Sentences with phrase «popular vote in the region»
It meant that although the BNP came fifth in the popular vote in the region, it won a seat through the system of proportional representation used in the European elections.
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The federal NDP, which picked up three new seats in B.C. in 2011, is using this as a training ground for the 2015 federal vote, both to fine - tune ideas and techniques and to sway popular opinion in the key region.
Before 3 May, officials were privately hoping for gains of around 550 seats and a popular vote share in the region of 40 per cent.
This mean that if a party is popular in the regions but not in the cities, he can win the majority of seats with a minority of votes.
This will be the 2nd time this year that the three - time Presidential candidate will tour the region — a region for which the NPP has set an agenda of capturing at least 3 seats in parliament and 30 % of the popular vote.
It's a vote the Upstate GOP members will own — for better or worse — as they seek re-election next year in a region Donald Trump won by about 100,000 votes in November, but where Obamacare remains popular.