Sentences with phrase «many votes they receive»

In rural ridings where NDP candidates were elected in tight races, the low 20 percent threshold in Ms. Aheer's Bill 206 would equal almost the same amount of votes received by Wildrose candidates in the recent election.

Really, dear Reverand, was it twelve or thirteen votes you received during your race for presidrnt in 2008?

I don't think an individuals religious preference should have anything to do with how many votes they receive.

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.

The Spaniard played a key role in helping us win five of our six matches in all competitions, scoring two goals in the process, and his performances did not go unnoticed by the PFA's voters, earning the award with 37 % of all votes received.

To be fair, the finalists will be judged on the number of votes they receive as well as the judging criteria (personality, charm and reader appeal)!

Winners are selected based on how many consumer votes they received in each category on Gerber.com/photosearch.

Additionally, it throws away excess votes received by the winner.

He defended the coalition's legitimacy by pointing out that the votes received by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were higher than the number cast for the SNP in the Scottish parliament regional list.

But the most votes he received were on the Democratic line — 21,384.

The idea is that each party gets representatives proportional to the share of the votes they received.

If I count it as it is and add it to the current votes received, this would happen:

If the electoral districts are large enough (possibly nationwide), a party does get a weight in parliament roughly equivalent to the number of votes they received in the election.

has not achieved a total that is at least 5 % of the total number of all the party votes received by all the parties listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote; and

The second set of seats (20) are won at a larger regional area using a system called «proportional representation», and is designed to ensure that no party wins either far more or far fewer seats than the share of votes they received.

The Electoral Commission must first ascertain from the information given under section 179 (1)(a) the total number of all the party votes received by each of the parties listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote.

Actually shouldn't the systems be used in proportion to the votes they receive in the referendum.

This is a way of electing candidates that is able to make sure that the number of seats a party wins is similar to the share of the vote it received.

The votes are counted in such a way so as to elect the people who get the most votes, but also making sure that each party wins a similar share of seats to the share of the votes they received.

I don't believe it's possible to combine the votes you receive on multiple lines unless you're running with the same person.

The draft report is proposing that parties receive funding worth # 3 per vote they receive.

The second set of seats (11) are won at a «London - wide» level using a system called «proportional representation», and is designed to ensure that no party wins either far more or far fewer seats than the share of votes they received.

«We are looking forward to negotiating with the state Legislature to ensure early voting receives adequate funding.»

Hawkins estimates that half of the votes he received on election night were from core, Green voters and that the other half was a result of the disenchantment with Governor Cuomo.

By many measures, such as the number of candidates and number of votes received, the Libertarian Party has been growing for the past few years.

«The incoming Government has through its transition team given notice of its intention to contest the midnight decisions of the Looter Government and I think the overwhelming votes it received at the polls justifies its stand.

Of the smaller parties, the SNP received a greater share of seats than votes, whereas UKIP and the Liberal Democrats gained very little representation compared to the share of the vote they received.

In proportional - election systems, where political parties are represented in proportion to the total numbers of votes they receive, gerrymandering has little or less significance.

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.

And there does seem to be some correlation between parts of the state where the convention vote received the most attention and places where Democrats performed better than in past elections.

Federal law requires jurisdictions that vote for President to tell the National Archives the number of votes received by each candidate for presidential elector.

Single transferable vote systems are party - agnostic and can't ensure that parties are represented in proportion to the votes they received as well as a party - list system can.

If the 13 million votes received by self - styled «democratic socialist» Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries accomplished nothing else positive, it put the questions of socialism and independent working - class politics up for public discussion.

A spokeswoman for the Electoral Commission said the grants were given to all political parties, with a fund of # 700,000 divided between the parties on the basis of the number of votes they received in the 1997 general election and the 1999 European elections.

There is no way that UKIP will subside back to its 3 % showing at the 2010 general election; equally it seems unlikely to exceed the 17 % of the vote it received at these local elections (on a projected national share basis — BBC figure).

It certainly helped scoop up many of the four million votes they received at the last general election as well as providing the magic bullet that made Euro - obsessery a retail issue for millions of voters in the referendum.

Critics say it is unfair because the number of seats a party has does not accurately reflect the share of votes it receives.

LaVenia explained that «under proportional representation, every party gets representation in legislative bodies in proportion to the vote they receive.

Arizona's district delegates were allocated on a winner - take - all basis; the candidate who won the plurality of the statewide vote received all of the state's district delegates.

The 174,682 votes he received were the most for any 1st District candidate in history.

This is a document that tells the total number of valid votes received by each candidate for presidential elector.

If a Democrat who won by 300 votes received 400 votes on the Working Families line, it's reasonable to assume a sizable number of those 400 voters would have simply voted for that candidate as a Democrat had they not had the WFP line.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand credited Hillary Clinton with putting «65 million cracks in the hardest and highest glass ceiling» — that is, one for every vote she received.

Former Gov. David Paterson, the state Democratic Committee chairman, downplayed the percentage of the vote received by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's rival in Tuesday's party primary, blaming it on low turnout that drew critics of the incumbent.

Funiciello cited the 11 % of the vote he received district - wide, the 24 % he polled in Warren county, his inclusion in the debates and media alongside the corporate party candidates, the ratio of money raised and spent to votes garnered, and the success of Howie Hawkins» campaign as major wins for district and New York voters.

Hawkins acknowledged the extra 100,000 votes he received were a «protest» vote by liberals and Democrats unhappy with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Without the votes he received on the Conservative line, he would have lost his bid for re-election in 2010.

The 1,892 votes she received on the Green line were critical in her 18 vote victory in 2012.

The nearly 3,800 votes she received — roughly 700 more than Madden — will make her the next president of a City Council with a Republican majority.

This is substantially below the 4,770 votes they received in the 2005 General Election and, from this, we conclude that the Lib Dem supporters are either: