Sentences with phrase «of votes you get»

In 2005, 35 per cent of the vote got Labour 55 per cent of the seats, while only three per cent less in the vote for the Tories got them just 30 per cent.

A more dramatic twist: Double the size of the House - every district now elects two seats: The final two opponents with the most votes, and each one gets a vote value based on their percentage of the voters, so they loser with 49 % of the vote gets 0.49 votes in the house and the winner with 51 % of the vote gets 0.512 votes in the house - this way the losing side gets represented too.

So if FPTP gets 25 % of the vote it gets used 25 % of the time.

The Conservatives with 36.9 % of the vote got 331 MPs (50.92 % of MPs).

Campaigners such as the Electoral Reform Society and the Liberal Democrats want a fully proportional system where the number of seats a party wins is more closely aligned with the number of votes they get.

«The fact that we're starting earlier and the fact I'm going to get help where in the past we haven't had support, we certainly will grow on the 18 percent of the vote we got in 2014,» he said.

In the first round, the party will seek to designate a candidate who wins a majority as their preferred nominee, though any registered Republican who gets 25 percent of the votes gets a spot on the primary ballot.

«Cuomo is nine points shy of the 63 percent of the vote he got four years ago,» Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg said in a statement.

The necessity of forcing Republican incumbants to expend resources long before they normally would, and already being at a substantial cash disadvantage in a majority of competitive races and also the RCCC trailing the DCCC in national fundraising, will cause many campaigns to run out of money at the end of the race of expend more energy in fund raising instead of vote getting.

The poll puts the Conservatives up one point on last week with 36 per cent - the first time since February 2012 that they have recorded the same share of the vote they got at the last election - ahead of Labour on 32 per cent, down three points.

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In the study we found that power was associated with law firm MPs» leadership success; interestingly, power also predicts the success of corporate CEOs and both American and Canadian political candidates (measured by the number of votes they get).

Not exact matches

Ultimately if you're seeking for approval or board consensus on an action (getting approval for a budget, raising money, investing in CAPEX, firing a head of sales — whatever) your job is to hold a discussion in which all board members who want to voice an opinion can do so and ultimately pushing for a vote or a resolution.

And Ripcord just got a massive vote of confidence from GV, formerly known as Google Ventures, the venture - capital arm of Alphabet — which just led a new investment of $ 25 million into Ripcord.

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And for those of you keeping score at home, women got the the right to vote 97 years ago.

Separatist parties will get 45.8 per cent of the vote, according to the latest poll by newspaper El Periodico, with 43.8 per cent going to unionist parties.

According to the latest polls Esquerra will get the biggest share of the vote in the region, 20.5 per cent, narrowly leading Junts per Catalunya, the new name for the party led by Puigdemont, on 19.3 per cent.

So if voting isn't meant to break a tie, what's the purpose of getting a show of hands on an issue that's holding up your meeting?

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, whose state of Connecticut shouldered the killing of 20 children in Newtown in 2012, led a filibuster on Wednesday to try to force a vote, insisting he would stay on the Senate floor «until we get some signal, some sign that we can come together.»

Critics complain «say on pay» votes are ineffectual because boards aren't bound to the results, but of the 53 U.S. companies for whom shareholders rejected compensation plans in 2012, 45 made changes and got positive votes the following year, according to Institutional Shareholder Services.

While the path to get Murkowski's vote appears easier than on other pieces of legislation, it is not guaranteed.

The aim is to get us to vote from a place of fear instead of a position of power.

A number of GOP Senators are saying that the Senate's health care bill probably won't get a vote until the later part of July — a pretty clear departure from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's hope to get the legislation out of the way before last week's 4th of July recess.

Certainly I got some of those votes,» said Stephens, who defeated retired Beaumont police Lt. Ray Beck.

Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, about 800 counties with histories of racially - discriminatory voting laws — going back to poll taxes and literacy tests — had to get the Justice Department's approval beforehand (a process called pre-clearance) before such laws could take effect.

When that proposal when to a vote, it got just 8 % of the vote.

They seem to have gotten turbocharged by a ruling in 2007 that permitted people — in practice, mainly hedge funds — to buy shares after a merger has been announced and for the express purpose of voting against it and then seeking an appraisal.

Crowdery's technology is still in beta testing, but the process can be as explicit as asking consumers to vote on a favorite shirt style in hopes of scoring a presale discount if the item ultimately gets made.

For example, Americans have favorable views of Oreos, Home Depot and Bed Bath & Beyond, regardless of who got their vote in 2016.

Democrats counter that the ACA was debated for more than three months after the initial text of the legislation was released before it got its first House vote, and amendments offered by Republicans were added to the bill.

Republican leaders in U.S. Congress scheduled a vote on Thursday for a proposed temporary extension to fund government operations in the hope of getting it to President Donald Trump's desk before Friday's midnight deadline.

And unlike the election, investors won't get to vote directly on the passage of Trumpcare.

Get - out - the - vote efforts have been intense in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

We should celebrate the anniversary of women getting the right to vote, but there's still work to be done.

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

And don't get me wrong, we got a lot of white liberal votes, but they tended to be people who were involved in social justice.

No, he was speaking to supporters of the other three candidates, imploring them to vote strategically and deny Trump enough delegates to win the Republican nomination outright, even if he gets the plurality.

Netflix's board is divided into three separate classes, so shareholders don't even get to vote for or against all the directors every year, just a selection of them.

It's not humanly possible to get 108 % of the vote!

If Greece votes No and leaves the euro, defaulting on all its debt, then Germany won't get back a huge sum of money it has used to finance Greece, The Telegraph reports:

They're in the news over speculation that «fake news» spread via Facebook posts could have influenced the election outcome, and over Google's high placement of a search result reporting wrongly that Donald Trump got more popular votes than Hillary Clinton.

Before launching Encore he put the entire business plan to a vote of the company's 9,000 - plus employees, and got 91 % support.

'' «You really did a great job of getting the vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee,» in other words, black people,»» Obama allegedly said after the call, paraphrasing Romney.

Basically, no matter which way tonight's vote goes, Greeks on both sides of the question believe the future will only get worse.

They asked shop - floor employees first to vote on which part of the multistep machine should get the investment, and then to choose between two competing suppliers for what they had collectively decided on, a robotic slitter - scorer.

During that span, the battle with Samsung is the only one that went all the way to a vote, and the only one in which the firm didn't get what it wanted — a sign of just how effective Elliott is at pressuring management to agree to its demands.

The experts liked Edwards too, but not as much as Ron Johnson, he of the Apple stores and J.C. Penney (jcp); Johnson got 13 expert votes to Edwards's 10.

«I think it's just a disaster for the Republican Party, because it means you need 60 votes on most pieces of legislation and you're not going to get it.»

Until 1803, the vice president was the person who got the second highest number of votes in the presidential election.