Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure
a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.
His wife (Sally Field in age - blind casting) sees the measure doomed to not gather the two - thirds
majority vote it needs to pass in the House of Representatives.
ILR fully supports HR 993, and urges both chambers of the state legislature take a powerful step to improve the business climate in Georgia by giving it the two - thirds
majority vote it needs.
Not exact matches
At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave -
voting Labour seats they
needed for a
majority.
It still
needs to pass a
vote in parliament later in the day, although that is assured given the AK Party's
majority.
Although Unifor again claims it has surpassed the 40 % threshold
needed to call a
vote, organizers are still trying to drum up enough support to comfortably meet the
majority of the 7,000 workers required for victory.
Senators are attempting to craft their own legislation, but Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stated he's not sure the chamber will muster the 50
votes needed to pass an overhaul, especially in the CBO report's wake.
Clinton never had a
majority of the electorate
voting for him, and Bush's election
needed a Supreme Court ruling to certify it.
Once the bill goes to a
vote, it will still
need a
majority to pass and then will wind up on Trump's desk, who is unlikely to approve the bill.
So slim that the president can easily veto any significant piece of legislation they send to his desk (i.e. repeal of the Affordable Care Act) and there's nowhere near the two - thirds
majority vote in both Houses
needed to override.
Update: May's Conservative party came up a few
votes shy for a
needed majority, making the prospects for a «soft Brexit» all the more likely.
But unlike most legislation, which requires a supermajority in the Senate to even be considered, the resolutions only
need a
majority vote in both houses to pass.
Tesla shareholders are due to
vote on March 21, and the company
needs majority approval for the proposal to go through.
You also
need to determine the
voting rights of the partners — normally a simple
majority vote of the partners decides what happens and what doesn't, but you can agree that important decisions be made by a «supermajority»
vote of two - thirds or more of the partnership percentages..
The House then
votes on adoption of the special rule, which
needs only a simple
majority to pass.
The CRA requires just a simple
majority in the Senate, meaning 51
votes are
needed to pass resolutions, not the normal 60.
Dual - class structures are designed to make it difficult or impossible for non-founder shareholders to generate a
majority vote, which is
needed to make certain changes at the company, such as replacing the CEO.
The Globe and Mail editorial endorses CCGG's positions on the
need for
majority voting in uncontested director elections and for shareholder involvement in the director nomination process
Regardless of the «he said, she said» narrative, it takes time, potentially years, for the wheels of legislation to turn; a bill would require drafting, after which it would
need to win a
majority vote from the National Assembly before it could become a law.
Regardless, it takes time, potentially years, for the wheels of legislation to turn; the bill will require drafting, after which it will
need to win a
majority vote from the National Assembly before it could become a law.
Republicans only
need a 51 -
vote majority in order to slap them back on Iran, but enough GOP lawmakers have said they're uncertain about what to do with Iran that sanctions may be difficult or impossible to pass.
Babis's ANO (Yes) party has won 29 % of the
vote so they will
need to partner up with one or more of the other eight parties in order to form a
majority coalition.
I will also no longer act as if I
need a
majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.
A university rule that permits anyone to run for any office does NOT exempt the person from
needing to convince the
majority of the membership to
vote for that person to serve as its leader.
Risking goverment shut down for three items that don't even affect the budget for a small miniorty radicals in a religion and the insane tea party knowing full well shut down will cause thousands of jobs lost and the end of aid for those who
need it is completely ridiculous, why don't they care for the
majority that
voted them in and not a small insignificant group?
Actually the
MAJORITY DO N'T SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE that why you had to have the peoples will overturned in court and in every place where gays
needed a
vote for marriage it was overturned or the heads of gov rammed it down peoples throats and why are sticking up for Tom you aren't US citizen by birth either?
And if half of these aborting «mothers and fathers» have had two abortions, the Immoral
Majority would still be a huge
voting bloc i.e. ~ 50 million, enough
votes to give any presidential candidate the differential
votes needed considering many voters
vote straight Democratic or Republican tickets no matter what the issues are.
While a
majority of the evangelicals who
voted in 2016 supported Trump, there can be no doubt that his candidacy and campaign caused a sharp divide among Christian voters — if you
need proof, just scroll through Facebook or Twitter or bring up the new president at church.
To take effect, that change would
need to be approved by a
majority of 172 local presbyteries, which have a year to
vote, the church said in a statement.
Monday's
vote received the two - thirds
majority it
needed in each of the three houses of the General Synod to pass, with members of the laity on this occasion overturning their previous opposition to the move.
Denominational leaders changed the wording in the resolution from «trial rite» to «provisional» rite, where a simple
majority vote was
needed.
Unlike yesterday's 2/3
vote approving a sexuality statement, resolutions today
needed only a simple
majority.
According to the Baltimore Sun's Maryland beat writer, Jeff Barker, it's unclear if the Terps even
need a
majority vote on the board to approve the transfer or if the University System of Maryland Chancellor William E. Kirwan can simply approve the move on his own.
Even if supporters can muster the
needed votes, Heastie indicated that bringing the bill to the floor would require a
majority of the Democratic conference's support.
Senate Republicans want some major cuts in spending, which would violate that rule, so it would
need 60
votes to pass rather than the simple
majority that reconciliation requires.
Republicans would
need a 32nd
vote to elect a
majority leader should Amedore lose, making the IDC's position all the more important.
You
need a
majority vote of the Legislature, specifically the Republican controlled Senate.
The reason for this is that there are many more liberal parties in the UK Parliament than Conservative, and chances are that during motions that have to carry in parliament that
need a
majority conservatives will have a hard time passing laws if the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SNP and Labour all
vote against the Tories» motions.
Speaking with reporters, DeFrancisco after a marathon
voting session cited the
need for the Republicans to maintain their narrow
majority in the Senate.
In order to get a person into a state senate or state assembly, that person
needs to run in one
voting district and gain the
majority of
votes there.
The right - wing media is constantly trying to depict the current system as favouring Labour because the electoral arithmetic implies that the Tories
need about 4 % more
votes to gain a parliamentary
majority than does Labour.
When the
vote comes up in the Senate, a 2 / 3rds
majority (67
votes assuming full attendance) is
needed for ratification.
This state law could be changed, but you would
need more than the bare legislative
majority you propose - you'd
need enough
votes to override the inevitable veto (the governor isn't on your side, since you don't have half the state's population.)
Morris is the lone Democrat running against Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who conferences with Republicans and gives the GOP its
needed 32nd
vote in the chamber to maintain its narrow
majority.
«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.
Have you seen the size of the Conservative
Majority on England There is increasingly only one answer to this its sad but we
need an English Parliament and it can
vote on the basis its decides suits it.
You
need a
majority of Senators present, not a
majority of total Senators,
voting in favor.
As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the
need to get that last one or two
votes to build a
majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their
vote.
In the House, 218
votes are
needed to pass a bill; if 200 Democrats are the minority and 235 Republicans are the
majority, the Hastert Rule would not allow 200 Democrats and 100 Republicans together to pass a bill, because 100 Republican
votes is short of a
majority of the
majority party, so the Speaker would not allow a
vote to take place.
Only 25 % of the
voting public supported the Tories, which has been conflated as a massive victory over Labour, in reality it means that the
majority of people see through Tory duplicity but do not yet understand what is actually happening around them, that is where we
need to focus on.