Sentences with phrase «most votes contest»

Alternative vote Alternative vote means that voters rank candidates first and second, and the two candidates with the most votes contest an instant run - off (as with the Mayor of London or French Presidential elections).

Not exact matches

Create a fun contest that awards a prize to the team member that comes up with the most creative holiday - card theme or allow employees to vote on which theme or picture to use.

The most hotly contested spots were the back four with 13 names thrown into the mix from a possible 24 votes for the four positions.

The voting ends July 31, and the grand prize will go to the entry with the most votes cast through both the «Bark for Your Park» contest website and Facebook page.

Most attention normally focuses on who can vote in leadership elections but the rules on entering a contest in the first place are just as important.

While the verdict was certainly disappointing for Raila Odinga and his supporters, the decision to contest the election through the Courts and — most crucially of all — accept its verdict, is a powerful vote of confidence in Kenya's reformed judiciary.

I recently wrote to David Cameron outlining our intention to contest the 30 most marginal Conservative seats in 2015, where majorities in the 2010 general election ranged between 54 and 1,692 votes.

Its most well - known member was John Alderdice, who became leader of the party ahead of the 1987 general election, contested the Belfast East parliamentary seat and received 32 % of the vote, the highest percentage ever achieved by Alliance in an individual seat in a Westminster election.

Most of these votes are expected to be cast in the Republican primary, but some may be intended for the Democratic contest.

(If we look at the 1987 case study — we see Labour won 6.5 % of the vote in the 1987 General Election and won 12 seats, but it is also worth noting that they did not contest nine constituencies in that election, whereas their 7 % national vote is being distributed across all forty constituencies in this analysis, as with the most recent general elections in which Labour has contested all constituencies.

The delegates voted in a most free and fair contest, and winners emerged.

And Claudia Tenney, one of the state Legislature's most conservative members, won a three - way contest with 44.3 percent of the vote to replace moderate Republican Richard Hanna, who gained notoriety by being the first sitting GOP member of Congress to back Clinton.

Boko Haram extremists killed 41 people, including a legislator, and scared hundreds of people from polling stations but millions voted across Nigeria Saturday in the most closely contested presidential race in the nation's history.

In the 1994 leadership contest, Tony Blair swept up the union votes, although most of the heads of the big unions would have prevented him becoming leader, if only they had known how.

With most people focused on elections 15 months away, Brooklyn residents will vote — really vote, not just be straw polled — in a hotly contested election just four weeks from now.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. John Katko ranks among the most independent Republicans in Congress, breaking with the GOP majority on 19 percent of contested votes in his first year in Congress, House voting records show.

In 2008, when most of the seats were last contested, an analysis for the BBC found that the Conservatives had 44 % of the vote nationally, the Lib Dems 25 % and Labour on 24 %.

The contest will be held over our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/wmstyle For contestants who gets the most votes will win our grand prize on receiving $ 100 USD WM Style Coupon to shop on any items that they like in our store.

Our contest entries have the top ten predicted as (in order of vote getters)-- the biggest surprise in A Most Violent Year making the cut, along with Interstellar and Unbroken:

We saw that most recently in the election of 2000, where the final votes were contested and there was some question about whether Al Gore would bring a legal case to contest the outcome over the vote tally in the state of Florida.

On November 8, 2016, when Massachusetts voters went to the polls, the most hotly contested vote was not the presidential one (Hillary Clinton's victory there was all but assured).

The Iowa town, with a population of about 9,874, received the most votes — a total of 133,545 votes — out of the 15 finalists in PetSafe's fourth - annual Bark for Your Park contest, which launched in May to award one U.S. community $ 100,000 and four runner - up communities $ 25,000 each to build a local dog park.

All of the dogs that entered the contest were winners in my book, but the dog that got the most votes was a Corgi — Hound mix named Bella Sofia.

The top ten rescue and shelter groups with the most votes at the end of the contest will win anywhere from $ 500 to $ 10,000.

The top 20 contest participants who recruit the most friends to vote for their favorite shelter will receive a $ 50 gift certificate for pet products.

What is going down as the closest vote in the long and epic history of our monthly photo contests, this pier makes all of the below - zero temperatures most of us are expereincing disappear.

The contest is simple, the ten most voted for developers will win free passes into E3 and the nominators will win one as well.

The right to vote is the most contested in American democracy.

Of the proposals submitted in the 2009 contest, the proposal that received the most votes was one that most experts would say is impossible.

The «best science» awards you speak of are mere popularity contests ------ whoever gets the most votes wins.