Sentences with phrase «post voting system at»

Communists in France in the 1950s As I understand it, France was not using the first - past - the - post voting system at the time, but I would be keen to know if you thought that this informed the discussion in some way.

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In a statement released this afternoon, Ulrich said he was «appalled, but not shocked» by the Post story that Graves was suspended from his $ 66,392 - a-year job at the board after being caught on tape soliciting a $ 25,000 «finder's fee» from Denver - based Dominion Voting Systems, which was competing for a a $ 65 million electronic voting machine contract in 2009.

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).

It was widely understood at the time that Labour were prepared to legislate to secure a shift from the first - past - the - post system to alternative vote, while offering a referendum on a shift to proportional representation.

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

On voting reform, some 34 % (41 %) said they favoured PR over the current first - past - the - post system for Westminster, with the Alternative Vote system coming top of the second preferences at 37 % (41 %).

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.

Jack Straw has said he is not opposed to the idea of the alternative vote system where people can rank their preferences for MPs, but it is a hardly a radical change to the way we elect our politicians and the Tory leader David Cameron has said that at least with first past the post you can kick out a government.

«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.

In a first past the post system, the Tories can't simply rely on boosting their votes in the South of England, something they've been getting quite good at over the last two or three years: they need to win seats in other regions if they are to form a government.

[1] The Society advocates the replacement of the first - past - the - post and plurality - at - large voting systems with a proportional voting system, the single transferable vote.

So what will I do when I finally vote in the referendum on May 5th where on the one hand we have the incumbent First Past the Post System which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspiciSystem which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicisystem but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicion of.

This is a small improvement on our current system of first past the post, since it allows voters to rank candidates and reduces the need to vote tactically, but it does not address the crucial unfairness at the heart of our democracy which is that a party's share of seats in parliament does reflect the number of votes it receives across the country - a situation which leads to millions of wasted votes and a shameful system of «safe seats» where a donkey could be elected so long as they were wearing the right coloured rosette.

At NO to AV we have always tried to explain why First Past the Post is the right voting system for Britain, while the Yes campaign have avoided talking abour AV, choosing instead to peddle untruths about expenses and safe seats to confuse and obscure the issue.

Original post, May 2: Faculty leaders at the University of Wisconsin System's flagship campus approved a no - confidence vote Monday.