Sentences with phrase «number of votes after»
I want to know if in the final round of RCV if say two remaining candidates both get exactly the same number of votes after the rest of the candidates are eliminated if there is a better way than a coin toss to decide?
https://politics.stackexchange.com/ Not exact matches
A potential deal for Tribune, first reported by Reuters, could come as soon as Monday, just weeks after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted to reverse a 2016 decision that limits the number of television stations some broadcasters can buy.
After a number of Democrats started a sit - in to protest the lack of a vote on gun - control legislation following the Orlando shootings, the Republican - controlled House shut off the C - SPAN cameras.
Trump repeated the claim that the Russia investigation is an effort by Democrats to save face after an embarrassing loss, citing the number of electoral votes he won.
They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»
The number of protest votes fell to a little more than a fifth of the total after the advertising company came back last year with a more modest 48 million - pound plan for the executive.
Criticism of House Republicans increased after the bill passed without an updated analysis from the Congressional Budget Office — which initially estimated the AHCA would increase the number of uninsured to 24 million by 2026 — and after several Republicans conceded they had not fully read the bill before voting for it.
Moore, whose campaign filed a last - minute «election fraud» complaint on Thursday just before the results were certified just after 2 p.m. EST, claimed that widespread voter fraud had contributed to his more than 20,000 vote loss to Jones, a number that was not significantly altered by the inclusion of military and provisional ballots that were later counted.
Annual budgets in most of Canada's major cities are a mess — excluding key activities, using inconsistent accounting, burying crucial numbers where only experts can find them, and often voted well after the fiscal year has started, according the 2016 edition of the C.D. Howe Institute's Municipal Fiscal Accountability report.
And sure enough, just hours after Comey testified, the House of Representatives voted to repeal key parts of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which has contributed to an alarming number of small bank closures since its passage in 2010.
After 1819, however, most charters provided for one vote per share, although approximately 40 percent of the charters granted between 1819 and 1852 retained a maximum number of votes per shareholder.
[17] After 1918, a growing number of corporations issued two classes of common stock: one having full voting rights on a one vote per share basis, the other having no voting rights (but sometimes having greater dividend rights).
The NAACP vote came about two weeks after President Barack Obama announced his support for gay marriage, setting off a flurry of political activity in a number of states.
«There are a number of Democratic members of Congress who are calling themselves pro-life, but it's hard to do that after voting for healthcare, which was the largest expansion of abortion we've seen,» says Tom Minnery, senior vice president of CitizenLink, a conservative advocacy group connected to Focus on the Family that is also spending money this cycle.
As The Nation pointed out after the election, «One out of every four Trump voters voted with the Supreme Court in mind, and it's a safe bet that a very substantial number of those see the Supreme Court through the lens of abortion politics... If you can rally voters around abortion, few other issues matter.»
That's limiting and one - sided, as we've discussed in this space before: Limiting the number of votes that can be made on a single ballot leans too heavily in the favor of small - hall advocates, whereas large - hall supporters have to put a stop to their support after 10 votes.
After all, the judging criteria is as varied as the number of judges, and with every fellow professional in the Premier League getting a vote, their reasons range from friendship to loyalty to an international team - mate, first - hand experience and the usual influence of the media, team - mates and general perceptions.
It's not unusual for the GOP in the Legislature to fare better, but this year those numbers are highlighted after the four Republican senators who voted for same - sex marriage legalization benefited from the support of deep - pocketed donors.
The result of this is a high number of votes being «exhausted» (having no preferences left after the voter's preferred candidate (s) have been eliminated) before the final count.
A number of state Senate Republicans weren't happy with a breakaway group of Democrats aligned with them after they voted en masse against a GOP budget proposal last week that included many initiatives the independent Dems had sought.
However, if you are voting for the first time after registering to vote by mail and did not provide your driver license number, California identification number or the last four digits of your social security number on your registration form, you may be asked to show a form of identification when you go to the polls.
With the 2015 UK general election David Cameron became the first Prime Minister to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a larger popular vote share since 1900 and the only Prime Minister other than Margaret Thatcher to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a greater number of seats to - date.
2.15 pm Local Government: «Cllr Hall was elected the new Leader last night by 31 votes to 24 after a number of Independent Labour councillors abstained or voted for her.
