — one of the lowest winning margins in post-war UK electoral history.

As such, in elections where a large portion of electorate isn't terribly inspired by either candidates, and mostly votes for «lesser of two evils» in current FPTP, the two major party candidates just might accrue enough down - votes that a 3rd party candidate who isn't nearly as disliked will, on balance, win over both of them (or at the very least, acquire more than the abysmal 4 % combined popular vote and 0 electoral vote like 2016 US presidential elections, despite 3rd party candidates combined likely being preferred by 40 % of electorate, as a low bound).

These sorts of distortion can be caused by several factors, including tactical voting (as perhaps in Birmingham), electoral pacts (as perhaps in North East Lincolnshire), one party piling up votes in safe seats but losing out in marginals (as in Leeds), or turnout being particularly low in one party's safe seats (as in Sefton).

On the other hand, Kelly said, opinion polls in the states pummeled by Sandy — Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey — show the president so far ahead that low turnout is unlikely to shift those states» electoral votes to Republican challenger Mitt Romney.