Sentences with phrase «post election system»

Not exact matches

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

Political campaigns operate on this system as well, and as politician or candidate, your job is to move people from knowing who you are (stage 1) to following you on Twitter (stage 2) to posting a yard sign (stage 3) to donating money (stage 4) to submitting an entry to your Facebook photo contest (stage 5) to organizing the masses on Election Day (stage 6).

There are of course lots of other voting systems than first - past - the - post which promise more democratic election results, like approval voting, alternative vote and their many variants.

But I guess that if forced to choose between those two and only those two (and the first - past - the - post system effectively does force people as far as elections are concerned), they will likely vote for candidates from the Democratic Party.

But reports making the rounds are that, the VOKACOM, which is partnering Ghana Post to roll out the Digital Address System is owned by one Osei Afrifa, who had financed President Akufo - Addo in the last election.

Half of the 450 seats will be decided by competitions in regional constituencies, technically known as single - mandate districts, using a «first - past - the - post» system like that used in U.S. elections.

The European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 moved european elections in Great Britain from first past the post to a closed list, non-preferential PElections Act 1999 moved european elections in Great Britain from first past the post to a closed list, non-preferential Pelections in Great Britain from first past the post to a closed list, non-preferential PR system.

Such an outcome is a feature of the first past the post system used in the UK and other countries, combined with a purely constituency - based parliament, whereby a general election is, in effect, 650 separate elections, one for each constituency in the country.

In most countries there is an assigned procedure for settling a tiebreak situation, they deal with either first - past - the - post systems, an election of multiple people - as is the OP's situation.

And, if we've kept first past the post at Westminster, why have parties in power allowed different systems to proliferate in less important elections?

The Fidesz parliamentary bloc, which enacted constitutional changes without including or consulting any opposition party, slashed the size of the parliament in half, redrew all of the individual constituencies unilaterally, changed the two - round system to a single first - past - the - post election for individual constituencies, and altered the way votes were aggregated.

Although no electoral system is perfect, and the UK's First Past the Post method is worse than most, parliamentary elections are a better expression of democracy because unlike a referendum, there is no clear agenda setter: the agenda is contested between parties and candidates, the media, and, increasingly, via the internet, the voters themselves.

These elections are conducted using the so - called «First Past The Post» voting system, whereby every registered voter casts one vote for a candidate in their town or area (known as constituencies).

There were other unsatisfactory, to say the least, aspects to the former first - past - the - post system which are also adequately illustrated by the overall results of the 2003 Scottish local government elections.

For instance, Brown takes aim at Tony Blair who argued that he personally won three elections when factors such as popular discontent with the Major administration and artificial inflation of vote share via the first - past - the - post system may greater explain Labour's landslide victory in 1997 (pp. 67 - 72).

Under the UK single - past - the - post electoral system, the UKIP's rise may prove fatal for the Tories in next year's election.

It suggests extending the majoritarian first - past - the - post system to regional elections for police and crime commissioners and metro mayors.

As things stand, however, elections are held on the basis of the «first - past - the post» system.

About this site - www.dprvoting.org dprvoting.org is an independent site intended to inform visitors about Direct Party and Representative Voting and promote it as an alternative to the «First Past the Post» system for Westminster Parliamentary elections.

Basically, under the current first past the post (FPTP) system, if you are a normal non-member and live in a safe Labour seat or an area where we have no chance of winning, the chances are you will be barely aware a local Labour party exists until an election comes along — and maybe not even then.

They should hold their nerve and wait for the UKIP bubble to collapse in 2015, when it struggles to compete under a first - past - the - post system in an election to choose the nation's government.

It may be that many of us would find it a challenge to name our MEP even if they were elected by first past the post - but it seems likely that the list system we use for European elections has made that challenge even tougher.

Elections to the European Parliament began in 1979, and were held under the first past the post system until 1999, when a form of proportional representation was introduced.

Perhaps unfairly, Westminster's first?past - the - post voting system still makes it very hard for new parties to break through at general elections.

