Sentences with phrase «majority split their votes»

Not exact matches

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

Kenney says vote splitting leveraged Premier Rachel Notley's NDP to majority government in the 2015 election, and only a united conservative party can prevent a repeat in 2019.

MP Richards adds that vote splitting between the two Conservative parties was the reason for last year's results; by uniting the parties we will once again see a Conservative majority in Alberta.

While the roots of these splits are deep, the precipitating cause in each case has resulted from majority voting on procedural, legislative, and regulatory matters in democratically constituted governing bodies.

A majority of primary voters preferred a more conservative candidate to the frontrunner Romney, but social conservatives were splitting their vote among several candidates, allowing Romney to win.

Anyway, the split during the vote was by party, and all MPs with a «muslim heritage» (Razzy Hammadi, Ibrahim Aboubacar, Malek Boutih, Kader Arif, Chaynesse Khirouni, Pouria Amirshahi, Kheira Bouziane, Boinali Said) did vote in favor of gay marriage, even the one from Mayotte Boinali Said (over-seas department with a Muslim majority).

Of 237 roll call votes in which four or more Republican House members voted against the majority of Republican members, Stefanik joined in splitting with the party 63 times, according to a Post-Star analysis of her 2016 voting record.

SPOILER ALERT: Not to confuse this with the irritating disclosure of the end of an anticipated movie, We do need to consider a split vote creating a less than actual majority candidate to be selected.

Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

Labour won both seats - with increased majorities - as the UKIP vote split between Labour and the Tories.

People who obviously changed their voting habits to elect a Democratic majority (male voters split 50/50 last night, a third of Evangelicals voted for Democrats) were taking a chance on a party in which Hillary is now the standard bearer.

Of 237 roll call votes in which four or more Republican House members voted against the majority of Republican members, Rep. Elise Stefanik joined in splitting with the party 63 times, according to a Post-Star analysis of her 2016 voting record.

The polling, all in Lib Dem - held seats, was done 10 days before last week's key parliamentary vote to increase university tuition fees to up to # 9,000 a year, which saw the party's MPs split three ways and the coalition's Commons majority slashed by three quarters.

Had the centre - left vote not been split between Lab / Lib / Green, a majority should have been possible in 2010 (certainly Labour would have held my constituency).

With the right split between Tory and UKIP, and the LDs staying suppressed, Labour should be able to get a majority on less than a third of the vote.

The request came in response to a controversial vote last week by the Republicans, who hold a narrow, 32 - 30, majority, to prohibit Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy from casting a tie - breaking vote to pick a new majority leader if the Democrats win any special elections during the next two years, thereby producing a 31 - 31 split.

«As UKIP could split the vote and lose the Tories this seat and its overall majority, and shock Cons, it is strategically important.»

«The vast majority of voters understand there are different candidates running for different offices, and there probably will be a lot of ticket splitting this year,» he said, referring to those who vote for a presidential candidate from one party and down - ballot candidates from another.

And she even voted to raise taxes by $ 2 billion dollars on the job creators — splitting with the majority of her own party.

I asked Morgan if he feared he, Rangel and two other African - American challengers would split the African - American vote and better position new entrant Adriano Espaillat, a state senator who is Dominican - American, to win with support from district's Hispanic majority.

Republicans moved for a surprising leadership vote and although it was disputed by Democrats soon Skelos was standing in the chamber shaking hands with Espada - the two split Smith's positions as Majority Leader Espada and Senate President Skelos.

As a result, too many democratic candidates ran and split the reform vote, enabling old - style Communists to maintain or recover power with pluralities that fell far short of majorities.

letting the Four Amigos / Banditos (including Bronx Dems Pedro Espada and Ruben Diaz Sr.) blackmail him for their votes in the narrowly split senate, blow the party's Senate budget and seeing Republicans take back control with a comfortable 33 - 29 majority.

Antpool, one of the largest mining pools, signals for Bitcoin Unlimited however, the Bitmain CEO is firmly against a «User Activated Soft Fork» as it will split split the blockchain and create 2 or 3 kinds of Bitcoin if majority miners vote «no».