Sentences with phrase «most electoral divisions»
A party can win outright by being only marginally ahead of its competitors in most electoral divisions.
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Elections were held in all electoral divisions across the present ceremonial county, excepting Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen which are unitary authorities in a similar way to Greater Manchester and most of Merseyside.
Its principle is simple: each electoral division elects one representative, the candidate who gained the most votes.
If a candidate or party is slightly ahead in a bare majority of electoral divisions but a long way behind in others, they can win even if a competitor gets more votes overall — as happened most notoriously in recent history in the US presidential election of 2000, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore.