Sentences with phrase «of popular votes»

In addition to the official awards from the staff, People's Choice Awards were given to the nominees with the highest tally of popular votes in each category.

This, they said will ensure the Chief Executives are the outcome of popular votes and thus be accountable to their constituents.

Mr. Ashittey maintained that the NPP will get not less than 60 % of the popular votes in Accra in the 2016 elections.

The so - called National Popular Vote legislation would guarantee that the candidate who wins the majority of the popular votes in the country would become president.

It is a statewide tally of popular votes where the candidate with the plurality or majority of votes wins.

[91] After her win in the April 22, 2008 Pennsylvania Democratic primary and a calculation of popular votes that excluded caucuses and included the controversial Michigan and Florida Democratic primaries, Corzine reaffirmed his support for her.

As he celebrated his victory of Toronto's recent mayoral election, a triumphant Rob Ford reiterated the catchphrases that gave him a decisive 47 % of the popular vote.

The French National Front exceeded 15 percent of the popular vote in 1995 and 2002.

Second, very few U.S. presidents in recent history have won two elections with a majority of the popular vote.

Last time the ruling UMNO - led Barisan Nasional coalition received a minority of the popular vote, only winning a majority of the seats thanks to some creatively drawn electoral boundaries.

The PCs won 61 of 83 seats in the provincial legislature, with 47 percent of the popular vote (CBC, Alberta Votes).

The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Edmonton South West

The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Edmonton - Whitemud

The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Lac La Biche - St.

The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Calgary Greenway — Manmeet Bhullar

The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote.

On the political level, we won a general election, only the eighth time in 40 elections that a governing party has increased both its seat count and its share of the popular vote.

The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Stratcona Sherwood Park

The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: (Lac La Biche - St.

The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Battle River - Wainwright (Doug Griffiths)

The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Peace River

The constituency where the PC candidate will earn their highest percentage of the popular vote: Edmonton — Whitemud

That could mean a majority government could be achieved with as little as 34 % of the popular vote.

The election was a landslide win for the PC Party, whom improved both their seat total in the legislature and their share of the popular vote from the 2004 general election.

The Saskatchewan Party won 37 seats with 51 % of the popular vote and the NDP won 21 seats with 37 % of the vote.

In the 2008 election, however, the Party had lost its only seat, and saw its share of the popular vote fall from 9 percent in 2004 to 7 (in the 2004 election, the Party ran as the Alberta Alliance Party).

The Party took 72 of 84 seats in the provincial legislature, and 53 percent of the popular vote.

In 2008, only 36 % of voters bothered to come out and vote and the PC candidate, George Groeneveld, received 65 % of the popular vote.

Representing more than a quarter of the electorate and voting with the winner of the popular vote in every presidential election since at least 1972, Roman Catholics are quintessential swing voters.

It was clear that Islamic parties were going to win the elections with 80 percent of the popular vote.

For example, the fundamentalist / terrorist Islamic group Hamas received 65 % of the popular vote in «Palestine.»

John F. Kennedy won 49.7 percent of popular vote, just over 100,000 more votes than Richard Nixon.

So also — although it may be hard to remember the pre-Lewinsky era — Bill Clinton positioned himself as a cultural moderate (abortion would be «safe, legal, and rare») and was elected twice with a minority of the popular vote.

He won a somewhat larger share of the popular vote than had Buchanan, Huckabee, or Santorum — though he still finished a distant second for the nomination.

With one exception (Arizona this year), every time a marriage amendment has been put to the electorate in the form of a popular vote it has passed with a large majority.

It's been a rough stretch for Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson, although I'm uncertain that receiving a mere 7 % of the popular vote (per 538's Election Forecast) warrants the title «candidate» in this two - party election.

In cities with over 500,000 inhabitants, the Democratic Party won 69 percent of the popular vote and in those from 50 to 500,000 inhabitants, 58 percent.

The EDBC must also ensure, as far as practicable, that the redistribution is fair to prospective candidates and groups of candidates, so that if candidates of a particular group attract more than 50 per cent of the popular vote, including preferences, they will be elected in sufficient numbers to enable a government to be formed (Constitution Act 1934 (SA) section 83 (1)-RRB-.

It was something like 5 points off of the popular vote.

If a state has 30 electors and party A wins with 51 % of the popular vote, then 30 electors supporting the candidate for party A will be chosen.

Specifically, state level California Republicans had been pushing an effort in the legislature there to assign California's 55 electors by proportion of the popular vote to give them an opportunity to win some votes in a state with 12 % of the national population that they haven't had success winning in a generation.

In these States, whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate), takes all of the state's Electoral votes.

If United Russia were able to secure just under 50 per cent of the popular vote in the party - list competition, along with the lower estimate of seats in the singe - mandate district races, it would end up with over 270 seats, more than it now holds.

For example, three Candidates A, B and C receive 60, 37, and 3 per cent of the popular vote in State X. Because State X has 10 electoral votes, the candidate would receive 6, 4 and 0 electoral votes, respectively (see Table 1).

Likewise, one of the defects of a popular vote system (corrected by the Electoral College) is that rural votes don't get a lot of attention for the same reason.

43 % of the popular vote and 370 electoral votes in 1992.

Subsequently, votes would be distributed to candidates on a proportional basis: candidates would receive a fraction of the electoral votes of each state, equivalent to the percentage of the popular vote they garnered during the election.

In Hungary, Fidesz won more than a two - thirds majority in parliament in 2010 with 68 % of the popular vote.

This is overcome by removing the surplus electoral vote from the candidate receiving the lowest portion of the popular vote.

Some states are «proportional», giving a candidate a percentage of electoral votes based upon their percentage of the popular vote.