Sentences with phrase «of supplementary vote»

Jonathan Isaby is ConHome's student of rebellions but with him away I should record a small rebellion by Tory MPs against the use of the supplementary vote in the election of city mayors.

I'm fairly politically switched on - I know what all these systems mean, for example - and the sudden appearance of supplementary vote still caught me out.

Not exact matches

And we know that voted spending would increase with the tabling of the Supplementary Estimates.

In 2012 - 13, the Government increased overall spending by $ 7.1 billion through the tabling of Supplementary Estimates, of which $ 6.7 billion was for voted expenditures, thereby bringing total voted expenditures for 2012 - 13 to $ 98.7 billion.

Reconciliation of Spending: Estimates and November 2012 Update ($ billions) 2012 - 13 2013 - 14 Difference Main Estimates Voted 92.0 87.1 -4.9 Statutory 160.0 165.5 5.5 Total 251.9 252.5 0.6 Supplementary Estimates Voted 6.7 Statutory 0.4 Total 7.1 Total Estimates Voted 98.7 87.1 -11.6 Statutory 160.4 165.5 5.1 Total 259.0 252.5 -6.5

During the course of the fiscal year, the Government may seek Parliamentary approval for incremental voted expenditures through the tabling of Supplementary Estimates.

Reconciliation of Spending: Estimates and Budget 2013 ($ billions) 2012 - 13 2013 - 14 Difference Main Estimates Voted 91.9 87.1 -4.9 Statutory 160.0 165.5 5.5 Total 251.9 252.6 0.7 Supplementary Estimates Voted 6.7 1.1 Statutory 0.4... Total 7.1 1.1 Total Estimates Voted 98.5 88.2 -10.3 Statutory 160.4 165.5 5.1 Total 259.0 253.6 -5.4

This introduced the office of the Police and crime commissioner in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, again using the supplementary vote.

The supplementary voting system, a shorter form of the alternative vote system, gives voters the opportunity to mark their first and second choice.

The Supplementary Vote keeps the tradition of X voting in local areas.

In a supplementary question to 326 members in Liberal Democrat - held seats / councils we asked; «Do you agree that «a vote for the Liberal Democrats could produce a hung parliament and keep Labour in power» is the best line of attack in Lib / Con marginals?»

«Conservative backbenchers suggest international aid budget might be used to limit cuts to BBC World Service Main 21 Tory rebels object to supplementary vote for election of city mayors»

The issues were anchored on why Idris Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should not be returned as governor having secured the second highest votes in the election, whether the late Abubakar Audu died with his votes being the leading candidate in the election, and if the December 5 supplementary governorship election should hold.

«The people of Kogi are aware that the man being paraded by the APC is not the person they exercised confidence in at the election as he scored a paltry 6,885 votes in the so - called supplementary election, as against the 204,877 votes polled by the PDP candidate, Alhaji Idris Wada, in the overall election.

The commission, headed by Lord Plant, professor of politics at Southampton University, voted by 10 to 6 against keeping the present scheme for electing MPs - while, as predicted by the Independent, a narrower 9 - 7 majority decided it should be replaced with a «supplementary vote» (SV) system that would retain constituency links.

The Mayor of London and other UK mayors are elected through a system known as the supplementary vote.

The Supplementary Vote (SV) is a shortened version of the Alternative Vote (AV).

Next May's election is by «supplementary vote», so Labour should choose an independent minded candidate who can attract the second preference votes from supporters of the Greens and other parties.

In the fourth round of the mayoral elections in 2016, using the Supplementary Vote election system which requires candidates to gain a majority of eligible votes, Labour's Sadiq Khan won 58 % support in the run - off stage to convincingly beat the Tory candidate, Zac Goldsmith.

The supplementary vote system will be used for the election of Combined Authority regional mayors.

It is unfortunate that in today's Nigeria, the authorities seem so prepared to waste so much public resources in conducting elections as was the case in the Kogi State supplementary election, which many consider unnecessary, but was conducted on the grounds of a so - called 91,000 voters, who were yet to vote, and who may not even have had the Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, whereas the total number of people who had PVCs was just 25,000, and APC was already leading by well over 41,000 votes.

The London Mayoral election is fought under the Supplementary Vote system, with the second preferences of losing candidates being redistributed to the top two candidates if no one candidate receives 50 % in the first round.

The letter stated that even if the APC conceded that INEC is in in order to order for a supplementary election, «the votes already cast, counted and declared on Saturday, 25th November 2015, were votes for the joint constitutional ticket of Prince Abubakar Audu and our client.»