Sentences with phrase «preference votes of»

Unless any candidate wins more than 50 per cent of the votes (unlikely in the Labour race), he or she can easily be overtaken; the candidate coming last is eliminated in each round and the second preference votes of those who backed him or her are redistributed until one candidate secures more than 50 per cent.

If no candidate got a majority of first preference votes, the top two candidates went on to a second round in which second preference votes of the eliminated candidates were allocated to them to produce a winner.

If no candidate gets a majority, the top two vote - getters go on to a second round in which second preference votes of the eliminated candidates are reallocated.

The victor needed more than 50 % to win outright so that triggered a count of the second preference votes of the remaining eliminated five candidates.

So the second preference votes of the Lib Dem voters will be transferred and make either the Labour or Conservative candidate the winner.

If no candidate wins an outright majority of votes, then the top two candidates proceed to a «knock - out» round where the second preference votes of eliminated candidates are allocated accordingly to produce a winning candidate.

Unlike AV, it does not give undue weight and influence to the second preference votes of minor parties, but could signficantly change electoral behaviour.

Perhaps before the voters go to the polls Mr Livingstone might consider announcing that he does not want the first or second preference votes of people who support terrorism.

I find it hard to believe that many (if any) of the second preference votes of either the LibDem candidate or the Independent candidate would have gone to the BNP.

The second preference votes of people who voted for one of the eliminated candidates are then looked at.

Do we really want a system where the casual 7th preference vote of someone staring down the ballot paper and thinking «Who have I not voted for yet?»

Not exact matches

«The bottom line is there are members here who understood the president's preference and were willing to vote against it anyway,» Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said Tuesday.

Goldsmith may not be exactly white - hot on Khan's tail, but in the outer reaches of the capital his popularity has steadily increased from 27 to 30 %, and his total share of second preference votes is up on last month.

This is because these companies have raised so much capital that the early investor is no longer a substantial portion of the voting rights or the liquidation preference stack.

We all vote together as a single class of preferred stock but each Series has its own price in order to prevent multiple liquidation preferences.

There's nothing wrong with media companies sampling their audiences to determine average income or age or voting preferences; market research has been a staple of advertising for decades.

However, the Conservative government has also chosen to provide a long list of special tax breaks or «preferences» for specific groups of Canadians that the government hopes will vote for them.

The landmark survey commissioned by the Broadbent Institute is the first study of its kind and size to measure Canadians» attitudes about voting system design and preference for electoral reform.

Similarly, the power of Google's search algorithm to surreptitiously shift voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 - 80 percent is highly troubling — and not only because it could potentially threaten the basic principles of democracy.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

These investors are typically wary of foregoing the rights associated with being a shareholder such as: voting rights, control rights, pro-rata rights, and liquidation preferences.

«I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

Party affiliation is also a stronger predictor of voting preferences than faith.

The strongest indicator of voting intentions among pastors is their political party preference.

This is not a radical suggestion; no matter how great the candidate, no vote can ever represent more than a sign of preference, for in a sinful world, there has never been and never will be a perfect candidate.

When Republicans, for instance, damn Democratic leaders for high prices and inflation, some individuals may be led to blame the Democratic Party and vote Republican despite misgivings about Republican preferences for the wealthy at the expense of the poor.

According to polling data, a significantly larger fraction of African - American and Hispanic voters have right - leaning policy preferences when it comes to size of government issues than voted for Romney.

In 1979, Keegan picked up 18 of the 26 first - preference votes and finished with a score of 118 points, 66 points ahead of Bayern Munich's Karl - Heinz Rummenigge.

But in 1978, he took only nine first - preference votes, and finished just six points ahead of Austrian Hans Krankl.

Cruyff came first with 15 first - preference votes and a total of 116 points; Beckenbauer came second with ten first - preference votes and 105 points.

The preference for the Gunners does seem to be Mahrez due to his Premier League experience and the obvious fact that he was rated the PFA Player of the Year last year, thus he was voted the best player in the league.

The 4 -3-3 / 4 -5-1 formation won the majority of votes, ending the recent reign of preference of the 4 -3-1-2 formation.

However, if they had voted for Gore (in spite of him actually being their second preference) then he would have won, and they would have got their second - best candidate, rather than their worst (well, Pat Buchanan ran in that election, so probably their second - worst in practice).

I would have thought, in the current climate where the traditional loose Lib - Lab alliance has broken down over civil liberties issues, the greens would get quite a lot of second - preference votes.

@Pureferret, if one location / bloc of choices is particularly favoured by voters above others, then preference voting will tend to limit itself within that bloc.

The EDBC must also ensure, as far as practicable, that the redistribution is fair to prospective candidates and groups of candidates, so that if candidates of a particular group attract more than 50 per cent of the popular vote, including preferences, they will be elected in sufficient numbers to enable a government to be formed (Constitution Act 1934 (SA) section 83 (1)-RRB-.

campaign pooled data analysis entails examining the vote intentions, expectations, and preferences of our respondents and relating these to the information conveyed by the polls at the time respondents were interviewed

He's still pretty conservative and in a recent analysis, I've applied the model from The Constrained Court to estimate the policy preferences of justices and how they would map onto the vote on the health care legislation (it's all based on a statistical model that links the Court and Congress via positions members of one institution take on votes in the other).

Second, if the results of the party officials» preference vote are displayed each day, then the that selection of best talking points by the party's surrogates and superdelegates will tend to drive users to the app to see the outcome.

But when you add up all the votes for the same film regardless of location, you get 8 votes for A and 11 votes for B. That's a clear preference for Film B.

Is this open for intentional gaming (via tactical voting) or unintentional skewing of the results towards a film or location, where the winning result does not match most people's preferences?

Instead of a single vote, let each voter rank their preferences from 1 to 4.

Ultimately the government will have to choose between large numbers of voters choosing pre-determined preference orderings by voting above the line or large numbers of voters having their preferences ignored because they did not express them properly on the ballot paper.

The German election system is such that the final proportion of parliamentary seats must match the country wide proportions of party - preference votes.

The result of this is a high number of votes being «exhausted» (having no preferences left after the voter's preferred candidate (s) have been eliminated) before the final count.

Ben's research focuses on the measurement of political preferences from survey, voting, network and text with a particular focus on using text data.

It is not clear yet whether the Joint Committee will recommend some form of requirement to express a certain number of preferences, though given their advocacy for open preferential voting it would not be surprising if they did.

In the single - vote plurality system, both of those voters will likely feel they have to misrepresent their preferences at the polls.

By bringing together 50 randomly - selected members of the public, weighted to reflect the EU vote, it has shown what a diverse sample of the UK electorate feel about the Brexit options when they have had the chance to learn about them, listen to the arguments, and reflect on their own preferences and those of their fellow members.

The ballot was conducted using AV (the Alternative Vote), but Lord Oxford received 155 votes of the 283 votes (55 %), so preferences were not taken into account.