Sentences with phrase «party preference candidates»

Since California implemented the top - two primary system, minor party and no party preference candidates have had a harder time making it onto the ballot.

Not exact matches

there is no candidate lower in the order of preference on the party list than the member of Parliament whose seat has been declared vacant, --

Such an effect might also see Labour move back towards the vast majority of BME candidates in high minority population seats — ie less Parmjit Dhanda / Ashok Kumar examples of representing areas with low BME populations — but one difference between Labour and the other parties is that Labour does hold such seats, and so the effect of very strong local preferences in the other parties would be stronger.

On AV, I think it is more complicated, as neither you nor I can say we know what the pattern of 1st preferences would be in the first AV General Election, still less do any of us know what the overall candidate and party system look like, and the way in which different candidates and parties might interact over two or three elections.

Dadey said Oaks would be a good candidate, but the party's preference is for a candidate from Onondaga County, where most of the 24th Congressional District population is based.

Regionally, the party still fared best in the Dublin region at the local elections, where Labour candidates won 12.0 % of all the first preference votes, but the party vote share in Dublin fell dramatically from a 26.4 % level at the 2009 elections.

Labour's electoral «college» is split into three sections — MPs and euro MPs, union - affiliated members and ordinary party members, all of whom can vote for more than one candidate in an order of preference.

They added that Labour - affiliated trade unions similarly express a preference for certain Labour Party candidates and MPs.

Many anti-reform campaigners object to the way that AV allows voters to pick their preferred candidate from outside of the two mainstream parties while offering their preference in the mainstream race with their second preference vote.

Under California's «top two» primary system, there is a single primary among all candidates (with an option of indicating a candidate's party preference), and the two candidates getting the highest number of votes go on to run in the general election.

Preferential voting systems (AV and STV) Some electoral systems focus of the choice of the candidate rather than the party, asking the voter to express first, second, third etc preferences.

A system which does not allow voters to express second or third preferences, and which can give 100 % of the rewards to candidates who may get as little as a third of the votes, may have been fine as long as the overwhelming majority of voters were happy with a limited choice of parties.

Second preferences could be crucial as few expect any one candidate to secure a winning majority on first preferences in an electoral college split into three between MPs / MEPs, party members and members of affiliated bodies like the trade unions.

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.

[14][15] Green Party candidate David Scott Curtis campaigned against the top - two system while independent candidate Dan Schnur, who was designated «no party preference» on the ballot since California's Proposition 14 took away candidates» «independent» label option, was in favor of the syParty candidate David Scott Curtis campaigned against the top - two system while independent candidate Dan Schnur, who was designated «no party preference» on the ballot since California's Proposition 14 took away candidates» «independent» label option, was in favor of the syparty preference» on the ballot since California's Proposition 14 took away candidates» «independent» label option, was in favor of the system.

* The joint Ulster Unionist / Conservative party candidate, Jim Nicholson, did well, coming close behind the DUP on first preference votes.

If the voters do decide to embrace the alternative vote, the pact would require each of the coalition partners to urge their supporters to give their second preference vote to the candidate from the other coalition party.»

Where preferential voting is used for the election of an assembly or council, parties and candidates often advise their supporters on their lower preferences, especially in Australia where a voter must rank all candidates to cast a valid ballot.

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.

From the 1984 election, group ticket voting was introduced, in order to reduce a high rate of informal voting that arose from the requirement that each candidate be given a preference, and to allow small parties and independent candidates a reasonable chance of winning a seat.

When CQ Roll Call asked Miller about his preference between challenging the senator or at - large congressman, the tea party - backed two - time Senate candidate demurred.

Its officers therefore recommended support for Angela Eagle as first preference because of her unique record amongst women candidates in support of democracy in the party, of a policy - making process which was accessible to the party grassroots rather than one which was entirely based, in reality, in the leader's office, of the impartiality of party staff in internal democracy and of the party - union link.

Labour and Tory supporters will be able to vote sincerely for their party, with Lib Dems as their second preference, safe in the knowledge that if their candidate is eliminated their vote will still count.

In this example, the two remaining candidates / parties, one a minor party, were the same after preference distribution at both this election and the previous election.

We have excluded the 60 % who say they are not Labour Party supporters; among the remaining 40 % the voting figures we have excluded the 18 % who express no preference for any of the candidates.

He was proud when he was chosen as his party's candidate for the safe Labour seat in the 1979 election in preference to two academic aspirants with, as he put it, more letters behind their names than the eight letters in his own.

We witnessed the ethically challenged contributions of the last State level elections, the favoritism of one State delegate candidate over another long time incumbent becuase they were not a fan of Mike Hein, and the obvious preference for Graff by the hierarchy of the party.

While your candidate preference is clear, it is not clear which party you prefer.»

AV transfers votes from supporters of smaller parties to their second and third preference candidates till one has more than 50 % of the vote.

Empey first stood for election in the 1975 elections to the Constitutional Convention, standing as a candidate in Belfast East for the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party he received 4657 first preference votes he was elected.

The proportional election to the House of Councillors allows the voters to cast a preference vote for a single candidate on a party list.

However a lot has been made of the fact that while both polls had an effort to take account of people's personal and tactical voting behaviour in their own constituency, they did so in different ways — Ashcroft asks a two stage question, asking people their national preference and then how they will vote thinking about the candidates and parties in their own constituency; ICM asked people the voting intention question including the names of the candidates standing in Sheffield Hallam.