Sentences with phrase «of popular vote»

The winner of the popular vote is guaranteed a spot among this year's 30 Under 30.

Let's not forget that there's one other big corporation out there that used Facebook to help Trump win, and whose CEO was reelected for one more six - year term with what will probably be a considerable percentage of the popular vote.

Mike is known for this race in particular, as he set a nationwide record for a Libertarian candidate, by earning 43 % of the popular vote and carrying 27 out of Montana's 56 counties.

Long standing Liberal Maurizio Bevliacqua was elected as mayor of Vaughan in 2010 and captured around 65 % of the popular vote.

Because the Green Party's 8 % of the popular vote is spread across Canada, rather than concentrated in a single province, they did not receive a single seat, while the Bloc won 49 seats.

If I spotted it and wrote on it five years ago its hardly shadowy albeit a bit frightening how such people can seize the levers of power despite having a tiny share of the popular vote

Of course, if the 2016 election had been conducted based on the winner of the popular vote getting the presidency then candidates, parties, and voters would all have behaved differently.

It's one of the reasons that the US does not elect its president based on the simple winner or plurality of the popular vote.

It would also result in a virtual nullification of the popular vote in elections.

Since Charles Stack advises Republicans perhaps he could be bothered to study the history of the GOP, specifically the part concerning Lincoln whose administration abolished slavery with < 40 % of the popular vote.

Although Tilden won a majority of the popular vote, he was denied the presidency by a partisan Electoral Commission.

2 of them have been finalists: Wagner Malta Tavares, in 2014; and Rodrigo Braga in 2012, when he was elected by the MAM's visitors, winner of the Popular Vote Exhibition award.

The Guardian's critic Alfred Hickling tipped James Hugonin while a commanding 44 % of the popular vote went to Richard Rigg Unlike the Turner Prize, artists of any age are eligible for the Northern Art Prize.

The results of the popular vote encompass a range of medium culled from nine Brooklyn neighborhoods, according to Sharon Matt Atkins, CO co-organizer and Brooklyn Museum Managing Curator of Exhibitions.

The contest winner will be determined by a combination of a popular vote and judges score.

In third place is the Good e-Reader 13.3 with 13.43 % of the popular vote.

* The British National Party (BNP) is a far - right, whites only, political party that gained 0.7 % of the popular vote in the 2005 election and has no seats in the British parliament.

Clinton won 48 percent of the popular vote, while Donald Trump won 34 percent.

The only opposition candidate left was the popular and unconventional ex-foreign minister, Raffi Hovanessian, who despite running a surprisingly effective campaign on the Heritage Party's ticket, only garnered 37 % of the popular vote compared to Sargsyan's 59 %.

He also gathered roughly 61 % of the popular vote that year.Nixon was married to Pat Nixon.

For demonstration's sake, say the real number pair for the natural number 1 (r1) is Ted Williams's famed.400 batting average from 1941 (0.40570...), the pair for 2 (r2) is George W. Bush's share of the popular vote in 2000 (0.47868...) and that of 3 (r3) is the decimal component of π (0.14159...).

At the end of July, for instance, Trump trailed by less than 1 % of the popular vote — well within the realm of the search engine manipulation effect (although the Electoral College does complicate the discussion somewhat).

He was first elected to the Assembly in 1998 polling 12.8 % of the popular vote, in 2003, 20.9 % of the popular vote, and in 2007, 14 % of the popular vote.

Thirty - four will be apportioned on a statewide basis — all would go to the winning candidate if he secures more than 50 percent of the popular vote in New York.

He failed to get even 1 percent of the popular vote; Mr. Reagan during his two terms in office changed the political dynamic of the nation, generally not in a good way.

A cynic might argue that with an electoral system that translated slightly less than 40 % of the popular vote into a commanding majority in the Commons, the Liberals — in third place in the polls when they released their proposal — will rue having promised to replace first - past - the - vote elections.

Fair enough for journalistic hyperbole, but this soaraway popular mandate boost has been just 0.7 per cent of the popular vote in the many seats counted so far.

The winner is often the candidate who receives a plurality of the popular vote.

Mayor DeBlasio was just re-elected with nearly 70 % of the popular vote.

Missouri returned Eagleton to the Senate in 1974; he won 60 % of the popular vote against Thomas B. Curtis, who had been his opponent in 1968.

Clegg champions a PR system - which favours smaller parties and would therefore boost the number of seats the Lib Dems would gain for the same share of the popular vote.

The closest this area came to turning Conservative was during the Scots Tories apogee in 1955, where nationally the party won more than 50 % of the popular vote.

The Labour Party won every available council seat for the third election in a row, winning 77 % of the popular vote.

By gaining 25 % of the popular vote, the Alliance won the largest such percentage for any third party since the 1923 general election.

I don't disagree with the broad sentiment Peter, although a government with 51 % of the seats from only 24 % of the popular vote as we have bow strains FPTP to breaking point.

The results saw the Labour Party achieve their best result in over 40 years, winning 1,060 councillors, control of 20 out of 32 councils and 43 % of the popular vote (their highest since 1971).

Both Labour and the Conservatives benefit greatly from FPTP, which exaggerates the number of seats awarded to the winning party (and often the second place party too), meaning a government with an overall majority can be elected with barely a third of the popular vote.

They are added to all the AV - elected MPs to bring the total seat distribution broadly in line with proportions of the popular vote.

Labour also acknowledged that if it fell third in the share of the popular vote, it will be impossible to strike any deal with Clegg, and it would be morally wrong to try to do so.

Tim Farron, who won with 56.5 % of party members» votes, has been the MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale since 2005, winning over 50 % of the popular vote in the 2015 general election.

Nick Clegg, for all the hype and excitement in 2010, actually lost several seats to win just 57, albeit on a slightly higher share of the popular vote.

For me, the bigger story is how Labour could indeed end up third in the share of the popular vote but still emerge top in number of seats.

If Murdo Fraser's new party had been formed at dvolution to appeal to the Christian Democrat voters who used to form a Conservative majority of the popular vote, or if Tommy Sheridan hadn't given up politics to spend more time with prisoners then the SNP wouldn't have had such a pushover.

It was approved by an astounding 70 percent of the popular vote in the 1992 fall elections — making Mississippi the last state to adopt the statewide initiative process.

A party with less than 40 % of the popular vote can often win an outright majority of the seats.

(For instance, in the 2005 UK General Election, the governing Labour party won by a majority of 66 seats in the House of Commons with only 35.2 % of the popular vote.)

Mr Danczuk has criticised the strategy of Douglas Alexander, Mr Miliband's campaign co-ordinator, to rely on securing 35 per cent of the popular vote.

He was the winner of the popular vote for President three times — in 1884, 1888, and 1892 — and was the only Democrat elected to the Presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1860 to 1912.

In New Jersey's gubernatorial election last year, Republican Gov. Chris Christie swept the ballot, winning more than 60 percent of the popular vote.

My quess is, if Ms. Clinton is nominated, the Green Party will pick up 30 % of the popular vote in Oregon and cost the Democrats any chance at Senator Gordon's seat AND will cause them to loose two Congressional seats.