Sentences with phrase «preference votes of people»

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.

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

Not exact matches

«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.

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?

I believe that Alternative Vote (AV) system, where people rank candidates in order of preference rather than selecting only one, has much to commend it.

In practice in Australia in the Senate most people vote by group and their vote is distributed by the preferences of the one party they vote for.

The candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes is eliminated after each round of voting and their votes are then reassigned until one person passes the 50 % mark.

However, many of these are second preference votes for people already voting for Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone.

However, I'm always slightly wary of constituency polls in Liberal Democrat held seats — the effect of incumbency and tactical voting is far higher for Lib Dem MPs, and when you ask a generic voting intention I think many people give their national preference, rather than how they would actually vote in their own constituency.

In the forty constituencies that they contested, the People Before Profit Alliance won 5.2 % of the first preference votes cast in these.

Running 43 candidates (four more candidates than the Anti Austerity Alliance did), the People Before Profit Alliance won 29,081 votes across the state, amounting to 1.7 % of the first preference votes cast nationally.

At the Dublin European Elections contest, sitting MEP Paul Murphy (Socialist Party / Anti Austerity Alliance) won 29,953 first preference votes (8.5 % of the votes), leaving him in sixth place on the first count, and Brid Smith (People Before Profit Alliance) won 23,875 votes (6.8 %).

«I think Zac is a candidate who is well placed to appeal to people's second preference votes... And the other key thing that he needs to do is to pick away at the credibility of what Sadiq is offering,» says Barwell.

Miliband, for example, it was reported, bequeathed South Shields a voter contact rate (the percentage of people in the constituency for whom the party has a record of voting preference) as low as 0.2 % — or roughly 100 people.

Apart from seniors, this group of people, cutting across all lines of geographic location, class, race, religion, age, sexual preference, gender, etc. is potentially the largest voting block.

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 assumption that even if people vote for David first they will back Ed second means that if David doesn't win on the first count, the inclusion of second preference votes could mean Ed prevails in the end.

If we had known that, say, the majority of second preference votes had been for Labour where first preference votes had been for the Green Party, the Lib Dems or the Nationalists, this would have made a coalition involving Labour far more likely, making the coalition a much better reflection of what people actually wanted.

In Mark Ferguson's excellent expose of «community campaigning» in South Shields under David Miliband's watch, he reveals that the voter contact rate (the percentage of people in the constituency for whom the party has a record of voting preference) in the constituency was as low as 0.2 %.

As for the suggestion that people will vote for change, regardless of substance, in preference to the status quo, I refer you to the recent referendum on the alternative vote.

However a lot has been made of the fact that while both polls had an effort to take account of people's personal and tactical voting behaviour in their own constituency, they did so in different ways — Ashcroft asks a two stage question, asking people their national preference and then how they will vote thinking about the candidates and parties in their own constituency; ICM asked people the voting intention question including the names of the candidates standing in Sheffield Hallam.

This makes sense in that the purpose of fake news is often not to convince people of «alternative facts,» but rather to sow doubt and to disengage people politically, which can undermine the democratic process, especially when society's future hinges on small differences in voting preferences.

We asked 300 people to vote for the most important trait in a short term personal loan and nearly 93 percent of respondents voted for «safety» as being at the very top of their «personal preference» list.

The firm is alleged to have harvested data of tens of millions of Facebook users without permission in order to design a software to predict and influence people's voting preferences.