Sentences with phrase «number of votes wins»

The board game with the highest number of votes wins the Nordic Board Game Indie Sensation award during the Award Ceremony on Wednesday evening.

Even if Teachout posts a solid percentage, will the raw number of votes she wins exceed the tally for New York City mayor Bill de Blasio in 2013?

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.

Even though their positions in the political spectrum span from the left to the extreme right, the total number of votes won by these three parties amounted to nearly 6.5 million, against the Conservatives» 11.3 million.

Add in Malloy and Pryor's absurd teacher evaluation system, along with Malloy's failure to properly fund Connecticut's Education Cost Sharing school funding formula and you have a situation that could easily cost Malloy ten times the number of votes he won by in the 2010 election.

Not exact matches

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.

Mr. Diess won favor with the Porsche and Piëch families, who own a majority of Volkswagen's voting shares, by improving profits at the division that makes Volkswagen - brand cars despite a decline in the number of vehicles sold.

The left - wing prime minister won a vote in parliament early Monday that will heap more taxes on a dwindling number of Greeks able to pay them.

Liberals will get a higher number of total votes, but NDP will win more seats.

We have the Greens who have won a significant number of votes and the FDP [Free Democratic Party], which is a party that actually wasn't even in the parliament of the last election.

It also led to excitement and euphoria which swept up many in the swelling numbers that just a week before the vote seemed to be on the verge of winning a Yes vote.

It is now 6 noes and 5 yeses, the noes win, because they each technically got more than one vote, even though there are an even number of people on both sides of the issue, who all should have been free to practice according to their own beliefs, That; s why the organizations «beliefs» must be secondary to individuals.

Votes for a pie - like moist muffin won by a landslide, but because a good number of you voted for the dry version, I also started hunting for an alternative.

He also helped his country to win the under 21 European championships back in 2002, being voted the Golden Player of the tournament to boot, and it is that sort of experience that the Czech's need from the Arsenal number one tonight, as they are precariously placed in third position, with Spain and Croatia above them in group D.

I'm not saying McGwire doesn't have Hall of Fame numbers; I'm saying that Jon Heyman has not voted for many pre-Steroids Era players who won just as many games as Mark McGwire.

The Swiss food company «won» with 15 % of the vote, finishing just above Monsanto (14 %) and the UK's number one tax avoider Amazon (12 %).

Parties can only negotiate coalitions on their number of seats, which are won by securing votes.

In 2004, the Rs managed a narrow victory around the country, with Bush winning the popular vote and electoral college but with the Rs essentially keeping the same number of seats in the House.

Define a coalition as winning if the total number of electoral votes of the state in that coalition is 270 or more (let's ignore at first that two small states make things more complicated by allowing a mixed elector group).

Recall that Paladino won some 94 percent of the vote in Erie County in the GOP gubernatorial primary and is banking on strong numbers in WNY to fuel his longshot effort to defeat Cuomo in the Democrat - dominated state.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

Just 30 % of MPs are women and the number of male MPs today is the same as the number of female MPs in the 99 years since women won the right to vote.

To win an election Labour also needs to steal a significant number of votes from parties positioned to the right of it on the political spectrum, and right now that's not happening.

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

the article states «Senior Tories believe Cameron will require political momentum if he wins the largest number of votes but falls short of an outright majority.»

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.

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.

1 - problem number 1: You can win a seat with only 25 % of support if the vote is really divided.

Ours is a people - centered, data - driven campaign that has built small, manageable neighborhood teams run by talented volunteers and supported by amazing field organizers who know the exact number of votes they need to win in their precincts.

This is similar to majority voting, but allows additional deliberation about the two most viable candidates even if one of them wins a majority in the first round, on the ground that, for example, everyone may be familiar with an incumbent, but not with a number of challengers, and that once the number of challengers is narrowed to one and people have a chance to examine the challenger more carefully, they may change their minds.

In this form, the plurality principle can be problematic and ambiguous given the disproportionality of the UK's first - past - the - post electoral system, as a result of which the party with the largest number of seats may be different from the party which wins most votes.

It is notoriously difficult to convert opinion poll figures for the share of the votes into the number of seats likely to be won at a General Election.

The 1992 election saw the pinnacle of Conservatives Abroad's history, with the expat vote recognised as helping the party win a number of marginal seats.

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 forecasting model works by combining the number of seats won by parties in the previous election with vote intentions data from polls conducted six months prior to the election — in this case the data is from November 2014.

For example, the Conservatives largely benefited from the discrepancy between votes and seats, winning 56 % of English seats on 46 % of the vote — while seeing their vote rise in Wales and their number of seats fall.

If the Democratic candidates challenge the signatures of rivals, it could narrow the field, which increases the number of votes needed to win.

Indeed, on Staten Island, with its large number of union households, Trump won 57 percent of the vote — or 95,612 votes — to Clinton's 40 percent, or 67,561 votes, according to the New York State Board of Elections.

That's the same number of votes that (Gov.) Andrew Cuomo had when he won in a landslide in 2014.»

FPTP can produce an electoral result where the party that «wins» is not the party to win the largest number of votes in the election.

In Parliament, the number of votes that the MPs of each party can exercise, not the number of MPs, is proportional to the number of votes each party wins in the election.

Dromm took 49.2 percent of the vote, while Sears won 39.6 percent, according to preliminary numbers -LSB-...]

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.

In the 2010 general election on 6 May that year, Labour with 29.0 % of the vote won the second largest number of seats (258).

The numbers were so tight many MPs coming out of the chamber after the vote said they believed the government had won.

These factors explain why Labour faces greater challenges in translating lower levels of national support into seat numbers than it did back in 1987 when the party won 12 seats with just over six percent of the national vote.

Clearly, people's votes bear little relation to the number of seats won.

«votes bear little relation to the number of seats won» #GE2015 was further proof of the need for #ElectoralReform http://t.co/upDBkri5FL

With 56 percent of precincts reporting, Meng won a convincing number of votes to replace retiring Rep. Gary Ackerman.

This reflects the rural and Southern domination of the Conservative party in general, and the great success of the election in particular; winning 100 new seats and coming out as the country's largest party both by popular vote and the number of seats.