Sentences with phrase «number of votes cast»

This Constitution may be amended by two - thirds of the number of votes cast by the delegates at the National Convention, provided the proposed amendment shall first have been submitted in writing to and been reported upon by the Board of Directors, and provided further, that written notice of the substance of the proposed change has been sent to each Member Board who is qualified to vote individually at least 30 days prior to the meeting at which the amendment is to be considered.

The Code of Ethics may be amended by two - thirds of the number of votes cast by the delegates at the National Convention; provided the proposed amendment shall first have been submitted in writing and have been reported upon by the Board of Directors, and provided further, that written notice of the substance of the amendment has been sent to each Member Board who is qualified to vote individually at least 30 days prior to the National Convention at which the amendment is to be considered.

As it stands, women artists received less than 25 percent of the total number of votes cast; only two women had a place in the top 15.

The ballot was conducted via a remote material vote requiring a super-majority (or two - thirds) of the number of votes cast to approve the Proposed Document.

The beauty of Scantegrity II is that anyone — not just an election official — can see from any online computer whether the posted votes correspond to actual ballots and whether the number of votes counted is identical to the number of votes cast.

For statewide partisan offices (including congressional offices), petitions must contain signatures equaling 3 percent of the total number of votes cast for the party's candidate for the same office in the last general election.

Declaring the result of the rerun, the Returning Officer, Prof. Charles Esimone, said Umeh scored the highest number of votes cast with 64, 878 (95.6 per cent of the votes cast) and was therefore returned elected.

For a statewide office, the petition must be signed by registered electors, which are defined as residents of the state eligible to vote for the petitioner, numbering at least 2 percent of the total number of votes cast for United States Representative in the last general election for the entire state.

... It's not a small deal because the overall number of votes cast is not going to be that big.»

In another polling unit at Aroma Junction, Ward 1, Unit 8, while the number of registered voters was 334, the number of votes cast was 114 with six invalid votes.

As a result, the popular vote totals reflect the total number of votes cast for that party, and do not indicate the level of turnout, which is shown below.

The Report suggests keeping the same percentages, but changing the base from the number of registered voters, to the number of votes cast in the last presidential election.

The Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Shola Omotola, who announced the result at about 00:45 am on Sunday said the APC candidate won having scored the highest number of votes cast.

Hence it could have been called without equivocation, if the Court of Appeal had returned Umeh, as the winner of the senatorial election having obtained the second highest number of votes cast in the election.

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.

The number of qualified electors in any district, for the purpose of the distribution requirement, is equal to the number of votes cast for governor in that district in the last gubernatorial election.

Most seats in the Commons would be filled with locally elected MPs, but the remainder would be allocated by proportional representation according to the number of votes cast for each party.

When this method is used to elect MPs to parliament, and thereby elect a Government, the number of MPs elected for each party is unlikely to be proportionate to the number of votes cast nationwide for the different parties.

A new political party must submit a written declaration signed by registered voters equaling at least 1 percent of the total number of votes cast for governor at the last preceding gubernatorial election.

The number of votes cast for Warren decreased from 18,794 to 17,751, though it's likely this year's total will tick up a little bit once more ballots are counted.

On May 12, 2015, Governor Mary Fallin (R) signed into law a bill that reduced the petition signature requirement for newly - qualifying political parties to 3 percent of the total number of votes cast for governor in the last general election.

Winners in Colorado's primaries are determined via plurality vote, meaning that the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes cast wins the primary election even if he or she does not win an outright majority.

This petition must contain signatures equaling at least 2 percent of the total number of votes cast for United States Representative in the most recent general election.

During his local races, he was the top vote - getter in the town of Yorktown and received the highest ever number of votes cast for a town council member in 2013.

The Tories would have won every general election between 1715 and 1747 had the number of seats obtained corresponded to the number of votes cast.

The number of signatures needed for statewide minor party and independent candidates in Pennsylvania in 2014 depends on the number of votes cast in the November 5, 2013 election, for Judge of the Superior Court.

In Minnesota, the winner of a primary election is the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes cast for that office, even if he or she does not win an outright majority.

Similarly in Florida, absentee balloting began only Tuesday, but already more than 2.5 million people — nearly one - third of the total number of votes cast in 2012 — have requested ballots.

I was thrilled to be elected your Assembly Member for the Fifth Assembly on May 5, 2016 with 16,766 votes — the highest number of votes cast for any Assembly Member in Wales.

And it indicates the irrelevance of the total number of votes cast.

The final result of the poll showed that the total number of votes cast were 1,968 and while Eleka polled 1,191 his rival Prince Dayo Adeyeye scores 770.

If someone alleges they've tampered with the electoral system, there is no «normal» or «before» state that can be checked to prove or disprove the claim (though the system could count numbers of votes cast from particular machines — but probably not who they were cast for, if the number of total votes is right).

Not exact matches

Over the next week, the board will encourage the apparently large number of shareholders that had not cast votes to support the deal, said mergers expert Brian Quinn, an associate professor at Boston College Law School.

The immediate problem posed by these tweets is that there is absolutely no evidence that large numbers of illegal votes were cast, let alone millions of them.

These charters also often imposed a cap on the number of votes any one shareholder could cast.

The trustee holder of the special Class A voting stock and the special Class B voting stock has the right to cast a number of votes equal to the number of then outstanding Class A exchangeable shares and Class B exchangeable shares, respectively.

But first, note that the total number of identified voter fraud cases in Kansas since 2000 is 97... out of literally millions of votes cast.

If a proposed idea reaches a certain number of up - votes then all citizens of a country are able to directly cast their votes and if the majority of citizens agree with the proposed bill, then it becomes a law.

The US Presidential election uses an «electoral college» system, where each state gets a certain number of «electors» (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President.

Clinton will win a majority of black votes but the total number cast will likely be less.

A narrow majority of votes were cast in favour of change, but this had no effect due to a requirement that the number voting «Yes» had to exceed 40 % of the total electorate.

Current law says the number of signatures is 5 % of the last vote cast.

At PS 163 on East 180th Street off Webster Avenue only 78 voters had cast their vote, as of 2 p.m. Perhaps the low numbers can be party explained by the fact that station is dimly and well hidden.

The number of votes is precisely proportional to the votes cast in the election.

Also, in years following redistricting, the number of signatures for an independent is exactly 5,000, whereas in other election years it is 5 % of the last vote cast, which is typically between 10,000 and 18,000 signatures.

It is the total value of the votes cast for the different parties that determines the number of parliamentary votes for each party and therefore which party or parties can form the Government, or which bills are passed.

We can therefore deduce that there must have been a significant number of voters who cast just one vote for John Healey.

New York's unique «fusion voting» system allows minor parties to cross-endorse Democrats and Republicans, and lets voters cast their ballots for a politician on any one of a number of party lines.

Winners in Vermont primary elections are determined via plurality vote, meaning that the candidate with the highest number of votes wins even if he or she did not win an outright majority of votes cast.

A total of 62,364 registered voters were expected to cast their votes but less than half that number