And a number of sought - after items, including cash bail, early voting, changes to statutes regarding child molestation, New York's DREAM Act, and ethics reform fell out of the final bill, unable to pass a divided legislature.
«If our recommendations are in there, you'll have a number of (yes) votes,» Skelos said after they had what he described as a friendlier, brief meeting with Paterson later in the day.
An unknown number of ballots remain, but Sullivan's lead of some 8,100 votes was little changed after that significant chunk of votes was counted, the AP stated.
The Conservatives tend to pile up large majorities in safe seats and because the planned redistribution of seats did not take place after the 2010 election, Labour has a number of seats with below average electorates, making the vote - to - seat ratio work all the more in its favour.
His comments come after an Operation Black Vote study found the number of seats where black and Asian votes could swing the election result had increased by 70 % since 2010.
The candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes is eliminated after each round of voting and their votes are then reassigned until one person passes the 50 % mark.
After extensively debating the issues for two days, each committee approved a number of resolutions, which were again voted upon in a joint session of the student delegates during the third day of the conference.
* The number of electoral votes for each state changes after each census.
After five years, the number of union members affiliated to the party will determine a union's voting power at the party conference.
Many Party members will take the same line as LabourList and want to convince themselves that elections in our Party are fair and above board.Sadly this is not the case.Last year after the CAC Election a number of delegates, from several different Regions, came forward and said full time officials encouraged them to vote against Katy and myself.This is totally against the Code of Conduct and, to me, is little different to ballot rigging.An investigation is underway.We have a good idea who was behind it.LeftFutures will keep you updated.
The numbers were so tight many MPs coming out of the chamber after the vote said they believed the government had won.
ALBANY — The Republican - led state Senate on Monday approved bills intended to improve school safety in the wake of the latest school shooting massacre, but only after voting down a number of Democratic gun - control proposals and trading insults.
If he joins after the 2018 elections — and if Democrats pick up a number of seats in an anti-Donald Trump wave — his vote would be far less critical.
«In every corner of the state, New Yorkers, after carefully examining the difficult choices made by their school boards, voted «yes» in near record numbers on school budgets to ensure students and education programs did not suffer further harm,» NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi said.
Cllr Hall was elected the new Leader last night by 31 votes to 24 after a number of Independent Labour councillors abstained or voted for her.
The Founding Fathers only said in the U.S. Constitution about presidential elections (only after debating among 30 ballots for choosing a method): «Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors...» The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as «plenary» and «exclusive.»
After congratulating Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu for polling the highest number of votes in the election in a tweet, he accompanied it with another one lashing out at the former minister.
Veritas is finished and was really pretty much from the beginning, it never had any real raison d'etre other than as the Robert Kilroy Silk Fanclub and now that he has abandoned them what is there left for them, The English Democrats are somewhat lightweight policy wise, UKIP actually despite the Kilroy Fiasco got the second biggest gain in total number of votes for any party after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to implode.
If a petition is circulated after redistricting and before the next gubernatorial election, the number of qualified electors in each district is equal to the total number of votes cast for governor statewide divided by the total number of districts.
And it's not surprising because after party affiliation, the number one determinant of voting behavior nationally is ethnicity.»
After I launched the campaign to Save General Election Night to ensure that votes are counted and results delivered overnight at the general election, a number of spurious arguments have been offered for wanting to overturn the traditional Thursday count in favour of Friday morning counts.
That's more than the number of votes needed to be put into effect after the new City Council takes power on Jan 8.
But a YouGov opinion poll published this week showing increasing numbers of Scots think they would be better off after independence and the future of the NHS would be brighter if they vote Yes.
Unofficial numbers posted by the Ulster County Board of Elections shortly after polls closed on Tuesday night showed Turco - Levin, who carried the party's official endorsement, leading the four - way primary with 228 votes.
After getting the required number of votes the bill / law is passed.
Speaking to Sky News after a tense shadow cabinet meeting during which a number of frontbenchers argued for a free vote, he said: «It will be a clear decision that we want all of our MPs to support the Article 50 vote when it comes up next week.
Contrary to the predictions of commentators such as Dan Hodges (who promptly declared after the famous LBC interview that «Farage is finished»), the number of voters who say they plan to vote Ukip in 2015 has risen, from 12 % in the pre-European election period to 16 % post-election.