Sentences with phrase «of vote splitting»

This climate — where voters, parties, and candidates were constantly forced to ponder the dangers of vote splitting and spoiler candidates — produced some early advocates of ranked choice voting.

It's certainly not unlikely that with a different voting system, primaries would work differently, and the Republican primary campaign in particular was a classic example of vote splitting among essentially identical candidates.

The result of all this is that FPTP bodies tend towards dual party systems after a while; the similar candidates fight it out in primaries so that in the real election, there's only two major choices and the effect of vote splitting is minimized.

But it was not enough to overtake Ms. Cancel, a longtime resident of the area who has been active in tenant issues, who won 39 percent to 34 percent, with the rest of the vote split among other candidates.

Not exact matches

The managers, you see, voted to take Crowder's 2 % of gross profits and split it equally among every man and woman in the factory.

In Newcastle, 65,404 people voted to remain in the EU, while 63,598 voted to leave, a split of 50.7 % to 49.3 %.

As Brexit draws closer — Britain's split from the European Union is scheduled for March 2019 — the issue remains contentious nearly two years after British people voted 51.9 % to 48.1 % in favor of leaving the EU.

Last October, the bank handed CEO Brian Moynihan the additional title of chairman of the board, undoing a 2009 shareholder vote to split the roles.

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

Appetite for a new Conservative party was modest at a Calgary dinner, where the bitter memory of vote - splitting is still a searing one.

Nebraska is one of just two states that allows for its Electoral College votes to be split in presidential elections.

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Qualcomm's board of directors voted against the split.

There would need to be a whole fierce debate first which would turn the whole community into a metaphorical state of civil war, then a vote, then miners have to agree, then there might be a coin - split, price would probably dive, and so on.

Having lived in Ottawa for a number of years and a federal public service employee for neatly 30 years, I like the Wildrose but maybe lack the necessary experience which might cause the voters to split the vote, hence a minority goverment.

The desire for both Kenney and Jean to merge their parties goes beyond ending the threat of vote - splitting.

After preliminary vote results showed lower support than last year for the shareholder proposal to split the Chairman and CEO role, Glass Lewis» Vice President of Proxy Research, David Eaton, discusses the situation with CNBC.

The lack of conservative vote split that the New Democrats, Liberals and Alberta Party had hoped to capitalize on may have vanished the moment Ms. Smith crossed the floor.

As the outcome of the March election shows, the fight is evident as the vote split the country in half.

Liberal candidate Susan Wright placed fourth with 1,519 votes, leading many of Mr. Clark's supporters to lament the vote split among the two centrist opposition parties (Ms. Wright, aka Susan on the Soapbox, is supporting the NDP in the 2015 election).

There are a lot of practical questions surrounding this proposal, and we will cast our votes for GM directors based on the strength of their individual resumes and our assessment of GM's needs, not the plusses and minuses of the share split.

Despite the potentially hawkish inference from September's split vote among Fed policymakers, Fed Chair Janet Yellen pointed out at the meeting the economy showed little sign of overheating, adding to perceptions dovish members of the rate - setting committee retained their sway.

Baptists have a history of splitting and reforming, and they have used two methods: (1) bring it to a congregational vote or (2) act according to conscience and soul liberty and break away to found a new church.

The Christian vote was split between two ideologies, Obama's pro-abortion and gay rights agendas and the pro-life, traditional definition of marriage, unfortunately represented by a Mormon candidate.

In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, a wealthy New Yorker, broke with the Republican «establishment» which he criticized for being in the pocket of big business, and formed the «Bull Moose» Party (which split the vote and paved the way for an otherwise unelectable Woodrow Wilson).

The vote was split among a field of evangelicals in every race that he mentioned.

If the court splits in a 4 — 4 vote, as many are predicting after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, no national precedent would be set.

Polls show that AL and MS are pretty much three - way ties, with the not - Romney vote, of course, split down the middle.

there will always be a split - vote in assessment of who or what is «loving».

George W. Bush won a third of the evangelical vote in Iowa in 2000, splitting that vote with Steve Forbes and more explicitly social conservative candidates like Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes.

While the roots of these splits are deep, the precipitating cause in each case has resulted from majority voting on procedural, legislative, and regulatory matters in democratically constituted governing bodies.

A majority of primary voters preferred a more conservative candidate to the frontrunner Romney, but social conservatives were splitting their vote among several candidates, allowing Romney to win.

He would split the Romney vote... he might even take all of the Republican block.

The vote was almost evenly split among Protestants in non-mainline churches, which Barna says is a result skewed by the fact that more than 90 percent of blacks voted for Gore.

45 % of white evangelical Trump supporters are voting FOR Trump 51 % are voting AGAINST Clinton [Note: This matches the split among Trump supporters overall.]

A voter - exit poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS showed that white «born - again» Protestants voted 61 percent for Reagan and 34 percent for Carter, a split which closely parallels that of other sectors of society.

(UPDATE) With a narrow vote to pass same - sex questions to committee, Methodists band - aid over rumors of split.

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The evangelical vote split because none of the options were good in this group of GOP candidates.

Of course, this is music to Democrats» ears, because if Trump runs as a third party candidate he will split the Republican votes, just as Ross Perot did in 1992, paving the way for another Clinton victory.

Surely the victim of a split vote in the wake of James» heroics.

In our recent poll of whether the Ultimate Blog Party should be for women only, the votes were quite split.

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And with the Democratic enrollment edge in this district, even despite the Senate GOP's best gerrymandering efforts during the redistricting process, it certainly didn't help Amodeo to be splitting the left - of - center vote with Davis.

I can think of several races in which a three - way contest split the votes on the right and benefitted the Democrat — Scozzafava - Hoffman - Owens?

Anyway, the split during the vote was by party, and all MPs with a «muslim heritage» (Razzy Hammadi, Ibrahim Aboubacar, Malek Boutih, Kader Arif, Chaynesse Khirouni, Pouria Amirshahi, Kheira Bouziane, Boinali Said) did vote in favor of gay marriage, even the one from Mayotte Boinali Said (over-seas department with a Muslim majority).

The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has declared «Operation 50 — 50» in the Eastern Region, which is to split the votes with it opponent, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and President Mahama's visit is to boost the morale of the regional executives of his party, as they prepare for this year's elections.

Forecasting that the Ukip vote, which stood at 4,154 in 2015, would split between Labour and the Tories, Gill adjusted her strategy, and was aided by the momentum of the national campaigns.

Green Party leaders split somewhat from their minor party colleagues, saying they would like to see an end to so - called fusion voting (which, by the way, the governor has so far NOT proposed), insisting that third parties should end their habit of cross-endorsing major party candidates in order to maintain their autonomy and remain ideologically pure.