Sentences with phrase «party voting choice»

In conjunction and affiliation with the national Reform Party USA, Nevadans will be offered a sensible, formidable and soon - to - be-rising political party voting choice for all Nevada's citizens to support.

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will be given first chance as the leader of the party with most votes but his choices are limited.

The Green Party has nominated Environmental Economics and Policy student Andrew Fehr, who faces the challenge of convincing Green - leaning voters that actually voting for a Green Party is a better choice than a strategic vote for Ms. Duncan.

«In their comments, some evangelical leaders suggested that voting for a third party candidate or abstaining for that office was futile or a vote for the winning ticket,» noted the NAE on the «lesser of two evils» choice.

Similarly France voted for change, they had a choice of the same old with the 2 main parties or something new with macron or le pen.

I think it is important that everybody gets to the polls and gets their chance to vote no matter their party of choice.

The people who voted on Tuesday chose Mr. Paladino to represent the Republican Party, and that was their choice.

Lazio on the Conservative ballot creates the awful choice for Conservatives of voting for Paladino to defeat Cuomo versus voting the Conservative line to give the party its needed 50,000 votes thereby helping Cuomo by taking away a vote from Paladino, the only candidate who can beat Cuomo.

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.

It is very difficult for third parties to make any kind of progress in first past the post systems, as few people will be willing to vote for a third party when that means they don't get to express their choice about the more dominant parties.

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

It is not (strictly speaking) a party - list voting system, but the method used to elect the Australian Senate operates somewhat like a ranked choice party - list system in practice.

I've only heard of people «tactically voting» — whereby they don't vote for their first choice, but their nearest choice that contends with an incumbent or person / party they don't want — over the...

Maybe in that case the candidate who comes second would have the choice of deducting their final tally from the winning candidates votes in parliament or distributing their final tally to strengthen other representatives, e.g. of their own party from other seats.

That figure drops to 11 % of people who also intend to vote for UKIP in the 2015 general election (or 14 % counting only people giving a party choice).

It is also increasingly becoming the party of choice amongst the 38 % of voters who voted Leave in last year's EU referendum.

British Election Study data released today (collected between February and March 2014) shows that 17 % of people intend to vote for UKIP in the May European Parliament elections (23 % when counting only people giving a party choice, excluding «don't know» responses).

This forces MPs into difficult choices as either parliamentarians who want to defend and extend our democracy or party representatives made to vote for leaderships that see only Whitehall power.

By state law or political party pledge, these electors, should they be awarded the votes for that state during Election Day, will vote their party's choice for President and Vice President.

This is why any voting system that includes second choices is bad for the Conservative Party or likely to be.

She is particularly interested in the role of government performance and policies and how this intersects with ethnicity and clientelism to influence party identification and voting choices.

The Jefferson - Burr ticket of the Democratic - Republican party executed this plan successfully in 1800, with just one little hitch: With no distinction between first - choice and second - choice votes, the two winning candidates tied each other, so the House of Representatives had to choose who would be President and who would be Vice President.

(a) Hold a referendum on voting reform, giving the electorate a choice of the following four alternative voting systems: Additional Member System; Closed Party List; Open Party List; Single Transferable Vote.

First, our research shows that voters regard a government's choice to time the election strategically and for partisan benefit as significantly less important to their vote choice than the incumbent's policy performance and party leadership.

[92] Publicly speaking about the 2017 Scottish council elections, Sturgeon has said that the elections were a clear choice between voting for herself and Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, citing the stark fall in support of the Scottish Labour Party and their leader Kezia Dugdale over the past several years.

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, In his statement, Specter reaffirms his opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act: «Unlike Senator Jeffords» switch which changed party control, I will not be an automatic 60th vote for cloture.

Now the choices between the voting systems advocated by the main parties are distinct: PR for the Lib - Dems, First - Past - The - Post for the Conservatives and for Labour, the Alternative Vote system,» he added.

However the choices of vote are limited in the southern states to the 2 parties due to barriers to entry for other parties or candidates.

This can be further generalised to ranked voting systems, as then some of the first choice votes for parties C and D would be redistributed to winning candidates, and so wouldn't be counted as «wasted».

A voter in the ongoing Anambra governorship election has said he voted for the candidate of his choice despite attempts by some party agents to persuade him otherwise.

Wallace received 20 % of the vote with 2,226 votes, beating out the party choice of John Boykin (who scheduled to come on but was a no - show).

The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.

This party bias in the voting system should be balanced by allowing voters the choice of a short vote - «Independent» - a vote for a raft of «official» (quality assured) independent candidates sponsored by an independent peers appointments commission.

If convention is followed, there is no competition, and thus the constituents of the Speaker's constituency do not have the chance to vote for the party of their choice.

The vote underscored for her the idea that the two major parties don't really offer voters a clear set of choices.

So, voters in the 37th District may have two choices when they go to the polls April 24, not only for their State Senator, but a vote to see which party controls the senate into 2020.

If you think it should be easier for outsiders to run for office, and if you'd like to see cross-endorsements by political parties banned because they rob you of choices in elections, vote yes.

There is an alternative to Ruben Wills, his party machine antics, and theft of the people's right to vote for a candidate of their choice.

The two Republican choices for Town Board, Jim Dinizio and Bob Ghosio, were elected with a combined 58 percent of the total vote — a drop from 2011 when the party secured close to 64 percent of the Town Board election, but more than enough to maintain a 5 - 0 Town Board majority.

He added that she has «straight As» from the National Rifle Association and voted against Democratic Gov. David Paterson's «bloated» budget this year (Burns conceded there were other issues on which the Republican has problems with conservatives in her party: she is pro-abortion, voted for gay marriage and, while not endorsing the controversial «card check» provision in the Employee Free Choice Act, she does support «reform in workers» ability to organize» — a stand not too different from that of AFL - CIO President Rich Trumka when he said he could support EFCA without card check).

Register a political party that has the following two pledges: a. Hold a referendum on voting reform, giving the electorate a choice of four alternative voting systems to FPP.

'' Specifically, the leaders were mandated to discuss with the National Chairman of the party on the possibility of an option of Direct Primaries for the conduct of the rescheduled primaries, as provided for in Article 20 of our party's constitution to enable every card - carrying member of the party vote for an aspirant of his or her choice.

«Sometimes the supporters of the parties outside the agreement decry it as «undemocratic»» - what about the electorate who may feel cheated that they were not able to vote for their preferred candidate / party due to the artificial lack of choice in candidates?

We need a proportional voting system where voters have a real choice of not just which party holds the balance of power, but also who represents them locally.

The choice of Sunyani as venue for the NDC manifesto launch has energized party activists and foot soldiers in the Brong Ahafo Region who are embarking on an all - out campaign to win more votes.

Parties could still form a government with less than 50 % of first choice votes.

Voters cast two votes — one to elect their constituency MP - the «Representative» vote, and the other for the political party of their choice - the «Party» party of their choice - the «Party» Party» vote.

DPR Voting — the voter has two votes, one for their choice of party, and one for their choice of MP.

The voter can vote for the party of choice and the candidate of choice without the one compromising the other.