Sentences with phrase «of the eliminated candidates»

The second preference votes of people who voted for one of the eliminated candidates are then looked at.

This system strongly favours the two largest parties and can result in the election of a candidate who wins fewer first and second preferences than one of the eliminated candidates would have done.

Any valid second preferences of eliminated candidates are redistributed to the remaining candidates, and the candidate with the most combined votes in the second round is declared the winner.

If no candidate wins an outright majority of votes, then the top two candidates proceed to a «knock - out» round where the second preference votes of eliminated candidates are allocated accordingly to produce a winning candidate.

If no candidate gets a majority, the top two vote - getters go on to a second round in which second preference votes of the eliminated candidates are reallocated.

If no candidate got a majority of first preference votes, the top two candidates went on to a second round in which second preference votes of the eliminated candidates were allocated to them to produce a winner.

Not exact matches

One of my clients was about to eliminate a candidate because he didn't have sales experience and had long, unkempt hair.

Even though the outcome of the first vote eliminated candidates from the traditional parties, the results pointed to an eventual victory for independent centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron.

Scattering a little differently, the group of MLAs who supported the three eliminated candidates have begun to throw their support among the remaining candidates.

But that would require a fundamental change to the Elections Act — eliminating the requirement of a party leader's endorsement to run as a party's candidate, then fashioning a more coherent rule — and a change in the ways our political parties do business.

It has been a deep embarrassment to watch some Catholics brutally twist their minds and consciences into the service of defending their claim that faithful and staunchly anti-abortion Catholics should support a radically pro-abortion presidential candidate who says his first act in office will be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would, by federal mandate, eliminate even the most minimal legal discouragements of the killing of unborn...

It has been a deep embarrassment to watch some Catholics brutally twist their minds and consciences into the service of defending their claim that faithful and staunchly anti-abortion Catholics should support a radically pro-abortion presidential candidate who says his first act in office will be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would, by federal mandate, eliminate even the most minimal legal discouragements of the killing of unborn babies.

After two years of seeing the North and South eliminate one of their strongest candidates for the California Interscholastic Federation State Football Bowl Championships, the CIF announced Monday it would be doing away with the regional bowl for its Open Division.

I'm just happy to still be on the right side of the dirt at my age... whichever side that is — Kevin Love — be careful what you wish for... it should be obvious that there is no one — NO ONE — who commented on this thread who could be entrusted with the awesome power that the candidate you are searching for will be given... just use this thread as a filter and eliminate every one who commented as a candidate — starting we me — and you will be on the true path... LBers never stop being who you are...

The result of this is a high number of votes being «exhausted» (having no preferences left after the voter's preferred candidate (s) have been eliminated) before the final count.

I want to know if in the final round of RCV if say two remaining candidates both get exactly the same number of votes after the rest of the candidates are eliminated if there is a better way than a coin toss to decide?

For voters, that means if the eliminated candidate was your first choice, then your second - choice vote will be applied in the next round of counting.

If no candidate receives a majority, the top two candidates continue to a second round while the rest are eliminated, and the second - choice votes of everyone whose first choice was eliminated is counted.

[43] In the fourth and final stage of the redistribution of votes after three candidates had been eliminated, Ed Miliband led in the trade unions and affiliated organisations section of the electoral college (19.93 % of the total to David's 13.40 %), but in both the MPs and MEPs section (15.52 % to 17.81 %), and Constituency Labour Party section (15.20 % to 18.14 %), came second.

State Senate Republican Leader Len Fasano says he has told the contractor who runs his caucus» official government website to stop performing campaign consulting jobs for GOP Senate candidates, to eliminate any «appearance of impropriety.»

This eliminates the costs of a second round of voting, in exchange for making the initial ballot more complex and denying voters a chance of additional deliberation if their first choice candidate doesn't win.

As candidates are eliminated, votes go to candidates still in who that voter prefers (or, in the event they have no preference, leave the pool of voters).

The candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes is eliminated after each round of voting and their votes are then reassigned until one person passes the 50 % mark.

Kinderhook, NY — April 5, 2016... Citing New York's outrageous property taxes as a major cause of Upstate's economic decline, Congressional candidate John Faso (R - Kinderhook) today announced that, if elected, he will introduce legislation amending federal law (42 USC 1396a) to eliminate a state's ability to impose a local government share of Medicaid costs.

