Sentences with phrase «of votes cast»

The implementation of the arrangement is subject to the approval of at least two - thirds of the votes cast at the Meeting by Brookfield Residential shareholders present in person or by proxy and by a majority of the votes cast by Brookfield Residential shareholders other than Brookfield Asset Management and its affiliates.

This Constitution may be amended by two - thirds of the number of votes cast by the delegates at the National Convention, provided the proposed amendment shall first have been submitted in writing to and been reported upon by the Board of Directors, and provided further, that written notice of the substance of the proposed change has been sent to each Member Board who is qualified to vote individually at least 30 days prior to the meeting at which the amendment is to be considered.

The candidate receiving the majority of votes cast in the run - off election shall be declared the winner.

The Code of Ethics may be amended by two - thirds of the number of votes cast by the delegates at the National Convention; provided the proposed amendment shall first have been submitted in writing and have been reported upon by the Board of Directors, and provided further, that written notice of the substance of the amendment has been sent to each Member Board who is qualified to vote individually at least 30 days prior to the National Convention at which the amendment is to be considered.

Bobby Lee and Brock Pierce have joined the Bitcoin Foundation's board of directors, after coming top in a second round of votes cast by the organisation's industry members.

If someone alleges they've tampered with the electoral system, there is no «normal» or «before» state that can be checked to prove or disprove the claim (though the system could count numbers of votes cast from particular machines — but probably not who they were cast for, if the number of total votes is right).

Save as otherwise provided in this Treaty, the European Parliament shall act by an absolute majority of the votes cast.

Dues or fees payable by member clinics may be set by resolution of the Executive, which resolution shall become effective only when confirmed by at least two - thirds of the votes cast at an annual or other general meeting of the member clinics of the Association.

The required element is proportionality and, where there is none, compliance with a collection of rules about providing information, balloting the right people and the percentage of votes cast should not legitimate the strike.

And why would they have agreed to hold it under an act where the tax required 50 per cent of votes cast plus one to remain in place, as opposed to using another statute, called the Recall and Initiative Act, under which the government may well have prevailed?.

In Sullivan & Cromwell's 2014 Proxy Season Report (PDF) published in June 2014, the average percent of votes cast in favor for environmental issues was only 23 percent and the average percent of votes cast in favor for sustainability reporting was only 20 percent.

«The unprecedented shareholder votes at Occidental and PPL, where more than half of the votes cast asked for the companies to conduct two - degree scenario analysis, demonstrates that US investors recognize that the direction of travel is towards a low - carbon future, regardless of the US administration's efforts to scupper the process.

After nearly a month, 177 winners in 8 categories, and thousands of thousands of votes cast by you, we're happy to announce the «Best in Show» winner of our first annual Best of Green awards.

As it stands, women artists received less than 25 percent of the total number of votes cast; only two women had a place in the top 15.

The DS remakes won an easy victory yesterday, taking a comfortable lead with over 50 % of the votes cast, but that's no guarantee for a repeat in Round 3.

With your help, we've gathered the thousands of votes cast by you, our readers, and will be crowning your pick for the greatest of all time this Friday.

Second is ToeJam & Earl, with only 17 % of the votes cast so far.

The magazine confers the awards on the basis of votes cast by its readers and subscribers, people who travel for a living, using airports, airlines and hotel services, and visiting regional destinations.

A simple majority of the votes cast shall be necessary to elect.

On Election Day, this campaign won by less than one percent of the votes cast.

We will not change the fundamental investment objectives of the Portfolio without the consent of unitholders by a majority of votes cast at a meeting of unitholders.

In order for your proposal to be accepted, your trustee must not receive a majority of the votes cast against your offer.

To be accepted, Joes» trustee must not have received a majority of the votes cast against his consumer proposal.

The ballot was conducted via a remote material vote requiring a super-majority (or two - thirds) of the number of votes cast to approve the Proposed Document.

The top 5 accounted for most of the top percentile of all votes cast, with only a combines 69 votes for the others.

Almost 800,000 additional ballots have been counted since Election Night, and Initiative 1240 is looking more and more like it will ultimately win a majority of votes cast when the election results are ultimately certified by the Secretary of State... [Return to Top]

And in the most watched House race, Manny Diaz Jr. successfully overcame his challenger to win with scholarship parents making up slightly more than one percent of all votes cast before Election Day.

But with a small turn out — only 26 percent of members voted — Caputo - Pearl garnered 82 percent of the votes cast.

A lawyer for Florida's statewide teachers union asked a judge Wednesday to block the counting of votes cast on the Legislature's proposed state constitutional amendment to loosen class size limits.

He was the only statewide official to be elected in the June primary election, after earning more than half of all votes cast in a field of five candidates.

A lawyer for Florida's statewide teachers union asked a judge Wednesday to block the counting of votes cast on the Legislature's proposed state -LSB-...]

Section 2: A two - thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast to amend the by - laws by the membership identified as in good standing is required for an amendment to carry.

An AEU spokesperson said the process to ratify the agreement was now complete, with 78 % of votes cast in support of the in - principle agreement.

With one exception discussed below, no state received more than 6 percent of the votes cast, and every state received at least some support.

Those gathering in 5 percent or more of the vote included, in order of votes cast, Louisiana, Kentucky, Florida and the District of Columbia.

Match received just over 27 % of the votes cast in the poll which is 95 votes.

Christian Mingle received 60 votes which works out to 13.07 % of all votes cast and 3 % more votes than last year.

Match received a total of 83 votes which worked out to 20.4 % of all votes cast.

For 2015 Match received 148 votes which is 32.24 % of all votes cast.

Each of the Osmium nominees received ~ 88 % of the votes cast at the meeting.

The adoption of such amendments shall require two - thirds of the votes cast.

The beauty of Scantegrity II is that anyone — not just an election official — can see from any online computer whether the posted votes correspond to actual ballots and whether the number of votes counted is identical to the number of votes cast.

In 2010, the four Democratic congressional candidates whose districts contained a portion of Monroe drew 47.18 percent of the votes cast in that country.

Mr Kyerematen made an attempt at the leadership of the New Patriotic Party in 2007, capturing 32.3 per cent of the votes cast.

Merkel's conservative Christian Union (UDU / CSU) bloc scored 32.9 percent of the votes cast at the election held on September 24, to clinch a record fourth term in office.

For statewide partisan offices (including congressional offices), petitions must contain signatures equaling 3 percent of the total number of votes cast for the party's candidate for the same office in the last general election.

He was first runner - up to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo who had 47.96 per cent of the votes cast.

Declaring the result of the rerun, the Returning Officer, Prof. Charles Esimone, said Umeh scored the highest number of votes cast with 64, 878 (95.6 per cent of the votes cast) and was therefore returned elected.

[9] On the final count however the PNM clearly secured an absolute majority of votes cast and obtained an extra seat from the PP, winning 23 of the 41 seats.

In a landslide victory, UFT members elected Michael Mulgrew president of the union, giving him 91 percent of the votes cast.