The Conservative 2017 election manifesto unilaterally proposed scrapping the Supplementary Vote voting system used for elected mayors, in London and elected regions and replacing it with first past the post, which would radically lower mayor's legitimacy.

It is the latest of a series of inroads on the first past the post voting system; already in elections for the Scottish parliament, the Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies and soon the election of a new London authority, proportional representation has become the chosen method of voting.

The system you describe is called and individual majoritarian election, generally referred to as «first - past - the - post.»

Reynolds himself is calling for a move to the additional member system vote for Westminster elections — the hybrid system used in Scotland and Wales which combines first - past - the - post constituencies with top - up regional seats based on a proportional vote.

In a first past the post system, the natural course of events is for a dominant (majority) party to win elections, and a minority party to arise of all those who did not win.

Labour's Shadow Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, has called for a return to first - past - the - post voting system in the Welsh assembly elections and is meeting with Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan today to discuss the matter.

In 2007 Baston looked at 256 opinion polls, and at the election results that would have been produced by three electoral systems: first past the post, and two AV scenarios — one in which the Liberal Democrat votes went to the Tories and Labour, and another in which the Lib Dem second preference votes went to Labour.

Introduction Direct Party and Representative Voting (DPR Voting) is an electoral system specifically intended to introduce a form of proportional representation to elections for the House of Commons in the UK while requiring the least change to the familiar «First Past the Post» (FPTP) system.

The Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) has 73 constituencies, each electing one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) system of election, and eight additional members regions, each electing seven additional MSPs.

Britain's «first past the post» voting system could be scrapped if Labour wins the general election, under plans which have been outlined by Gordon Brown.

«I've been saying for some time that it would be the first - past - the - post electoral system that would be the absolute loser from this election.

The Assembly election uses a form of Additional Member System (AMS), with 14 local constituency seats (spanning two or three London boroughs) with winners elected by «first past the post» (or plurality rule) voting.

It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

However, there is an obvious gap in the White Paper as it stands - the very reason why a majority of people think their views are not represented, and one of the barriers to greater diversity of candidates for local elections: our First - Past - the - Post electoral system.

It could be argued that the first - past - the - post system for congressional elections, and winner - take - all for presidential elections, greatly favour the two largest parties.

New Home Secretary Alan Johnson may have raised the idea in a bid to appeal to voters ahead of disastrous local and European election results for Labour, but there is very little evidence of an appetite in government for changing the voting system from first past the post to real proportional representation.

This time — with the important caveat set out below — the more people who vote Liberal Democrat on 6 May, the greater the chance that this will be Britain's last general election under a first - past - the - post electoral system which is wholly unsuited to the political needs of a grown - up 21st - century democracy.

It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.

While not as fundamental a reform as The Independent and other advocates of proportional representation would like, a move to the Alternative Vote system would still be a landmark change for a country that has used first - past - the - post since modern elections began.

Though every politician complains about the burdens of fundraising — like «putting bamboo shoots under my fingernails,» Rep. John Larson told the Huffington Post — Congress could, if it wanted, move to a system of real public financing for elections.

Later on, the 1993 general election saw the New Zealand Labour Party's vote split by The Alliance, which has been attributed to the vagaries of the first past the post electoral system.

Enfranchised as a parliamentary borough in 1615 and first represented in 1621, it elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the first past the post system of election until 1885.

«The national interest is in having a system where you can say to a government - you're out, and first past the post helps that most,» Conservative MP Peter Bottomley, who received 51 per of the vote in his Worthing consituency at the last election, told Channel 4 News.

Until it was abolished for the 2010 general election, it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

During a lengthy interview with The Post, Samuels threatened to run against Cuomo if the governor fails to win approval in the Legislature of a system of publicly financed election campaigns.

He rejected the suggestion that the Conservatives, who fought the general election in favour of first - past - the - post, were betraying voters by allowing a possible move to a new system of voting.