In a reversal of previous showings, Sinn Féin also won an increasing share of the transfers from the eliminated candidates.

Instead of trying to eliminate the Pres. Electoral College (EC) which would require a constitutional amendment, this state move would allow all the NY EC votes to go to the candidate that obtains a majority vote nationwide.

If no candidate gets 50 % of all votes cast, the votes will be added up and the candidate with the fewest votes eliminated.

They hoped to garner a lot of second preferences from voters backing the eliminated, third - place, Labour or Conservative, candidate.

Instant runoff voting, also known as ranked - choice voting, allows voters to rank primary candidates in order of preference so that if one candidate does not cross the required threshold for victory, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the votes are redistributed based on the second choice selected by voters who had selected the eliminated candidate first, and so on until a winner emerges.

Both groups, perhaps ironically, sought to eliminate the influence of money in politics by electing candidates, like Tkaczyk, who backed public financing for elections.

David Rendel was the first of the five candidates to be eliminated, followed by Jackie Ballard and then Malcolm Bruce.

When all the candidates except Livingstone and Norris were eliminated and the second preferences of those voters who had picked neither Livingstone nor Norris as their first choice were counted, Livingstone won with 55 % to Norris's 45 %.

This is the Secretary of State's omnibus election law bill, and it includes two ballot access improvements: (1) moving the non-presidential independent deadline from March to May; (2) eliminating a restriction on who can be an independent presidential or vice-presidential candidate.

Mark Levine is a bit of a dark horse at this point... but he can not be eliminated as a candidate.

By contrast, the top two system eliminates party primaries altogether, with the field winnowed regardless of candidates» party affiliation.

«AV could see candidates pandering to extremist voters - because to win a seat they will need to win the support of people whose first choices have already been eliminated,» she said in an article for the Sun.

«Nevertheless, our members believe that unless we repeal Wilson Pakula, eliminate party slush funds, and prohibit multi-million dollar transfers from party committees to individual candidates, then we will fail to address the fundamental problems of our current campaign finance system.

You then eliminate candidates one after the other, allocating the votes of dropped candidates based on their voters» next ranked choices.

For single - member executive offices, LaVenia added, instant runoff voting where voters rank their choices in order of preference is a system that eliminates the incentives for lesser evil voting while insuring that the most preferred candidate is elected.

But the pollster calculated that once lower - ranking candidates were eliminated and their second choices redistributed the younger of the two brothers would prevail.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who grudgingly earned the party's endorsement last year, has threatened to seek changes in the state's election law that could eliminate the Wilson - Pakula, the ability of a party to grant space on its ballot to candidates who aren't members of the party.

Despite there being four candidates on the primary ballot, incumbent Commissioner Mike Strain won a majority of votes, eliminating the need for a general election contest in November.

If no candidate receives 50 % of valid votes cast in the first round, the two candidates with the most votes proceed to the second round while all other candidates are eliminated.

Ms. Maloney, who's a senior member of the House's Financial Services Committee and whose district is overwhelmingly based in Manhattan's Upper East Side, would probably be hardest of the four candidates to eliminate.

This new legislation builds on two executive orders signed by the Governor last year to eliminate the wage gap by prohibiting state entities from evaluating candidates based on wage history and requiring state contractors to disclose data on the gender, race and ethnicity of employees - leveraging taxpayer dollars to drive transparency and advance pay equity statewide.

Chris Fowler, another Democratic candidate, was eliminated from the race after failing to submit the required paperwork to the Onondaga County Board of Elections twice in this election cycle.

But Lionel Jospin, who was probably preferred to any other candidate by a majority of voters, and therefore would have been a democratic choice, was eliminated because he did not get enough first round votes.

If no candidate wins more than 50 % of the vote on the first count, the two candidates with the highest number of votes are retained and the others are eliminated.

Voters can vote for the candidate they prefer, rather than for the candidate they think is most likely to keep out the one they least prefer, in the knowledge that second preference votes will count if his or her preferred candidate is eliminated before the last round of counting.

AV avoids this problem by requiring the winner to have a majority, if not on first preferences alone, then once the second, third and so on of the weaker candidates have been counted after they are eliminated.