Sentences with phrase «popular vote needed»
No OMRLP candidate has managed to get the required 5 % of the popular vote needed to retain their deposit, but this does not stop people standing.
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It is key to note that not all candidates who run for office will receive electoral votes, as they will need to meet a popular vote threshold specific to each state.
The President is certainly not popular on the right, but Romney will need to fight for every vote, conservative or independent, to win in the fall.
For example, top pollster Peter Kellner argues, «For the Conservatives to win an overall majority, they need around a seven point lead in the popular vote.»
Labour needs only the barest lead in the popular vote to win an overall majority: not so the Conservatives.
The following assumes, firstly, that no party has an overall majority (once Sinn Fein's abstention from the chamber is taken into account), and that in spite of the possibility that they could top the polls in the popular vote, that the Lib Dems will not win enough votes to have the most seats in the new Commons (they would need between 37 - 40 per cent to be sure of that happening).
Owing to natural clustering of Democratic voters and Republican gerrymandering, Democrats probably need to win the House popular vote by about seven points to take control.
They need not just votes (from popular decisions) but money.
The party has failed to impress - but we'll need to see what its popular vote was to assess how things really worked out.
«For the Conservatives to win an overall majority under the current boundaries, they need a seven point lead in the popular vote... However, under the proposed boundaries, they would need to lead Labour by just 3.8 %.»
Indeed, in 2012, ThinkProgress estimated that Democrats would have needed to win the national popular vote in all U.S. House races by 7.25 percentage points in order to eek out a bare majority in Congress's lower chamber.
On the present boundaries, Labour would need a lead in the popular vote of just one percentage point to win an overall majority.
In 2010, it was the W.F.P. that wooed a popular Cuomo: The then - attorney general agreed to take its nomination, giving the party the general election votes needed to keep an automatic ballot line.
The ruling Popular Party doesn't have enough seats and will need to find additional votes.
We need to people who understand how this whole thing works and not just the «public popular marketers» we vote into office..
Because the Tezos system is built for continuous updates implemented by popular vote, these smart contracts will be able to keep updating to keep up with business trends and companies» needs.